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
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
dry in the Sun that you may bring them into a pouder Afterward Take one pound of this pouder iris root and Saunders poudred of each four ounces starch six ounces beat them altogether in a mortar adding liquid storax and oyl of benjamin what quantity you please anoint the hands with this Composition and it will marvelously whiten smooth and sent them Take half a pound of Figs as many Raisins of the Sun ston'd and a like quantity of bitter Almonds beat them all severally in a mortar as small as you can then mix them together adding two Limmons par'd and minc'd and two good handfuls of Bean meal boyle all these in a pinte of white Wine vinegar stirring them continually when it hath boyled so long that it sticks no more to the Posnet then put it forth into a gally pot and keep it use some quantity of it to scour your hands every time you wash Take Labdanum four ounces Styrax calam three ounces Benjamin two ounces put them into a brazen mortar heated work them together with a hot Pestle till they are pretty soft adde poudred Soap two pound then strew thereon liquid Storax two ounces make it into a Composition with a little Rosewater and keep it to scour your hands Take Starch meale of Beans Lupins Rice iris roots of each four ounces pouder them very small searce them and then mix them together when you wash your hands take a little of this pouder and moisten to rub them withal If you like an Ointment do thus Take oyle of sweet Almonds four ounces take a little white Wax and put to it boyl it over the fire adde one dram of Camfre and make it into an Unguent it will both keep the hands from sun-burn and make them exceeding white When the milky whiteness of the hands is eclyps'd by the azure veins that swell too big chaff them well with water wherin allum hath been dissolved then wash them in warm water presently after annoint them with an unguent made of Ceruse Take wax an ounce and a halfe turpentine three ounces frankincense fenugreek mastick of each two ounces a half three graines of musk dissolve the wax and turpentine in a new pipkin then add half a pound of common oile when it begins to boyl strew in the masâ—ick frankincense senugreek all being powdred incorporate them together and make an ointment CHAP. IV. For the Hands when they are swoln and look red or blew with cold IF your hands like the flowry fields dismantle themselves of their richest livery at the approach of the crabbed winter laying aside their youthful lovelinesse do shelter themselves under some more serious colour that may better suit with the humour of that grave decrepit season Ye may I adies reapparell them with their native whiteness by the help of these directions following Often bath your hands in wine wherein you have boiled nettles rosemary time rue penny royall the frequent use of this decoction will keep them from swelling As soon as they begin to swell and rise into knobs apply a repercussive plaister made of barly meale and juice of limmons or take litharge oile of roses and vinegar work them wel together into a liniment to anoint the affected places If the swellings do not yeild to these medicines Take the yolks of five eggs calcine them and mix them well with barrows grease anoint the hands well therewith going to bed draw on a paire of smooth gloves and so lye all night Take turpentine mix it with half its quantity of salt stir them well together till they are pretty thick then apply it to the swoln hands Take oyl of dil oyl of sweet almonds of each one ounce mucilage of gum tragaganth made with pennyroyal water three drams powdred starch eight drams mix and make them into an ointment it takes away the cold swellings of the hands and reduces them to their former Colour CHAP. V. Remedies for those vices which are incident to the nails THE nails are pearlie helmets wherewith prudent nature hath arm'd the active fingers to which if they are neatly burnisht they give a commanding comliness and may at a pressing exigencie be fit materials to head Cupids piercing shafts their oriental beautie is thus preserved When the nails are spotted remove the spots with these medicaments Incorporate myrrhe with a sufficient quantity of turpentine and apply it Or else take sulphur vive work it together with a convenient quantity of pitch and tarre use it as a plaister you may if you please add a little vinegar Mix flax seed beaten with hony and wax put it to the naile that is spotted If the naile be bruised and becomes black by reason of the blood that congeals underneath apply a cerecloth that is made of capons grease sheeps grease with oile of cammomile or dil afterward to dissolve the setled blood use goats dung tempered with sulphur Or incorporate cummin seed with diachylum ireatum and oile of camomile in forme of an unguent Ducks grease mixt with Euphorbium is singular good to discusse the condensed blood By some mischance or other the top of the finger is oftentimes so bruised that the naile comes off to make it come again foment the part with wine wherein dates have been steeped Take Flaxseed one ounce cardamoms three drams as much hony as will make it into a plaister this will make a naile that is cleft or rotted to come away the same effect hath the juice of stinking orach When the naile by these means is fallen off to make it grow againe you may use that which was before prescribed If the flesh or skin grows too much over the nails milk of spurge dropt thereon is very good Or take salt barly meal and costus poudred mix them with so hony as will make them into a plaister and apply it to the flesh CHAP. VI. Remedies for the galling fretting and sweating of the feet THE Body that fleshie pallace of a deathlesse guest would sink beneath its own magnificence were it not upheld by the feet those beauteous pedestals to the sister columns that more immediately support the structure If they are once fretted or stand on too moist a foundation they may chance to slip and so the whole aedefice of beauty hazard it self by catching a fall Your wisest way will be to secure them thus When the feet are galled take emplastrum diachalcit dissolve it in oile of mirtle and use it to anoint the feet Oile of eggs made by expression or else oyl prest from wheat betwixt two iron plates is very good You may likewise use those things which have been formerly commended to take away chaps Vnguentum album or diapomphol are not applyed without good successe the like might be said of the oile of flax fresh butter the yolk of an egg made into an unguent The feet if they are often subject to troublesome sweatings may thus be ordered bath them in warm water wherein
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 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
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 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