presents an inventory of of its best directions so often prov'd that I presume any course skin'd Ladie who will be so much her own friend to use them may soon be freed from doing pennance in natures sackcloth Take peeld Almonds six pound mastick prepard ceruse and gum dragant of each four ounces the whites of 4 eggs pound all together very carefully let it stand 5 or 6 days pounding it every day once then put them in a presse and keep the oile that comes forth to anoint the skin withall Take hempseed pound it small moisten it with a little aqua vitae then heat it in a frying pan made very clean so hot that you cant endure to touch afterward put it into a bag and presse it the oile that comes from it is exceeding good for the roughnesse of the skin Anoint any part that is too rough with oile of rape seed or bitter almonds or oile of wheat Or take sweet almonds cleansed and peeled foure pound moisten them with the spirit of wine rose water mixt together of each one ounce beat them together and fry them when they begin to smoke put them in a bag so presse them and there will come forth an oile very cleare which you must put into a pot of raine water and beat it together til it become exceeding white then keep it as a rare secret to smooth and pollish the skin CHAP. VI. How to cleans the sweatie and sluttish Complexion THE microcosme through the sordid sluttishnesse of some is often drownd in a nastie deluge of sweat out a designe perhaps to take Cupid captive and birdlime his wings with such clammie excrements but if they have no other tempting bait then the greasie pomatum which their own ill stuff'd bodies supply them with I am afraid though being blind he cannot see them he 'l smell them a mile off and so keep his distance They would doe much better to break off this petty plot upon Cupid and scour their bodies well with these abstersives Take bryony roots half a handfull serpentary the lesse or friars Coule pellitory of the wall elecampane of each three ounces whole beanes rice white vetches French barly of each two ounces and a half flowers of camomile melilot of each one handfull Boile all these together in raine water receive the fume up in the face If you would have it for your whole body double the quantities boile them powre them forth into a bath set a stoole in the bath cast a sheet over you and so receive the vapoure Vnguentum Citrinum is of great efficacy to help this distemper if you adde thereto a little sublimate carefully prepared or a little white hellebore finely powdred The fumes of the decoction of the shavings of Guajacum is exceeding good Take bean meale white vetches sweet almonds blanched gum dragant bryony roots of each half an ounce pound them a part then mix them and incorporate them with whites of egs make them up into little balls When you have occasion to use them dissolve them in barly water and bath the skin therewith going to bed next day wash with water wherein the finest flower hath been steept Take the roots of serpentary sliced dry them in the sun powder and sift them next incorporate them with rose water into a past dry them againe in the sun and powder them then adde a third part of ceruse prepared so as is directed in the 2. part c. 1. then worke all together with rose water dry them in the sun and at last bring it with beating it in a morter to a very fine powder When you would use it mix it with the juice of limmons and so make it into a liniment for a sweatie part Take barly half ripe two pound goats milke three pints the whites of a dozen eggs mix and distil them in balneo maris then use it Or take sifted bran the best leaven two pound as much vinegar as shall be requisite the whites of eight eggs mingle them and make it into a paste then distil it in B. M. Take thirty Snails prepared a quart of Goats milk hogs suet three ounces camfre poudred two drams beat them together and distil them in an Alembick The sluttishness and sweat of the skin may proceed either from an external cause as negligence to wipe and cleanse the face from that filth and ordure which may be ingendred by the aire or any other accident and then there needs no more to beautifie it than a constant washing and rubbing it Or from an internal as fuliginous vapours dâ—â—ain'd betwixt the Cutis and Epidermis by reason of its density This is the more frequent cause and for the more general cure of it the body must throughly be purged of those humors which produce such excrements and for topical applications you are to use such things as are set down in this Chapter Or you may scour and cleanse the body with water wherein fine wheat flower or the crum of white bread hath been infus'd adding to it a small quantity of the juyce of limmons Or with the decoction of mallow roots or lillies As also with the infusion of the roots of briony with the juyce of the roots of sowbread or wild cucumers incorporated with bean meal with the oyle of sulphur or tartar mixt either with clear fountain water or else with any of the former decoctions Thus far concerning the nasty sweat of the skin the next inconvenience that damages the beauty and which we intend to give remedies how to correct are itch and scabs CHAP. VII How to repair the beauty of an itchy or scabby skin I Am afraid Ladies that whilst I prescribe remedies for so loathsome a skin-defiling malady you will think I have forgot ye and am now addressing my self to your kitchin maids I must confesse these fretting exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as are forced to content themselves with courser commons as amongst the fleecy troops those are soonest scabby that feed in unwholsome pasture Yet the highest and best fed are not alwaies exempted from the infection nor are the most delicate Ladies especially if any thing irregular or intemperate wholly secured that they shall be no fuller of ill humors than their skins can hold If ever then your ill disposed humors grow so strong to break their way through the inclosing skin it will do you no harm to have something in readiness that may check their presumption Take Fumitory water an ounce and a half succory water three ounces syrup of fumitory and succory of each one ounce mix altogether and take it for your mornings draught use it for five dayes together then use this excellent medicine Take Sena two drams rhubarb one scruple annis seeds half a scruple white wine half a pint put all into an earthen bottle stopit close and set it over warm embers all night in the morning strain it out and drink it if the stomack be weak
amber dissolved in rose-rose-water Take the flower of rice half a pound dissolve it in as much milke as is sufficient adde thereto the flesh of a young Capon boild tender sweet almonds 24. beat them well in a morter then mix them with the milke and rice streine all through a course cloth putting thereto what quantity of sugar you please Boile all over a soft fire till it coagulate into the forme of a gelly when it begins to cool adde of amber and muske dissolv'd in rose water as much as will give it a gratefull odour often take a small quantity of it If one part fall away and be are no proportion to the rest of the body you may bring it to even terms thus Take oile of Foxes an ounce and a halfe oile of lillies the greace of Capons and Geese of each two ounces greek pitch pine rosin and turpentine of each two ounces boile all these together in an earthen glazed vessell adding oile of elder one ounce then take it from the fire and adde new wax as much as will suffice to make it into a stiffe cerecloth when it is almost cold spread it upon a strong cloth as much as will wrap up the member then apply it and leave it on all night if you find any inconvenience in it use this following bath Boile in claret wine halfe a handfull of roses wormwood stoechas calamint squinanth rosemary sage cammomile of each one handful let a third part of the wine be consum'd while it is warme bath the place where the cerecloth was applyed this bath doth draw nourishment to the part and strengthens its retentive virtue Thus much of what concernes the beautifying of the body in generall PART II. Of the Head Necke and Breasts YE that intend Ladies to subdue hearts and command with soveraignty in the mint-house of others Affections must be carefull to keep in tune the harmony of these parts remembring that they were intended for beauties glorious Frontispiece to allure Spectators eyes and with a Phoebeau lustre make them its obsequious Heliotropes By what means you are to preserve their splendor you may be instructed in this Second Part. Where you shall learn how to give the Face such a commanding Beauty that all who view it shall yield obedience and none rebel but those who cannot see how your Eyes may be made Cupids chrystal burning glasses to kindle devotion in your Captives hearts and your bushy Hair Venus's Grove in whose twyning Maeanders a pleasing imprisonment shall breed a dislike of former Freedom In a wotd how to advance your Features to such a pitch of dazeling glory that shall make Beauty it self out of countenance and put Cupid hardly to it among so many fair ones to know his Mother CHAP. I. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face AN inundation of crimson'd blood often drowns the flowry Elysium of a charming face disfigoring it with such a flaming hue as if the juycie god had made it his vineyard and planted it with rubie Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into a pleasing paleness call to your assistance the following Receipts As to the general cure you are to abstain from wine except it be very well qualified as also from all meats which heat the blood as those which are sharp or spicy or are easie to be corrupted in the stomack as milk cheese c. use in your broths lettuce spinage purslain sorrel and the like Blood-letting is exceeding good chiefly in the median vein in both the arms some dayes being interposed then in the vein of the forehead afterwards in the neck apply cupping-glasses to the shoulders and neck especially under the chin and sometimes to the thighs and leggs you may also apply leeches to the cheeks and chin to evacuate the blood that is amassed under the skin For more particular remedies if the malady be inveterate begin with Emolients digestives and things that do attenuate not only to rarifie the skin but also to subtilize the humor For if at first you use cold things and repercussives you will condense the skin through which the humors ought to exhale and impact the humor into the substance of the flesh and make it the more contumacious to be dissolved whereby the complexion is made more black and swarthy Prepare then a Decoction of figgs raisins of the Sun washed and ston'd oatmeal soap french barley the leaves of pellitory of the wall camomil mallows violets receive the fume of this Decoction up into the face covering the face and neck with a napkin to keep the fume from dissipating continue this three or four times that the face may be supple and the skin fitted to receive the vertue of your medicines the better Instead of this Decoction you may spread on the visage the warm blood of a pigeon pullet or capon drawn newly from under their wings let the blood lay on all night in the morning wash it off with warm water or the decoction of soap oatmeal or the like Or else in the place of these remedies Take fresh flesh of a neck of beef veal or mutton cut two or three thin slices lay them on the red places and change them often or else they will stink And in case you have no fresh flesh you may take slices of stale put them on the coals and so apply them warm to the redness The next morning wash the face with fine rags dipt in the forementioned decoction When you find that those remedies do something mitigate the fiery colour of your face and asswage the pimples you may proceed to other medicines that have vertue to repercuss the thin and subtle blood and bind the skin that it may not be so apt to receive such noxious vapours nor long retain them Such are these that follow Take a pint of rose water put it into a glasse and steep therein camphire and sulphure finely powdred of each one ounce myrrhe and frankincense of each half an ounce set it in the sun twelve or fifteen dayes Often wash the face with water Take Brimstone one ounce ceruse washed two drams juyce of limmons half a pint juyce of onyons two ounces cuttle bones and camphire of each one dram pound what is to be pounded and incorporate your pouders with your juyces anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash it off with the decoction of bran Take the roots of the greater and lesser serpentary of each one ounce bruise them boile them with as much water of plantane roses water lillies and vinegar as will suffice to bring them to a mash then beat them in a mortar with oyle of roses two ounces adding the finest pouder of burnt oyster shells one dram and a half camfre one scruple Venetian ceruse two drams salt powdred brimstone of each one dram juyce of citrons one ounce make all these into a Liniment for your use Take litharge of gold sulphure viue of each
dissolve both that and the ambergreece in rose water then mix them with the former Composition Take of the former Trochisks of roses half an ounce the best labdanum two ounces Styrax Calam. Benjamin of each one ounce violets poudred one ounce amber and musk of each half a dram pouder what is to be poudred and work them well together into a paste out of which ye may make Pomanders of an excellent and durable sent If ye like a perfumed Composition to carry about with ye in a silver box ye cannot have a better than this Take your true Jasmine butter half an ounce essence of orange flowers essence of cinnamon oyle of orange peel oyle of nutmegs essence of roses of each half a scruple flowers of benjamin one scruple essence of musk amber and civet of each half a scruple all these ye must work well together in a cold and small marble mortar then put it into your box CHAP. II. Pouders for the Hair Linnen and Sweet Baggs IF after ye have used all hitherto commended ye meet with any that defies your charms and is obstinate do not yet despair Ladies for this Chapter teaches ye how ye shall tickle his nose and fetch him about with a pouder which will give ye so rich a sent that the roses and violets in all your cheeks shall not make ye half so sweet Take Florentine iris roots finely poudred one pound Benjamin four ounces Cloves the like quantity Storax two ounces pouder them all very fine and mix them together This ye may use to sent your hair-pouder withal adding about three ounces of this pouder to a pound of Starch sifted and pounded or else to a like quantity of Rice pouder of Post or French Beans being first pounded and then sifted Take Iris roots six ounces red Rose leaves poudred four ounces Cyperus half a dram Marjoram Cloves and Storax of each one ounce Benjamin yellow Saunders of each half an ounce Violets three drams Musk one dram If ye pouder them grâ—sly they may serve to put in sweet bags to lay amongst linnen but if ye pouder them small and seirce them through a seive ye may keep the grosser part for the former use and with the more fine ye may perfume your hair-pouders This ye may observe in your other pouders Take Iris roots three pound Cyperus roots Benjamin yellow Saunders lignum Rhodium Citron peel Storax Calam. Cloves Cinnamon pâ—re Labdanum of each one ounce sweet Marjoram twelve handfuls flowers of Roman Camomile and Rosemary leaves of sweet Musk Tyme and Savory of each two handfuls and a half the best Musk a quarter of an ounce Civet half so much Ambergreece half a dram let all be driven into a grosse pouder except the Amber Civet and Musk which must be finely poudred and afterward mixed This is an excellent pouder for Linnen and Bags it will endure sixteen years exceeding strong and is as good a Composition as any where you can meet with If ye mix a lesse proportion of Zibet Musk and Amber it cannot be expected to be so pleasant nor lasting Take from the Apothecaries common Iris roots poudred one pound calamus aromaticus two ounces roses four ounces coriander seeds two ounces lignum Aloe one ounce marjoram orange peels of each one ounce storax calam ten drams Labdanum six drams Trochisks of Roses two ounces Lavender four ounces Cloves two ounces Bay leaves half a dram galingale two drams mix all these and pouder them fine then adde musk and amber of each half a dram Take yellow Saunders one ounce calamus aromaticus a like quantity marjoram three drams the leaves of damask Roses and Violets poudred of each two drams Nutmegs and Cloves of each one dram musk half a dram all must be beaten into a grosse pouder then put it into silken bags to lay amongst Linnen Take the roots of Florentine Iris four ounces Violet flowers newly dâ—yed one ounce the root of round Cyperus two drams the true distilled oyle of Roses a dram and a half reduce all these into a very fine pouder This gives a very delightful and pleasing smell and is composed for their sakes who do not affect those strong Perfumes that are made with musk and Zibet Ye may put it in silken taffity bags to lay amongst linnen or else it may serve to strew on the hair or cloaths Take the pressings that which remains after the oyle is drawn forth of sweet and bitter Almonds of each four ounces the flower of French Barley and Lupins of each two ounces the roots of the best Iris pounded one ounce white Roses dryed Benjamin six drams salt of white Tartar whitest Chalk poudred Sperma Coeti of each half an ounce oyle of Rhodium one scruple of Cloves and Lavender half a scruple mix and make them into a pouder it gives the hands and skin an excellent odour makes them white and smooth if ye often rub it on them or use it to wash withal CHAP. III. Sweet Waters Oils and Essences SUch Ladies is the efficacie of these liquors that they 'l cherish rather then extinguish the flames of love they 'l put ye in so sweet a pickle that will make ye dainties shall sharpen the appetite of those that have no flomack to fall on a Ladie In a word the Pope and all his Conclave shall never do so many wonders with their holy water as you may do with these Take three pints of damask rose water malmsey half a pint the flowers of lavender and spike of each two ounces Florentine flower de Luis roots two drams nutmeg styrax Calam of each half a drum Infuse altogether for a fortnight in a close stopt bottle then distill them in a glasse alembick putting into the nose of it a scruple of musk as much amber greece Ye may mix this water with ordinary water for your hands or put some of it on a chafing dish of coals it will recreate the sences with a pleasing vapour An equall quantity of rose water and vinegar set on the coals does the same Take rose water four ounces cinnamon half an ounce yellow saunders poudred wood of aloes citron peel cloves of each half a scruple musk two grains mix them and they will make an excellent sented water Take oiles of musk one dram of cloves six graines of lillies of the vally three graines a little Virgin wax mix them together according to art and you shall have an odoriferous balsam that comforts the brain and revives the sâ—irits if ye anoint the nostrils with a little of it Take cloves cinnamon lavender nutmegs of each two drams oiles of cloves angelica spike lavender of each half a scruple wax four drams musk and amber of each three graines make them into a Balsame which will be of the same virtues with the former Take musk finely powdred a dram and a half put it into a glasse alembick poure thereon two quarts ' of rose water distil this over a gentle fire in B.
M. keep the water that ye draw from thence in a glass close stopped it may be serviceable to Queens and Empresses Take rose water three quarts assa dulcis poudred one ounce storax cloves wood of aloes camfre of each one dram musk and civet of each one scruple put all these into a glasse bottle close stopped which boile for the space of four houres in water then take the vessel wherein the water is and let it cool by degrees when it is cold streine it through a thick cloth then put it into another glasse vessel with fifteen graines of musk stop it close and set it in the Sun five dayes This perfume is so strong that if you mix one part thereof with twelve of water t wil be exceeding sweet Take Lavender flowers seven handfuls rosemary flowers clove July flowers orange peel of each three handfuls mint sage bay leaves elder flowers pennyroyall of each one handful cloves four ounces galingale nutmegs calamus aromaticus ginger cinnamon of each one ounce the best sented white wine three quarts powder all the spices and steep them in white wine put all into a glasse vessel stopped set it in the Sun eight dayes then put it into a glasse alembick with musk and distill all in B. M. Whether it be distilled or not it is a very sweet water excellent to wash the hands if ye mix one drop of it with a hundred of common water if it be applyed to the face it will free it from spots and freckles Take twenty graines of musk nutmegs cloves galingale spikenard grains of paradise mace cinnamon of each one ounce powder all very small and put them all into a pinte bottle of rose water let them steep four daies then pour on more rose water and after distil them in B. M. Or tye in a very fine rag musk and civet of each one dram put the bag into a three quart bottle fild with rose water expose it some days to the sun and ye shall have a rich sented water Take the purest Benzoin twelve ounces powder it very fine then take liquid styrax as much as will suffice to make it into a past when it is well mixt put it into a glasse alembick with a glasse head which ye must set in ashes or sifted sand and cement a receiver to the nose of the alembick with potters clay and the whites of egs very close that the vapours may have no vent forth which if they have they 'l be so strong that to most they 'l seem a stink rather then a perfume and to some persons may be very prejudicial when things are thus fitted kindle fire under it by degrees afterwards make the fire stronger at first ye shall draw a yellow water in a small quantity and worth little but presently after there will arise a vapour white as snow that will stick to the alembick when ye perceive that this rises no more then make the fire stronger but not too violent then will an oile ascend that is sweeter then the former and according to the colour of your oiles remember to change your receivers your last oile wil be an excellent Balsame But to make an exact perfume take an ounce and a half of the white snow oile of sweet almonds newly drawn four ounces melt both over a gentle fire stirring it continually with a spattula till the snowie part be dissolv'd and to give it a reddish colour put in a small piece of the root of alkanet so ye may have a perfume of an excellent sent Is you would have this oyl of a richer odour ye may dissolve therein one scruple of amber greece The black oile that remains at the bottome of your alembick is of a very strong smel but mixt with liquid styrax will make excellently sented pomanders if ye keep it by it self ye were best to keep it open that so the strong sent may evaporate CHAP. IV. Sweet Candles and Perfumes to burn YE are much beholding Ladies to ordinary Candles for when the sooty night would be-friend your Chamber-maids and make them seem as handsome as your selves that which discovers the cheat and makes ye be prefer'd before them is the friendly light those Candles lend they shew the difference betwixt a beauty and the foiles that usually attend her But if those common ones do ye much service these will more for if ye can once procure these ignes fatui to lead them ye may be sure to make fools of men and never fear but ye shall have servants after ye have got such enamouring flames Take Labdanum two ounces Storax one ounce Benjamin and Cloves of each half an ounce Mace a quarter of an ounce beat all to a pouder in a brasen mortar and when they are finely poudred set the mortar over a gentle fire and work them well together then take rose-rosewater eight spoonfuls dissolve therein musk and civet of each three grains afterward put it with the rest of the ingredients into the mortar when ye have mixed all throughly together make the whole mass into small long roles when they are dry you may put them into a silken bag and lay them amongst linnen or burn them in your chamber or any where else at your pleasure They are a pleasing Perfume and will last good seven years Take Labdanum two drams Styrax calam a dram and a half benjamin frankincense white amber wood of aloes red roses wood of cypress cinnamon cloves of each two scruples amber musk of each five grains make them up into small cakes with gum tragaganth dissolved in spirit of roses one whereof cast upon the coals sents your chamber with a delightful vapour Take Labdanum one ounce and a half dryed charcoal made of willow one ounce myrrhe wood of aloes styrax calam of each one ounce and a half amber musk of each seven grains dissolve half an ounce of gum tragant in rosewater with a little spirit of wine and make them up into roles like small candles Take gum styrax calam benjamin of each equal quantities dissolve them in the best rosewater as soon as they are dissolved strein them hard thorough a thick cloth afterwards dry them and pouder them and keep the pouder for your use Take of this pouder thus prepared one ounce the weightiest wood of aloes poudred two drams red roses dryed ambergreece of each one dram zibet musk of each half a dram sweet balsame of Perâ— oyle of Rhodium of each one scruple ivory burnt till it be black as much as will suffice powder what is to be powdred then mix all with rose water and work them together into a kind of black paste make it into small bals which you must wrap in rose leaves and dry them in the shade then keep them well stopt in glasses This is a perfume for Persons of quality One or two of them cast upon coals or put into a quantity of rose water that is set over the coals will fill the room with a ravishing and coelestiall vapour that refreshes the braine and vitall spirits and corrects the malignity of any contagious aire Take Styrax calam prepared as before benzoin of each half an ounce your best wood of aloes two drams Zibet that is not adulterate one dram Gallia moscata one scruple oile of roses and of cloves of each half a scruple mix them according to art and with damask rose water make them into little bals They are of the same virtue with the former and used in the same manner CHAP. V. How to perfume Gloves TO adde the roses sweetness to the lillied loveliness of your snowie hands sent your gloves with these perfumes and they who take ye by the hand shall find all pleasures graspt in a handfull wherein all ravishing objects are that can convey those charming delights to the admiring fancy that both please the sight and feast the other senses too First then perfume your gloves thus Take a pair of smooth new Cordavan gloves wash them well for two or three daies once a day in good white wine pressing them well and smoothing them after every washing after the last washing when they are almost dry wash them in rose water wherein musk hath been dissolved let them lye in that water for one day then pull one of the gloves on your hand and with your other hand smooth and dry it then do the same to the other glove When this is done steep in water for four or five daies four ounces of gum tragagant the whitest you can get musk amber dryed marjoram of each one scruple boil them gently altogether and in the boiling add half a scruple of Zibet put these into a coverd vessel till they are cold then chaff and rub it well into the gloves afterward lay them in some place to dry Or wash those gloves ye intend to perfume first well in white wine then dry them in the shade after wash them in a pint of rose water sented with oile of cloves jasmine nutmegs labdanum of each half a scruple then take musk zibet ambergreece of each five graines beat them together in a mortar with a little oile of spike and mucilage of gum tragagant dissolv'd in rose water chaff this composition into the washt gloves before the fire FINIS
is received is not as yet discharged of its excrements and pituitous superfluities and the appetite is not as then excited for that the animal spirits which are the causes of it are yet dull and drowsie Moreover in the morning Nature being careful of its oeconomy is imploy'd to drive outward those humid redundancies which were heaped the night before up in the body but such unreasonable eating diverts Nature from that expulsion and constrains her to retire inward to promote concoction so that being distracted by two such contrary motions she performs neither so as much to farther the bodies health Thus much for that course of life which ought to be observ'd by those who would have their ravishing features penetrate those flinty breasts against which Cupids shafts seem too blunt and dull the next Chapter supplyes you with Remedies which shall so set off the loathsome imperfections of a blear-ey'd and wither'd Maegaera that she shall be taken for some attractive and heart subduing Venus CHAP. III. External means to gain a good Complexion IF in the flowry enamell of Natures garden there be any sensitive plant t is beauty for though it may thrive and flourish perhaps in the face that Elysium of delights during the youthfull May of warmer yeares yet even then must it be cherish'd with a tender care for so sensible is it of the softest touch that if the Sun intending to borrow some of its lustre to increase his owne do but gently salute it with its subtle limber rayes it presently shrouds it selfe in a mantle of Jet as if resenting his mildest embraces as a rude indignity it were resolv'd to benight the face in a gloomy coverture in spight of his world of glory So againe if sullen Aeolus come so nere to blow upon it with his chilly breath it presently contracts its expanded roses as if it had rather degenerate into a deformed nature then expose it self to the saucie blasts of that blustring courtier We can't then be too carefull of a flower which is so nice and tender neither can any with discretion blame those Ladies that through an innocent care of enamouring looks use some artificiall waters to preserve and cherish those features which are of themselves too apt to fade and wither I must here yet give them this caution to avoid those things which rather adulterate then adorne the skin such as Spanish white and Mercury the least inconveniences they must exâ—ect from such drugs except prepared by a very skilfull Artist are a wrinkle-furrowed visage stinking breath loose rotten teeth So that it will be more safe and better to use decoctions Pomatums ointments and such like applications as you find described here which are not in the least dangerous and doe exceedingly adorne the beautie As for the use of them before they are applyed the part must be washed with warme water and after with water and sope or some other detersive liquor which may prepare and fit it for the action of the ensuing medicaments Such preparative liquors may be distilled waters of mallows elder beanes water lillies cows milke distilled infusion of white bread decoction of French barly or any thing of the like nature whereof you may have your choice in this Chapter When the part is cleansed apply some of the following Cosmeticks let them lye on all night and in the morning wash with bran and water or else with Violet water The most approved Compositions for the beautifying of the Body are these Take the Roots of Dragonwort Arum or Cuckoe-pintle Briony of each one ounce sweet almonds peel'd half a pound bean bran half an ounce Camphire sal gem sal ammoniac borace rock allum all poudred of each two drams incorporate them together with the whites of eggs and form thereof little balls which dissolve in cold water wash your face therewith going to bed let it lye on till the morning and then wash it off with this water following Take a pottle Pot well glaz'd fill it half full with the roots of white or marsh mallows washed and slic'd adde thereto a pint of white wine a dozen egg shells clean washt and poudred afterwards pour in so much river or spring water as will fill up the Pot boyl all these together to the consumption of a third part and then adde the crum of a penny white loaf and as much as a bean of verdigreese pounded and tyed up in a little bag strain the decoction into a basin and adde to half thereof an ounce of finely poudred sugar moisten a fine white ragg in this water and wash the face therewith without wiping after it Take two white pigeons pull them and cast away the guts head wings and leggs then mince them into small pieces then put them into a glass alembick strowing the bottom with some plantane leaves adde thereto oyle of sweet almonds three ounces butter four ounces a pint of Goats milk the crum of a white loafe borace and sugar candy of each two drams burnt allum and poudred camphire of each three draws the whites of 24 eggs let all these infuse for the space of twelve hours then carfully stop the alembick and distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water into glass viols to settle in a cool celler strein it through a fine cloth and wash your face there with morning and evening it makes the face or any other part exceeding comely and is that pigeon water which hath been so much pris'd by the Court Dames at Paris Take allum sal gem of each one ounce borace and camphire half an ounce oyle of Tartar four ounces beat and work them together then adde a pint of briony water distill them altogether in B.M. the water you draw from them will be of marvellous vertue to beautifie any part and make it of a ruddy complexion Of the same effect is that which follows Take madder frankincense myrrhe oriental saffron mastick of each like quantities bruise them all and steep them in white wine anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash either with cold or warm water it will purple any part with a gallant and pleasing blush Or take fraxinella roots chew them and tye them in a fine ragg and bath the face This following is much commended for making the face white and clear as alablaster Take myrrhe two ounces frankincense half an ounce white ginger three drams cinnamon and sublimate of each two drams camphire one dram whites of three or four eggs put all these together in the belly of a young pullet or capon well wash'd and cleansed add thereto Goats or Asses milk distil all together and you shall have such a water that few things can equal it If you fear it because of the sublimate after you have used it two or three times you may discontinue it and use this following Take the white of an egg beat it together with rose water anoint the face therewith and when it hath
and love not Potions you may use these following Pills Take Citrine mirabolans rubarb of each half a dram aloes washt in the decoction of sena one scruple make them up into Pills with syrup of Fumitory then anoint your self going to bed with this oyntment Take Brimstone an ounce and a half salt and sallad oyle one ounce grind the salt and sulphur exceeding small mix them with the oyle and when you go to bed use it for three or four nights only chafing it very well into the palms of the hands then draw on a pair of gloves and keep them on all night it will cure all itch and scabs throughout the body Take as much mans urine as will serve to bath the diseased up to the knees add thereto charecoal of oak poudered and black hellebore but more hellebore than coal bath therewith the leggs for fifteen mornings together and longer if need requite This hath its effect on every member of the body so that whether it be Totter Leprosie Itch or running Scab in short time it is cured with this medicine Mercur. and other experienced Physitians commend the success that these ointments have if they are applied to the pulse Take oleum laurinum six drams quicksilver one dram and a half borace three drams ceruse one dram cummin-seeds one scruple make them into an ointment Or Take equal parts of borace and aloes a third part of prepared quicksilver as much oyle of Lawrel make them into an Unguent and with either of these anoint the pulses going to bed after you have bathed your arms for some while in warm water I find these much extol'd but I would not have you use them before you have tryed something else because of the quick-silver Before you practice with any medicine remember to purge the body of that humor which is the cause of your distemper I shall here only add two or three odoriserous waters which cure all such infirmities and make the skin smooth and delicate Take Bawm what quantity you please beat it well then set it to macerate one night in white wine the next morning draw off the water in a glass still It is exceeding sweet and in a short time cures all scabs throughout the body if you add a grain of musk and bath it therewith mixt with natural balsame and anointed on the face 't will make it of a lively rose colour Take dried Sage eight ounces nutmegs five ounces ginger cloves cinnamon grains of paradice of each four ounces bruise them and then set them to digest for twenty four hours in good white wine afterward distil them according to art in an Alembick The water drawn from thence is so excellent that if you drink it in a small quantity for three dayes fasting it cures all Tetters and Scabs breeds good blood and causes a lovely complexion Take Turpentine a quarter of a pound honey two ounces aquae vitae three ounces wood of aloes beaten small sweet saunders of each three drams gum arabick one dram nutmegs two drams ambergreece one dram powder all small and distil them with a gentle fire and in your operation you shall draw three several sorts of liquors the first is clear the second when the fire is increased falls in drops like burning coals the third descends a little blacker and thicker than honey The first is called mother of balsame the second oyle of balsame and the third artisicial balsame If you anoint your self with the first of these it is exceeding good for spreading Scabs or itching Tetters kept in the mouth it sweetens the breath fastens preserves and whitens the teeth anointing the face therewith it makes it smooth and ruddy The second and third liquors recover complexion lost are good for any bruise cure all distempers arising from the blood or phlegme corrupted CHAP. VIII To adorne the scurffie and mealy Complexion That Complexion is said to be mealy and scurffie which appears full of little white scales that fall off like small bran when the face or other part is rub'd with a woollen cloth The thin and meager constitution is most frequently troubled with this distemper and it proceeds from thick and grosse humors detain'd betwixt the cuticle and the under skin which corrupt after some continuance and then corrode that slender covering into a scaly dust To embellish such a complexion the chiefest care must be to dislodge those humors that lye betwixt the Epidermis and the grosser skin for which intent you may use urine or white wine wherein sliced limmons have been boiled a lixivium made with the ashes of beets and coleworts wherein boile lupins and beans and in the streined liquor dissolve a spoonful or two of honey or gall or something of the like nature to bath the face withal If the face be very lean instead of the foregoing Fomentation you may use this that is not so drying Take the leaves of buglosse borage pellitory mallows fumitory violets cichory endive lettice poppy fengreek cleans'd barly boyle them together in water adding a little bran bound up in a bag after the face hath been bathed wash it with this water Take bitter almonds the meal of beans and vetches of each one ounce allum borace mastick olibanum gum tragant of each half an ounce juyce of limmons seven ounces water of plantane roses and white lillies of each three ounces new Goats milk four ounces mix all together and distil them with a gentle fire Take Mel rosatum rose water juyce of limmons of each two ounces gum tragagant mastick ceruse prepar'd starch olibanum of each three drams allum white corral cuttle bone borace of each two drams sal gem a dram and a half bean meal one ounce the whites of three eggs snails beaten with their shells six ounces camphire half a dram cinnamon half an ounce mix them and distil them in Balneo Maris then apply the water to the face Take Enula campan burdock roots of each two ounces boile them in strong vinegar pound them and passe them through a streiner add solphur vive two drams salt calcined a dram and a half juyce of limmons two ounces dip a cloth in this composition and so bath the skin with it Take the water that is found in cavities of oaks wash the skin therewith Or Take the juyce that is newly prest from agrimony incorporated with salt and vinegar or the juyce of burdock mixt with sulphur vive The Decoction of scabious drank for some mornings together cures the skin of this infirmity Or Take the roots of scrofulary out of the ground in Autumne beat them together with fresh butter put it into an earthen pot close stopt set it in a moist place twelve or fifteen dayes the butter will soon dissolve strein it and keep it to anoint the body CHAP. IX How to polish the Skin when it is disfigured with Scars or marks of the Small Pox. VArious are the supprising casualties that deform a polisht Skin each wound is a
grave where Loves dumb orator lyes inshrin'd and Chirurgeons usually the unskilful Plaisterers that make an ill-rais'd cicatrice the swelling monument to departed beauty The feature fretting Pox if it sets but a foot within that paradice of perfections the face it leaves more disfiguring impressions there than a Coridons clouted shoes on a Cedar floor Now to smooth Ladies and polish your skins after such disasters prise the medicines commended to you in this Chapter as rarities they 'le make the hills and dales of uneven faces meet without a miracle levelling them to such a smoothness that little Cupid though blind may sport himself there and never stumble Take mastick two ounces gum arabick one ounce saffron half an ounce turpentine three ounces old sallad oyle two ounces make the mastick and gum arabick into a grosse pouder then put them into the oyles and turpentine distil all together in a glasse Alembick and anoint the face with the water going to bed in the morning wash with warm water wherein the finest flower hath been infused It is exceeding good for any disfiguring scarr that appears after the consolidation of a wound Of the same nature is the next that follows Take oyle of Tartar and the mucilage of Psyllium seeds extracted with rose water of each one ounce ceruse dissolved in oyle of roses as much borace and sal gem of each one dram incorporate them well together and make an oyntment Or Take Tartar well burnt boile eggs hard take out the yolks after you have slit them and fill up the cavities with the burnt tartar put them in a moist place and keep the water that comes from thence as excellent for scars Take litharge of gold two ounces ceruse and salt of each half an ounce vinegar rose and plantane water of each three ounces camphire half a dram mingle and filtre it so keep it for use Or Take wild cucumer roots finely powdred one ounce allum two drams sulphur vive nitre of each one dram incorporate all together with lard well washt use it as an ointment These two are of the same vertue with the former Take oyle of Lillies capons grease oyle of roses of each one ounce and a half wash these well in rose and lilly water then add to them the whites of four or five eggs half boiled in their shells oyl of sweet and bitter almonds of each one ounce incorporate them together in a marble mortar and in the working put in the mucilage of melon seeds litharge of gold and chalk poudred of each two drams make them into an Unguent applied to the face it takes away all those scars the Small Pox too frequently makes there Hares blood if you bath the skin often with it warm fills the cavities with flesh and makes the skin even and plain It is likewise an approved experiment That the water which comes from Sheep or Goats hoofs burnt is very good for the same Or use this following Take Litharge of gold washt nine times in rose water and sifted as often two drams reed roots dried and pounded rice meal powder of burnt bones bean meal of each one dram beat all together very small then sift it through fine tiffiny incorporate it with the mucilage of flax seed fengreek and psyllium extracted in lilly water and so bring it into the form of an Unguent Apply it to the face going to bed on the morrow wash with barly water Bath the places with warm water then strew thereon the cinders of burnt Tartar either alone or with myrrhe Or bath the places with water wherein cinnamon hath a long time boiled then put thereon the powder of litharge it will in short time take away all marks of the Small Pox. Take wheaten starch blancht almonds of each two drams sweet costus gum tragacanth of each half a dram reed roots half an ounce barly meal whole melon seeds beans dryed and pounded three drams saffron one scruple powder and sift the whole mingle them with equal parts of rose water and juice of orange peel make a liniment and with a feather anoint the scars of the pox leaveing it so all night on the morrow wash with the decoction of camomile and mellilot CHAP. X. How to remove spots in what part of the body soever I Have seen faces from whose features beauty her self might have taken copies had not nature studying too much neatnesse plaid the curtezan and spoiled that which was handsome before by two much patching Yet most Ladies never think themselves Venus's for beauty except they have some artificiall mole though such stellae nebulosae ecclipse more then increase the native lustre and especially where nature is too free in her spots they are alway reputed blemishes not ornaments Those then that have beauties characters defac'd with such blots if they have recourse to these following directions shall find themselves quickly freed and their features so ravishing that were it the mode of this age to dedicate shrines to beauty there is noâ—e of them but would have their Altar where the most generous heart should glory to be a sacrifice To take away any spot whatever Bath them for three mornings together with allum dissolved in oile of Tartar wash after with lye and lupine meale Or take two parts of plantaine water and one of rosewater sulphur vive powdred two ounces rock allum beaten small one ounce boile them over the fire till a fifth part be consumed then take it off and stir it well till it be cool afterward strein it through a fine cloth and keep it for use It takes away all kind of spots Take sugar candie white frankincence of each two ounces dissolve them in juice of limmons halfe a pinte boile them gently in a little skillet then anoint the spots with it after they have been washed with barly water Take lye made of Vine ashes juice of coleworts ox-gall of each a pound and a halfe dissolve therein half an ounce of allum and three whole egs beaten wet a cloth in this composition and bath the spots therewith Take turpentine and masticke tutia prepared of each two ounces camphire halfe an ounce steep them three daies in strong vinegar distill them in an alembick and keep the water for use To cleer the skin of black spots Take the distilled waters of dock and melon roots of each one quart ten swallow eggs salt nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces pound the nitre and tartar then mix them altogether let them stand 24 hours then distill them in an alembick in B. M. wash the black spots with the water in the morning at night wash them with oile of tartar and sweet almonds mixt together Take mastick powdred sulphur vive of each one ounce bay berries as many steep them in warme water for the space of ten days stirring them carefully once or twice a day then wash the black places with that water Take roots of iris Florent wild cucumers briony of each two pound dittany
half an ounce powder and put them into a glasse with vinegar and rose-rose-water moisten a fine ragg in this water apply it to the face all night in the morning wash with bran and water Take sulphure vive one ounce litharge and ceruse of each half an ounce powder and incorporate them with two ounces of fresh lard well washt with the juyce of citrons adding a little camphire beat them sometime in a mortar then keep it stopt in a glasse for your use Or boyle strong vinegar with bean and rose water soak white raggs therein and apply them to the face If your red pimples yield to none of these external remedies you must have recourse to things more violent Some use Vesicatories made of Cantharides and Soap mixt together Others flea the Epidermis or superficial skin of the face with aqua fortis and after skin it with other waters But such medicines are too offensive to the face by reason of inflamations and greater redness that happen too often through such tampring It were better if necessity compels you to apply sublimate and quicksilver for they are much safer than Vesicatories or aqua fortis so they be prepared after that fashion which I shall here describe To prepare Quicksilver chuse that which is most clear white and fluid strein it through a sheepskin it will cleanse it of all its dross the oftner you strein it the purer 't will be then boyle it in vinegar with sage rosemary tyme camo mile melilot then strein it again through a sheepskin at last mortifie it with juyce of limmons or fasting spittle Being thus prepared it may with little danger be mixt with ointments plaisters or waters Others steep quicksilver in strong vinegar and salt for ten or twelve dayes changing the vinegar and salt every day then they purifie it with the crum of hot white bread in an earthen pot three or four times then they passe it nine or ten times thorow a sheepskin and at last mortifie it with juice of limmons Sublimate is prepared divers ways the most assured preparation for our purpose is this following Take Sublimate four ounces bray it in a mortar with a wooden pestle till you make it so fine that it doe not grate betwixt your fingers then moisten it with juice of limmons beating it all the while then take quicksilver prepared carefully as you were taught before one ounce worke it together with the sublimate in the mortar wherein you should have first pounded half a dozen almonds to make the mortar slippery and the sublimate more easy to powder after this work them well together with a wooden pestle for the space of 3 or 4 days without ceasing especially the first day taking no rest when you have beat it one whole day adde one pound of the whitest Salt calcind the next two days work and incorporate them together so that of black or grey it may become white as snow and if at 3 days end it be not sufficiently white continue your trituration till it be so when this is done put it into a pot well glazed powre thereon a sufficient quantity of spring water stir it about with a wooden Spattula then cover it and let it settle till the water become clear change the water three or four times for the foure first days then stirre and change the water once a day for nine days following setting it all the while in some shadie and moist place When this is done and the water cleare draw it off by inclination and put the Sublimate in some vessell to dry in the Sun stirring it up and down that it may dry the better then keep it in a leaden pot The use of Quicksilver prepared as you were taught before is thus Take lard often washt in vineger two ounces prepared quick silver two drams allum sulphur vive of each half a dram beat them together in a leaden mortar and make them into an Unguent Take Lillie roots roasted under the embers three ounces pound and streine them fresh butter and lard washt in vineger of each one ounce sulphur vive three drams juice of limmon six drams common salt half an ounce camfre one scruple work altogether and make it into an ointment The most efficacious remedies for this distemper are made of Sublimate the best ways of using it are these Take Vnguentum citrinum pomatum washt in juice of limmons of each one ounce sublimate well prepared half an ounce ceruse washt in rose water and borace both finely powdred on a marble of each two drams camphre powdred half a dram incorporate these together then steep them 2 or 3 days in distil'd vinegar Take sublimate prepared half an ounce burnt borace two drams grinde them on a marble after make them into little bals with the whites of egs brought to a water which upon occasion you may dissolve in rose water to wash the face But since Sublimate and Mercury though never so well prepared often injure the teeth and cause a stinking breath it will be good when you apply them to the face to take something that may withstand such inconveniences as often as you use them to wash the mouth with oile of sweet almonds or else to keep a peece of gold in the mouth When you make any application of quicksilver or sublimate consider whether the face be grosse and corpulent or leane and meager if it be grosse you must mix them with such things as dry excedingly as borace ceruse calcin'd tartar unguentum citrinum if it be lean you must use them with oile of sweet almonds pomatum mucilage of gourd seeds c. CHAP. II. How to free the face from freckles FReckles are the product of fuliginous vapours and like smoke usually molest those most that have the fairest skins as if beauty jealous of being outvi'd by too cleare complexions did bestow that yellow livery on others which she deserv'd to weare her selfe The best means to remove such disfiguring spots are these Take Oile of tartar one dram milke of the figtree hony of each two drams incorporate them well together and bath the face therewith Or take cummin seed beaten three ounces salt two ounces brimstone one ounce put them in a marble mortar and beat altogether with the juice of celandine and urine make it into an ointment wash the face there with going to bed in the morning wash with fair water Take roots of wild cucumbers lillies briony borage daffodill dragonwort of each one ounce date stones bitter almons of each as much white corall meale of lupines and beans chrystall cuttle bone nitre sal gem white marble burnt sarcocolla of each two ounces ceruse five ounces beat all these into an exceeding fine powder make them into little bals with the juice of limmons and dry them in the Sunne when you would use them take one or two and mix them with Oxe or Sheeps gall and so anoint the face let it lye on three or foure hours then wash
cleane pound and boile them to a mash in rain water mix it with the oile of tartar and dears suet adding a little camphre and make it into the forme of an unguent Take the kernels of peaches pounded foure ounces goard seed two drams mix and pound them together then presse out the juice or rather oile you shall find it exceeding good for any black and blew bruise Take yellow arsnick sal ammoniacum one scruple and a half mix them with the juice of coriander seed in quantity about three ounces bathe the bruised places with it Aqua vitae heated and applyed to the bruise presently after the stroake with two spunges changing them as fast as they cool will take away all signes of the bruise CHAP. VI. To smooth the face disfigured with wrinckles THE smiling glories of beauties spring are often nipt with an early autumne when sharp sith'd time cuts those flowry graces down and shrouds them in the furrows of a wrinkled face Now to make your verdant features flowrish in spight of envious time or after their decay to smooth the face for a new plantation Take oile of bitter almonds two ounces lilly roots finely powdred one ounce make it into an ointment with the oile of roses and a little wax and so apply it to the faces Take oile of S. Johns wort one ounce oile of mirtle quinces water lillies jesmine mastick of each half an ounce melt all together in an earthen vessel then take it from the fire adding a convenient quantity of rose water then let it cool and use it Take thin shavings of ivory make a decoction thereof in water streine it and keep the thickest to mix with an equall part of incense and mouth glew make it into an unguent annoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with faire warme water Wash the wrinkled places with a decoction made with an equall quantity of bryony roots and figgs Or take incense the scum of silver of each half an ounce white pepper an ounce powder all apart incorporate them with mouth glew make them up into small balâ— dissolve these in rose water make a liniment for the face Take the juice of sweet almonds drawn without fire hony the roots of lillies roasted under the embers and pounded white wax washt with rose water make it into the forme of a salve soake a piece of linnen therein for a cerecloth make a mask of it to lay over the face going to bed Boile pomegranate pils in white wine and whey till the wine be consumed and the whole remain like a liniment Or dry in the Sun wild cucumer bryony roots powder them and often wash the face with the powder steept in wine afterward wash with cold water CHAP. VII How to cure chaps in the Face WHen the injurious violence of wind or weather hath rent your silken Skins if you intend to unite the separating parts you will find these your serviceable cements Take Staggs suet and Goats suet of of each half an ounce burnt borace two drams new wax half an ounce oile of roses two drams make it into an ointment and use it Or else take Capons grease and camfre mix them and anoint the chaps therewith every night in the morning wash with bran and water Some dissolve mouth glew in warme rose water and anoint the face therewith Distil'd oile of turpentine is very good so is fresh butter if you take three ounces of it and mix it with the mucilage of gum tragaganth of fleawort seeds and of quince seeds of each an ounce and a half and so make it into the fashion of an ointment for your use Take kids suet one ounce oile of the whites of eggs of sweet almonds and of prest henbane seeds of each half an ounce goose and hens fat of each as much litharge of silver prepared washt ceruse prepared tuttie red lead of each one dram saffron one scruple camfre halfe a scruple mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white wax make it into an ointment CHAP. VIII Remedies for the Face when it is Burnt or Scalded IF the face that Magazin of Beauty be supprized by catching flames and blown up into blisters your securest way will be to allay the fury of that offensive element thus Take lead burnt and washt two ounces Goats suet white wax of each one ounce and a half turpentine six drams prepared lapis calaminaris washt ceruse of each two drams mirrhe mastick olibanum of each one dram aloes epat camphre nitre of each half a dram mix them and make a plaister To draw out the fire and take away the inflammation take the whites of two eggs oile of roses and rose water of each two ounces work them together and then apply them Or take two raw onions salt Venice sope bole armenick of each an ounce beat them together in a mortar adding by degrees as much oile of roses as as will suffice to make it into an ointment To hinder the rising of blisters and take away paine you may use this Hens dung the whitest and freshest you can get three ounces fresh butter six ounces sage leaves one handfull plantaine leaves two handfuls fry them a while over the fire and annoint the affected part therewith several times a day Or else you may take old lard melt it with rose water then streine it through a clean cloth when it is cold wash it 6 or 7 times in plantane water and to half a pound of this lard add the yelks of 4 eggs if the paine be vehement you may mix a dram of opium with it In case the ulcer be sordid and purulent make application of this Take the inner rind of green elder oile of roses of each half a pound boile them with a gentle fire strein them and adde oile of the yelks of eggs two ounces frankincense two drams tuttie one dram wax enough to make it into an ointment To make the cicatrice smooth and faire wash the ulcer after it is sufficiently cleans'd with plantaine water having first dissolv'd therein a little allum being washt strew thereon some metallique powder either of tuttie ceruse litharge burnt and washt CHAP. IX To beautifie the Face howsoever disfigured THis chapter Ladies makes you a present of universall remedies that will fortifie your faces against any distemper and in spite of al the maladies that beauty is subject too make them matchlesse the only inconvenience that I feare from them is that some of ye when ye look in your glasses may fall in love with your own shadows and so linger away Martyrs to your selves The oile or water of Talque applyed to the face makes it as white as alablafter The manner of preparing it is this Take talque the most tender transparent you can get what quantity you please slit it into thin slices put them into a glass viol for the space of ten or twelve days with the juice of limmons during the frost
in winter make a bag of the thickest cloth you can procure put the former steeped Talque into the bag with the hardest river flints let the bag when close tyed be rubbed together by two men till the talque be exceeding finely powdred then take it out and put it into a earthen pot that is not glaz'd with a narrow mouth stop the vessel and biud it well about with strong wire then put it into a reverberatory for the space of 12 houres then take it from the fire by degrees when it is cool powder it with as much speed as you can least it draw and take in the aire on a marble then put it into a bag with a hook at bottome whereon to hang a vessel to receive the liquor then hang the bag with such a vessel in a deep well about a fathome from the water for the space of 30 or 40 days until the humidity begins to drop then take it up and put it in some moist place where neither aire nor wind comes leave it hanging til all the moisture be dreind away the liquor which you receive is the water of Talque by the same meanes you may make oile of Talque if you put that which remaines in the bag into a Retort giving fire to it by degrees till you draw all the oile forth this is the most usuall and experienc't way of preparing water or oile of Talque Others prescribe this method Take of the best talque what quantity you please slice it into thin leaves then calcine it thus take sulphur finely powdred make one strewing of it in a crucible then put a laying of talque after cover it with more sulphur using this method till you have put in what quantity you please and remembring there be more talque then sulphur and that it be alwaies in the middle of the sulphur cover the crucible lute it well and bind it about with wyre set the crucible in a strong fire for six hours afterward pound it and passe it through a searce then wash it well in hot water till the water be fresh then pour of the water by inclination and leave the Talque to dry when it is dry put it again into a crucible and put it to the fire for other twelve hours Next Take one pound of this Talque sal armoniack two ounces pouder them carefully together put them in a moist place and leave them there till they dissolve into a water when it is dissolved separate the two waters by a gentle inclination taking heed you do not mix the waters The water which is clear and uppermost is the water of sal armoniack that which is at bottom is the water of Talque which is as white as pearl filtre it and keep it carefully in a glass it makes the face as white as snow and may be used by a Princess Take sweet almonds blanched four pound sandarach mastick ceruse sulphur vive of each two ounces gum tragaganth one ounce whites of eggs three ounces beat them together and leave them to macerate seven or eight dayes beating them together once a day then heat them till they begin to smoke after press them and you shall have â—n oyle excellent good to beautifie the face Or else going to bed chew five or six peel'd almonds then put them in a linnen cloth and bath the face therewith Or Take oyle of tartar mingle it with distilled vinegar in the palm of the hand adding a little camphre and use it to bath the face Dissolve in fair water Ceruse one pound strein it through a thick cloth leave that which is streined in a vessel one night till the Ceruse be setled to the bottom pour off the water and dry the Ceruse in the Sun covering it with a cloth that it loose not its whiteness when it is dry adde thereto a like quantity of starch and gum dragant keep the mixture and when you would use it mix it with a little Womans or Asses milk wash your face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with water wherein wheat flower hath been boiled continue this twelve or fifteen dayes Ceruse since it is so excellent to whiten and clear the face and seeing there are sundry sorts of it I will here give a direction or two for their several preparations Ceruse of Wheat is made thus Take what quantity you please of the finest french Wheat steep it in fair water five or six dayes till it burst then strein it and beat it a little then strein it again in other clean water then strein it again thorow a cloth when it has stood a little and the water is something clear pour off that water and pour on another beat it together a long time strein the juyce into more water then set it in the Sun till the water be clear then pour off the water gently and to the sediment which remains in the bottom adde more water do this continuing the change of water morning and evening for six dayes together keeping the vessel continually covered and in the day time setting it in the Sun on the seventh day pour off the water by a gentle inclination setting that which remains in the bottom to dry in the Sun after it is dryed pouder it finely and keep it close stopt in a glass This Ceruse is of singular vertue to whiten clear and pollish the skin Tuke then one ounce of this Ceruse white Corral and Borace of each half a dram Nitre one scruple reduce them all to a very fine pouder and when you would use it dissolve one part thereof in rose-rosewater with camphre and musk bath your face with it going to bed in the morning wash with water and the crum of white bread The Ceruse of the roots of either of the Serpentaries is thus prepared Take the roots in July or August slit them into little round slices put them on a string some distance one from the other and so dry them in the Sun after pouder them as fine as possible then sift the pouder and mingle it with fair water strein it through a fine cloth so often till the whole substance of the root pass through the streiner then set the thickned water in the Sun ten or twelve dayes in which time you are to let it stand cover'd twelve hours without medling with it that the root may settle to the bottom then pour the water off gently and put in clear stirring it up and down that the water and the pouder of the root may mix together change the water after the same manner twice a day during the said ten dayes at last pour off the water without putting in more and leave the Ceruse to dry in the Sun when it is dry pouder and incorporate it with rosewater camphorated and sented with musk as much as will suffice to make it into small balls which you most dry in the Sun and keep in a glass vessel When you would use them
in strong vinegar and applyed as hot as you can endure then make use of the ointment The swellings and tumours of the Neck I mean those which arise betwixt the skin and the aspera arteria are thus to be ordered First purge the body with Cephalick Pills use a drying and temperate dyet Then Take sal gem amber allum burnt cuttle bone nutgalls long and black pepper cinnamon ginger pellitory of Spain of each half an ounce pouder all very fine and adde four ounces of Rosewater Take every morning in the waine of the Moon a spoonful of this pouder and so continue using it with your meat when it is gone make it again and use it Foment the place with the Decoction of Briony wild Cucomers Beets Sage Camomile Melilot Or put them all into a bag and apply them as hot as the Patient can endure then put on the part affected a plaister of diachylum to which you may adde euphorbium sulphur verdigreece If the beauty of the Neck be any whit impaired by Freckles Spots Wrinkles or Leannesse you may use the same remedies which we have before prescribed for these Maladies in the Tenth and Twelfth Chapters of the First Part and the Second and Sixt in this Second Part. CHAP. XXX How to keep the Breasts from growing too big and to make them plumpe and round YOur care Ladies to preserve the the Beauty of these parts must not be inferiour to that wherewith you cherish any for the Breast must be made remarkable with an outvying splendour that so the graceful rising of those snowy hills might like a pair of stately promontories tempt wandring Lovers and make them take your Microcosms for the only fortunate Islands If ye sear they will grow too big ye may be these means keep them within their bounds Put as much pounded Cummin seed into water as will suffice to make it into the consistence of a plaister bind it when you are young somewhat streight to the paps with a fillet dipt in water and vinegar letting it remain three dayes then take away the Cummin and apply the roots of white Lillies incorporated with water bind it likewise to the breast pretty streight and keep it on other three dayes Use this plaister often Bath the paps with Rosewater and vinegar whereto you may adde a little Camfre and Tutty Or pouder rock Allum mix it with oyle of Roses and anoint the paps with it Or with oyle of Myrtle and juyce of Henbane mixt together Some use to drink in their beer half a score grains of Hares dung to keep the breasts from growing too big If the Breasts have already exceeded their dimensions the dyet that you use must be more sparing and drying that there be not too great plenty of blood care must likewise be had to draw the blood downwards from the breasts Ye may apply this to hinder the breasts from receiving too much blood Take the juyce of Hemlock with the water of Myrtle Prunella a small quantity of Vinegar and Allum dip a linnen cloth therein and apply it to the breasts When the Breasts are flaccid and hang down too low you may make them round and plump thus Take Quinces green Grapes a like quantity beat them well together adde a little bole seed of Plantane Annis Fennel Cummin with the juyce of Plantane and vinegar mixt spread it upon the breasts in form of a Plaister The same effects have dryed Figs incorporated well with Cummin and a little vinegar You may likewise dissolve Pitch mix it together with oyle and apply it to the breasts CHAP. XXXI Remedies for Inflammations or Hardness of the Breasts and chaps in the Nipples WHEN some intestine heat impairs the radiant whiteness of those snowy hills or curdles the milky nectar of the breasts into such a hard and compacted thickness that not being able to get forth it must of necessity lye and generate sharp corroding streams which fret the tender out-lets of Cupids fountains Ye may Ladies in this Chapter furnish your selves with recuring remedies For your Breasts when they are first Inflamed Take the green leaves of Plantane Mallows of each four handfuls Earth-worms newly prepared six handfuls oyle of Roses three ounces oyle of Camomile and Mellilot of each one ounce Barley meale three ounces boyle all these together and with a sufficient quantity of this Decoction adding Bdellium dissolved in vinegar two drams make a Plaister and apply it to the breasts Or else Take the crum of white bread Barley meal of each one ounce and a half the meal of Beans and fengreek of each half an ounce Roses and the flowers of Camomile poudred of each two drams boyle them then adde rose vinegar one ounce oyle of Camomile and Roses of each one ounce make it into a Pultiss and apply it Take the leaves of Lettuce Purslane of each one handful red Roses half a handful boyle them in water and adde to the Decoction two ounces of vinegar dip cloths therein and apply them to the breasts If great pain doth accompany the Inflammation you may use this as a singular remedy Take Album Graecum powder it very fine make it into a plaister with white wine or vinegar and apply it warme to the breasts Sometimes there is hardnesse in the breasts which accompanies the inflammation in such a case take bean barly meal of each one handful the meale of the seed of flax fenugreek of each half a handful the oile of roses three ounces saffron one scruple mix them together and make an ointment If after this the paps remaine hard apply some repercussive medicines that the breasts may not draw more blood then they can digest anoint the breasts and under the armpits with this medicine take bole arm one ounce with a sufficient quantity of oile of roses of myrtle and vinegar make an unguent To the paps apply this discussive cataplasme take dry mint two handfuls worme wood one handfull boile them to marsh strein them add the meal of beanes lupines of each half an ounce make a pultis with the oile of lillies and apply it If the blood be curdled dissolve it with this take smallage four ounces oxymel two ounces meal of red vetches lupins of each two ounces make them into a cataplasme When the paps are subject to chaps and clefts use things mollifying and attenuating before the milke come to the breasts wherefore it will be good for married Ladies before they lye in to use some mollifying poultises or to anoint the paps with wax workt well together with oile or fresh lard Or else take Bole arm myrrh of each half a dram ceruse two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Ducks fat make an unguent for the paps Or else you may anoint them with oile of sweet almonds The pomatum described in the 25 chap. of this Part is exceeding good in this case PART III. How to Beautifie the Arms Hands Leggs and Feet A Mongst those best meanes that
ye have Ladies to get your selves in Fames immortalizing Calendar canoniz'd for Beauties it is one to studie the ornament of these parts which though they seem the outbranches onely of rationall trees yet conduce much to the splendour of beauties Paradise CHAP. I. To remedie sweating of the Armpits and other inconveniences proceeding thence SOmething is seems of miracle that Ladies armes should keep those they once incircle such fast prisoners that few of them are ever known to regaine their former freedome Nothing inferiour to Cupids magick spels they never surround any but by their inchantments work on them so strange a metamorphosis that they leave them nothing may speak them men but humane shape If any Ladie find that her embraces have no such powerfull charms she may justly suspect there is something that frights the amarous vermine from the bait before they have leisure to be intoxicated Such sents are thus remov'd After the body hath been purged use a bath made with bawme mirtle lavender and other herbs of a good sent in wine or water wherewith bath the places affected or else bath them with wine and rose water wherein you have boiled allum myrrhe calamus aromaticus lignum aloes cloves If you bath the armpits with any sort of allum dissolv'd in water it will condense the pores and hinder the sweat from streining through the skin Or else you may often wash the arm pits with white wine wherein nutmegs or mace have been boiled or wherein three graines of musk have been dissolved it hinders the transpiration of sweat and gives a pleasing odour to the body Monsieur Liebault a French man adviseth to keep this pomander under the armpits Take Styrax calamite ladanum benjamin of each half a dram cloves mace lignum aloes lavender flowers of each half a scruple musk one graine with gum tragagant dissolvd in rose water and a little turpentine make them up for use As for internall remedies to alter the ill constitution of your bodies I would commend this to ye Take the best Marmalade of quinces two ounces candid ginger one ounce green calamus aromaticus preserved half an ounce nutmegs cassia lignea the lesser galingale mace of each one dram the seeds of coriander prepared of bishops weed of each half a dram oile of Cloves and Cinnamon of each one scruple the whitest sugar dissolv'd in cinnamon water one pound mix all these and according to art make them into pectoral lozenges a dram whereof taken in a morning doth wonderfully strengthen a cold stomack repair a decayed complexion and utterly take away all foetid fumes that use to exhale from the body CHAP. II. For Chaps and Warts in the Arms or Hands YOur Alabaster Armes and Hands Ladies are the fleshie altars whereon your superstitious Inamorato's offer to you as female Deities the first fruits of their devotion in zealous kisses Your care should be to keep them in such a soul-inchanting symmetrie that might confirm your Idolizing lovers in the opinion they have conceived that you are more then mortal If the hands or armes are chapt in the morning as soon as you are up bath the chaps with spittle then anoint them with Capon or Duck grease well washt with rose water Or else take a little mastick finely powdred incorporate it with oile of roses and white wax you may likewise mix poudred mastick with the white of an egg and anoint the chapt places with it Or take Olibanum mastick of each two drams oile of roses new wax and Capons grease of each half an ounce make them into an unguent and use it If the chaps proceed from heat take hens grease and camfre mix them to anoint the chaps withall every night in the morning wash with bran and water if the hands are chapt with cold use this Litharge of silver mirrhe ginger powdred a like quantity of each mix them with oile of roses and new wax make an unguent first bath the chaps with spittle then anoint with this ointment let it lye on all night in the morning wash with warme water it heals the chaps and makes the skin faire and cleare To free your self from warts apply to them a plaister of Cantharides but let it touch no part else and it will eat them away by little and little Or bath them often with the milke that issues from the figtree Take Litharge one pound quick Lime half a pound sal Armoniac half an ounce common Vitriol three drams boyle all in water to the consumption of three parts of the water then strein it and bath the Warts therewith The best way is to touch them with oyle of Vitriol very slightly for if you lay on any great quantity it will quickly eat to the bone Warts when they come first and are tender may be removed with black Soap mixt with burnt Salt salt of Nitre milk of Spurge juyce of Celondine juyce of wild Cucumers pouder of Cantharides Some rub them with a piece of raw Beef and afterwards bury it Others use Marigold leaves CHAP. III. How to make the Hands fair and white and to lessen the Veins when they appear too big IF any Lady be already the Cynosure to neighbouring eyes and would be elevated to the highest altitude in peoples aestimation besides the attractive lure of a pleasing face she ought to have hands whose radiant whiteness might dazle spectators eyes that so they might go on blindfolded in the fond humour of admiring her And then I dare secure her men will be such close captives to her imperious tyranny that she need never fear being disdain'd by any apostate Lover The best means to bring the hands to such a lillied splendour follow here Take the pressings of sweet and bitter Almonds which remain after the Oyle is drawn from them of each four ounces Bean meal two ounces your finest French Barley ground and sifted meal of Lupins of each an ounce and an half pouder of Florentine iris one ounce red Roses dryed Benjamin of each six drams salt of white Tartar the whitest Chalk washt and prepared burnt ivory fresh sperma coeti of each half an ounce oyle of Rhodium one scruple oyle of Cloves and Lavander of each half a scruple mix them all well together and with a little of the mixture often rub and wash the hands it is of an excellent sent and makes the hands exceeding white smooth and soft Take Venice Soap dissolved in juyce of Limmons one pound white virgin Honey four ounces prepared Sublimate white Sugar candy the roots of Florentine iris of each one ounce salt of white Tartar whitest sperma coeti Sugar allum Venetian borace of each half an ounce true sented Balsame of Peru two drams gallia moschata one dram oyle of Rhodium Cinnamon Cloves of each one scruple Use the mixture to wash and rub the hands withal It is of the same efficacy with the former Take Venice Soap what quantity you please cut it in small pleces set them so long to
sometime been dried on wash with rose water Or often bath the face with rose water camphorated It is exceeding good to prevent those inconveniencies which may happen from the use of such things as too much dry and parch the face Slice four oranges and as many limmons take white sugar and rock allum of each one ounce infuse them three or four hours in a quart of milk then distil them in B. M. and wet some fine cloth in the water to lay over the face when you go to bed Or take Goats milk one quart juyce of citrons one pint white wine vinegar half a pint the flowers of beans water lillies fumitory of each three handfuls the whites of half a dozen eggs camphire two drams distil and use them as the other Oyle of myrrhe is singular good to preserve the beauty if when you go to bed you wash your face with the distilled water of bean flowers and afterwards anoint it with that oyle It is thus prepared Take new laid eggs and boyl them hard slit them and take out the yolks then fill them up with poudred myrrhe close them together lay them in a moist cool place and the myrrhe will dissolve into a water which is the oyle After the same manner you may prepare oyle of Tartar if you calcine and put it into the eggs it is an exceeding good Cosmetick Take Unguentum Citrinum three ounces sperma coeti an ounce and a half salt of Ceruse half an ounce oyle of eggs as much mash them together and make a liniment To make salt of Ceruse you must pouder the ceruse very fine and mix it with some distilled vinegar so that to one ounce of ceruse there may be four ounces of vinegar let it infuse three or four dayes then draw it off by filtration and and set that which is drawn off over the fire in an earthen pot well glaz'd and dried till it become a salt as they make their cauteries Take prepared snails that is drawn out of their shels and washt so long in salt and water till they loose their slime then pound them and lay one bed of them in the bottom of an Alembicke and on them make an other bed of sal gem allum frankincense borace camphire of each pounded two drams then poure on so much juice of limmons as may cover them two fingers so let them macerate 5 or 6 hours together and then distill them in Bal. Maris Take twelve limons as many hen egs halfe a pound of turpentine well washt put the turpentine in the bottome of the alembick boile the egs hard and distill all in B. M. this water is excellent to whiten the skin and change the complexion if you wash wish spring watar and dry the face and after wash with this without wiping This bath is very good Take two handfulls of sage leaves the like quantity of lavender flowers and roses a little salt boile them in spring water and therewith bath your body remembring that you are never to bath after meals for it will occasion many infirmities bath therefore two or three hours before dinner it will cleare the skin revives the spirits and strengthens the body the same effects hath this following Take rose water vineger salt boile all together in faire water take thereof a pint mix some bran with it and wash the body all over with it let it dry on then wash it off nothing can be better to mundifie the body Some Ladies delight much in sweet baths therefore into half a pint of water they put 5 or 6 drops of oile of spickenard some beside this adde musk amber civet lignum aloes benjamin storax myrrh cloves roses limmon and orange flowers rosemary lavender mint penny-royall But your chymicall extracts far excell all these if you mix but halfe a dozen drops with your bath such are the oile of oranges cloves mace nutmegs and the like When your bath is provided remember if you prise your health or beauty that it be not too hot for then it scorcheth the skin and makes it rough and causes very many untoward infirmities Thus much for the meanes to gaine a good complexion I come in the next place to give some speciall remedies how to correct the more particular vices of an ill complexion as a pale and swarthy colour a rough harsh grosse or sluttish skin sweat spots itch scab leprosie scurf and the like CHAP. IV. How to beautifie a white and pallid complexion Such colours when they annoy the complexion principally proceed from ill humours which abound in the body are expelled forth to the externall superficies of the skin wherefore those that desire to correct any vitious colour that offends their bodies must in the first place by some purgation evacuate that humour whereto their distemper ows its originall Now the palenesse of the complexion in women is principally occasioned by obstructions of the spleen and liver which cause in them a suppression of their monthly purgations which cause being by an orderly course of physick removed the body must be replenisht by a good and commendable dyet If this doe not recover their decaying beauty they may proceed to externall applications and to make their cheeks and lips ruddie and lively with good success use these things following Dissolve the shavings of Brasil and Orkanet in allum water wherewith after you have sufficiently cleansed the face with water of lillies or bean flowers bath the cheeks and lips letting it dry on Or else bath the cheeks lips or any other part that is too pale and white with allum water wherein a pciee of red turnsoile hath been often steeped or rub those parts with a peece of shipskin coloured red To chafe the parts often with the hand or a course cloth makes them look red and lively for such frictions draw the blood and spirits outward Or in case of necessity use Pomatum and Vermilion made of cinnaberis Or Take red Saunders bruise and steep it for 3 dayes in Aqua Vitae then boile it for an hour over a gentle sire adding a little allum and gum arabick than strein it and bath the parts therewith Take rock allum unc 1. boile it in a pinte of running water when it is dissolved take it off from the fire let it cool then adde to it Vermilion finely powdred one ounce boile them againe to a consumption of half streine the decoction and keep it for your use Take Brasil one ounce Cloves halfe a score grains of Paradise two scruples boile them with a pint of rectified Aqua vitae in a covered vessel use it when it is cold CHAP. V. To smooth a rough and uneven Skin THe skin is the bodies native shirt which if it be of a courser thread it is some of Natures homespun houswifry carelesly hudled up when she was in hast to finish a finer peece To smooth such rugged canvas and bring it to a pleasing evennesse that may vie with the polisht Alablaster art here
four ounces flowers of beanes pellitory of the wall of each one handfull flowers of water lillie two handfuls steep them in white wine then mix them with goats milke after distill them in an alembick and keep the water to wash the spots For white spots These proceed commonly from a pituitous humour abounding in the body and are thus remedied Take barly lupines red Vetches the roots of the greater and lesse dragon wort of each one ounce pound them and incorporate them with the whites of eggs make them up in little bals and dry them in the sun when you have occasion to use them dissolve one or two in rosewater and so anoint the spots going to bed in the morning wash with the infusion of the crum of white bread Take the ashes of asphodill roots mix them with vineger and apply them Or steep the rind of Caper roots in strong vineger Or verdegreece finely powdred macerated a day and a night in juice of limmons wet a linnen cloth therein and bath the spots For green spots Powder the dryed roots of dragon wort to two ounces of this powder adde ceruse half an ounce and as much cuttle bone powdred worke them together with rose water and make them into little bals dry them and keep them for your use when you have occasion dissolve a couple in a quantity of rose water and therewith anoint the skin Take the juice of chelandine strong vineger make it into an ointment and apply it Or take brimstone myrrhe frankincence camphre of each two drams steep them in rose water the space of 8 daies stirring it once a day then let it settle and use it to wash the face For red tawny spots Take Venetian ceruse one ounce lapis calaminaris litharge of each two drams prepared tutia spodium of each one dram powder them very small then adde the water of plantaine housleek red roses of each two drams mingle them and keep it for your use In the morning fasting chew in the mouth a bit of mastick as soon as you perceive it to dissolve anoint the spots therewith Or powder pigeons dung flax seed French barly soake them in strong vinegar and anoint the spots CHAP. XI To reduce the body that is too fat to a meane and handsome proportion IT can be no pleasing sight to see a soul prest under a mountaine of flesh and the body stretcht to such dimensions that make it represent a walking barrell Were there nothing more then this 't were sufficient to deterre any from such an unwildie magnitude that it always proves its own accuser exposing in too legible characters Sloth to every one that can but read For when ere the carcase swels it self into a bulk too voluminous idlenesse is there describ'd in folio Have a care Ladies then to keep your bodies in a mean proportion and if ever they enlarge themselves to extravagant limits use these directions to reduce them to their former bounds so you may regaine your credit and your beautie too Rise early in the mornings and use some violent exercise to sweat often fast much rise halfe satisfied from your meals let your first course be oily and fattie things that the appetite may be soon satiated and the body kept soluble the second course sharp salt and bitter things out all your meats with vineger pepper mustard juice of oranges and limmons sleep at night on a quilt It is good to bleed largely twice a year the right arme in the spring the left in the autumne purge the body in those seasons with strong physick once a week take some laxatives as pillulae â—â—uffi extractum Rudii every morning chiefely in winter use this powder Take the feeds of annis fennel agnus castus rue carroway cummin pepper ginger mace nutmegs galingale smallage dryed marjerom gentian round birthwort of each equall parts take one dram of this powder in a glasse of white wine half an hour before meals Cooling applications may be layd to the heart or liver as the juice or decoction of plantane shepheards purse horstaile lettuce white henbane adding the powder of camfre mirtle or the like If any one particular part be too corpulent for the rest of the body you may bring it to a correspondent proportion if you use this unguent Take Fullers earth ceruse and lead mix them with the juice of white henbane and the oile of mirtle anoint the part therewith having first bathed it with vinegar wherein brimstone salt nitre and rock allum have been dissolv'd Some use with ligaments to bind those passages whereby the member is supplyed with nourishment CHAP. XII To make the body or any part thereof plump and fat that was before too leane IN a contrary extreame to corpulency are those breathing Skeletons that carry Lent in their face at a Christmas feast and look so meagerly that their Confessours since they have nothing leaft but skin and bones dare not for feare of a Soloecisme injoine them pennance to mortifie the flesh No part about them thrive so well as their bones and these look as lustie as if they had eaten up the flesh and were readie to leap of the skin to fall upon others Truly Ladies such leannesse is a ravenous guest and will keep you bare to maintaine him if you have a mind to be rid of his company observe these prescriptions following and I dare ingage he shall not long disturb you Let your chamber in the summer time be kept something cool and moist with violets lillies or the like fresh flowers before you eat chafe the body till it look red then walke and stirre about some houswifes imployment When you eate take nothing that is salt or sharp bitter or too hot but let your meats be sweet and of good nourishment as fresh egs mutton veale capon and for three hours after meat take your recreation in dauncing singing discoursing c. use some baths twice a month and in the mornings this electuary Sweet almonds pistach nuts white poppy seed butter and sugar beat them up into the forme of an electuary take thereof morning and evening the quantity of a walnut it quickly fattens and gives a good complexion Take twelve or thirteen Lizards or outs cut off their heads and tailes boile them and let the water stand to cool take of the grease mix it with wheaten flower feed a Hen therewith till shee be fat then kil her and eat her this often used will make you exceeding sat keep it for a rare and true secret Take a young Capon the flesh of veal four calves feet white wine faire water of both 3 quarts boile all in an earthen vessell scumming of all the fat Then put this broth into a new vessell with a pound and a halfe of sugar cinnamon half an ounce a dozen cloves boile it gently againe then adde thereto the whites of two egs reboil it and passe it through a streiner before it cool mix a little musk and
dissolve them in rosewater to wash your face withal at night the next morning wash with water of Lillies This Ceruse is exceeding good to take away all stains spots and freckles from the face After the same manner is made the Ceruse of the roots of Briony wild Cucumers Water lillies Thus much concerning the preparation of Ceruses Take litharge of silver and gold of each one dram put them into strong white Wine vinegar adding camfre and allum of each half a scruple musk and cloves to sent the Composition boyle all in a little vinegar then filtre and keep it then boyle a little rock allum in water keep it a part for your use mingle these two waters together and bath the face neck or breasts Take Camfre one dram allum borace two drams oyle of tartar one ounce all being finely poudred boyle them in two quarts of rosewater strein and keep it 'T is excellent to whiten the face neck or breasts Take bitter Almonds peeled one pound and a half the whites of thirty eggs with their shells the tender branch of a fig-tree cut into small bits incorporate them together and distil them in a glass alembick over a gentle fire adde to the water which you draw sugar candy borace and camphre of each one ounce olibanum two ounces pounded all small then still them again and preserve the water that you draw as a secret to beautifie either the face or breasts CHAP. X. How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off HAir Ladies is the silken fringe to Beauties bed or if you will the slender sleaves that nature spins for Cupid thereof to weave his heart-surprising nets if once it fails that amorous god looses a considerable part of his artillery and after never acts but weakly for ye So that it concerns ye who triumph over intangled Captiveâ— to tender its preservation You may keep that you already have a fast Friend to you thus Take myrtle berries gals emblick myrobalans of each a like quantity boil them in oyle of roses It is a Receipt as old as Galen but as good as most if it doth not succeed use the next Take myrrhe pine bark myrtle leaves maiden hair pound them together very well then adde a double quantity of labdanum pounded put all into white Wine and oyle of Radish seed anoint the head very well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this bath Sorrel leaves maiden hair emblick myrobalans boyle them in water and adde a little pounded myrrhe it very much fastens the hair Or else Take the leaves of Willow Plantane rock Allum boyle them in water adding a little poudred Tutty and Myrrhe make a bath and wash therewith Take the juyce of the youngest Myrtle leaves two ounces juyce of wild Olives four ounces red Roses dryed two ounces Roman Wormwood two drams boyle all these in a quart of white Wine till half be consumed then strein it and adde a little poudred labdanum and use it to wash the head The golden water drawn from hony in a glasse still is much commended Or take the leaves and roots of vervaine put them into oile of green grapes set them in the sun many daies then streine it and keep it for your use Take an equall quantity of labdanum wormwood juniper berries nigella seeds vervaine bind them up in a linnen cloth and macerate them five daies in oile there is nothing better to fasten the haire or to make haire grow CHAP. XI Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before IF some disaster Ladies have trod too hard on your heads kild those pleasant plants that use to flourish there you may againe attire them with their native beauty and repaire all former ruines thus Take marsh mallow seed boile it in sallet oile ' til it become thick with this oile anoint the head 6 or 7 times in an houre going to bed when that is done take what quantitie you please of the same seed boile it wel with water and wash the head therewith it makes the haire come exceeding thick the same effects hath this which follows Boile in white wine oile of mastick tree mirtle and labdanum of each two ounces maiden haire macerated two days in the same wine four ounces set them over the fire til the wine be evaporated after apply it as an ointment to the head Nigella romana burnt incorporated with hony Bees and Wasps burnt and incorporated with oile gals and the ashes of hasel nuts mixt with hony the kernels of peaches pounded and boiled in vinegar the cinders of cantharides southernwhod maidenhaire lilly roots mixt with bears greace are exceeding good for those that have but thin haire Take Euphorbium laurell berries rocket seed of each two drams sulphur vive white hellebore burnt of each halfe a scruple make a linement with wax dissolv'd in oile of laurel if applyed it will soon supply you with haire If you would cause haire to grow on any bald place do thus Pound elme roots boile them in water til there remaine a slimy scum on top gather that for your use then rub the bald place with a cloth til it look red and after anoint it with that scum Or take pumice stone beaten exceeding fine rub the skin therewith so long as you can endure it then bath it with vinegar mixt with an equall quantity of nitre sal armoniack sulphur vive your own experience will approve it Take barly bread and salt role them up in parchment burne them in a crucible and reduce them to a pouder which make into an ointment with bears grease It is a secret of nature Or take cantharides fling away the head and feet rub them on the bald place and so leave them blisters will rise first and then haire CHAP. XII How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe WHen the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are oretopt by the hastie growth of superfluous excrescencies you may secure the glorious hue of your beauties pride and eradicate those aspiring weeds that disturb you by taking Quicke lime four ounces auripigmentum one ounce and a half Florentine iris root one ounce sulphur nitre of each half an ounce lye made with the ashes of bean stalks one quart mix all together and boile it so long in a glaz'd earthen pot till putting a pen therein all the feathers peel off then add half an ounce of the oile of spike or any other perfume and from what part of the body soever you are minded to take away the haire anoint it with this unguent and in a quarter of an hour you shall find the effects but remember when the haire fals away to anoint with oile of roses Take Orpiment and quick lime of each an ounce and a half the seeds of fleawort and henbane of each half an ounce sublimate two drams ivie gum one dram and a half opium one
allum hath been dissolved or else wash your feet in water wherein the flowers and berries of myrtles the leaves of cypresse tamarisk mint marjoram and after you have washt them well anoint them with litharge powdered and mixt with hony There is yet another distemper incident to the feet which I had almost forgot they are often apt to be numb'd with a kind of pinching chilness You may Ladies free your selves from this distemper thus Make a decoction of the roots of enula campana angelica flowers of camomile melilot and once or twice a week bath your feet in it You may likewise boile mint marjoram sage laurel pepper wort in white wine and use it as the former decoction CHAP. VII Remedies whereby to be freed from Kibes and Cornes THE servile feet though they vaile bonnet to all the nobler parts and are leveld with that below which they cannot well feare a fall yet seem to have something of pride while they often swell into tumours and to those dimensions they cannot reach themselves they arive in needless excressencies You may check this their petty ambition and securely trample upon them if your hands will take but the paines to walke to your feet and apply these medicines For the kibes or those red hard itching tumours that are troublesome to the feet in frostie weather bath them well till they are very soft in warme water wherein mallows or senugreek have been boiled or in hot graines or oats boiled in aqua vitae then apply to them an unguent made of oile of mastick oile of spike and wax of each a like quantity Take the powder of gum tragaganth incorporate it with oile of mastick and use it for a liniment Or take goats suet one pound Galls powdred one ounce melt and strein the suet then add the gals use it as an unguent Or take neats foot oile two ounces galbanum half an ounce boile them till they are pretty thick then anoint the kibes therewith having first well bathd them Boile half an ounce of litharge in oile stirring it continually then adde three drams of galbanum and make it into an ointment Take ammoniack half an ounce rosin one ounce mastick frankincense of each one dram meal of fenugreek half an ounce wax and oile as much as shall be sufficient dissolve the gum ammoniac and the rosine over hot embers then add the wax and the oile when it is all melted add the meale of fenugreek and the frankincense powdred make it into an unguent Beares grease sea water the decoction of leeks frankincense incorporated with lard pomegranate peels boiled in wine all these if they are applyed are very good But if the kibes are broken and exulcerated anoint them with unguenâ—um apostolorum strewing thereon powder of mastick incense myrrhe then bind up the part affected with a fillet steept in hot white wine and cover it with a warme cloth Corns in the toes or feet may be removed by the same means which we have prescribed for warts Or take pure galbanum new wax soften them with your breath and work them together apply them as close to the corne as you can First soften the corne with some fomentation then apply a cautery some use leaven others the powder of the root of rest harrow Wash the feet and apply to the corns the milk of fig leaves then shave them with a razor to the quick and if there happen any inflammation anoint them with unguentum rosatum Bruise the leaves of rue and bind them to the corns quick lime likewise kils them Or take water of tartar three ounces black sope one ounce quick-silver half an ounce boile these nine times every time when they begin to boile make it cease by powring in cold water then wash the cornes with this water morning and evening then shave them to the quick then wash them againe as before then shave them and they will be quite taken away Some apply ox gall changing it every day till the cornes fall away PART IV. Sents and Perfumes fitted for severall occasions YE have heard Ladies how to furnish your selves with a Beauty so transcendent that shall puzzle Rhetorick to studie Hyperbolies to express it by so captivating that none shall dare stile himself a Platonick or at most he onely whom your divine features shall make believe that ye are more than mortal The former receipts shall furnish each of ye with loveliness enough for your whole Sex make ye Pearls in beholders eyes these following shall make ye walking gardens so that ye shal lead your servants by the noses after ye they shal all turn Camoeleons and live on that aire which ye perfume CHAP. I. Perfumed Pomanders for Bracelets QUestion not Madams but Pomander Bracelets conduce much to the making of your Captives numerous though they bind only your arms yet they take men your prisoners for none can have the courage to resist that once see how much bracelets make ye Women of your hands The best directions for making them are such Take two ounces of the best damask rose buds the whites being cut off musk ambergreece of each forty grains civet twenty grains let your roses be beaten fine as is usual for Conserves then adde the former things with a little Labdanum beat them well together and make them up with gum tragaganth dissolved in rose-water Take Styrax Calamite Labdanum of each a dram and a half Benjamin one dram Cloves Mace wood of Aloes Lavender flowers of each half a scruple musk ambergreece of each four grains a little turpentine gum traganth dissolved in rose-rosewater as much as will suffice mix them well together in a warm mortar and make all into a Pomander according to art Take Florentine iris roots Cloves Mace Cinnamon of each half an ounce yellow Saunders Styrax calam sweet Asa of each two drams Ambergreece one dram Musk of Alexandria half a dram sweet Balsame of Peru oyle of Rhodium of each one scruple mix all well together and adde two drams of Civet This Composition will be dear but ye may make it in less quantity taking either half or a quarter of the doses Beside the exceeding pleasant smell it is good in Pestilential times and in Fits of the Mother Take the shavings of the greenest Cypress wood one ounce Florentine iris six ounces Cloves three ounces Calamus aromaticus three drams wood of Aloes fix drams pound them altogether in a still place Take three or four hundred red damask Roses clean pickt beat them in a mortar with a wooden Pestle when they are half beaten put in the former pouders then pound them again moistning them with a little damask Rose water and when they are well mixt make them up into small Trochicks and dry them in the shade Of this Composition ye may make musk soaps sweet pouders and pomanders and to make the Composition more excellent ye may put what musk ambergreece ye please so that ye pouder the musk and