the Suger and other thinges in the glasses and kepe it well couered Then take the Iuice of all these thinges followyng of redde Roses or incarnate of Succorie of Endiue of Fumiterie of Buglosse of Borage of Mallowes of Hoppes of the leaues and flowers of Marche violettes of eche of these iuices a like quaÌ„titie then mixe them wel together That doen take a pound or two of Aloes EpaticaÌ„ or as moche as you wil for the more there is the better it shall be bicause that thesaid Aloe beyng sosteeped watered and prepared as we will she we you is a verie exquisite familiare medecine to kepe in a house and take of it by litle lumpes or pilles ones in the weke when a man goeth to bed for it kepeth the body from putrifaction and from all euill humours and is very profitable and good against the ache or paine in the ioinctes and also for the Frenche Pockes as herafter we will declare orderly Take of the saied Aloe of the best and the freshest soche a quantitie as you will and put it in a cup of glasse or cleane platter as is aboue said and set it in a windowe or some other place in the Sonne watryng or stepyng it in thesaid iuices mingled together giuing it therof as often as shalbe sufficient to make it moist and to make of it as it were athicke sirop Then couer the cup with a clene linen clothe or paper to kepe it onely from the duste and leaue it so in the Sonne And when it is almoste waxen drie embibe or water it again as before and let it stand in the Sonne This shall you doe so often vntill you haue made it soke and drinke vp as moche iuice as the weight of halfe the Aloe onely that is to saie if the Aloe weighe twoo pound make it drinke vp at diuers times one pouÌ„d of thesaid iuices This doen take these thinges followeyng Turbit halfe and vnce fine Sinamom Spica Nardi Fole foote alias Astrabacca Squinantum Carpobalsamum Xilobalsamum Lignum Aloes Bdellium Mirrhe Mastic of eche of them an vnce with halfe an vnce of Safron All these thynges beyng well beaten into pouder and put into a cleane panne you shall poure into theim so moche common water that it surmounte thesaied matieres a good hande breadth lettyng theim boile with a a small fire the space of an hower or more After this you shall straine the saied decoction and by litle and litle water from tyme to tyme the said Aloe in the Sonne as you haue afore doen and this you shall doe so long vntill the Aloe haue dronke vp all the decoction This doen take it out of the Sonne and it shall be a precious thing to kepe in your house as we haue all ready declared whiche also maintaineth the body in health kepeth the heade cleane and causeth to haue a good colour and a quicke and liuely spirite to them that vse of it He that is not of abilitie to make this mixtion in the maner aboue said maie make it in this wise Kepe diligently the saied Aloe in litle disshes of woode to make this that wee will speake of here followyng Take Aqua vite not to fine nor of the first stillyng but stilled twise or thrise at the moste And putte in diuers litle violles of glasse the one bigger then the other all these thynges followyng well beaten into pouder at the lest those that maie be beaten puttyng also in eche of theim asmoche of the Aqua vite as shall bee three fingers aboue them in the Violles doyng as hereafter foloweth Take an vnce of smalle fine Perles well wasshed three or fower tymes in cleare water and then beyng dried and laied in the iuice of Lemons or CytroÌ„s well strained leaue theim so by the space of three daies and so put the saied perles that thei maie be with thesaid iuice remaining in the glasse putting to them Rose water three fingers high or aboue the perles as is afore meÌ„tioned Then take an vnce of fine read Corall and put it likewise in the Iuice of Lemons or Citrons vsyng it in al poinctes like as ye did the perles puttyng it in a glasse by it self with Rose water with fower vnces of blew Vâ—triol well burned in a close pot This doen take the flowers tender stalkes of Rosemarie of Burrage of Buglosse of Sage of Selandine of Isope of Scabiose of Rue of sainct Ihons worte of Primroses together with all the tender leaues of the saied herbes and then stampe them slightly in a morter of stone or wood and put them altogether into one glasse or into diuers with as moche Aqua vite as will be aboue them three or fower fingers as we haue saied of the other thinges and let them frande so in the glasse wel stopped with ware or bombase Take after this halfe an vnce of Saffron well beaten into pouder and put it in a glasse by it self with Rose water after the maner of the other thynges then put to it fower vnces of Triacle with Rose water in an other glasse after the foresaied maner and take one vnce of fine Cinamom a quarter of an Vnce of Cloues an Vnce of Lignum Aloe an vnce of Anise seede and vnce of Fenell seede halfe an vnce of Smallage seede fiue or sixe vnces of Ieniper berries halfe an vnce of Cheruell seede of the seede and bark of a Cedartree of eche of them twoo vnces halfe an vnce of Myrrhe a quarter of an vnce of Storax or Styrax Liquida an Vnce of Bengewine an vnce of Sandali of all sortes of Mirabolanes of eche of theÌ„ three vnces of Pine apple kernelles mondified three vnces of yelowe Ambre whiche the Apoticaries call Carabe twoo vnces thre vnces of white Dittanie grene or drie the eight parte or as litle as you will of an vnce of Muske Let all these thynges hee well stamped and mixed together and putte in a glasse with their Aqua vite as is saied of the other You must then stoppe well all the saied violles or glasses or other vesselles with waxe or bombase and with parechement ouer it and so set them a daie in the Sonne and the night followyng in the aire abrode The morowe after take some great vessell of glasse as thicke as you can get hauyng no couer bicause you maie alwaies loke into it and thereinto you shall powre faire softly the Rose water that is in all the glasses eche of them beyng coloured with their substaunce in soche maner that no part of the substaunces whiche are in the bottome be mixte with it And after hauing put al the saied Aqua vite into the said vessell as is aboue said ye shal set it in some place where as no Soonne can in any wise come vnto it But beware that the three first glasses that is to saie with the Suger the MaÌ„na and the Honie in the dewe ought neuer to be set in the Sonne but must be kept vntil you
saide plaister remouynge and sturryng a litle the oyntment and after hauynge heated it againe by the fyre lay it againe vpon the leg Dooe thus euery thirde or fourth day and you shall see that the plaister shall haue drawen vnto it selfe in a small time a great aquositie of the legge and shall haue taken away the rednesse inflamation and swellinge And if there bee a wounde you shall heale it as we haue aboue sayde A verye sure and perfect remedie agaynst a Sciatica often tymes proued and experimented in diuers partes of the worlde FYrste make this confection that foloweth Take thre pounde of rawe honny and put it in a panne with two glasses full of water and make it seeth or boyle together vntyll you see the skuÌ„me or froth mounte vp the whiche you muste take away Then take the rootes of the herbe called in Latine Acorus and in English Galingale or of the herbe called yelowe Gladen make them cleane cut them in smal pieces and stampe them well Take of these herbes one pounde for the sayde thre poundes of honnye and put them by lytle and lytle into the sayde panne alwaies sturryng them a litle letting them so boyle by the space of a good houre Then put to it also an vnce of fine Synamom wel beaten into pouder take it so from the fier and keepe it in the same panne or in some other vessell Giue vnto the patient of this conserue at night when he goeth to bed about foure or fyue sponefulles and in the mornynge early as muche or more Giue him also thereof before his meales and after the oftner he eateth of it the better he shal be If it be in winter heate it for him a lytle and while he thus vseth it let him alwaies sit vpon his buttockes that is to say vpon the bone or huckle wher the Sciatica is with the plaister declared in the chapter before that is to say of y t Rosen GalbanuÌ„ Masticke the litle beastes called Monkes peason or sowes with the rest there mencioned Then at the ende of ten dayes take it of and laye it other ten dayes vppon his thigh And from thence take it agayne making it cleane mixing and sturring it a newe and laye it vnder the calfe of the legge tenne dayes more and at euerye tyme you shall see that it wyll haue engendred litle puffes or bladers and drawen to it self al the aquositie and watrishnes in suche sorte that it wyll take awaye the griefe and heale it This is a verye rare secrete agaynst suche a disease whiche verye fewe Phisitions colde hitherto fynde certayne remedie for If in case the disease bee olde or hath runne longe giue the pacient sometyme this glister folowyng Take Mallowes Mercurie Fenell greene or drie Wormewode Rue wilde Cucumbers broken as muche of the one as of the other than put to it two handfulles of branne seeth all in common water vntill the thirde parte bee deminished and so let it coole againe After this take a dishe and a halfe full of this decoction three sponefulles of skimmed Honnye oyle of Camemille and oyle of Rue of eche of them an vnce and a halfe mingle all well together and make a Glister of it whiche you shall minister vnto the Pacient in the mornynge and so make him lye vpon that side where the Sciatica is Two dayes after ye shall giue him another Glister after three dayes another and than foure dayes after yet another continuyng so a moneth together If the griefe be so indured and hardened that it wyll not behealed by the aforesaid remedies you maye giue him Pilles the thyrde daye after the fourth daye the fyfte daye and so vnto syxe or seuen tymes But the Pylles wyll profit the Pacient nothing at all vnlesse he abstayne from eatinge salte or sharpe meates and from all sortes of pulse corne as Pease Beanes Tares and Fitches and suche other lykewise from drinking water or white wyne Manye haue been healed onely with the saide plaister not leauinge to dooe their businesse abrode notwithstanding other haue also vsed the conserue But in so manye yeres I haue had but two vpon whom for to take awaye the disease being olde and farre goen I was constrained to vse the sayde Pilles and Glisters whereby they were healed I had also one whiche vsed but only the plaister and the conserue of whom the huckle bone was out of ioynt and hardened and with the saied remedie he was perfitly healed in the space of three skore and tenne daies and the saied bone retourned againe into his former place and state but he tolde me that whilest he vsed the said plaister and conserue a Nonne counseyled him to take from daye to daye foure times the bignesse of a Nutte of Turpentine washed in Borrage water and that he should not tell me of â—t whereby he founde him selfe healed in short time A water for to heale in fiue dayes at the moste all maner of great skabbes as well inwarde as outwarde and is a water cleare and white and is of an odoriferous sauour such as a man may present to a Queene TAke Plantaine water two glassefulles Rose water a glassefull of the water of the floures of Cytrons or Orenges halfe a glasse full or lesse put all thys together in a cleane panne or violle of glasse and put to it an vnce of Sublyme that is to say quicke siluer such as commonly is founde at the Apoticaries it muste bee well beaten to pouder Then let it boyle his bodie as longe as he maie and he shal finde it verie excellent Another remedie against the same disease TAke half a glasse or lesse of the iuice of Barberies whan they be verie redde and ripe and put into it as muche red Corall well beaten in pouder as will lie vpon two grotes and giue the patient drinke therof Another perfect remedie against the same disease and to make a man pisse that hath bene .iiij. or .iiij. daies without makinge water and that in the space of half an hower and will breake the stone within .x. or .xij. daies TAke fine pouder of Virga aurea and put a sponefull of it into a new laied Egge soft roste and giue the patient drinke therof in the morninge at hys breakefast and lette him not eate at the least in foure houres after and than shall he make water in lesse thaÌ„ halfe an hower If ye vse this continuallie the space of x. or .xii. daies as is a foresaid you shall make him pisse out the stone without anie paine or greefe Another remedie agaynst the Stone and payne of the raynes TAke the seedes of blew Violettes or march Violettes the seedes of common Burres with theyr litle poddes and all or ripe Burres a pounde put them to drie in an Ouen for otherwise it wil be a hard thyng to stampe them stamping them afterward with their seedes This doone take a quicke Hare strangle him with a corde to thentent there be none of the bloud
of all this substaunce fyue pylles and at the begynninge when the Sciatica is feruent and greate you shall take of the sayde fyue pylles euery fower dayes and when it begynneth to declyne and asswage you shall take them onely the fyfte day than the syxt the seuenth and the eyght daye vntyll all be done and take them alwayes in the mornyng at the breake of the day absteynynge at the least six or seuen howres from meat Nowe although that the sayde pylles be not for a man to kepe his chambre and that they prouoke not to the stoole yet ye muste not drynke anye whyte wyne nor water nor eate anye salte thynges nor anye kynde of pulse corne as beanes and peason with such other like nor oynyons garlyke or suche lyke yf the disease be inueterate olde or farre gonne ☞ A notable secrete to heale a madde man be it that the madnes came vnto hym by a whyrlynge or giddynesse of the heade or brayne or otherwyse FYrste of all make hym fower Glysters in fower morninges one after another Let the fyrste glyster be symple that is to saye made with water wherin ye haue boyled or sodden wheat bran commun oyle and salt Let the seconde be of water sodden with malowes mercurye pellitory of the wal and violet leaues with oyle and salte Let the thyrde be of water boyled with oyle salte sodden wyne and honny And let the fourth glyster be of the lyke decoction that the thyrde was adding to it endâ—ue buglasse and the toppes of the braunches of Walwort And after that this decoction is strayned ye shal put to it an vnce of Cassia fistula and halfe a quarter of an vnce of Metridate Nowe hauynge giuen him these fower glysters fowre sondry mornynges you shal geue hym this medecyne Polipodium of an Oke well stamped a handefull or twayne and wrynge oute the iuyce of it and put it in a glasse the quantite of two fingers high puttinge to it two vnces of hony roset and a quarter of an vnce of Electuary roset and as muche of dyafenycon All these thinges beynge wel incorporated together geue them vnto the pacient to drynk at night when he goeth to bedde .ij. or .iij. houres after the sonne sette and geue it hym luke warme if in case he wil not take it bynde hym and holde hym parforce make hym open his mouth put some stycke between his teth and than powre the medecine into his throte as men do vnto horses And when he hath taken all if it be in Wynter you shall make hym sytte so vpon his bedde half an howre well couered rounde about to thintent he take no colde after it yf it be in Sommer ye may let hym go aboute the house where he wyll but se that he go not out When the medecine hath done his operation take this oynctment folowynge that is to saye a pound and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Walwort wherunto you shall adde as muche butter boyle this together a good whyle vntyll all the iuyce be almost consumed than put to it oyle of Camomill oyle roset oyle of saynt Iohns wort of eche of them an vnce Incorporate well all these thynges on the fyre and make therof an oynctment wherwyth you shall annoynt the pacient frome the necke vnto the fete armes and legges and all but the oynctment must be hote and he must be so well annoycted and rubbed that the oinctment may penetrate and perce thorowe Contynue doynge this the space of a moneth annoyntynge hym euery euenyng and mornynge or at the least once a daye The thyrde or fourth day after you haue begon to annoynte hym burne him with a hote yron vpon the seame or ioynynge together of the head and at the first lay vpon the marke a linnen cloth with barrowes grease leauynge it so the space of viij or .x. dayes and after wrappe a greate Cyche pease in yuy leaues and put vpon the sayde yuy leaues a pece of the sole of a shoe made fyne and thynne byndynge it vnder his throte with some bande or beneth his heade so that it may bide on and chaunge it alwayes at night and in the mornynge If in case he passe fowre monethes and receyue not health or returne to his wytte ye muste begyn agayne to geue hym the same glysters he had before and the same medecynes annoyntyng hym as before and withoute doubte by the grace of God he shalbe hole He must eate at the begynninge chyckens mutton and rost veale after you maye gyue hym roste and sodde with pottage of Amylum beetes and mallowes and also newe layde egges puttynge spices in his meate causynge hym sometyme to eate eyther in his pottage or otherwyse betayne sage maioram mint not sufferinge hym in any wyse to take salte sharp nor aygre thynges pulse corne Garlike Onyons nor such lyke ye may geue hym white wyne with water let him also cary euer about hym some good odours and heare melodye or musicke speake oftentymes soberlye and wyselye vnto hym admonishinge hym to be wyse and sage rebuke hym of his folye when he doth or speaketh any fonde thynges And in suche cace the auctoritie of some fayer woman auayleth much to tell hym all these thynges for good admonitions are of great vertue and strength for to stablyshe and settle a brayne troubled or dysquieted with any sycknesse or passion ☞ Pylles of master Mychael a Scot the whiche heal the greife or payne of the heade be it inueterate or recent purge the brayne claryfye the syghte cause a man to haue a good memorye good colour in face and be also very good for many infyrmities TAke of Aloe washed .iij. scrupules the rootes of wylde gourdes of al sortes of Mirabolanes of the confection made with Scammony called Diagridion Mastiâ— Bay berries and Roses of eche of them halfe a dragme of Saffron a scruple Myrrhe half a scruple stampe all well together and make thereof Pylles with the iuyce of Colewortes and take three or foure of theim whan you goo to bedde euery thyrde or fourth daye once ☞ Agaynst the payne of wemens breastes a very excellent remedye TAke the yelkes of two newe layde egges the weyght of two pence of newe Waxe a lytle oyle roset a lytle Nyll called in latyn Tutiâ— prepared and trymmed in Rose water set all this on the fyre to melte in a cleane pan and whan it is colde agayn spred it vpon a lynnen cloth and laye it to the sore breastes but you muste haue fyrste washed the sayde sore places with whyte wyne wherein hath ben sodden leaues of Roses Plantayne leaues and the leaues of an Olyue tree both greene and drye and after hauynge wyped and dryed it agayne laye the playster to it dressed and prepared as I haue sayde and incontinent the sore shal he healed ☞ To ripe a felon Cattes heere botch byle or other apostumes or swellinges whiche haue nede of quicke and sodayne ripinge TAke crommes of breade Raysins dryed in an
Ouen or otherwyse and than well stamped Butter Hogges suet Leuen cowe mylke and a lytle Saffron Make of all this an oyntmente and laye it vpon the sore puttynge fyrst a lytle Saffron in poulder vpon the very place where you wyll haue it breake and vpon that the playster leauinge it so vntyll nyght and chaunge it mornynge and euenyng so shall you make it soone rype and breake then dresse it with oyle roset and yelkes of egges one whole daye after that purge awaye the ordure and fylth with some drawynge oyntment Fynally you shall laye to it the oyntment of Aloe and Tutia or some consolidatiue or healyng oyntmentes ☞ To resolue a felon Cattes beare byle or botche at the beginninge TAke the rootes of wilde or marshe Mallowes called of the Apoticaries Bismalua or Maluauiscus mūdified and made cleane and cut in smale pieces well stamped in a morter of stone Than take some great potte or caudron that holdeth sixe or seuen great violles filled with water boile in it these things folowinge Lickerous Isope greene or drie Sage Rosemary Carduus benedictus figges drie Raisins Amylum of Barley or Barley flower of eche of these thynges at youre discretion and as muche of the one as of the other and adde to it more a handfull of Succorie wyth hys rootes lette all thys seeth in the sayde caudron or kettle the space of an houre or a houre and a halfe and then lette it coole againe so that you maye well endure your hande in it Than take oute all the said substaunces and putte them in a cleane canuesse and wring out all the substaunce into the saied water in the kettell put in it also two or three pounde of the said rootes of Maluauiscus stamped as before then set it to boyle and seeth againe three howres or more take it from the fier and doe as you did at the first time but if it had so muche sodden that all the rootes were broken and consumed it shoulde not neede to haue strayned or wronge theim thorowe a canuesse This doen take the decoction of it and set in a potte vpon the fier with as muche Honnie or litle lesse leauing it to boile so faire and softlye taking away the skomme that shall come of the Honnye After it hath thus boyled a good space adde to it an vnce or as muche as you wyll of Sinamon and a quarter of an vnce or more of Bengewine stamped a litle Muske then take it immediatly from the fier and couer it to the entent it take no vent specially if you haue putte in the muske whiche would elles vanishe awaye with the smoke wherefore you maye putte in the Muske when the water is luke warme after it is taken of So shall you haue an excellent conserue to vse and occupie all the winter as well at night as in the morning and at all times when you list but you muste at euerye time you take warme it againe and take thereof .ij. or .iij. sponefulles at a time And if you wil haue it thicker put to it pouder of suger or Penides if you wil haue it clearer ye must put to it a litle more of the firste decoction whiche we haue spoken of This secret is of suche excellencie that if a man vse of it in the winter as afore is saied it is not possible for him to bee vexed or turmented with the cogh rumes murres catarres or anye other like disease A goodlye and pleasaunt secrete to beale the cogh in rubbynge the soles of the feete and is a thing verye easye and certayne TAke two or three Garlike heades well mundified and made cleane stampe them well than put to them hogges suet and stampe them well a newe and at nighte when you gooe to bedde warme well the soles of youre feete and annoynt them well with the saied confection and then warme them again as hote as you maye endure rubbing them well a pretie space and being a bedde lette your feete bee bounde with some warme linnen clothe and rubbe also the small of your legges with the saied oyntment by thys meane you shall bee healed in three nightes were the cogh neuer so vehement If you wyll at youre meales vse of the saied decoction in youre wine or otherwise you shall finde your selfe wel at ease in your stomacke and head and shall the better driue away your cogh and all other euill dispositions of the bodie A verye goodly and easye remedie to heale in a daie or twaine all maner of inueterate and olde woundes wherein is growen dead and superfluous fleshe and woundes that can not bee cured by anye other medycynes TAke three vnces of Turpentine firste washed in commune water and then in Rose or Plantaine water and the yolke of an egge an vnce a glasse full of the saied wine but you must haue taken firste a Walnutte a Figge and twoo or three litle braunches of Rue If you dooe this in the morninge you shall bee assured for that daye An oyntment to make an apostume breake and the soore of the plage to fall of TAke a quarte and a halfe of common oyle and sette it on the fyre in some vessell then putte to it foure vnces of Ceruse or white leade well stamped litarge of siluer verie fine and thinne three vnces common Waxe four vnces and leaue it so long vpon the fyre vntill you maye spreade it with youre finger vpon a marble stone This doen take it from the fier and powre a litle vinagre vpon it but you muste holde it farre of to the intent it leape not in youre face than make of this oyntment a plaister as greate as all the soore and make a hole in the middes of it as bigge as a peny after this make a litle plaister of some oyntment that mortifieth of the bignes of y ◠said hole than make another plaister of the same bignes the which you shal laie vpon the soore so that the plaister with the mortifiyng oyntment bee betwene bothe and leaue it vpon the soore the space of .xxiiij. houres than chaunge onely the middle plaister that is to saie he that mortifieth and put another in his place the which you shal also let lie foure and twenty houres and before that the plaister bee laied rounde aboute and stretched annoynt the place verie thicke with freshe Hogges suet or Hennes grease to mollifie it and so you shall make it harde in the middle and rounde aboute you shall make a circle of tender fleshe in suche sorte that the soore wyll breake oute and come forth And the eyght and fourty houres once passed after you haue taken of the plaister lay vpon it another plaister made with freshe Hogges grease and immediatlye will fal of from it a dead fleshe in maner of a rounde pommell and there will remayne a hole the whiche you must heale with some oyntmente or elles with Diaculum magnum when the fleshe beginneth to growe laye to it
the oyles reasonablie neither to muche nor to lyttle but with discretion accordinge to the quantitie of the Sope. ☞ Sope rosat TAke freshe and recent roses wel stamped and incorporated them with the said Sope as before the whiche you maye also dode at youre pleasure of all other sortes of flowres ☞ VVhite Sope of a good sauour and odour HAuing cutte after the maner of Damasco in small pieces the oldest Sope that is possible to bee founde you shall laye it abrode vpon a table in a place where it maye drie than hauinge lefte it there the space of eyght and or .x. dayes you must after warde stampe it lightlye or slenderlye and make therof poulder and the same being sifted you shal adde to it foure vnces of Ireos vppon tenne pounde of the sayed poulder white Sandall three vnces two vnces of Macaleb an vnce of the meale or flowre of Amylum and all well beaten into poulder you shall mixe it with tenne pounde of the poulder of the aforesaide Sope then all beinge ioyned together you shall putte it in a morter with an vnce of Storax liquida and a walnut shelfull of the oyle of Spike and hauinge well stamped it altogether it shall bee made Then afterwarde make balles or square â—akes of it as you wyll with the meale or flowre of Amylum then drie in the shadowe and keepe them for it is a thinge verie excellent ☞ Perfect sope TAke syxe graynes of Muske tempered and steeped in good Rose water foure graines of Ciuet reduced and beaten into poulder and mingle them with the saied Sope but the tempered or steeped Muske muste bee hote and by this meanes you shall haue a verie perfect Sope. VVhole and massy blacke sope TAke tenne pounde of the saied poulder of Sope well sifted cloues foure vnces of good Mace twoo vnces damaske Macaleb Cyperus whiche the Apoticaries call Iuncus odoratus Sandali Citrini Storax liquida of eche of theym an vnce sweete oyle as muche as shall suffise and hauing stamped that whiche oughte to bee stamped make of it as is aboue saied But if you will haue it more singuler putte to it Muske tempered in Rose water as afore with a lytle Ciuet after incorporate well all together and make thereof balles or square cakes or hartes or suche other formes as you luste to muke youre selfe then dry them in the shadowe and so shall you finde them of a singuler good odour and sauour ☞ Damaske parfume TAke fyne Muske foure gaynes Cyuet two graynes Ambergris fine Sugre of eche of them foure graynes Bengewine a grayne of fatte Storax calamita three graines lignum Aloes twoo graines beate them well into poulder and putte all together in a litle parfuminge panne powre into it as muche Rose water or the water of the flowres of Orenges Citrons and Lemons all together as will bee twoo fingers highe aboue the other drooges in makinge vnder it a small fier that it maye not boyle and when the water is consumed you shall powre in other and hauing continued thus doinge a certaine number of daies you shall haue an excellent Sope. ☞ Another parfume of Damaske TAke Storax calamita foure vnces Bengewyne foure vnces Labdanum lignum Aloes Synamon of eche of theym an vnce Sperma Ceti a dragme Muske foure scrupules cloues a dragme Rose water eyght vnces stampe them and putte them in the parfuming panne ☞ An excellent pomander TAke .xvi. or .xx. Pepins or other swete melow apples y â— which beinge pared and cut in quarters you shall adde to euerye quarter fowre or sixe Cloues then put them in some vessell of earthe well leaded within with as muche Rose water as wyll couer them ouer Then couer them with a trenchour or some other cleane thinge lettinge them so stande one whole daye And after powre them all in some newe vessell well leaded putting to it foure pounde of freshe hogges suet well taken from the fleshe and skynne cut verie small and well chopped with a knife make vrder it a small fier that it burne not than in straining it out you shall make it droppe into some vessell of freshe and cleare water and so purifie the grease thre or foure daies keping it in the same vessell and chaunginge often times a daye the saied water for the oftener you chaunge it the better you shall purge the grease Than take out the saied seyme the apples and the rose water together and take the fatte oute of the vessell dreaninge it well and adding to it Spikenarde with twoo vnces of Cloues an vnce of Synamom a quarter of sandalum citrinum an vnce of Bengewyne and as muche of storax calamita Braye all these kindes together and put it in a fine linnen clothe in maner of litle purses but let the cloth bee some what large and binde it wel that the sayd kinds scatter not abrode among the grease Then make it boyle with a litle fier far of from the flame or leyt or set before it some tyle or bricke letting it boyle so faire and softlye foure or sixe houres vntill all the rose water bee vanished awaye whiche may be proued in this maner Put a lytle sticke downe to the bottom of the vessell and plucke it oute agayne quickelye and put it in the fier and if it burne without anye noyse it is a token that there is no moore water but tarte vntyll it bee all well consumed sturringe it sometime to the entent it burne not to or smell of the burning Beware also of the smoke for if it take once y â— sauour of it you can neuer get it out when all is wel sodden take eyghte vnces of white Waxe and put it in the saied vessell mixinge all together and let it so melt with the saied substaunces the whiche you must nowe and then sturre This dooen take it from the fier letting it stande and rest a quarter of an houre that is to saie vntill the grosse substaunce bee descended to the bottome then powre it faier and softlye thorowe twoo newe course linnen clothes into a vessell well leaded within wherein muste bee twoo dishefull of Rose water but take heere of pressinge it so that the lees come not oute into the same vessell but into another for it woulde be somewhat red Let it so coole vntill the next morninge and whan it is solide harde and massy denide it into foure partes and put it into a round vessell leaded styrringe it well with a pestle addinge to it by lytle and litle good and fyne Muskte rose water and so styrre it vntyll it be well incorporated Nowe if in case you se that it doth not well incorporate together set it a lytle vpon the fyre and whan it is hote powre rose water vpon it sturringe it well about vntill it waxe verye fine and thinne but take good hede to the fyre And so kepe it in newe and cleane vessels Another Pomaunder TAke Pippins or other like melowe Apples and laye them
in this maner Take Cloues stamped and temper or lay theim in Rose water couer the vessell diligently leauyng them so vntil the water haue taken the vertue of the Cloues put also the Almondes in the said water and leaue them ther vntil they be swollen w t the water And after you haue taken them out and dried them in the Sunne lay them in the water againe to swell and afterwarde let theim drie well as before continuyng thus .v. or .vi. times Then put them in a presse and presse out the oyle whiche you shall kepe in a cleane vessell well stopped In this maner may you make oyle of Muske of Amber of Bengewin of Storax calimita of Aloe of Synamom of Mace and of Nutmegges You may make them also in diuers sortes and put to them Aqua vite ☞ To make an excellent parfume to parfume Chambers garmentes Coueâ—lettes Sheetes and al other thinges belonginge to any Prince TAke pilles of Citrons dried in the shadowe and if you can not get of Cytrons take of Lemons or OreÌ„ges or if you can get none of these take the leaues of Roses eyther greene or dryed accordinge to the season of the yeare and whatsoeuer is of al these thinges abouesaid you must occupy it whole or by small pieces and not in poulder And whan you will make the parfume take of the sayd pieces as much or as many as you wyll and annoyncte them well with Ciuette on euery side after laye them vpon some coles in the middes of the Chamber or some corner as you lyfte this will geue a verye pleasaunte and precious odoure thoroughoute all the Chamber If you will yet make it better you may put with the Ciuette Muske and Ambergrise as muche as you will and if you desire to make it with lesse coste and yet neuerthelesse very good take Rose water of the flowres of Orenges or suche other odoriferous and swete water with Oyle of Iasemin or of Cloues or suche lyke at your pleasure with the whiche you shall temper and stiepe Storax calamita and a little Lignum Aloes yf you haue anye if not you shall do well inough without it adde to it as much Ciuette as you will and make a licoure therof as thick as sauâ—ce wherewith you shall annoynte the Citron or Orenge pilles than laye theim so vpon the coles and it will be an excellente thinge and continue twise as longe as it woulde do if you burned the odours without the pilles and besides that it maketh the parfume to dure longer they make also the composition farre better and perfecter If with the sayde parfume you would parfume lynnen clothes Sheetes or other like thinges make it in this maner Put the lynen and thinges that you wyll haue parfumed in a cofer that hath no chinckes cliftes chappes crestes holes or is broken wherby the smoke may haue issue out You must range and laye your linnen and other thinges on eche syde of the cofer leauinge a place in the myddle to sette a lyttle panne or other vessell with fyre in it and the said pilles to parfume theym you maye also laye clothes vpon the lyâ—de of the cofer This done you must set in the middle the lyttle vessell with coales and aâ—so the pilles and hauinge shutte the cofer you muste let all the parfume burne out not openinge the cofer of longe tyme after And hauinge thus tarâ—ed open the cofer and tourne youre linnen and other thinges to the ende to parfume them on the other side that is not parfumed and put in newe parfume doinge as before you shall finde this of a greate excellencie so that the cofer it selfe shall be so well parfumed with it that all that you putte afterwarde in it shall sauoure of it And if you will you maye also parfume in the sayde cofer other lytle coffers for handkerchers and other thinges as lyttle cusshyâ—s and bagges of Roses whiche are parfumed also with oute syde beynge kepte in the cofers for they geue alwayes an odoure and sauoure to thinges that you put in them ☞ Rounde apples or balles to take ouâ— spottes of oyle 〈◊〉 grease TAke purgine Sope or soft Sope and incorporate it with the asshes of vines finelie sifted as much of the one as of the other than put amonge the saied â–ª poulder Roche Alome burned and the drye leese of â—yne well beaten into poulder incorporate well all together and make therof lyttle round Apples or balles whiche you maye vse to take oute spottes of any garmente ☞ To make a paste for sweete â—eades or Beadestones TAke a pounde and a halfe of blacke earth well beaten into poulder foure vnces of Gomme dragant and laye it a stiepe or temper it in a morter with as muche Rose water as wil couer the earth with the saied Gomme dragant and stampe it well by the space of halfe an houre with these sweete thinges folowinge That is to saye Storax calamita an vnce poulder of Cloues halfe an vnce Labdanum halfe an vnce Synamom halfe an vnce Sandalum Citrinum halfe an vnce beate all into poulder verye finelye and mixe all together with the foresaied paste than take it oute of the morter and braye it wel betwene your handes by the space of halfe an houre And than you maye make thereof Beades or Beadestones ☞ The ende of the seconde booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE THIRD BOKE A goodlie secrete for to condite or confyte Orenges Citrons and all other fruytes in syrop whiche is a notable thinge TAke Cytrons or other fruites and cut them in pieces as you wil taking out of them the iuyce or substaunce that is within them than boyle them in freshe water aboute halfe an houre vntil they be tender and as soft as you wuld haue them And whan you haue taken theÌ„ out cast them in cold water leuing them so vntil night After this you shall set them againe to the fire in other fresh water and do but onely heat it in that water with a small fyre for it must not seeth nor be to hote but let it onely simper a litle you shal continue thus .viij. daies together heatinge them euerye day in hote water and puttinge them agayne at nighte in colde water Some heat the water but once a day to thend not to make the citrons to tender but chaunge the fresh water at night to take out al the bitternes of the pilles the whiche beinge taken away you must take sugre or clarified hony and prepared as we wil declare afterward wherin you must put the citrons hauing first well dried them from the water In winter you must kepe them from y â— frost leauing them two or thre houres in a place mete for the purpose and in Somer you shal leaue them there all a night and a day and a night in honye Than boyle the hony or sugre againe by it self without the Orenges or Citrons by the space of halfe an houre or
and make a swete breath TAke thre pound of fine sugre y e flower of meale .vi. pound of Sinamom thre vnces Nutmegs ginger pepper of eche of them balfe an vnce but let the quantitie of the pepper be greater than of the residue rawe white honny not clarified three vnces Firste make a round cycle with the saide flowre in the middle wherof you shal put the Sugre and vpō it a pound of Muskt Rose water bray and breake well all these things with your handes so longe vntill you feele no more Sugre This done you shall put in the saide spices and than the hony mixinge well all together with your hande After this mengle it againe amonge the flowre kepe some of it to flower the tile or other thinges that you must bake it vpon And whan all is well broughte and made into past you shall cut the litle morsels in sunder with youre handes making eche of them three vnces weight or there aboute than turne and make them in to the fourme of a fyshe dressinge them with youre instrument meete for the same purpose Than heate your ouen and laye them vpon litle tiles of copper or earth makinge first vpon the tiles a good thicke bed of floure you must bake them the mouth of the ouē open keping euermore a fire at one of the sides of the mouth of the ouen ye must also touche them often times to se if they be baked ynoughe and whither they hange sure and holde together betwene youre fingers You maye also bake them in the fire in ouens of copper couered suche as tartes be made in then when you haue taken theim out you must gilt them ☞ The ende of the thirde booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE FOVRTH BOKE ☞ An odoriferous and precious water wherwith a man may weate or bath anye linnen clothe to wype or rubbe his face which wil make the flesh white and wel coloured and the more a man rubbeth his face with it the fairer it is and also continueth .vi. monethes 〈◊〉 thing experimented and proued yea and it for a quene TAke a pounde of roche Alome wasshed and burned Malmesey twoo glasses full paste of Borax .vi. vnces white Gomme dragant a pounde Gomme arabicke thre vnces stiep al in the Malmsey by the space of twoo naturall dayes myngle it with twoo pottes of Goates milke and stoppe it well that it take no vente than take nine vnces of Sublimatū and set it to burne or calcine in an vnyelded potte well closed vp in a furnayse and twoo pounde of Ceruse of Alexandria prepared in this maner Lappe it vp with the white of an egge in some lynnen clothe and boyle it in sweete lye vntill the thirde part be deminished than mixe all these thinges well together This dooen take twoo pounde of rawe white Honny thre pound of Terebentyne of Alexandria three glasses of stilled vinagre Ginger stamped .vi. vnces boyle all with the saied vinagre vntyil there be but two glassesfull left Than take .iii. vnces of fine Mirre elect put it vpon the said thinges after this take twoo vnces of litarge or white leade of siluer wel beaten into poulder and boile it in .iii. glasses full of good vergeous or whyte wyne vntyll the thyrde part be diminished than with a litle cane rede or stick mixe or sturre well all the saied thinges together in some vessell the space of .vi. houres Finallye put into the same about fiftie snailes out of their shelles made cleane an vnce of Campher a good fatte henne flawen and brokē into small pieces without washing her two Orenges withoute their pilles kernelles or the lytle skinne within the pille .xii. Lemons ordered likewise or elles the iuyce of them which will consume the saied snayles and all wyll waxe like paste This dooen take the white of .xxv. egges new laied hard roste with the whiche you must incorporate sixe vnces of Synamom and a certaine quantitie of sugre candy and put all together in a violle into the bathe or baine and still it The first water that shall come of it will be white the seconde yet whiter which you shall receyue a parte by it selfe and the thirde verie white Then myngle the first with the laste and distill it againe and kepe it for it is good yet not so good as the second which is verye excellent aboue all thinges in the world and that must serue for the visage or face If you will dresse or trimme handkerchers with it as is aboue saied take what handkerchers you will so that they bee not very fine lay them in a platter and powre vpon theym as muche water as wyll couer them leauing them so the space of sixe houres than hauing taken them oute and hanged them vp in such sort that the water may droppe out of them into the same platter ye shal let them so drie then bathe or washe them again as before other vi houres driyng them agayne and so .vii. times Than shal you haue an excellent thing ☞ To make a water that wyll make a whyte and pale persone well coloured TAke white Pigeons and fatten them with Pyneapple kernelles the space of .xv. daies and than kil them and hauing cast away the head the feete and the guttes with all the garbage distill them in a limbecke with halfe a loffe of Succarine Alom thre hundred leaues of fine siluer plate fiue hundred of golde foyle and the cromme of .iiii. white loues stieped or weated in almonde milke a pounde of the marye of a calfe or oxe and freshe barrowes grease Make all this to distil with a litle fier you shal haue therof a verie perfite water ☞ A verie good water to make the face appeare of the age of .xxv. yeares TAke a couple of calues feete and seeth theym in xviii pounde of riuer water vntil halfe be consumed then put to it a pounde of ryse and lette it seeth with crommes of fine manchet breade stieped in milke two pound of freshe butter and white of .x. new laied egges with their shelles all set those al thinges to distill and into the water that shall come of it put a litle Campher and succarine Alom and you shall haue an excellent and noble thing of it ☞ A water to beautifie the face and all other partes of the bodye TAke of white Borar twoo vnces roch Alome an vnce Campher twoo dragmes Alome called in Latyne Alumen scissilae or plumae whiche naturallye groweth like a stone and not withstandinge maye be deuided there bee longe strakes seene in it and the Alome called Alumen catinae because it is boyled in a caudron and is made more pure by an herbe like to herbe yuye burned into ashes and lye made therewith of ech of these an vnce beate eche of these to poulder by them selues and than incorporate all well together and put it in some greate vessel full of condite water the which you shal
couer and close vp sure with a lynen cloth and set it to the fier the space of two houres than take it awaye and when it is colde agayne putte it in another vessell and take the white of two egges new layed the same day and beate it well with a litle vergeous and so put it in the vessell with water and leaue all so together the space of .xx. dayes in the Sunne and you shall haue a perfite thing of it ☞ A water to make the skinne white and to take away the sunne burning TAke halfe a potfull of raine water and fill it vp with vergeous than seeth it vntill it bee halfe consumed and in the meane time that it yet boyleth fill it with the iuyce of Lemons When it hath sodden take it from the fier and putte to it the white of .iiii. egges newe layed and well beaten but the foresaied substaunces muste be colde before you put in the saied white of the egges and than is it made ☞ Another water to beautifie the face and to make it appeare of the age of fiftene yeres TAke quicke Brimstone an vnce white ensence of the best .ii. vnces of Myrre twoo vnces of fyne Ambergrise .vi. dragmes beate eche of these drooges by them selues and then mingle them altogether with a pounde of rose water This doen put them to distill and kepe it in a vessel close stopped And when you go to bedde washe your face therewith and leaue it so not wiping it and in the morning washe it againe with well water luke warme and by thys meane shall you mayntayne and keepe the skynne verie delycate fyne and smoth ☞ An easye water for Ladyes and gentil women TAke the whyte of eyghte newe layed egges and beate them vntill they bee conuerted into a cleare water then strayne them and take Alumen catinae or Dessquamatum Boras Campher Alumen zucharinum which is made with Alome relented Rose water and whites of egges into the facion of a Sugre lofe of eche of them an vnce of Vinagre eyght vnces water of beane blossoms twoo vnces Let all these saied thinges be finelye stamped and beaten in a morter and than put all together in a great violle of glasse the whiche beynge well couered you shall leaue in the sunne the space of fiftene dayes styrringe the sayde water twise or thrise a daye and so let it stande and rest This done put it in another violle and washe your selfe with it whan you wil leauinge it so a certaine space vpon your face and than rubbe it with a piece of scarlet The lady or gentlewoman that will vse often times to washe her face with this water yea were she of yeares thre score she shall appeare to be of the age of xv yeare ☞ To make a goodly lustre or beautiflynge of the face good for ladies and dames TAke a greate Lemmon and make a hole in the toppe of him thorough the which hole you shall take out of the substaunce within the bignesse of a Walnutte and fyll it agayne with Sugre Candye with foure or fiue goldfoyle leaues and couer it agayne with the piece that you toke of sowinge it with a needle so that it may remaine fast on Than set the sayde lemon to roste vpon the coales righte vp and after as it shall beginne to roste or boyle tourne it often vntill it hath sweat a good space than take it of And whan you will vse of it putte one of your fingers into the hole that was sowed vp and rubbe youre face with it with some fine linnen clothe and it will proue an exquisite thinge To take out spottes lentilles or pimpels of the face TAke the meale or flowre of a kind of pulse corne called Lupinum which groweth in Italy and Fraunce but here vnneth knowen the freshe and recente gall of a goate the iuyce of a lemon Alome sucharine incorporate well all together in maner of an oynctmente and rubbe at night the place with it where the spottes or burgeons be and you shalbe incontinent cured of them This is well experimented and proued ☞ A very good way how to geue a lustre or shew to all distilled water TAke litle greene pine Apples well mondified cut them in litle rounde and flatte pieces whiche you shall stiepe three dayes in cowe milke chaunging the milke once a day but it were better in goates milk at the ende of thre dayes distille them with these poulders folowing Poulder of glasse foure vnces pieces of redde corall two vnces Suger Candy four vnces roch Alome .i. vnce quicke siluer mortified with spittle an vnce and a halfe .xij. new laide egges broken with their shelles and all Turpentine washed in ix waters four vnces Snailes such as carry no shelles on their backes and if you can not get such take those that cary shelles All these thinges well stamped eche one by him selfe mingle them together and than make in the Limbeck a rowe or bedde of them than a bedde of the poulders and one of Turpentine and so another of the snayles and thus one vpon another vntill the Limbecke be ful than cast vpon it a glassefull of good white wine and make vnto it a temperat fyre Thus shall you haue such a water as you wuld desyre the which you shal kepe in a flagon of glasse for it is very good to make white and to beautifie the flesh and to take away the wrinckles of the face A thinge proued To make a water of whyte Melons that maketh a fair skinne TAke white Melons well made cleane of theyr pilles and cut them in pieces a fyngar thick leauing all the middes alone than take these thinges folowinge Succharyne Alome four vnces quicke syluer broken or mortified an vnce Roch Alom burned an vnce Turpentine washed a pound .xij. new layde Egges stamped with shelles and all white Snailes cut in pieces as many as you will Suger iiii vnces with a glassefull of goates milke and one of white wine than fyll the Limbecke with the saied thinges layeng rancke vpon ranck as we haue said of the other water before Giue it than a litle fire and kepe the water in a viole whiche will be excellente to washe youre faâ—e with After this maner is made y e water of Auguria of the blossomes of beanes of mallowes and of the blossomes of Tansey or wild vine other such like things To make a very good water of Gourdes as well garden Gourdes as wilde TAke Gourdes and plucke of their vtter pille or barke cut them into little round wheeles than put to them sixe vnces of succarine Alome an vnce of Alom sciffilae or plumae the value of a peny of Myrrhe halfe a pounde of Turpentine wasshed foure newe laide egges stamped and well beaten together sixe Lemons cut in trenches Snailes as many as you will a glasse of white wine Beate into poulder that whiche ought to be beaten and mixe well all together makinge the first ranke of Suger the
then cut it very small put it in an earthen panne leaded full of whyte cleare Vinagre with a dragme of Campher stamped Boyle this together by the space of twoo or thre Pater noster and after strayne the grease with the foresaied thinges thorowe a whyte linnen clothe than lette the grease coole vntill it bee harde againe and if there bee anye ordure or fylthe at the bottome you muste take it away After this take twoo vnces of the oyle of Tartare and put it in some vessell vpon the coales vntill it come together and hauing set it in a moyste place by the space of a daye and a night put to it an vnce of Borar well wasshed than stampe and mixe all well together adding to it an vnce and a halfe of Ceruse wasshed and hauing put all in a new carthen panne leaded set it on a small fier styrryng it alwaies well together vntyl all the saied thinges be wel incorporated together and after that you haue layed it vpon your face laye on also a redde coloure made wyth the grayne whereof Scarlate is died called in Latyne Coccum and wyth Brassel for it shalbe better than with Brasyll alone ☞ To make a redde colour for the face TAke redde Sandall fynely stamped and strong vinagre twyse distylled than put into it as much Sandall as you wyll and let it boyle faire and softly put to it also a lytle roche Alom stamped and you shal haue a very perfite redde If you wyll make it odoriferous and sauour well put a lytle Muske to it or els Ciuet or some other odoriferous thing what you lyst ☞ To make the face fayre TAke Beanes and a kynde of a litle grayne called in Latyne Faseoli and Cyche peason and make a poulder thereof which you shall stiepe and temper in luke warme water with the white of an egge and the milk of an asse and than lay it out to drye And after stiepe it in a lyttle water wherewith you shall wasshe youre face and it wyll become fayer cleare and nete ☞ To make the face faire another waye TAke the fresshe blossomes of Beanes and distyll them thorowe a Limbecke and so wasshe youre face with the water that shall come of them ☞ To make the face fayre TAke the flowres of Rosemary and boyle them in white wine than washe youre face with it and vse of it for to drinke and so shall you make youre face verie faire and also your breath sweete ☞ To take out spottes or redde pimples out of a mans face and to make the skinne very faire TAke a litle roche Alome and breake it a sonder into small pieces than take the white of an egge newely layed euen at that instant the whiche you shall set to the fyre in a lytle panne leaded with the roche Alome and leaue it so vntyl you see that it beginneth to boyle mingle it alwaies with a lytle sticke And when it is waxen hard annoynet well al yourface with it three or foure daies and it wil make your face fairer A thinge founde trew by experience ☞ To make a water that maketh the face white TAke Lytarge Syluer sublymed the value of a grote and put it into some vessel w t strong white vinagre than boyle it vntyll it bee deminished the heyght of two fyngers lette it stande and rest than straine it and kepe it Also milke and the iuyce of Orenges mixed with the oyle of wyne lees is verie good ☞ Another maner to make the face fayre TAke the gall of a Hare of a Cocke or Henne and of Eeles temper them with Honnye and putte them so into a vessell of brasse well stopped for to annoynt your face with whan you lyste but take heede it touche not your eyes for it would inflame them and make them looke redde and so hurt you ☞ To take of spottes lyntelles or redde pymples out of the face TAke greene Lisardes quicke and boile them in oyle vntyll the thyrde parte bee consumed Strayne this and put to it white ware and than make thereof an oyntment wherwith you shall often times annoint your face To take of a ringe worme or tetter that renneth all ouer a mannes face called in Frenche Le feu volant TAke the rootes of Laâ—athum acutum called Sorel as wel wylde as of the garden wash them wel and mondifie them and cutte them in small pieces the whiche you shall stiepe in strong whyte vynagre and leaue them in it two dayes two nights Afterwarde rubbe the place of the sore with it three or foure times a day and at night with the sayd pieces of the sorell retes letting them stiepe alwaies after in the sayde Vynagre and you shall be cured To dryue a way life TAke encens and the larde of a barrowe Hogge properly called barrowes grease Boyle them together in an earthen panne or potte leaded and with this ointment rubbe or annoynte the place where the life be To make a water that taketh of all stayninge dying and spottes from the handes of artificers that gette them by workinge and maketh them very white and fayre It is also good for them that be sunne burned TAke the iuyce of a Lemon with a litle baye salte and washe your handes with it â–ª and let them drye of them selues washe them agayne and you shall finde all the spottes and stayninges gone It is also very good against the scurfe or scabbes To make a water that maketh the fleshe and skinne of a man or woman very fayer and will be kept like a precious baulme TAke a yonge crow euen out of the nest if you maye get one so if not take him as yonge as you maye to whome by the space of .xl. dayes ye shall geue none other meate but the yelkes of harde egges Than kyll him and flawe him breakinge the fleshe into smal pieces than take leaues of a myrtle tree and lay one ranck of them and another of the little pieces of the crowe in some great violl of glasse powdered and strowed ouer with the poulder of Talchum stamped with the oyle of swete Almondes and put in as muche of it as your discretion shal iudge for a great quantitie will do no hurt to it And if there remayne yet anye pieces of the sayde crowe make therof another ranck adding therto some myrtle leaues and than of the Talchum and the sayde glasse must be large wyde and lowe Finally you shall poure vpon it thre or foure vnces of the oyle of Myrrhe dressed with egges as is declared in this booke Than set the saied violl or glasse vnder the Limbeck stopping well the sides and ioyntes that it take no vent and likewise the recipient and geue it at the beginning a small fyre for the space of foure or fiue houres so that al these thinges may be dissolued and as it were breake and corrupt amonge them selues than make the fyre greater and greater and at the ende very great for the space of an
hour letting it after cole And if the fire haue ben great ynough the water will be yelowe and somwhat redde the whiche water you shall put into another lyke glasse great according to the quaÌ„titie of the said water putting to it half a pound of rosemary blossoms halfe a glassefull of Aqua vite setting al to distill agayne w t the limbeck and recipient as before you must put in the recipieÌ„t or at the beke of the limbeck some fine litle cloth wherin must be white Bengewin stamped betwene ij papers as wel as you can Whan this water shalbe distilled it will be very cleare fayre which you shal kepe in a viol wel stopped with waxe and cered cloth to the ende it take no vent and you may neither kepe it in the sunne nor in any hote place This will be a noble and precious water whiche hath not the like in the worlde for to make the skin fayre and to preserue it The maner how to vse it is this Fyrste you must washe youre face well with cleare water distilled and than rub well both face breast and other places of youre body where you list with a piece of scarlet weted in the sayd water and lie downe vpon your bedde holding a litle while the piece of wet scarlet vpon your face and thus maye you do euery .viii. or euery .xv. daies once or elles euery moneth or euery two moneths In the mean time you may vse some other water as the water of Beane blossomes of gourdes of melons of onyons of white flourdelice of the rote of the herbe called in latin Dracontium or more comonly Serpentaria in englishe dragons and of other like but you must take hede that you put in it no sublime nor Ceruse in any wise Thus shal you haue a water of a merueilous vertu to make your skinne and fleshe fayre and naturall and to conserue and keepe it longe yonge gaye freshe and nete ☞ A verye goodlie water to washe the face necke and the breast whereof a man maye make a greate quantitie for the more there is of it the better it is It maketh the skinne and fleshe of the face fayer not burtinge or destroyinge the teeth and shall seme that the face is nothinge at all holpen with any coloure but that it is euen so by nature TAke two fatte Pigcons two pounde of Veale seedes of Spurge pilled thre vnces of Pine apple kernelles sweete Almondes bytter Almondes the rootes of white and yelowe floure delice Beanes broken in pieces and moâ—dified the gall of an Oxe the roote of Dragons the roote of a litle yonge Ashe or romon Diptum a litle lemon the yelow pill taken away cut in pieces the cromme of a white lofe wet in milke gomme dragant stieped in wine gomme Armoniac slieped in Vinaigre and let there be of all these thinges a reasonable quantitie Than put therevnto flowres or blossoms of Ligustrum which is a tre hauing leaues like an oliue tre but they be broder and softer more grene of colour whiche doth beare white flowers and swete wherof is made an oyle called Oleum ciprinum And this free doth growe in watrie places as Willowes and salowes do and beareth a blacke fruite like vnto an elder free and distill all these with a small fyre hauing bound or tied a litle linen cloth with Musk and white Benge wyne at the becke of the Limbecke than kepe the water in a glasse well stopped for it will be very excellente to make a white and naturall skinne or fleshe without hurtinge the teeth or any other thinge ☞ To make a very excellente redde colour for the face whiche is naturall and continueth longe vpon the face makinge it alwayes gayer and fairer TAke the whites of .xxv. harde Egges and put a glassefull of the mylke of greene figges among them if you can get none of it take lytle figges that be not rype and cutte them in smal pieces whiche you shall mingle with the sayd egges and than distill them and the water that shall come thereof maketh of it selfe the flesshe white but if you will make it redde take for euery glassefull of the saied water two vnces of Alome Scissilae or plumae beaten in poulder half an vnce of the grayne called in latine Coccum wherwith scarlet is died and two vnces of the graynes that men vse to die Crâ—mson â—ilke with Let all this he putte in a viole well stopped that it take no vent then set the vyole in a kettle of bote water not boylinge hote by the space of eyghte dayes This done straine oute well the substaunce of the sayde coloures and take the water so coloured and died and putte to it as muche more of the same Alome and graynes as before and set it agayne altogether in hote water by the space of eyght dayes than strayne oute the water and adde to it the thyrde time some Alom and graines with a litle gomme Arabick that is to say for euery glassefull of water half an vnce of gomme setting it againe in hote water eyghte dayes as before and after you haue taken it oute strayne it and you shall haue the fairest redde that is possible to wishe for Than weate some lytle piece of Scarlate or Crymson sylke in it and rubbe youre face therewith so longe vntill the fleshe beginne to waxe somewhat chafed and the redde well perced thorowe You maye also adde to it what odoure or sauoure you will And if you will not set the violle in hote water as is aforesaied set it before a lytle fyre not sufferynge it to seeth and that for the space of a daye or moore than strayne it and you shall see all thinges come to passe as I haue saied ☞ Another kinde of redde verye good for the face easier to make and with lesse coste TAke twoo vnces of fisshe glewe verie cleare and stiepe it in white wine the space of fyue or syxe dayes vntill it bee very softe than take Brassell that is good and of a good colour well scraped or cut in small pieces than stiepe it in well water so that the water bee aboue it moore than a hande breadeth and a halfe this dooen boyle it together with a small fyre assaiyng euermore the colour vpon a paper vntyll it be to your fantasie And before you take it from the fyre put to it for euery glassefull of the saied colour an vnce of rawe roche Alome beaten in poulder and Gomme arabicke as muche as three or foure beanes Than take it frome the fyre and keepe it in a vâ—olle close stopped so shall you haue an erquisite thing Women of base degree are wont to seeth onely the Brasyll in wyne or water putting to it a litle roche Alome and Gomme letting it hoyle vntill the colour be to their mynde Other take redde Sandall or Saunders the whiche they put in wine or at the least in Aqua vite and not boyle it at all
whiche in operation belongynge to metall serueth for many thinges as we will after declare But this will not serue any thyng at all for to make heare white notwithstandinge you muste kepe it by it selfe Than take the reste and the blacke substaunce and yellowe and all that you finde in the bottome and on the sides of the sayde panne All the which thinges because they wyll incontinent waxe moyst you shall stampe grossely and quicklye addinge to it for euery pounde an vnce of Vitrioli rubified or made redde as we wyll shewe you hereafter This doone putte all these thynges together in lye not to stronge and lette it stiepe vntyll it becomme as it were a saulce putting to it two vnces of the oyle of yelkes of Egges yf you haue anye if not take Oyle Olyue Nowe you muste keepe this licoure thicke as it is in some vessell vntyll it be harde and you shall fynde it alwaies good Whan you wyll put it in effect take common lie and put into it two or thre vnces of rawe Roche Alome stamped and washe youre heade with it as you are wont to dooe And after you haue washed it without dryinge it anye otherwise than of it selfe annointe all youre heare with the saied lycoure heated and beinge thus annoyncted wrappe them in a hote linnen clothe resting your selfe a while This doen you shall take of the sayed annoinctynge wasshynge youre heade with hote lye vsinge and dressinge the Sope as you shall thinke good And finallie wasshe youre heade and heare againe with a little warme white wine and wrappe them with a hote linnen clothe or drie theim in the Sunne or by the fire as you will and laste of all you shall annointe youre selfe with oure saied oile or with the Oyle of Iasemin or some other odoriferous and swete Oyle which may conserue the heares that they break not and may geue them a lustre to make them glister and shine vsing this maner of annoynctinge euerie .xv. dayes or euerye moneth as you liste youre selfe By this meane you shall haue faier heare and glisteringe like golde But remember to vse in al thinges a discretion and diligence at the fyrste whan you vse any receipte as for an example in this confection you muste take heede that the lie be not to stronge leaste with the saied oynctment whiche I tell you is very stronge it eate and consume your heare Also you muste well consider the quantitie and howe longe it muste lye on youre heade before you wasshe it awaie as is declared and soo accordinge to the experience that you shall haue in the effecte you shall vse and gouerne youre selfe in all thinges for there is no rule so certaine but leaueth alwaies some place for the discretion diligence and Iudgemente of the personne that will followe it and putte it in vre or effecte An oyntment to make the heares fall from anye place of the body TAke the whites of three newe laied egges well beaten eight vnces of quick lime an vnce of orpiment and the whole beinge beaten in poulder let it be put among the whites of the egges and adde to it after a litle lie so much that it may make it a licour thicke like saulce Than with a pensill or some other thinge annoint the place frome the whiche you will haue the heares fall and leaue the oinctmente so vpon it the space of a quarter of an houre or a little more than washe the place with warme water and all the heare will fall of or if not you muste annoincte it againe and hauinge staied a while washe it as before and the heares will fall of without doubt Finallie you muste annoint the saied place with oyle Roset or with the oyle of Violettes and the skinne will remayne very faier and without hurt ☞ An oyle or licoure to make the heare fall of and may be kepte as longe as a manne wyll It is also good for all occasions TAke an vnce of Soda whiche is asshes made of grasse whereof glassemakers doo vse to make their Cristall ten vnces of quicke lime eyghte vnces of Orpimente and make thereof a fine poulder whiche you shall putte in a panne with as muche sweete and cleere lie as will be aboue the poulder a handefull than boyle it together a good houre and after hauinge lette it stande by the space of xxiiii houres you muste straine it and take three vnces of it and put therto an vnce of oyle Oliue and let it boile together vntill the water be consumed and vanished awaie which you shal knowe castinge a droppe or two into the fire with a little sticke and if it make no noise it is a signe there is no more water lefte If you will make it odoriserous swete put to it Muske or Ciuet so kepe it and whan you wil make the heares to fal of wash first the place wel with hote water thā annoinct it w t the said oyle and leaue it so a certaine space and than wasshe it againe with hote water and all the heare will fall away Finallye annointe the place with oyle Roset or violet oyle An aduertisement or lesson for them that will make the heare fall of FIrste you muste note that the heare will not fall awaye but whan the mone decreaseth that is to say in the quarter of the wane and it is far better to make them fall of with the oinctmente or with oyle than to plucke them out with a payre of pincers as some gentle wemen do vse in Fraunce because it doth violence vnto the flesh moueth the bloud and enlargeth the pores and also maketh the heare to growe againe greater Therefore in all sortes it is good to annoint by and by the place with some coolinge or refreshing oyle as oyle roset or of Violettes Likewise you muste vnderstande that oftentimes the oynctment beinge mixed with Orpiment burneth the skinne and that commeth by the naughty or to stronge composition of it or whan a man letteth it drye to longe vpon the place or without fyrste wasshinge the place with hote water or whan a man annoincteth not the place by and by after the heares be fallen as we haue sayde before To cause that the heare shall growe no more or to make them come out thynne and fyne lyke the fyrst soft heare or mosynes of the face A Man can scant fynd a remedy that the hear growe no more because that manye whan they will do it they make certaine oyntementes very colde and drye wherwith they anoincte the place a good while not doinge any good at al by reason of the power of nature which hath alwayes his course and casteth oute her superfluities with the heare Therfore they burne the skin and do but marre it wherfore you must note that they must make them fall of in the laste quarter of the wane of the Moone and then incontinent annoyncte the place with oyle rosat or of Violettes this dooen the heare groweth agayne weaker
importaunce when they sawe the vertue and operation of it Nowe if you will make a white poulder more noble and more profitable for the teeth and gommes take small pearles stamped a lytle or elles whole and putte them in a dyshe or in a wyde glasse than take the iuyce of lemons or orenges strayned thorough a linen cloth at the leaste sixe or seuen times and poure it vppon the saied Pearles vntill it couer them ouer three or foure fingers high and you shal see that in shorte space it wil beginne to boyle and than couer it with some paper or linnen cloth leauinge it so three or foure dayes and at the ende you shall finde the sayed pearles dissolued and molten in the iayde iuyce and tourned into a paste as white as snowe marye there will be a little yellowe skinne vppon it engendred of the sayed suyce This doen take cleere well water or the water of Lentiscus distilled and poure it vpon the sayed paste three or four fingers heighte aboue Than take a little forke or the steale of a syluer spone or some thinne sticke and styre the paste well aboute in the sayed water lettinge it so stande and finallye caste oute the water and if you see yet anye of the yellowe remayne vpon the saied paste washe it againe as before and couer it with a paper lettinge it so drye of it selfe in the sunne After this you shall take three partes of the saied paste or whyte poulder foure partes of white Pommeise stone as is aforesayed two partes of white Bengewine one parte of Roche Alome well burned one parte of white Corall halfe a parte of white yuorye halfe a parte of Aleblaster verie white Breake and bruse all these well vpon a table of marble or in a syluer cuppe puttinge to it some siluer foile and thus shall you haue a very whyte and excellente substaunce or matter to make your teeth as white as snowe And if you will you waye put it to keepe in a conserue with the syrope of Ceder or honny Roset or otherwise as you will Also if you will make the saied poulder verye redde dresse it onelye with the Lacca of graine and a lyttle redde corall Nowe because that in stampinge it will waxe somewhat white put to it a little Boale Armonicke with a little of the iuyce of Dragons bloude and also golde foile You maye gâ—ue to all these saied poulders what odoure and sauour you will but vnto the white poulder you may put no Musk nor Amber nor any other suche drooges for it woulde take awaye the whitenesse but you maye putte it well ynoughe in a lyttle bagge amonge Muske or other odours ☞ A distilled water excellente for to make the teethe white immediatelye and to preserue theym wonderfully TAke a pounde of the firste water distilled of honny the whiche is white than put it in a violl with an vnce of commune white salte halfe a pounde of raw roche Alome an vnce of Salte Peter halfe a pouÌ„de of y e water of the leaues of Lentiscus two vnces of Mastick the heighte of twoo fingers of Vynaigre in a glasse and as muche white wine Distil all these thinges with a small fire that they smell not of the smoke nor any burninge continuinge youre distillation in suche sorte that you be at the leaste foure and twenty houres in distillinge the whole or elles you may make it distill in Balnee marie whiche is the sureste of all Nowe you muste continue youre distillation so long vntill there bee a moyst substaunce to come forth and into the water that distilleth out you shall put a litle poulder of fine Synamom a litle Lignum Aloes and Boale Armonicke for to geue it a redde colour whiche many men like well also for to geue it a strength and odour you shal put in rawe honny makinge it dissolue in the heate of the Sunne for it is a thing good for the gummes and geueth a good fauour to the water Keepe this well as an excellent thing and it were for a queene And when you wyll occupie of it washe well your mouth fyrst and wipe youre teeth with a little piece of white linnen clothe and than pike them wyth a tooth piker made of the woode Lentiscus or some other thinge wette in the saied water or with a lyttle clothe rubbe them a lyttle and incontinent you shall perceyue and feele it fasten and bynde youre gommes and comforte your teeth making them faire and white And he that loueth better the white then the redde let him put no Synamom Boale armonicke nor Lignum Aloes into it after it is distilled but let hym put it in to destill with the other thinges puttinge of eche of them as muche as there is of Masticke and it shal be euen as excellent and as white as otherwyse ☞ Three aduertisementes or lessons of importaunce to kepe the teeth white and vncorrupt and also a swete breathe THe first is he that vseth not to wasshe well hys mouth euer when he hath eaten his meales shal I haue alwayes yelowe teeth a stinking breath The seconde is he that slepeth with his mouth close hath likewise an euyll breath and foule teeth The thirde is that for to maintayne and kepe the teeth faire and white and a sweete breath when a man is layed is his hedde and when he waketh in the mornyng it is good to purge well the breaste and throte spitting out all that is gathered together that nyghte which also is good for the stomacke and heade And hauing your teeth and breath warme take a lynnen cloth or the corner of the shete and rubbe youre teeth well within and withoute to take awaye the fumositie of the meate and the yelownesse of the teeth gathered together in the night for it is that that maketh youre teeth yelowe and gommes redde and corrupteth your breath This is a verie necessarye thing to be knowen and oughte well to be obserued It is also good to eate euery mornynge some graynes of Masticke †A decoction to washe and scoure the mouth to fasten lose teeth to consolidate and make sounde the gommes and to make the fleshe grow agayne if it were decayed or fallen awaye TAke halfe a glassefull of Vynaigre and as muche water of Lentiscus of Rosemarye Myrrhe Mastick Boale Armenicke the moisture that distilleth out of Dragons bloude Roche Alome burned of eche of theim an vnce â—ine Synamom halfe an vnce well riuer or fountaine water three glassefulles mingle all well together and let it boyle with a small fyre addinge to it halfe a pounde of honny takinge awaye the scumme of it than put in a little Bengewine And whan it hath boyled a quarter of an houre take it from the fyre and keepe it in a cleane vyole and washe your teeth often times withall as wel before as after meat and holdinge it a while in your mouth it is verye good for the heade and maketh a sweete breath
A thinge of great excellencie The ende of the fourth booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE FIFTE BOOKE ☞ To make perfyt Asure such as commeth from beyond the seas TAke fyrste a pounde of Lapis Lasuli spotted like Marble and somewhat of the colloure of Asure with some veynes of Golde or greene of the whiche you shall make this profe folowynge Take a little piece of it and put it vpon hote coales blowinge it with a payre of bellowes the space of an houre than let it coole agayne and touche it with your hande if it breake and vndoe lyke earth it is nothinge worth but if it abyde fyrme and harde together and keepe his colour of Asure it is good Than take a pounde of the same and breake it into small pieces whiche you shall melte in the fyre the space of a good houre blowinge it continuallye This doen take good Vyneygre distilled in some kynde of vessell wherein you shall quenche the sayed pieces and let them drye than take water made as foloweth Take a panne leaded and putte in it a quarte of cleere water and a lytle rawe whyte honnye Boyle it and skymme it well vntyll there be no more skumme and so let it coole Than take of Dragons bloude wel stamped the quantitie of a Walnutte and wette it lyttle and little with the sayed water and it beynge wel dipt strayne it thorowe a linnen cloth into some vessell leaded And you muste note that the water may not be to rodde nor to cleere but betwene both that is to saye betwene cleere and redde to the ende that the Asure may take a Violette coloure After this braye well the sayde Lapis lasuli so molten and burned with the sayed water as vermilleon is commonly brayed by the space of an hour or more thā assemble it together in a glasse or some other vessell leaded ample and large drying it in the shadowe and not in the Sunne for it would lose his colour And whan it is drye beate it well to poulder and keepe it in some cleane lynen cloth wel 〈◊〉 than make this past folowinge Take two vnces of the cosin or gomme of a white pine tree two vnces of Pigraeca two vnces of Mastick two vnces of y e oyle of line two vnces of Turpentine two vnces of newe Ware stampe well that must be stamped and cutte the Ware into small pieces than put all in a newe panne and boyle it till it come to his perfection whiche maye be knowen by castinge a droppe of it into cold water and if in takinge it with your wette hande it cleaue not to your hande it is parfecte and therfore you shal straine it thorowe some cleane cloth into a vessell full of colde water but this must you do while it is yet hote for if it be cold it will not straine and leaue it so longe in the water vntyll it be harde than take it and set it to drye Nowe whan you will incorporate it with the poulder do thus Cut the sayde confection in smal pieces which you shall put into some kettle tinned within and set it so on the fyre and whan it beginneth to bubble vp put to it an vnce of the oyle of bytter Almondes lettyng it so boyl the space of two Miserere and in the meane time make ready your poulder of Lapis lasuli in a vessel with some little sticke made for the purpose than take the kettle and poure it by little and lyttle into the vessell vpon the sayed poulder not ceassinge to sturre it alwayes with the lyttle sticke vntill it be all well incorporated with the sayd poulder of Lapis lasuli This doen let it cole than annoinct your handes with oyle Oliue and take the sayd substaunce and tosse it vp and downe with youre handes to thende to incorporate it well together And after you haue broughte it to the fourme and fashion of breade or paste put it in a vessell leaded and keepe it so the space of tenne dayes at the leaste And whan you will take out of it the Asure make fyrst cleare lie with the asshes of vynes of the whiche you shall set a kettle full to the fyre seethinge it as hote as you may endure your hande in it than after putte the saied confection or paste in a vessell leaded and adde to it as muche of the saied lie as you shall thinke good Than styre the saied substaunce fayre and softlye vntyll you see the Asure come out and whan you see it issued out poure the saied lie with the Asure into a vessell leaded of the which vesselles you must haue a good nomber than put to it againe of the other hote lie doinge as before puttinge it afterward againe into another vessell and do thus vntill there be no more Asure And here you muste note that of a pounde of Lapis lasuli if it be fine there is loste but an vnce and is had oute of it in the whole eleuen vnces that is to say fiue vnces of good and fine three vnces of a mean sorte and three vnces of courser The fine is worth at the leaste twoo crownes and a halfe the vnce the meane a crowne an vnce and the other halfe a crowne Nowe after you haue gotten out all the Asure loke well whiche is like the one the other for to put eche of them by them selues into three partes as we haue saied Than washe it wel with fayre and cleere lye pouringe it out of one vessell into another vntil it be come to a good colour and purified from all ordure and fylth And whan you thinke it is cleane inough drie itin the shadowe in a chaumber and whan it is drie take a glassefull of fine Aqua vite and stiepe in it a little good brasill than trimme and dresse your Asure with the same Aqua vite and let it drie continuinge so the space of three dayes vntil the Asure be participant and haue taken parte of suche lycoure and than it shall be of an excellent fyne coloure Keepe eche sort by it selfe in bagges of leather well sowed and bounde ☞ To make a fyne confection of graine called Laeca of grayne TAke a pounde of the shearinge of scarlette and put it in a newe panne full of lie that is not to stronge and boyle it vntyll the lie take the coulour of it This doen take a bagge large and wyde aboue and narrowe poincted beneth whereinto you shall powre the sayed shearing of scarlette and the lye setting a vessell vnderneth than wringe and presse the bagge harde that all the substaunce and all the coloure may straine and dreane out after that washe the shearinge and the bagge in the vessel where the colour is And if you thinke that the shearinge hath yet more colour in it boyle it againe with other lie ordring it as before This done you shall heate the sayed couloured lye vpon the fire but let it not boile and you must haue ready
boiled in and than wring him Take than creuises or crabbe shelles be they of the sea or of the riuer burned into ashes the whiche you shall temper with the said water of the lees and salt and rubbe well the skinne therwith than washe him well with cleere water and wringe hym This done take ruddle tempered in water of lees and rubbe the skinne well ouer and ouer with it and than with the foresayde ashes wasshinge and wringinge it thre times Finallye after you haue wasshed him and wronge him if you thinke it be not well ynoughe you shall geue him one dienge with Brasyll The paste or masse of Rubra tinctorum must be made with water that lees or tartre hath bene boiled in and the sayed water must be luke warme whan you make the paste of ruddle than leaue it so the space of a night After this put vpon the sayd Rubra tinctorum a lyttle Alome dragges or lees or Alome catinum stieped in water You maye also adde to it the colour of the shearing of scarlet whiche hath bene taken oute boylinge in lye whiche is a goodly secrete To die skinnes Greene. ANnoint the skinne and wash him well with cold water and than in hote water and so wipe drie him This doen take of the graines wherw t men the sappe the decoction wherof shall be put in thende of this boke with them of all other necessary thinges and the sayde graynes or berries muste be verye rype than put them in cleare water couered a fingar heigth put therein also Roche Alome and geue theim onelye one wawlme on the fyre This doen strayne them out into some vessell than take the skinne and folde him in the middle rubbinge him well on both sydes with the said sodden graines or berries whiche remaine in the pan and after with rawe Alome poulder This doen take the ashes of shepes donge burned and wete it with the saied coloure that you strained into the sayde vessell and rubbe the skinne wel on euery side than cleere him againe of the saied graines and washe him with cleere water and set him to drie withoute wipinge him Fynally cast on him two glassefulles of the sayde coloure and it will be a perfecte greene Another waye to dye skinnes greene LEtte the skinne be annoincted well wasshed wronge and stretched oute as before than take of the same graines and berries ye toke before which you shall stampe and seeth in Roche Alome water and geue the skynne twoo wypes ouer with this coloure and so let it dry After this you shal geue him one dying or colouringe of yellowe made with the graynes or berries of Nerprum sodden in water and Alome and a lyttle Saffron and you shall haue an excellent greene †To die the sayde skinnes greene another waye TAke the skinne being annoincted wasshed and spredde abroade dye and coloure him with the coloure made of sap greene and put to it a few asshes wette in water and so rubbe the skinne all about And whan you haue washed and wyped hym againe geue him one wype ouer with and Indian coloure sodden in Roche Alome And whan it is drye lay on it of the foresayde yellow and you shall haue a fayre and liuely greene ☞ Another waye to dye skinnes of Asure coloure and fayre TAke the skinnes of blacke grapes and rubbe well your leather with all vntill it waxe somewhat blewe and alsoo rubbe it well with the poulder of Indicum then washe it drye and polyshe it Than stiepe the Indicum in thicke redde wyne and whan the skynne is washed annoinct him with it and you shall haue a fayre skinne asured blewe ¶ Another maner to dye skinnes Greene. TAke rype elder berries and the berries of walwort and of sappe greene and this well stamped you shall put to it Roche Alome as muche as you shall thinke good but rather to muche than to little than take the lye and put into it the saied berries of sappe greene and seeth them one waulme This doen put in the berries of the walwort or elder and make them seeth also one waulme than take them from the fyre and let them coole and after rubbe the skinnes with theim Finallye ye shall cast vpon them the ashes of sheepes donge rubbinge them well with it After this geue theim the couloured water that the saied graines or berries were sodden in than take of the water with a curryers knyfe and let them drye And yf you nede to geue theim more coloure than you maye put in more Indicum boyled and it wyll be the better ☞ To die neates leather into a greene colour as well in galle as in leaues POlyshe well the leather with a pommeyse stone annointe it well with oyle and washe it than take an vnce or two of galles stamped and put it in hote water leauing it so an hour than straine it thorow a linen cloth and put the leather into the same water rubbinge it well with your handes and leaue it so the space of an houre and hauinge taken it out wring it and stretch it abroad tight it Than take the graines or berries of Nerprum gathered in Iuly whan thei be yet greene drie them and stampe them well adding therto for euery skinne two vnces of Roche Alom beaten in poulder and mingled with the poulder of y ◠saied berries or graines Than powre vpon the sayd poulder boylinge water and let it coole this doen poure of the sayd water with the said graines vpon the skinne rubbinge it well ouer with the palme of youre hande than stiep the ashes of goates donge in the water of the said graines and with the same water rubbe likewise the skin well with youre hande after this washe him and scrape out the water with a tanners paring knife than tight him out and take other ripe gaines of sap grene and set them to seeth hole in water with Roch Alom and afterwarde let them coole Than take of the sayde sodden berries or graines and rub the skin with theim with your handes and put of the ashes vpon it which you shall stiep in the same greene water that the sayed berries were sodden in Finallye you shall wasshe the skin and take out the water with a scraping knife thā you shall geue it a course ouer of the saied grene water with a brush or clout meet for such a purpose And than lay him to drie and trim him and you shall haue a fair grene If you will haue the coloure darcker or sadder whan you set the said graines to seeth with the Alom you shall put to it a little Indicum well brayed And you must note that the water must be hote whan you stiepe the ashes in it with the water of the graines of Nerprū ¶ To die skines greene with the flowres of Ireos TAke the fresshe flowres of Raphanitis or Ireos and stampe them well than take the drie graines or berries of Nerprum and with them stampe roche Alome a
there commeth neyther Sunne nor day lyght than scrape the saied roset and kepe it and whan you will write withall stiepe it in gommed water ☞ To gylt ouer parchement leather or other such work which men vse in steade of hanginges or tapistry TAke thre pounde of the Oyle of lyne Vernix Pixgraeca of eche a pound halfe an vnce of Saffron poulder Boyle all this in a panne leaded so muche and soo longe that puttinge into it a hennes feather and taking it by and by out agayne it seeme as it were burned Than take it from the fyre and take a pound of Aloe epaticum of the best well made in poulder and caste it in by little and little styrringe it incontinent well together with a stronge sticke for otherwise it woulde swell and ryse vp a lofte And yf in case for al the styrringe it rise vp take it of the fyre and let it stande a while and than set it en the fyre agayne makinge it boyle a new styrring it alwayes diligently And whan all is well incorporated together take it froÌ„ the fyre and let it rest a while than straine it thorowe a linnen cloth into some other vessell wherein you will kepe it and it is made Nowe if in steade of Saffron ye did put to it of the yellowe seed which is in the flowres of Lillies you shall make it muche better and fairer Whan you will gylte the parchemente you shall geue it a grounde or situation with the white of an Egge or Gomme wherevpon you shall laye siluer or tinne leaues but it shall not be so fayre with the leaues of tinne as with syluer Than lay the sayde Vernix hote vpon the parchement or leather siluered and you shall see immediately a coloure of golde very fayre Lette it drye wel in the Sunne and print it than paynt it with what colour you wyll ☞ To dye Crimson sylke FIrste cutte in sâ—nder or scrape harde Sope small and melte it in common water than take your sylke in a lynnen bagge or of fyne canuesse and thynne and put it into a kettle with the sayde water Sope. Let it bosle halfe an howre slyrringe it that it cleaue not to the kettle then take it out and washe it in salt water and after in fresh water Take also for euery pounde of Silke a pounde or more of Roche Alome alayde in colde water and see there be water ynough into the whiche you shall put the sayde sylke withoute any bagge and without settinge it on the fyre leauing it so the space of eyghte houres than take it oute and washe it in freshe water and after in salte water then agayne in freshe water and let it not drye but putte it wete as it is in a kettle with the Crimsen well stamped and systed that is to saye three vnces for euerye pounde of sylke If you will haue the sylke of a higher colour take foure vnces of it and boyle it in as muche water as will couer the sylke and that the water be aboue it foure or fiue fyngers high and for eche pounde of the sayde Crimsen you shall putte in three vnces of small galles of Istria well beaten into poulder or in stede of them you may put in halfe an vnce of Arsenick Cristaline for euery pounde whiche wyl make the colour fayrer but it is daungerous because of the smoke and all incenueniences that maye happen where suche water maye fall And whan it beginneth to boyle put into it your Sylke prepared and ordered as is aforesayed and let it boyle a quarter of an houre Finallye take it of and lette it drye in the shadowe and you shal haue an excellent thinge To prepare and trymme Brasyll for to make of it four diuers colours PVt Brasyll in as muche cleare water as ye will and seeth it vntill it be diminished of the thyrde parte or at the leaste vntyll the colour please you that is to saye that it be very redde then deuide this colour into iiii partes and if of one of the partes you will make roset put nothing to it for the colour will be suche of it selfe If you will make the other part blewe put to a lyttle Lime water and you shall haue very fayre blew mary the Brasyll muste be luke warme If you will make it Violet put lye to it but if tawny you shall putte to it Alumen fecis ☞ To make roset of Brasyll another waye TAke a potte of water and put in it the byggenesse of a Walnutte of vnsleaked Lyme leauinge it so the space of a nighte then take as muche Brasyll brused and broken as will fyll the vessell that you wyll boyle it in halfe full than poure into it the sayed water with the Lyme wel strained and lette it so stiepe in the sayed water the space of foure howres makinge it afterwarde boyle vntyl it be come to halfe than howe downe faire and softly the vessell that you boiled it in and drawe oute the coloure into some other cleane vessell puttynge to it the quantite of a Cyche Pease of Roche Alome well brayed and putte it in whan it is verye hote than shall you haue a goodly thinge to do withall what you will If you wyll wryte with it adde to it a little Comme water If you wyll make it Blewe putte to it three vnces of Lye more or lesse into a vessell and you shall haue a very sayre blewe ☞ To make beyonde sea Asure without Lapis Laâ—uli TAke an vnce of Siluer calcined or burned with Aqua fortis and an vnce and a halfe of salt Armoniack mixe all well together with vynayger and lette it clarifie a lyttle If the Vynayger be more than the sayd thinges take away that is to much and put the rest in a vessell well leaded and well stopte that the substaunce haue no vente oute leauinge it so xxv dayes and at the ende you shall finde verye fayre Asure ☞ To make a grene colour to write or paynt with TAke Verdegrise Litarge Quicke Syluer and braye all this together with the pisse of a younge chylde and than write or painte with it and you shall see an excellent colour as it were an Emeraulde ☞ To braye fyne golde wherewith a man maye write or paynt with a pensyll TAke golde leaues beaten and foure droppes of hony mixe it wel together and put it in a glasse And whan you wyll occupie it stiepe and temper it in Gommed water and it will be good ☞ The same another waye TAke as muche as you will of the leaues of golde or syluer beaten and laye it abroade in a large cuppe or glasse as euen as you can and wette it with cleare water than braye it with your fingar wetinge sometyme your fyngar but spreade it not to muche abroade in brayinge it and continue thus doynge vntill it be well broken puttinge vnto it alwayes water And whan you thinke it is broken and brayed ynoughe fill the cuppe with cleane freshe
water and styrre it well than let it repose halfe an houre After this strayne the water and you shall finde the golde in the bottome of the cuppe the whiche you maye drie at youre pleasure Whan you wyll putte it in 〈◊〉 stiepe and temper it with Gommed water also you must kepe it well couered that it take no fylth This is the beste waye that is to make brayed or powâ—â—ed Golde ☞ Another waye with Purpurine TAke Purpurine which you shall fynde to be sold or that you haue made youre selfe in the manner aforesayde than put it in a dysh with pysse or lie and dippe it well with your fingar little and lyttle afterwarde fyll the dyshe with pysse or lie and let all setle downe into the bottome This doen styrre it agayne chaunging often the sayd lie vntill all be as you would haue it and finelye beynge broken and pounned and that the last pysse or lye be as cleare as whan you dydde put it in and after you haue strained it oute you shall put to it a lyttle Saffron and temper it with Gommed water Than maye you wryte paynt or do any thinge elles with it ¶ To make a grounde to gylt vpon with burnished golde TAke Gipsum the quantitie of a Walnut Boale Armenicke the byggenesse of a Beane Aloehepaticke Sugre candy of eche of theim the quantitie of a Beane stampe them by them selues and puttinge the one vpon the other you shall put to it laste of all a little Ciuette or honny ☞ To laye or settle golde with a single grounde TAke fine Gipsum Aloe Epaticum Boale Armenick of eche like quantitie and temper it with the whites of new layd egges which you haue strained thorow a linen cloth if your ground be to stronge you maye temper it with water †Another waye to laye on golde TAke Gommed water and with the same onely put golde and the sayed grounde will be good vpon parchemente or vppon skinnes the lyke maye you make with the whites of newe layed Egges and with the milke of figges alone To make colours of all kynde of metalles TAke Cristall or paragon stone and braye it well with the white of an Egge and than write with it and whan it is drye rubbe the writynge with golde or any other metall and you shall haue the same coloure that the metall is of To laye golde on a blacke bottome or grounde TAke the smoke of a Lampe and powne or braye it well with the Oyle of line or of Walnuttes And whan you will laye the golde vpon the sayd ground se that it be neither to moist nor to drye ☞ To make letters of the colour of golde without golde TAke an vnce of Orpimente and an vnce of fyne Cristall and braye theim eche one by him selfe than mingle theim together with the whites of Egges and wryte with it †To make syluer letters without syluer TAke an vnce of Tynne two vnces of quicke syluer and melte theim together than braye theim with Gommed water and write with it †To make greene letters TAke the iuyce of Rue Verdegrise and Saffronâ— braye them well all together and wryte therewith with Gommed water To make white letters in a blacke feilde TAke the pure mylke of a fygge tree in a glasse and set it in the sunne the space of halfe an hour than alaye it or temper it with Gommed water whan you will occupie it And whan you haue written with it blacke the paper with incke as muche as you wyll if the paper be greate and whan it is drye rubbe it well with a linnen cloth Than the letters that you made with the mylke of the fygge tree will go of all to gether and the paper wyll remayne written white because it was kept and preserued by the same mylk from the yncke where the letters were The lyke maye you make with the yelke of an Egge tempered in water with the whiche you maye wryte also And whan the writinge is drye rubbe wel the paper ouer with incke as before And whan it is drye rubbe the sayde letter made with the yelke of the Egge with some lynnen cloth or knyfe and they will goo of and leaue a whyte space whereby you shall haue fayre white letters in a blacke paper To make a greene colour for to write and paynt withall TAke greene byse and stiepe it alone in Vynaigre and passe it thorowe a linnen cloth and braye it well vpon a Porphire stone with cleare water and put to it in brayinge it a little honny and lette it dâ—e well than braye it againe wel with Gommed water and it will be perfecte ☞ To trimme and dresse Asure AZure is brayed with hony as greene but ye nede not purge it otherwise temper it with y e whites of Egges beaten or with the water of glewe and not of Gomme The water of glewe is made with parchement glew cleare and mollified and strained as Gomme is ☞ To dresse or trimme Cinabrium for to wryte or paynt with BRay well the Cinabrium vppon a Porphyre stone with cleare condite water than let it drie and putte it in an ynckehorne or glasse but it is better in an inckhorne in winter After this poure pisse into it minglinge it well together and leauinge it so vntyll nyght vntyll all the Cinabrium be gone to the bottome than chaunge the pysse and do as before leauinge it so vntyll the nexte morninge chaunginge so the vrine or pysse foure or fyue dayes vntyl al be wel purged Than take the white of an Egge well beaten vntyll it be brought into cleare water whiche you shal poure vpon the Cinabrium so that it be more than a fingar aboue it After mixe well al together with some sticke of a Walnutte tree or elles with some little bone than lette the Cinabrium descende downe to the bottome and do with this as before with the pysse the space of two or three dayes and this will take awaye all the sauoure of the pisse This doen ye shal put another whyte of an Egge and mingle all well together and than it will be perfyt you must kepe it well stopped At euerye time that you will occupie of it styrre it well and whan the white of the Egge is so dressed as is declared it neuer corrupteth ☞ A grounde to laye golde vpon anye mettall or yron TAke Vernix liquida a pounde Turpentine Oyle of lyne of eche of theym an vnce myre well all together and it is made ☞ To gylte the edges of bookes TAke the quantitie of a Walnut of Boale Armenicke the byggenesse of a Cyche pease of Sugre Candye braye them drye the one with the other and putte to it a little of the white of an Egge well beaten than mingle well all together This doen take the booke that you will gylte whiche muste be wel bound well glewed euen cutte and well polished set him fast in the presse and that as euen and as righte as you can possible Then
of the sayed fine earthes wel sifted thorough a fine sarce and whan you haue wel brayed it put it in a platter or great dishe to the intente that in handelinge it there go nothinge out and you shall moiste it little and little with the water called Magistra mixinge it well with your handes and rubbinge it so longe betweene your handes that wringinge it with your fiste it holde and cleaue together but you must note that I speake of moistinge it and not of thorowe wettinge it for it may not wete your hande in pressinge it nor cleaue vnto your hande like past but tha it onely holde together a little more or lesse then drye flower or meale and being so wronge in your hand it may breake in pieces whan you touche it with your fingar And hauinge thus brought it to a fourme lay it handsomely vpon the medals in the fourme or mould with thendes of your fingars and than with your hand wringe it and presse it harde downe not sparinge to presse it well in puttinge vpon it the other little table and pressing it down with your handes as hard as you can yea with all your might Than with a cutting yron with a right and euen edge and with a ruler made iuste and euen by line the saied fourmes with the earth cutting away handsomely the earth that passeth ouer the saied mouldes and so laye them vpon one of the pieces of wolle and then the litle flat table then you shal take with both your handes the two little tables aboue and beneth and holding theim fast together turne handsomly y â— mouldes vpside down and taking of the table you shal se vnder the medals in lyftinge it vp yf there be any earth entred in if ther be you muste take it awaye with the hares fote Then setting the other part of the fourme or mould in his place you shall fill it with the same earth pressinge it well as before and makinge it euen and equall with the yron Afterwarde with the poynt of the yron you shall lifte vp a little at one of the corners halfe the moulde or fourme and take it of fayer and softly with your hand and take out the medalles nimbly touchinge them a litle round about with the point of a small penne or quil if at the first they will not come oute turninge downeward that part of the mould wherin they did sticke whaÌ„ you opened it And if yet they will not come oute strike them a crosse with the point of a knife vntill that turninge downewarde the mouldes they come out And if in case they be not wel printed according to your mind you may put theim agayne into theyr place and presse theim againe and hauinge set on both sides the twoo pieces of wolle and the tables close theim in the presse Fynallye with the saied shaue or sharp yron make the sayed pypes or conduites holowe compassinge theim with your compasse and rule in suche sorte that they come iuste and equally than shall you trimme them so agaynste the fyre for to drye tourning theim sometime vntyll they be well dried Then with a matche or wyke tempered or wette in Oyle and Turpentyne and beinge set on fire smoke it and if there remain any superfluous thinge wipe it away with the hares foot Then ioyne them together agayne and hauing layde to them the wolle and tables wringe them a little in the presse and in the meane time hauing made ready and molten the metall yf it be syluer or white copper it is knowen by the shininge of it and clearnesse in the melting pot and if it be tinne by castinge into it a stone or some paper and that it burne it you shall cast it and the thinge shall go well withoute anye other helpe or ayde for to make it runne sauynge that after the tynne is molten put in a little that is to saye a twentith part of sublimataÌ„ in respecte of the whole quantitie and one â—â—ghte parte of Antimonium for besyde that these thinges make it runne well they harden it and make it sownde well Then the mouldes beynge colde take out handsomelye the medalles and whan you will caste other you muste parfume and smoke the mouldes agayn and then presse them and so cast your thinges as before and do it as often as you thinke good And if you see that the mouldes be not broken and that you will kepe them for another tyme you maye laye them in a drie place and they wyll kepe well Finallye the sayde earth taken oute of the mouldes brayed and sifted will be alwayes better to serue your tourne The medalles so caste are sodden againe afterwarde and waxe white so that they be not of Tynne Also you maye geue to all these medalles what colours you will as we wil declare more at large hereafter ☞ To make a white to blaunche and make white medalles or other thinges newlye molten and also for to renewe medalles of olde syluer TAke the medalles or other thinges newly founded or molten or elles the olde ones that you will renewe and laye theim vppon the coales tourninge theim often vntill they waxe of a graye coloure than rubbe them with a brush of copper wyer puttinge them afterwarde in this white coloure folowinge Take salte water of the sea or common water salted with a handfull of baye salte wherin you shal put the lees of white wine and Roche Alome rawe Boyle all this in a panne leaded and if the worke be of copper made white by anye sophistical substaunce you shall put to it these thinges folowinge that is to saye Syluer heaten or Siluerfoile the weight of a Spanish Reall Sal Armoniacke waying three times as much Salte Peter the weighte of flue Realles All the sayed thinges beynge put in some potte of earth with a couer hauinge aâ—â—ole in the middes set them in the middle of the fyre coueringe it with ashes and coales vp to the necke and leaue it there so vntill all the humoures be breathed out then let all coole againe and beate it into poulder very small This doen take an vnce of this substance or somewhat more or lesse and boile it in the saied white confection of the Salt water onelye halfe a quarter of an howre puttinge in the medalles or other workes Then poure out this water with the medalles into cleere and luke warme water and after rubbe the medalles with the Tartre or lees and other thinges that remayne in the potte and hauinge wasshed theim well with freshe water wype them drie ¶ To gylt yron with water TAke well riuer or conduite water and for thre pounde of the same take two of Roche Alome an vnce of Romaine Vitriolle the weight of a ponny of Verdegrese thre vnces of Sal gemma an vnce of Orpimente and let all botle together and whan you se it boyle put in lees called Tartre and bay salte of eche of them halfe an vnce and whan it hath sodden
best Take fine syluer beaten very fine and thinne then cut it in pieces as bigge as a Spanishe ryall or more or lesse for it maketh no great matter then take a croset or an erthen potte and lay in the bottome of it a rancke of common salte not white nor prepared or trimmed to eate but euen as it cometh out of the salines or salt panne and it must be stamped very small Vpon this salt you shall laye likewise a rancke of the sayd pieces of syluer and then another of salte and another of siluer and so consequently as longe as your syluer lasteth in such sorte that the last rancke may be of salte and that good and thicke then couer all this with a paper lutinge and clayinge well the croset or little earthen potte and leauinge a little hole in the coueringe the biggenesse of a goose quill And whan it is drie couer it ouer and rounde aboute with coales and embers and leaue it in suche a fyre at the least three or foure houres then hauing taken it out and all beyng coole open the croset and take out the pieces of Syluer one after another makinge theim cleane that the salte stick not vpon them And if you perceiue that they be so brittle that you may break them with your finger like a crust of bread it is done made if not put them again into the croset or pot setting them in the fyre as before And to make it perfitly you ought to do this thre tymes or more This doen make your siluer into poulder and wash it in a dishfull of hote water let it sincke to the bottom After straine out the water so handsomly that you lose no part of y e said poulder or to auoid al daūgers passe it thorow a felt this doen put other hote water to it straine it out as before so often tyll you may know by the tast of the water that al the salt is purged away Than shal your syluer be well calcined diminished of the weight dried and become frō his nature into a massif part and somwhat like vnto gold Thus wil it serue you for diuers thinges if you can dresse it wel The like is done with Talcum in steade of common salt but than you nede not wasshe it in hote water Some calcyne it with salte or Talcum twelue or .xv. times and more to the intent to haue it more massiue and sounder and more commodious to take colour It maye be also doen in this manner that is to saye to melte the syluer in a Goldsmithes meltinge pot and for euerye vnce of the same to put in a pound or more of Brimstone stamped and that little and little True it is that so it wyll consume more than by the salte or Talcum but it shall be farre better if the Brimstone be fyrst purged in stronge lye that is to saye made with stronge ashes and quicke lime or such lyke thinges Nowe let vs come to the other maners of calcininge syluer ☞ The second maner of Calcininge syluer TAke Aqua fortis seperatiua made with Salt peter and Alome as we haue before declared then take fine siluer fyled or pollished or beaten into leaues or made in small pieces or graines that is to saye of the sayd syluer one parte and of aqua fortis thre partes and haue the saied water in a violl then put in the saied syluer and you shall se it will incontinent beginne to boyle and that the bottome of the viol will be hote if the water be good Let it so boyle vntyll it boyle nor eate no more holdinge styl the violl in your hande or settinge it in some place farre from the fyre But if the water be not stronge you must set it a lyttle to the fyre holdinge styll the violl in youre hande vpon the embers or elles you may set it vpon a fewe asshes or vpon some little furneis And whan it hath lefte boylinge and eaten all the syluer you shall se the water waxe greene so that there shall remaine no syluer in the bottome if that the water were well calcined and burned for than it would make as it were white lyme at the bottome or if there were any golde in the syluer it would make it descende to the bottome in little round pieces like pearles or like sande Nowe after that the sayd syluer is dissolued and eaten of the sayd aqua fortis you shall take another violl bigger or an vrinal or earthen pot half full or more of well or riuer water wherinto you haue dissolued and haue in a readines a good handfull of common white salte then let the saied water be strayned two or three tymes This doen you shal poure the aqua fortis whiche dissolued the syluer into the salte water leauing it so the space of .iiij. or six houres then shal you finde at the bottome as it were a bedde of herbes or greene rushes whiche shall be the syluer dissolued and the salt aqua fortis and also a part of the common salt that you did put in Afterwarde distill the said water by a felt and take the syluer that is so discended to the bottome and put it in a croset coueringe it well to thintent there fall no ordure nor fylth into it than bury and couer it ouer and ouer in hote burninge embers coueringe it wel also with fyre that it may burne the space of .iij. houres or more Finally let it coole wel agayne and poure the siluer oute of the croset into a dishefull of hote water stirring it a little together with your fingar and than let it rest and after poure out fayr and softly the said water and put in other doing as before vntill the water waxe no more salt This doen let the syluer drye whiche shall be very well calcined for to serue your turne in any thinge that you will ☞ The thirde maner of calcining syluer YOu shal mixe together into dowe or paste called Amalgama one part of siluer leaues with thre or four partes of quick siluer as we haue declared in the fift boke in the chapter of the maner how to bray gold then bray this Amalgama or paste with comon salt and set it to the fyre vntill the quick syluer be vanished awaye afterward wash it with hote water so much and so often that the water be no more salt then shall you haue your syluer calcined After this if you thinke good you maye braye it againe with other salt without other quick siluer and then put it to the fire in a croset three or foure houres and washe it againe as is aforesayde To calcine Talcum quickly out of hande BEcause that Talcum is a thing of so great importaunce and so muche desyred of all good wittes menne haue founde diuers wayes to calcine it the whiche teache vs that we must put to it twise as much salt peter as common salte or rawe Tartre with the Talcum and then put all
common salte that is clene white and well beaten mixe well all together and let it seeth faire and softly vntill there remaine no more skum of the Honnie Then take that remaineth in the pot and distill it in a vrinall of glasse makyng but a smalle fire at the beginnyng encreasyng it by litle and litle and at the ende greate and sharpe and wheÌ„ all is cooled again open the violle and powre the water out of the recipient into an other violle stoppyng it sure for takyng vente This dooen ye muste breake the vrinall of glasse and take the lies that shall remain in the bottome and put it into a couered pot the whiche pot you muste couer ouer and ouer with claie or morter to the entente it maie the better endure the fire and after put it into some fournesse where glasse is made or into a potters fournesse or Lune kill or some other semblable thing so that it maie be in a greate fire by the space of twoo or three daies And after that the saied substaunce shall be taken out again stampe it well and for a pounde of the same put in fower vnces of Manna and twoo vnces of Suger candie and if there be more or lesse of the substaunce ye must put in a good proportioÌ„ of the Manna and Suger candie in equall quantitie with the substaunce Then put al into an other vrinall of good glasse well claied and powre vpon it the water whiche you kept before in the violle puttyng thereunto twise as moche fine Aqua vite as was in the saied first violle And hauyng trimmed and sette the vrinall of Glasse vpon the fournesse with his limbecke and his recipient and well closyng all the iointes with claie or morter ye shall make the matter distill faire and softly with a smalle fire for it will easely distill when it will distill no more augment your fire so that ye maie distille all that is possible But you must leaue the water with the violle vpon the fournesse without mouyng it any whit vntill you will put it in experience This doen take fine golde foile that is of xxiiij Carates well fined with Antimonium and take of the saied fotle what quantitie ye will in a cup of glasse in minglyng theim well with Honnie or with Iulep roset or Violet as men are wont to dresse it to write withall whereof we will put parfitely all the maners and fasious in the fift boke of this volume And after you haue well vnmixed and purged it from the saied Honnie with hotte water as shall bee saied in the same place you shall put them to stille in a violle of glasse and then hauing taken of the recipiente put the saied water into a long necked glasse well stopped with white waxe hauyng firste put vpon the said gold whiche is in the violle the height of fiue fingers of the saied water and then set to the limbeck with his recipieÌ„t stoppyng well with clate the iointes makyng the water whiche shall be vpoÌ„ the said gold to distill with a small fire not augmenting it at the ende to make all to distill and care not if the gold remain some what moist This doen take awaie the Limbeck froÌ„ the Violle without takyng awaie or vntiyng the recipiente from the said Limbeck not sturryng the water out of the recipient But take some man to helpe you who whiles you take the Limbeck of from the Vrinall shall powre vpon the saied gold the same water that you kept in the violle stopped with white waxe let hym put in as moche as at the firste tyme that is to saie the heighte of fiue fingers then immediatly set the Limbeck vpon the Vrinall again closing well with claie the iointes or sides a newe makyng the distillation as afore and so consequently vntill all the water of the saied violle bee distilled vpon the saied gold And finally ye shall powre the gold out of the violle into a glasse somewhat greate to holde the water that you haue distilled into it at diuers times as we haue said in the Chapiter before then set to the Limbeck with his recipient and see that by the space of .xv. or .xx. daies the water of the bathe be hotte without seethyng so that yet nothing maie distille Then after make the water to seeth and distille all that maie be distilled and in the bottome of the violle the golde will remaine dissolued into a licoure moste precious whiche you must keepe in some litle glasse well stopped And if you will haue it yet finer you maie make it without takyng it out of the said glasse in puttyng to it again the saied water and distillyng it a freshe not kepyng for all that the water from seethyng as you did before but make it seeth and distille all at ones and this distillyng maie you reiterate as ofteÌ„ as you will for the oftener it is distilled the better it is Thus doing ye shall haue a right naturall and perfite potable golde whereof somewhat taken alone euery monethe ones or twise or at the leaste with the saied licoure whereof wee haue spoken in the seconde Chapiter of this booke is verie excellente to preserue a mannes youth and health and to heale in fewe daies any disease rooted in a manne and thought incurable The saied gold will be also good and profitable for diuers other operations effectes as good wittes diligent searchers of the secretes of nature maie easely iudge In this same maner obseruyng all thynges diligently a man maie make of sâ—iluer beaten into foile to haue likewise a potable sâ—iluer of a meruellous vertue yet not soche as the golde And I assure you that I sawe aboue .v. yeres ago an Englishe man haue a water made of siluer paraduenture trimmed dressed after an other sort accordyng to diuers differeÌ„t waies teÌ„ding notwithstandyng all to one ende with the whiche water the saied Englishe man did many thinges estemed as miraculous in healing many painfull diseases and infirmities of maÌ„ ¶ To heale an excrescens or growyng vp of the fleshe within the yarde of a man albeit it were rooted in of a long tyme. TAke the lies of Honie distilled or if you caÌ„ not haue soche take Honie and burne it in a pot and put the blacke leefe that shal remain in the bottome into an other pot or into an iroÌ„ pan set it to burne or calcine in a vernishers fournesse or soche other in a great fire by the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies wherof ye shal haue a substaunce as yelowe as gold the whiche will be excellent to laie vpon all manner of woundes for it eateth awaie the euill fleshe mondifieth and healeth the good without pain or grief whiche maketh to be moche better for all woundes then is the Precipitatum that the Syrurgens comonly vse Take then of this pouder an vnce of Dogges turdes .ij. vnces leese of wine halfe a dragme whiche is the halfe of
theight part of an vnce fine suger◠a dragme roche Alume burned a dragme of Nill a dragme let all these thynges bee well beaten to pouder and sifted through a fine seeue then take grene leaues of an Oliue tree and beate them in a morter of stone moisting them a litle with white wine the whiche being well stamped ye must strain in a presse or betwene .ij. trāchours for to get out the Iuice and putte to it as moche Plantaine Iuice then set it to the fire in a litle potte and afterward put in it by litle and litle the saied pouder minglyng altogether continually And laste of all ye muste adde vnto it a litle grene waxe and a verie litle Honie rosat that it maie be a liquide ointemente and so keepe it This ointemente is very precious to consume all maner of ercrescence or growyng vp of fleshe in any tender place of the body as in the secrete members or in the nose whereunto a man dare not applicque any strong or smartyng thyng Now when ye muste vse it for the carnosite within a mannes yarde you shall take firste of all a Squirte and fill it with white wine wherein drie Roses and Plantaine leaues haue been sodden and boiled wherewith also ye shall mix a litle womans milke or the milke of a Gote then washe well the mannes yarde within with this Squirte After this take a litle waxe candell somwhat long and of soche greatnesse as it maie enter into his yarde at the poincte whereof ye shall put a litle of the saied ointemente warming it a litle and thrust it as farre into his yarde as you can vntil you feele the Carnosite and leaue the said ointmente within the yarde a litle while then take it out again and doe thus mornyng and euenyng liyng a bedde his bealie vpward when ye shall put in the candell with the ointement and you shall see a meruellous effecte for it shall heale hym throughly in fewe daies without any daunger To heale all maner of inflamatiō and euill disposition of the liuer and by this same secrete haue been healed certain persones whiche had their faces as it were Leparie greate swollen legges their handes inflambed and rough within side TAke flower or Amilum made of Barley whiche ye shall easily finde at the Apoticaries and seeth it halfe an houre in common water then straine it and put it in an other newe pot that is clene and not puttyng to it a fewe Mallowes Succorie Hoppes Endiue and Burrage and seeth all these together vntill it bee dissolued and adde to it an vnce of Sandal and then straine all and take in a linnen clothe as moche Cassia extracta as will goe in to twoo Nuttes and put it within the saied linen clothe with the Cassia while the water be hote pressyng it so harde betwene your twoo fingers that all the substaunce of it maie goe into the saied water then putte it to the Suger or Penides as moche as you will Of this drinke whiche is of a very amiable sauoure ye must take from daie to daie a litle glasse ful in the mornyng liyng in your bed with your brest vpward then laiyng some linen clothe vpon your stomack slepe if you can and take of it also after you be vp and haue dooen your necessaries the whiche doyng you shal finde your self very well healed in fewe daies But here note that this must be doen in Sommer and not in Winter and he that hath his stomack very cold maie weare before his brest some pece of Scarlat or other clothe and sometyme annointe his stomacke with an oile made for the weakenesse of it the perfecte composition whereof we will put hereafter To heale the Emorhodes or Piles in a nighte a rare secrete and verie excellente TAke the leaues of grene Elder and boyle theim in water vntill thei be dissolued Then take a piece of redde cloth a litle bigger then the palme of your hand and stretche it a long vpō your palme Now must the pacient be in his bed with his bealy douneward bicause ye must laie the said leaues vpon the Emorhodes hot as thei wer taken out of the caudron hauyng laied vpon them before a litle oile Oliue Then take an other litle piece of cloth with other leaues and take awaie the first continuyng thus and chaungyng alwaies the leaues if not all the night at the least as long as ye maie and also in the meane time ye must let the patient slepe as moche as he will who in the mornyng shall finde hym self as lustie and as well disposed as if he had neuer had the disease A singuler ointment whiche healeth all burnynges with fire not leauyng any cicatrice or skarre where it hath been TAke the white of twoo Egges twoo vnces of Tutia Alexandrina twoo vnces of quicke Lime wasshed in .ix. waters an Vnce of new Waxe with as moche Oyle Rosatte as shall suffice and make thereof an ointmente whiche ye shall finde verie good for this that we haue spoken of A perfecte and proued remedie for them that bee weake of stomacke and can not keepe their meate without vomityng it vp again HAuyng taken twoo pounde of redde waxe and made prouision of a dishefull of oile oliue take peces of Alablaster and heate thē in the fire and then quenche theim in the saied Oile heate them again and quenche them as before and so three or fower times This doen beate the Alablaster to pouder and mixe it with the said ware and oile wherein it was quenched then put all to distill through a croke necked violle like a Bagge pipe claied rounde about sauyng the bottome whiche distillers beyonde sea doe vse the Frenche men cal Retorte or Cornue and make soche a fire as the Oile maie distille w t al the rest y t possible maie be distilled and then keepe it puttyng to it halfe an vnce of Mirrhe beaten in pouder And when you will put it in effecte ye must take a litle pan of Brasse or Iron and hauyng the toppes and leaues of Worme woode whiche is a bitter herbe put them in the saied Oile and seeth or frie all together then take it hote as it is and rubbe the patientes breast with it vp to the throte doyng thus alwaies at night when he is in his bedde and it shall make his stomacke strong He must vse in his meate as moche Rosemarie as he can bee it rawe or otherwise and specially in his drinke He must vse likewise the moste excellente Aqua vite whereof we will speake hereafter An excellente remedie wherewith a woman of .xxxvi. yeres was healed that had so marred her stomacke that in the space of twoo yeres and an balfe she was neuer naturally purged douneward and as sone as she had eatē any thing she vomited it vp againe so that she became yelowe and as drie as a sticke A Monke of the order of saincte Augustine a man of greate knowledge and full of meruelous
lost put him so whole or in peeces into some vessel feete guttes head and all than put him to burne in an Ouen so that all as wel the bones and the skinne as the flesh bee brought to pouder this dooen ye shall stampe it well and mingle the pouder with the two other pouders aforesaied drie Oken leaues well beaten to pouder .iiij. vnces drie Saxifrage or Sampire halfe a pounde Bay berries .v. vnces Let all these thynges be well beaten in pouder sifted and mixte together Giue of this pouder vnto the pacient as much as wyll lie vpon a grote makynge him to drinke it in the mornyng to his breakefast in white wine and let him doo this often times It is the most exquisite thyng in the worlde as well for the grauell as for the stone but for the grauell you must take lesse and not so ofte as for the Stone The last and the moste excellent remedie of all agaynst the stone be it in the reignes or in the bladder of what qualite or quantite so euer it be IN the moneth of Maie when Oxen go to grasse or be at pasture ye shall take of their dunge not to fresh nor to drie than distille it faire and softlie to thende it smell not of the smoke into some vessell of glasse or earth leaded within of the whiche dunge will come a water without sauour or euill stenche whiche will be verie good to take of all maner of spottes or blemishes in the face if you washe it with it morninge and eueninge You shall keepe the saied water in a Violle wel stopped than take .iij. or .iiij. Radishes such as menne eate in salettes cut them small put them in a Violle and fill vp the violle with wine greeke or good Malmsey or other good white wine lettyng it stand so in the Sunne and in the ayre a daie and a night Than take one parte of that wine two partes of the saied water of the Oxe dunge halfe a parte of the water of Stawberies iij. or .iiij. droppes of the iuice of Limons or Citrons and let there be of all these waters so proportioned together halfe a glasse full or some what more into the which you shall putte a peece of Suger or a litle Honnie roset for the one and the other serue as wel to the sauour as to the profite of the substaunce After this you shal put to it some of the pouder mentioned in the Chapiter before as much as will lie vpon a grote and than giue the patient drinke of it and shortlie after you shall se a wonderfull effectâ— for manie vnto whome I haue giuen of it haue not tarried half an hower but they haue pissed in the whiche pisse they haue founde so manie litle stones that all together came to the bignesse of a Walnutte and of others vnto the quantite of a hasel Nutte in vsinge often the saied remedie they haue finally bene perfectly healed I caused once a gentilman of Millan to take of it by the space of .xii. daies whome the Phisitions estemed as dead would haue cut him but in the space of the saied .xij. daies I made come out of him so many stones that all together came to the quantite of an Egge I made him make his water thorow a linnen cloth laied ouer an Vrinall to the intente to take vp the stones together and the thirde mornynge he woulde take the glasse a litle more than halfe full and shortlie after beyng about to make water he began to crie out for the great paine he felte in his yarde after this payne was paste lookyng in the linnen cloth he founde a stone as longe and as bigge as a Bene somwhat pointed at one of the sides which paraduenture in passyng thorow his yard caused him to haue all that payne Now although that manie as well of olde time as now of late daies haue written diuers and sondrie remedies against the saied disease yet was there neuer founde a surer truer or presenter remedie than this The saied water and the pouder may be kept longe but you must at euerie time renew the wine of the saied Radish and the iuice of the Limon or Citron for in the space of two daies the wine chieflie giueth such a sent that a man maie skant endure it For him that spittetâ— bloud by hauing some veyne of his breast broken TAke Myse dunge beaten in pouder as muche as will lie vpon a grote and put it into half a glasse full of the iuice of Plantain with a litle Suger and so giue the patient drinke therof in the mornynge before his breakefast and at night before he go to bed Continuyng this same you shall make him whole and sounde Agaynst the greefe in the Lunges and spittinge of bloud a thyng experimented TAke an herbe called Farfara or Tussilago of the Apoticaries Vngula caballina Coltes foote in English the Frenche men call it pate de lion Incorporate it wel with the larde of a Hogge chopped and a new laied Egge boyle all together in a panne and giue the patient of it to eate doyng this .ix. mornynges and you shall se a meruelous thynge This is also very good to make a man fatte Agaynst the paine of tâ—e flankes of the reynes and all other greefes TAke three quarters of an vnce of Storaâ— liquidâ— Capons grease or Hennes grease the grease of a Goose the grease of a Ducke of eche of theim .v. dragmes of oyle reset .iiii. dragmes of redde War .ii. dragmes and a halfe of Butter half a dragme melt the greases the oyle and the Butter altogether power them together and mingle them Than hauyng put to it the Storaâ— spredde it vpon a linnen cloth and so laie it hote vpon the place of the greefe and you shal incontinent se him whole ¶ Agaynst the stinkinge of the breath TAke Rosemarie leaues with the blossomes if you can get them and seeth them in white wine with a litle Myrrhe Sinamom and Bengewin and takyng of the saied wine often times in your mouth you shall finde a maruelous effect ¶ Agaynst the bytyng of a madde dogge and the rage or madnesse that foloweth the man after he is bitten TAke the blossomes or flowers of wilde Thisltes dried in the shadow and beaten into pouder giue him drinke of the same pouder in white Wine halfe a Walnut shell full and in thrise takynge it be shall be healed A thynge founde true by experience To take a waie the dead flesh that commeth or groweth in the nose TAke the iuice of Leekes that haue not bene twise planted and adde to it a litle greene wax and make an oyntement therof puttyng to it a litle of the fine pouder of the leese of wine and put often times of this oyntment in the nose of the pacient and you shall se a meruelous thyng For one which with falling from some high place feareth to haue some thinge broken in his body TAke halfe a glassefull of oyle Oliue and
space of fiftene daies Afterwarde let it bee distilled in Balâ—eo Marie the maner whereof is described in the first booke and the water that shall issue oute of it put in a violle well stopt in the Sunne the space of fiftene dayes and than shall you haue a water of greate excellencie ☞ The seconde odoriferous water TAke the leaues of Damaske roses the freshe leaues of Gylle flowres of eche of them a pounde the flowres of Rosemarye the flowres of Lauander the flowres of Iasemyn Maioram Sauourye Serpyne or Serpille called wilde Time or running Time which groweth on olde walles ouer welles and pondes and in some places it smelleth like time and in some places lyke to Sauourye it is called in Latyne Serpyllus or Serpillum in Frenche du Serpolet of these three vnces of drie Citron pilles an vnce After this Synamom Bengewine Storax calamita of eche of theÌ„ two dragmes Nutmegges Macaleb of eche of theym a dragme but you muste stampe well the herbes and bray the spyces wel then put all together in a earthen potte leaded and after it hath stande in the Sunne by the space of twoo daies distille it in Balneo Marle And to the water that issueth out putte a scrupule of fine Muske lettinge it stande afterwarde in a violle of glasse well stopped by the space of twentye or thyrtye dayes Then shall you haue a notable water The thyrde sweete water TAke sixe pounde of Damaske rose water a glasse full of Malmsey three pounde of Damaske rose leaues freshe and newe Lauander flowres the flowres of greene Spike of eche of them foure vnces the flowres of Cherfoyle or Cheruille flowres of Iasemine the flowres or blossomes of Olyue trees of eche of them a pounde and a halfe the drie flowres or blossomes of Orenge trees three vnces of the drye pilles of Cytrons foure dragmes cloues a dragme and a halfe Synamom Storax calamita Bengewyne of eche of them two scrupules Nutmegges a scrupule Let al the saied spices fyrst bee well beaten into poulder and then put all together into a violle well stopte by the space of ten daies than after lette all bee dystylled in Balneo marie And to the water that commeth oute adde Muske and Amber of eche of them a scrupule and a halfe You must kepe it in the Sunne and in some neate place ☞ The fourth sweete water TAke Cloues well beaten in poulder twoo dragmes the poulder of Sandalum citrinum and Macaleb of eche of theym a scrupule ten pounde of Damaske rose water the water of the herbe that the Italians call Soltanella fower pounde Lauander water a ponnde Let all this bee lefte together by the space of foure dayes and then put it in a Limbecke and distell it vnto this water that commeth of it lette these spyces folowing bee put well beaten to poulder that is to saye Cloues Synamom Bengewine Storax calamita of eche of them halfe a dragme and then again distill it in Balneo Marie Finallye you shall put to it Muske and Amber in all halfe a scrupule and let the water bee kept in a violle or other vessell of glasse well stopte ☞ The fyfte sweete water TAke fower pounde of Damaske rose water Lauender water Spike water of eche of them thre vnces the water of blossomes of Lymons or Orenges the water of the blossomes Myrtell of a tree blossomes of Iasemin of Maioram of eche of theym halfe a pounde Bengewyne Storax calamita of eche a dragme Muske halfe a scrupule Mengle well all together and keepe it in violles well stopte syxe dayes Then distille it in Balneo Marie and keepe the water in a vessell of glasse by the space of fiftene dayes in the Sunne and afterwarde reserue it for to serue youre tourne when you wyll occupie it ☞ The syxte odoriferous water TAke freshe flowres of Rosemarye twoo pounde Amber a scrupule three pounde of the flowres of Orenges Lemons and Citrons all confusely together whiche the Frenche men call can de naphe leaue all together in some vessell well stoppte tenne dayes Then the water being distilled in Balneo Marie lette it bee kepte in a violle of glasse verie close and stopped ☞ The seuenth sweete water TAke of the foresaied water of Naphe foure pouÌ„d Damaske rose water twoo pounde with halfe a scrupule of Amber All these thinges being wel mixed together and putte in a violle of glasse well stopte leaue theym in the Sunne by the space of a moneth and then keepe theym to occupie at youre pleasure ☞ The eyght odoriferous water TAke fowre pounde of Damaske rose water wyth sixe vnces of Lauender water the flowres of Iasemyn three pounde with half a scrupule of fyne Muske Keepe wel all this together in a vessell wel stopt by the space of tenne dayes and after distill it in Balneo Marie vntil al bee come out Then kepe it in a violle of glasse for youre vse when you shall occupie it and you shall finde it a merueylous water ☞ The nynth sweete water TAke the Pilles of Orenges and of greene Citrons of eche of them halfe an vnce Cloues a scrupule the flowres of Spike newelye gathered sixe vnces All these thinges muste bee mixte together as afore is said with sixe pounde of Damaske rose water and after they haue stande certaine daies in some couered vessell you muste styll theym in Balneo Marie And the water that shall come of it will bee very excellent ☞ The tenth odoriferous water TAke twoo pounde of the leaues of Damaske roses Macaleb halfe a dragme halfe a scrupule of good Amber and hauing first beaten that whiche is needefull sette all vpon hote ymbers twoo or three daies but before you distille it you muste let it steepe ten dayes in ten pounde of the water of Damaske roses and so than distill it in Balneo Marie The water of it muste afterwarde bee kept in the Sunne the space of fiftene daies ☞ Oyle of Orenges verie excellent TAke a pounde of swete Almondes well pilled the flowers of Limons or Orenges asmuche as you will the which you shall deuide into three equall partes After this you shall laye the thirde parte of the same flowers abroade vpon a very white linnen clothe in a sieue strowinge also abroade vpon those flowers halfe of the sayde Almondes the whiche you shall couer with another thirde parte of the sayde flowers And than the rest of the sayde Almondes the which you shall couer finally with the reste of your flowres so that the Almondes may euermore be in y e myddle of the flowres in the said sieue so leaue them together by the space of sixe dayes renewinge and chaunginge euery daye the flowres and than the Almondes This done you shall beate the Almondes in a morter and presse them in a fayre white lynnen cloth in a pressour vntyl there issue out a very cleare oyle whervnto you shall adde a lyttle Ciuet Muske and Bengewine Afterwarde leaue it in the sonne eight dayes
in some vessell well stopped Oyle of Iasemine and of violettes TAke sweete Almondes well pilled and brayed the flowers of Iasemyn as much as you wil and layeng them ranke vpon ranke you shal leaue them in some moyste place ten dayes together or more than take them awaye and presse out the oyle in a pressoure the vertue of the which oyle serueth for diuers thinges In the like maner maye you haue oyle of Violetes and other flowres Oyle of Nutmegges very parfyt TAke Nutmegges of the best you can finde and accordinge to the quantitie of the oyle that you wyll haue and hauinge cut them in small pieces you shall put to them as much Malmsey as will couer them ouer in some vessell of glasse or other leauinge theim so the space of three dayes Than take them out and set them to drye in some cleane place by the space of two dayes Finally heate them at the fyre sprinklinge them with rose water Than presse theim as is before mentioned in a pressour and you shal haue out of them an excellente oyle good for manye thinges whiche must be kept in some cleane vessell well stopte Oyle of Bengewyne very excellent TAke sixe vnces of Bengewyne wel beaten into poulder the which you shal let dissolue a whole day in oyle of Tartre and Rose water of eche a pounde and than with a close pipe ye shall distill it thorowe a Limbecke and so keepe it as a thynge moost excellent Oyle of Storax very excellent IN like maner is made oyle of Storax Take Storax liquida what quantitie you wyl and put it in Rose water two or thre dayes theÌ„ dystill it as the Bengewin was in the maner abouesayde Fyrste there issueth oute water and then a very excellent and precious oyle Oyle of Myrrhe good for them that haue their flesshe full of humours and carraine leane for to make it tractable quicke naturall and stronge TAke Egges harde rosted and cut theim in the middes take awaye the yelke and fyll them vp with Myrrhe beaten into poulder and put theÌ„ in some moiste place where the sayde Myrrhe may dissolue into oyle by little and little This oyle maketh not onely the face or other partes of the body softe and tractable but also taketh awaye all Cycatrices and skarres The maner to make that oyles shall neuer waxe mouldy nor putrifie TAke for euery pounde of oyle two graynes of salte one graine of the filing of copper or brasse as much roche Alom as salte and boyle all the sayd thinges a letle together in Balneo marie than straine it out and let it stande eyght dayes in the Sonne And than kepe such oyle as longe as you will and feare not for it will neuer diminishe putrifye nor corrupt †Poulder of Iris. TAke Iris electe what quantitie you will and after you haue wel beaten it into poulder stiepe it and temper it also well with Rose water and laye it than abrode vpon a sieue couered This done take Storax calamita and Bengewyn of eche of theim halfe an vnce beate them well into poulder and make therof an infusion into a glasse of Rose water hauynge poured it vnder the said sieue wel couered rounde about ye shal afterward seeth it vpon the embers And so the Iris waxinge cleane and dry receiueth the parfume of the other substaunces This poulder will be excellent to geue an odoure vnto clothes or garmentes all other thinges Poulder of Violettes TAke Iris knoppes of Roses of eche a pound pilles of Cytrons drye .iiii. vnces Gylleflowers Sandalum citrinum drye Lauender Coliander of eche of them two vnces Nutmigges an vnce Maioram dryed Storax calamita of eche of them an vnce and a halfe Bengewyn electe sixe vnces Beate to poulder and sift finelye all the sayde thinges and the poulder shal be made the whiche you shall kepe in a viole of glasse well stopt that it take no vent A whyte poulder to put in litle bagges TAke Saudalum Citrinum a quarter of an vnce poulder of the best Bengewin that may be gotten Iris of eche of them an vnce and boile them in Rose water inough than take burned Alom and well sifted twelue vnces let it lye in the sayde water and make pilles or litle balles flatte at both endes of the biggenesse of peason or biggar the whiche you shall drye in the shadowe and afterwarde beate theim in to poulder and syft them again and than it is made But if you will haue it musked take Ambre and Musk eche of them xxiiii graines Ciâ—et .xviij. graines mixing al this together fil w e it lyttle bagges of linen cloth Taffeta or other sylk the which you maye laye among clothes or other garmentes a thinge verye excellente Poulder of Cypres TAke a litle herbe that groweth and is found vpon the stocke or stumpe of Walnuttes or Okes whiche is lyke little heare and muste be gathered in Ianuarye and Februarye when the wether is drye drye it and than washe it with fayre riuer or well water and drie it ones agayne in the shadowe and hauing washed it so three or foure times you shall put it in rose water by the space of an houre After beat it into poulder verye small and syfte it but the sieue whereon you must strowe the sayde poulder must be alwayes syrynkled a litle with rose water coueringe it well to thintent it take no maner of vent And after this you must parfume it with these thinges folowing that is to say with Bengewyn Storax calamita of ech of them two vnces of the swete parfume called Thymiama a dramme Lauander half a dragme LignuÌ„ Aloe a quarter of an vnce Beat eche thing by it self grossely than mingle them together and deuide them into four partes wherof one part must be set vpoÌ„ the furnis in a vessel within y e sieue leuing it ther til it be al consumed do so w t all the .iiii. parts vntyl al the pouder of y e sayd parfume be burned But you muste take heede that the panne dysh or other vessell wherein the saide poulders shall be put for to be brent be set vnder the sieue wher your poulder is and that the sieue be well couered that nothinge vent out so that the poulder in the sieue may receiue all the sayde parfume Than after take an vnce of the sayd poulder and intermire with it by lytle and litle sixe graynes of Cyuet and. xxvi graines of fine Muske wel beaten together in poulder This poulder must be kept in a viole or other vessell of glasse very close to thentent it take no vent and muste also be set in a drie place This is the most excellent poulder that a man can make It is very true that out of Cipres and the east partes men bringe to Venise certaine rounde balles of a yelowe coloure whiche they call Butri of an Ile nigh vnto Candy called Butra and say that it is Oxe dunge taken vp in Maye and diuers times sprinkled
saied vessell takinge heede also that it take no vent And after it is wel dried stampe it and sift it a newe agayne and then keepe it in some violle and if you wyll make it verie fine take an vnce of the saied poulder three graines of fyne Muske foure graines and a halfe of Bengewine twoo graines of Cyuet braye and incorporate all well together and keepe it ☞ A sweete and odoriferous poulder verie excellent to laye in chestes and cofers TAke the buddes of Roses as many as you wyll and drie them in the shadow than set theim abroade whan the sonne is most hotest in a clene vessell puttinge to theim suche a quantitie of Rose water as will beare them vp and sturrynge them well leaue them in the Sunne couered with a linnen cloth vntyll it be hote And whan they be drye haue dronke vp all the rose water take for euerye pounde of Roses ten graines of Muske and a quarter of fine violettes beaten smal into poulder in puttinge to them by litle and litle of the sayde poulder and mixinge well all together vntill they beginne to be incorporated but before you put in the saide poulder dreane and powre out the water of the sayd vessel that there remayne not a droppe in the bottome This done laye the sayd roses abroade in a basen of copper or of brasse whiche is better and let the sayde basin be plaine and euen not inbossed and set them in the Sunne when it shyneth most hotest coueringe them ouer so that neuerthelesse they may drie than make a poulder of them and kepe it And if you wil geue a swete odour or sauour vnto your garmentes take the said Roses so dried before you beat them in poulder and put thē in some lytle linen bagge very fine the whiche you may laye in youre coffers or where your apparell lyeth An odoriferous and swete poulder TAke the buddes of redde Roses and braie them in a morter as thoughe you woulde haue the iuyce out of them than set them in a hote Sunne sprin klinge them with Rose water and so water them and drie them againe oftentimes and than make of them a poulder the whiche you shal parfume with the poulder of Cypre as the other aforesayd and kepe it in a vyole Oyle of Bengewyne TAke Bengewine as much as you will and lay it vnder a dungehill in a violle or glasse well stopped so that it take no vente by the space of fiftene or twentye dayes Than strayne it and kepe it in a viole for it is a singuler and deintie oyle A very good and odoriferous poulder to carrye aboute a man or to lay in coffers TAke fourtene vnces of roses newly dried fine cloues twoo dragmes the seede of Spyke a dragme Storax halfe an vnce fine Synamom halfe a dragme Braye them and kepe them in a violle well stopped you maye also put to them if you wil two graynes of fyne Musk Ligni Aloes halfe a dragme Balles agaynst the pestilence or plage whiche also geue an adour vnto all thinges TAke Storax one part Ladani one parte cloues halfe a parte Campher at your discretion but lesse then of anye of the other substaunces of Spikenarde a good quantite and of Nutmegges also of all this make paste with Rose water in the whiche you shal tēper Gomme dragant and Gomme Arabike sturringe and brusyng them well Of this past you shall make balles to holde in your handes and to smell to A princely licour TAke Muske Ambergrise Ciuette of eche of theim foure graynes braye all together and incorporate it with a lytle oyle of swete Almondes and make therof a licoure whiche you shall kepe in a bessell of yuorye well stopped and vse of it as you vse Ciuet. Liquide and softe Sope of Naples TAke stronge lie with two partes of the asshes of the wood of the tree called in latine Cerrus which is a kind of tre like to a poplar hauing a streight longe stem bearinge a kinde of maste roughe withoute like a Chestin and one parte of quicke time and make it so stronge that it may beare a newe laide egge swimminge betwene two waters Take eighte potfulles of this lie very hote a potfull of deeres grease or suet well strained cleane mingle them and set theim on the fyre but see that they seeth not Put all in a greate vessell leaded within hauinge a large bottome leauinge it in Sommer in the Sunne and styrringe it foure or fyue times a daye with a sticke and note that you muste set it in the day time in the sunne and the night time in the ayre abroade so that it raine not continuinge thus the space of eight daies Let it ware as firme and as harde as you will so that it remain neuerthelesse in the forme of past and the older it is the better it wil be Than afterwarde take of this masse or past as much as you wil and put it in a vessell leaded styrringe it well with a sticke and adde to the same as muche fine Muskte Rose water as you will kepe it eyghte dayes in the Sonne styrringe it from time to time as is aforesaide and if it waxe to harde put Rose water to it in such quantitie that it be neither to harde nor to soft and fill as manye litle boxes with all as you will To make the sayde Sope musked TAke fine Muske as muche as you liste beate it well in a brasen morter putting to it Rose water somewhat warme and hauinge mixed them well together put them in the vessell where youre Sope is mengling them well together and let them stande a while and than fill litle boxes with it at your pleasure A very excellent paste and swete made with Muske whiche eaten causeth a swete breath TAke Gomme dragant stieped and tempered in Rose water vntill it be soft white make therof as it were paste take of it the bygnesse of a Hasel nut bray it in a brasen morter puttinge to it a little poulder of good Sugre and halfe a graine of fine Muske stieped and tempered in Rose water mixe all well together And if you wil haue it better put to it more Muske and Sugre and than as muche Mace beaten in poulder as will lye vpon a pennye and mixe it agayne well together than put to it a little of the meale or flower of Amylum beaten into poulder but it were better to putte in redde Sandal wel broken in sonder indifferently and to put it in by litle and lytle so muche that a man maye make of it conuenient paste the whiche you shall cutte after your fantasye and drye it in the shadowe And yf you will haue it of diuers coloures adde to it suche coloures well grounde as you please Prouided that they be colours wherein there is no poyson or daunger you may also gylte or couer with syluer the sayde pieces as men do confitures and they wyll be verye good and of the best
makinge Another very excellent TAke Gomme Arabike .v. vnces fine Sugre .iiij. vnces Amylum .iij. vnces and for eche vnce of these foresayde thinges .x. graines of fine Musk whiche will mounte in the whole to a hundred and twenty graynes and than it wyll be perfit Dentifrices or rubbers for the teeth of great perfection for to make them cleane TAke poulder of redde Corall .iiii. vnces of the shardes of Galleye pottes two vnces of cuttle bone an vnce of a Pumeyse stone an vnce cloues Synamom and Masticke of eche of them a dragme Perles stamped halfe an vnce Dragons bloud an vnce fine Muske .iii. graynes stampe wel the whole and syft it thorow a sarce than mengle it well together and incorporate it with Gomme dragant tempered and stieped in Rose water make all into dowe or paste and make therof thinges to rubbe your teeth with to make them white wherwith you shall not onely make theim very fayre but also preserue them from putrifaction Oyle of Bengewin odoriferous PVt a pounde of Bengewin well beaten in poulder into some shorte and wyde vessell so that you may put in your hand than put to it two pounde of Rose water and mixe all well together and so couer it with a Limbecke or stillitory of glasse well bounde with a linnen cloth and al the ioynctes and sides well stopt Giue it at the firste a little fyre vntill all the water be drawen out and this is the water that we spake of before and afterwarde encrease your fyre by litle and litle and thē you shal se the oyle come out and incontinent set vnder another cleane recipiente to receiue the oyle and make vnder it a great fyre to the intent that all the oyle may come out the whiche being all distilled there wyl come furth a certayne Gomme like vnto Manna the whiche wyll be verye good to keepe And whan you will make swete or odoriferous water take a violle full of cleane well water and put into it a lytle of the sayd Gomme and it wyll make it smell swete but you muste styrre it well If you will haue it better take Rose water and not well water Oyle of Storax calamita TAke storax calamita as muche as you will with such a quantitie of Rose water as pleaseth you and put it in a large potte not closinge the ioyntes or sydes but let the Limbecke be a litle at one side to the intente it maye take ayre and alter not the fire but kepe it accordinge as you shall se shalbe nedeful And whan the oyle commeth chaunge the recipient and than make a greater fyre and receiue the oyle and kepe it for it is a singuler and deynty thinge To make oyle of Labdanum TAke fine Labdanum and mundifie it wel and do with it as you did with the Bengewine But if you will haue it otherwise you maye take as muche as you will of it and hauinge broken it in small pieces putte it weete into a vessell of brasse puttinge to it a pounde of Rose water and halfe a pounde of the oyle of swete Almondes couer well the vessell with his couer and stoppe it with linnen cloutes plaistered ouer with claye or other matter settynge it so to drye than afterwarde set it vpon a lyttle fyre that it may boyle fayer and softely two or thre houres This done you shall take it from the fyre and let it cole before you vncouer it than take it quickely out and put it in a vyole And to the ende to preserue it the better put to it a lytle roche Alom burned or elles a lytle Ambergryse And when you wyll put it in the vyole you muste put it in as cleare as is possible Oyle of Nutmegges TAke what quantitie of Nutmegges you wyll the whiche well broken into pieces in a morter you shall putte it in a large or wyde vessell powrynge vpon them a little Aqua vite so that the Nutmegges maye be thoroughlye wette Let them stande so two or thre dayes in styrringe them sometyme and turninge them vpsyde downe and see that the sayde vessell be well stopped then adde to it as muche Rose water as will be aboue the Nutmegges two or three fingers highe and couer them with the Limbecke closinge it well Distill them at the firste with a small fyre vntyll all the water be come out than chaunge the recipient and augment the fyre so muche till you cause the oyle to distille out and whan you see that all is almost come furth make your fire very great and kepe the said oyle in a violle Another maner TAke a pounde of Nutmegges the whiche beynge well broken in pieces you must put in a new vessell of earth well leaded within than powre vpō them Malmesey or some other wine vntill they be all couered and that the wine be aboue the Nuttes twoo fingers high After this you shall put to it at the leaste two pounde of freshe butter and mingle all together stoppinge or coueringe well the vessell and leaue it in the heate of the Sunne in some panne or in some other hote place by the space of four or fiue dayes than boile it vpon the hote coles with a small fyre vntyll the wine be consumed than powre it thorowe a newe course linnen cloth before it be coole This done set the oyle certaine dayes in the Sunne in a violle of glasse vntyll the thicke substaunce be descended to the bottome Finally powre it so agayne thorough a newe course lynnen clothe and putte it in another vyolle and soe kepe it A very exquisyte sope made of diuers thinges TAke Aluminis catini thre vnces quicke lyme one part stronge lye that will beare an egge swimminge betwene two waters thre pottels a pot of commun oyle mengle all well together puttinge to it the white of an Egge well beaten and a dysshefull of the meale or floure of Amylum and an vnce of Romayne Vitrioll or redde leade well beaten into poulder and mixe it continuallye for the space of three houres then lette it stande by the space of a daye and it will bee righte and perfite Finallye take it oute and cutte it in pieces after sette it to drie twoo daies in the wynde but not in the sunne Occupie alwaies of this sope when you will washe youre head for it is verie holsome and maketh faier heare ☞ Sope with Cyuet. TAke of the saied Sope as muche as you wyll and set it a while in the Sunne in Rose water putting to it the poulder of Cyuette and mixinge it well And if you adde to it also Muske it will bee the better so that the Muske haue been before steeped and tempered in rose water ☞ Sope with diuers sweete and excellent oyles TAke of the foresaied Sope whiche hath stande a while in the Sunne in Rose water and put to it a lytle of the oyle of Bengewine or of some other odoriferous oyle and mixe it well but you muste putte in of
vpon a tyle for to bake in an Ouen thē take out the core and the kernels and make them cleane within brayenge and breakinge the reste and straine it thorough a fyne canuesse or straynour This done take as much fat or grease of a kidde as you haue Apples and straine it likewise boylinge it all together in a newe vessell well leaded vntill the rose water be consumed than adde to it Muske Cloues Nutmegges and such like substaunces of a reasonable quantitie according to your discretion prouided alwayes that they be well brayed and broken in pieces as is aboue saied and boyle them in the like maner aforesaied then strain them and kepe them Another Pomaunder TAke fresh barowes grease put it in a new vessel with rose water vnderneth whiles it melteth in the same you shal take out that which is melted to thend it smell not of the fyre than put it in cold water the space of .x. daies raising and lifting it vp euery day .ix. or .x. times styrring it at eche time chaunginge alwayes the water Than take of the saied Apples purifie them cleane of their kernels cuttinge them in quarters not pared this doen laye them three daies to stiepe in Muskt rose water take also fiftene Cloues stieped a daye in colde water often tymes renewed and putting them after in a fine linnen cloth boilinge them in rose water with a small fire the space of an houre than hauinge well scommed away all the ordure and filthe put in thre vnces of white Waxe and make it seeth a little and after straine it into a newe vessell well leaded leauing it so all a night This done you shal take out al the white Pomaunder and because there wil remaine a litle ordure in the bottom you shal put it in morter with rose water styrre it the more you do seuer it a sonder in styrringe it and put rose water to it the more shall you fine it but you must se that the morter be cleane Than take the tallowe or greace of a younge barrowe and stiepe it in colde water leauinge it so the space of foure daies but you muste often chaunge the water and purifie the saied greace well of all the little skinnes that is in it veynes and gristels Take likewise twenty of the foresaied Apples and for eche Apple put in thre or foure Cloues and hauing deuided the Apples in four quarters cores and all stampe them a lytle Than take the sayd tallowe or greace and put it in fine rose water vntyll the sayde water be consumed and after you haue boiled it fayre and softly put in the saied Apples stamped and make them boile adding to it a litle fine Synamom Spiknard Nutmegs and other spices such as you thinke good And whan it hath boiled inough straine it thorow a linen cloth into some cleane vessell It shuld be wel done to put to it a litle calues tallow wel purified in the maner aforesaied And whan it is sodden and strained mixe all togethers and put it in a cleane vessel it is a very exquisite thing Excellent Ipocras TAke an vnce of Synamom of Ginger .ii. dragms Melligetta thre dragmes Cloues two deniers Nutmegges Galanga of eche of them a denier stampe all and put it in a ielley bagge or strainer than take a pint of the best redde or white wine you can get or a pint of good Malmesey or other stronge wine mixe well all togethers than take a pounde of Sugre fined and hauinge stamped it put it into the other wyne and so poure it vpon the strainoure wherin you dyd put the sayd wine with the spices than hauinge taken it oute you muste poure it on agayne so often vntyll it become as cleare as it was before styrringe it sometime in the strayner or bagge and here note that this is to make but a flagon full Wherefore if you will haue more you muste take a greater quantitie of the sayd thinges And for to make it verye excellente you maye bynde a lyttle Muske in a fine linnen clothe at the ende of the strayner so that all the substaunce maye passe ouer and vpon it the which by that meane wil receiue the odour and sent of the sayde Muske ☞ To make litle cusshins of parfumed Roses TAke buddes of redde Roses their heades and toppes cut awaye drie theim in the shadowe vpon a table or a linnen cloth water sprinkle the said buddes with Rose water and let theim drie doing this fiue or sixe times turning them alwais to thende they waxe not vinewed or mouldy than take the poulder of Cipre Muske and Amber made into poulder accordinge as you would make them excellent for the more you put in of it the better they shall be put to it also Lignum Aloes well beaten in poulder Let the said poulder be put with the buddes wete w t rose water Muskt mixing wel the buddes together with the poulder to thend that al may be well incorporated so shall you leaue them so al a night couering them w t some linnen cloth or Taffeta that the Muske may not breath or rise out The whiche thinge done take finallye lyttle bagges of Taffeta of what bignesse you wil and according to the quantitie of the buddes that you would put amonge all the poulder Than close vp the bagges and for to stoppe vp the seames you must haue your mixtion of Muske Amber and Ciuette made as it were to ceare with wherewith you shall rubbe all a longe the seames to stoppe the holes made with the needle in sowynge You maye also sowe some ribande of golde or sylke or of what you will ouer the saied seames These be the best that a man can make and as I haue sayed the more Musk Amber Ciuet and Aloe you put in the better they will be If you will make theim with lesse coste take suche buddes as are spoken of before prepared and ordered in the same sort and in steede of Muske and Amber put in the poulder of Cloues Synamom Irios and a litle Mace obseruinge suche a maner of parfuminge the buddes as before Matches or litle lightes of a very good odour TAke of Campher an vnce of white encens twoo vnces beate them into poulder and make thereof litle rounde Apples or balles with a litle waxe than put them in a vessell with rose water and lyghte them with a candell and they wyll geue a fayre lyghte and a very good sauour A composition of Muske Ciuet and Ambergrise TAke a dragme and a half of good Amber and bray it vppon a Porphyre stone with oyle of Iasemin fyrst alone and than a litle with Muske as much as shall suffise This doen adde to it Damaske roses and Bengewin of ethe of them an vnce Irios a dragme and a halfe All these thinges beaten in poulder and strayned or syfted you shall braye with a dragme of Ciuette vntil they be brought into the fourme and maner of an oynctment This
done kepe it in a Horne or vessell of glasse well closed ☞ A parfume for a Chaumber very excellent TAke Storax Calamita Bengewine Ligni Aloes of eche of them an vnce coales of Willow well beaten into poulder .v. vnces These thinges mixed with Aquauite as much as will suffise to make paste make therof litle cakes or other formes what you wil and so kepe them And whan you will vse or occupie of it put it into the fire for in consumyng litle and litle it will make a singuler good odour in the place where you burne it Sope of Naples TAke Deares grease or the Tallow of a Cowe or yonge Calfe or of a Kidde a pounde put it in a vessell of earth well leaded and after you haue well strayned it put vpon it with discretion to much nor to litle of Sope makers lie the first best and strongest of three sortes that they vse called the maister lie and kepe the saied grease in the heate of the Sunne miâ—ynge it well there and like wise in the night abrode in the ayer but take hede that there come no water to it Whan you se that it is somewhat drie put to it againe as muche as shall neede of the seconde and thirde lie mixed together which Sope makers vse Rubbe a litle vpon your hand beyng cleane and if it make a frothe it is a token it is made Parfume for a Lampe TAke Ligni Aloes a quarter Begewine an vnce Storax calamita half an vnce Muske a scruple Ambergreese halfe a scruple Rose water inoughe You shall putte all these thynges well beaten to poulder into the Lampe A shorte parfume TAke a glassefull of Rose water Clones well beaten in poulder a penny weight than take the fire panne and make it redde hote in the fire and put theron of the saied Rose water with thesayd poulder of Cloues making it so confume by litle and litle but the rose water must bee muskt and so you shal make a parfume of excellent good odour ☞ An odoriferous parfume for chambers TAke Thymiama a pounde Storax liquida twoo vnces Storax calamita three vnces Labdanum an vnce coales of Willowe and Tracagantum asmuche as you wyll but stiepe or temper the poulder of the coales and the Tracagantum with rose water and let it lie so three daies a stiepe in the same water and then make therof paste ☞ A verie good parfume for to trimme gloues wyth litle cost and yet will continue longe FIrst let the gloues bec greate and of good thicke leather to the which you shall gyue a little Ciuet all alonge the seames Than washe them in rose water twise or thryse pressing theym harde this doen take twoo partes of rose water one parte of the water of the blossoms of Mirtell tree mingle them together addinge to it two partes of the water of the flowres of Orenges Lemons Citrons called of the FreÌ„chmen can de nafe and washe them so long therwith that they sauour no moore of the leather then laye theym in a platter and leaue them there couered with the saied water pouldered ouer with the poulder of Cypres by the space of a day or twaine This dooen take them out and presse them a litle and so drie them in the shadowe When they bee half drie geue them a litle Ciuet in this wise put asmuche Ciuet as you shall thinke good in a dishe with a litle oyle of Iasemyne that is not olde the whiche you shall make to dissolue before the fier than annoynt therewith the gloues within side and rub them wel betwene your handes chafing them at the fier vntil you thinke that the ciuet be perced and gone thorow them and leaue them so a while Then after rub them wel with a clothe to the ende the Ciuet maye perce the better and the gloues waxe soft then draw and stretch them out abrode leauing them so the space of a dai and when you shall thinke they be humyde and moyste enlarge them and blowe them and puffe them vp leaue them so vntil thei bee halfe dried Than take good parfume to burne holde them ouer the smoke of the saied parfume to the eude that it maye perce and go into the inner partes of the gloues and parfume them within side This shall you dooe thrise a daye the space of .xx. daies weating them at eche time with a litle parfumed water wrappinge them with some white linen cloth than take Muske and Amber as much as you wyl and put it in a tinne platter with oyle of Iasemine or Bengewine or some other oyle let them well dissolue at the fier with a litle perfumed water than annoynte them with a pensell on the out side and not within annoynt also the seames with Ciuet and lay them certein daies among dried roses Finally lay them for the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies betwene two matresses than wil they bee excellent as if it were to present an emperour withall ☞ A verye exquisite Ciuet to parfume gloues and to annoynt a mans handes with TAke three pounde of white wine the tallowe or grease of a Gote shepe or Kidde a pound boyle all together with a small fier vpon the embres or coales in a couered panne than take them from the fier and when it is coole againe putte them in a platter with cleare water and washe them well fiue or sixe tymes and put them againe in cleare water all a night This dooen take a pounde of rose water twoo pound of white wine with this boile the grease vpon the coales with a smal fier vntil one half be consumed than take swete Nauewes rost them vnder the ashes but burne them not And for eche pound of grease take halfe a pound of the inner white of the saied Nauewes and boyle it in rose water the space of halfe an houre than strayne it and put it into a morter with oyle of Iasemin or of Citrons or such like or els with a litle CaÌ„pher After this you shall take a dishe or the bottome or foote of a glasse wet within with Rosewater wherin you shall make the forme and facion of the Ciuette addyng to it first of all three vnces of Ceruse well beaten in poulder for euery pounde of tallow or grease and it will be an excellent and princely thing Oyle of Roses and floures very parfit TAke the seede of Millons well mundified and staÌ„ped and laye them by rankes or by beddes with the flowres of Roses by the space of .viii. daies then take a litle linnen bagge wette in Rose water or in the water of other flowres in the whiche bagge you shall put the seede and hauyng well bounde it put it in a pressour and presse oute the oyle whiche will be very precious and the which you must kepe alwaies close Oyle of Cloues very noble TAke Almondes mondified and made cleane with a knife and broken in pieces stiepe or temper theym in Rose water than dresse them
seconde of poulder and the thirde of Snayles than put the wine the Lemons and the egges vpon all the reste and so distill it with a small fire and the water that commeth of it must be kept .viii. or .xv. dayes in the sunne in a viol A man may make the lyke also of Gourdes that growe nigh vnto the sea ☞ An oyntment for the face whiche beinge kepte on or vsed continually the space of eighte dayes altereth the skinne and reneweth it finely TAke four newe laide egges and lay them eyghte dayes together in stronge Vinaigre so that they become tender and soft that you may take of the shelles After this take oute the yelkes finelye that you breake them not and put them in an earthen dishe leaded This done take the value of a peny of white Turpentine well wasshed the value of a halfe peny of sugre Candy and twise as muche of the paste of Borar Campher Verdegrise Roche Alome of eche of them sixe deniers All these thinges well beaten to poulder take .ii. quarters of quick siluer mortified w t spettle or the iuyce of lemons oyle of wine leese called Tartarum .iiii. vnces a white onyon which you shall boyle in white wine straine thorowe a strainer and mingle al this with the yelkes of the egges incorporatinge and beatinge all well together with the iuyce of two lemmons And at night whan you goe to bed laye the sayde composition vpon your face necke and breaste lettinge it so drye of it selfe Nowe you must styrre it well at euery time you will occupie it and you maye not take it to sone from your face for than you shall marre the skinne but you must let it lie on the space of eight dayes And although you would thinke the sayed composition burned or flawed of the skinne of your face you may not for all that take it of but let it worke his operation and at thende of eight dayes take it of in this maner folowing Take wheate bran mallowes leaues of Marche violettes Beane poddes crommes of breade and a good quantitie of rawe honny and boyle al these thinges together vntill it be all softe than powre it in to some potte and let it coole vntill suche tyme as you maye endure the smoke therof holdinge youre face ouer the potte Also couer well your heade your breaste and other places where you haue laide the saide past and holde your face so ouer the smoke of the pot vntil the sweate drop down by al your face And whaÌ„ you perceiue your self to swet take a litle of the said water put crommes of bread in to it and whan you haue well swete take of the breade crommes rubbe with them al about wher the composition is laide for there the skin wil be very tender and therfore must you rubbe hard vntil your face be cleane of the said past or composition than immediatly washe your face with cleane water and wipe it drie again After this you must take some distilled water wherein is no stronge substaunce and bath your face with all fiue or six times If in case there remaine behind anye of the saied past in any place of your body rubbe it well with the said crommes of bread or some linen cloth wete or dieped in such distilled water and you shall incontinent see that that skinne which was rough thicke and rude shalbe chaunged and altered into a fine faire and delycate skynne But beware that in eyght daies after you go not abroade in the open aire or to nygh the fyre lest the new fyne tender and delycate skynne shoulde be burned or take anye hurte This is a goodly secrete ☞ For him that hath naturally a redde face TAke foure vnces of the kernelles of peches twoo vnces of gourdes seedes and make therof an oyle wherwith you shall anoynt his face morning and euening and this will kil and destroy the rednesse A thing founde trew by experience ☞ To make aqua argentata or siluered water which maketh a white ruddie and glistring face and is made like a water and not like an oyntment that the dames of Italy for the most part do vse althoughe that fewe men make it as it ought to bee made TAke .iiii. vnces of Sublimatum and break it in sonder in a morter styrringe it alwaies with one hande When it is broken ynough take .iiii. deniers of quicke siluer and put it in stronge white vinagre the space of viii daies than put it in another vessell with other vinagre and boyle it a litle This doen take the quicke syluer out of the vinagre and lay it in a dishe taking the crome of a lofe which you shall cromme with the sayed quicke siluer styrring wel altogether vntill the quicke siluer be faire and cleare than blow in it and the bread will flie away than shall you put this quicke siluer so purged with the sublimat in mixing and styrrynge it wel with one hand so it wil become white as snowe than take hote boylinge water and powre it into the saied morter which must also be hote and styrre it well and mixe all together and so let it stand and rest After this take diligently the water away which wil be very good for scabbes or skurfe powre to it other sethinge water wasâ—he it well as before foure or fiue tymes This dooen take .xii. or rv Perles and a Carlyn or twoo of golde broken in sonder or elles a lytle Campher a lytle Boras a lytle Talchum if you haue any All these thinges shall you breake and bruse in sunder with one hande in a morter and so leaue it fourtye daies in the Sunne sturring it euery daye with youre hande the space of halfe an houre After the saied fourtie daies take foure newe layed egges the whiche beinge a lytle heated by the fier you shall brake and hauyng taken the whites of them you shall put them into the saied morter mingling well all together and so shall you dooe this water folowing Take litle ripe Lemons and take of the outwarde yelowe pille than cut them in small pieces wyth .xii. newe layed egges beatynge the yelke the white and the shelles together than adding to it twoo vnces of Turpentyne you shal put al into a Limbecke making to it a litle fier wherof you shall haue about a glasful of water with the which water you shal temper your siluered water in the morter than kepe it in a violle close stopped in a cole place And so it will bee an excellent thinge and it were to geue a queene And when you wyll occupie of it lette your face fyrst bee cleane and than laie to the saied water as muche as you shall by youre discretion thynke sufficient lettinge it drie of it selfe ☞ To make an oyâ—tment for the face TAke three vnces of the fatte caule of a fatte lambe the whiche you shall put into freshe water chaunging it euery day fiftie times seuen or eyghte daies together
softer and finer and slacketh at euery time moore and moore in comming forth But if you will that it neuer growe more vse these remedies folowinge whiche are very good and certaine by experience Take the litle stones of Oliues burned the outwarde coddes of beanes dried the seede of Henbaine Litarge of golde and siluer the shelles of fyshes called in Latyne Tellmae burned and the iuyce of blacke Poppy as much of the one as of the other and halfe as much Orpiment as of one of those thinges All this beyng beaten to poulder boyle it in as muche oyle Oliue rosat as will couer them sixe fingers heyght styrringe it continually by the space of twoo or thre houres than let it coole and straine the saied oyle and so keepe it putting to it the fourth part of the oyle of Selandyne And when the heares bee fallen take a little linnen cloth wette in the said oyle luke warme and lay it vpon the saied place leauinge it so bounde on all a nyght In the morning take of the lynnen cloth and annoynt the place with oyle rosate and at night lay the lynnen cloth on againe wetted as before and this do .vi. or .vii. nightes but let it be in the wane of the Moone And yf you perceyue that the heares grow againe make them fall away agayne at the nexte wane of the Moone doyng in al poyntes as before you shall not oft doe it but you shal make that the heares shall neuer grow more ☞ To make a kinde of cloth or plaister to take the heare from the face necke and handes or from anye parte of the bodye TAke twoo vnces of Turpentyne halfe an vnce of white waxe broken small or some what moore or lesse accordinge as neede shall require Bengewyne Storax calamita at youre discretion Fyrste melte the waxe a lyttle wyth a lyttle fier and than the Bengewyne and Storax after this put in the Turpentyne adding to it a lytle Ceruse well brayed and settinge it to the fyre putte in to it a lyttle Masticke and make thereof a mixion neither to thicke nor to cleare or thinne Than take a piece of linnen clothe of what bygnesse you will and lay it abrode vpon a table spreading afterwarde the saied composition vpon it with a spone or some other thinge as it were in maner of a plaister than let it coole and keepe it so the one vppon the other open without folding vp the lynnen clothe for when the saied mixion is colde it is harde If you will putte it in profe and occupie dooe as foloweth At night when you gooe to bedde washe your face and necke with luke warme water rubbinge it well with a linnen cloth or with your hand and when it is drie or when you haue wiped it take a piece of the saied plaister or cyred clothe and heate it by the fyre vntill the saied mixion bee liquide and softe then immediatly binde it vpon youre face or vppon the place from whence you woulde haue the heare to falle and presse it harde on leauinge it so all night In the morninge go to youre lokinge glasse and pluckynge of one ende of the saied lynnen clothe you shall plucke awaye with it all the heare of your face and so shall you leaue a very faire skinne And if in case there remain yet any of the saied mixion vpon the fleshe wasshe it with hote water and with wheate branne rubbinge it so longe with some piece of lynnen cloth tyl you make it fal of than washe your face with Aqua vite or white wine or with some other distilled water being not to strong but let it be of Melons or gourdes or of such other like and vse afterwarde waters meete for the face as you lyst and thus shall you kepe and maintayne youre face as cleare as glasse ☞ A meruelous secrete whiche the greate lordes of the Moores dooe vse whereby they make that theyr children haue no heare vnder their armes or other place where they wyll And this secrete founde I in Syria the yeare 1521. by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey whose doughter I healed AS soone as the child is borne they make ready by and by a peece of fine golde or a Ducar or els a rynge or some like thinge and kepe it in the fyre vntill it be redde hote not meltyng it than they carry it with a payer of tonges laye it vpon the place where they will no heare shall grow and immediatlie annoynte it with oyle Rosat or the oyle of Violettes than after .xxiiii. houres they do the like agayn and by this meanes there groweth neuer heare in that place I haue often times made the heare fall from yong gentil womens browes and foreheades with this medecine and they haue founde it wonderfull but the golde must be very fine which suffexeth no token marke or skarre to remaine wher the burning was as other metals do I haue kept this secret hidden a longe time â—although that diuers times men would haue giuen me greate giftes yet I would not publish it a broade vntill now that I haue doone it in this present booke ☞ To make a kinde of cloth called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces TAke the shearynge of skarlate and boyle it in water where quicke Lyme hath bene boyled and after you haue boyled it a good space you shall straine it and take a potful of it and put into it two vnces of Brasill cutte in litle peeces addyng to it an vnce of Roche alume and as muche of Verdigreese and a quarter of an vnce of gumme Arabicke and after you haue well boiled it the space of halfe an houre take a peece of olde linnen clothe of what bignesse you wil and wete it in this decoction or red colour than couer the pan and let the saied mixtion coole by the space of a day after you haue taken it oute drie it in the shadowe and keepe it in some vessell among odoriferous and â—oote thinges for to helpe you ☞ The same another waye TAke a glassefull of Aqua vite a quarter of an vnce of the graine that I spake of before called Coccum halfe an vnce of Brasyll halfe an vnce of gomme armoniacke put all these thinges together in the glasse where the Aqua vite is than stoppe it clase for feare it take vent and the sayed glasse muste bee full After this sette it vpon a small fier makinge it seeth faire and softlye or elles sette it in the Sunne by the space of twoo or three daies This doen strayne it and put in it pieces of olde linnen cloutes as we haue saied before If you thinke in strayninge this water that the coloure is not redde to your minde your maye put in moore of the saied grayne and brasell ☞ To dye a whyte bearde or heare of the heade into a faire blacke TAke good galles of Leuant or suche lyke and frie them in oyle but let them not burne
vpon the fyre some cleane pan with cleane water into the whiche beinge hote you shall put .v. vnces of Roche Alome beaten to poulder And as sone as you see it dissolue take a bagge like vnto the fyrste and whan the coloure is hote take it from the fyre and put into it Alome and caste all so together into the bagge settynge vnder it some vessell leaded and loke yf vnderneth the coloure come out redde than take hote water and poure it into the bagge with all the reste that was strained out of it into the saied vessell vnder the bagge and poure that so often whiche shall straine and renne out vnderneth vntill the licour that shall issue oute be no more redde but cleere as lye hauinge thus strained all the water the coloure will remaine in the bagge which you shal vndoe and seuer a sonder with a sclyse of wood putting it downe to the bottome of the bagge and bringe it al into a masse or lumpe or into little tablettes or into what fourme you will and than drie it vpon a newe cleane pauinge tyle in the shadow within your house or elles abroade where no sunne shineth And so shall you haue an excellent thinge of it To dye bones into a greene colour TAke a panne full of cleare water and put into it a good greate piece of quicke lyme leauinge it so the space of a daye The next daye morninge mingle it well together with a sticke and so let it reste and at none styrre it agayne and likewise at night The nexte morninge folowinge you shall straine it cleane oute and kepe it in the meane time haue the bones that you will die in a readinesse and boile them well in other common water wherein Roche Alome hath ben dissolued and whan it hath boyled a good space you shall take them out and let them drie than scrape them wel with a knife and put them into the sayde lime water and addinge to it some Verdegrise you shall let them seeth well and than take them out And after you haue wyped and dried them do with them what ye will for thei will be very fayre And in stede of the saied lyme water you may vse pisse whiche wyll be of the like operation Another maner howe to die bones or Iuorye into the coloure of an Emeraude TAke Aqua fortis separatiua and put therin to fret and dissolue as muche copper or brasse as the water is hable with her force to dissolue and leuse this doen put in what peece of woorke you will beynge fyrste cutte in the fourme that you will haue it as beftes for kniues penkniues ynckhornes images or anye other thinge to youre fantasie leaue them in it the space of a night and thei shall be of the colour of an Emerande Nowe if in steede of copper or brasse you didde put in Syluer it woulde be the better ☞ To die bones redde blewe or of anye coloure you wyll FIrste boyle your bones in Alome water than take quicke lyme water or pisse and in this water or pysse you shall put Brasyll Azur or an herbe called Rubâ—a which the Apoticaries call Rubramaior and Rubra tinctorum or Rubea tinctorum wherewith they coloure wolle or skinnes in Englishe Chickweede or what other colour you wyll and than seeth your bones or Iuozie therein and they wyll take suche coloure as you put in †A very goodlie secrete to dye or colour woode of what colour a man will which some Ioyners do vse that make tables and other thinges of diuers colours and do esteme it amonge them selues to be of suche excellencie that one brother will not teache it another TAke early in the morninge newe and freshe horse donge made that night and take of the moysteste ye can gette with the strawe or lytter and al and laye vpon some little stickes layde a crosse one ouerthwart another and set some vessell vnderneth for to receaue that shall droppe or fall from the sayde donge And yf you can not haue inough in one morninge doe the like two or three times or as ofte as you wyll than whan you haue wel dreamed out the water of this dong you shall put into euery pot of the sayed water the bignesse of a beane of Roche Alome and as much gomme Arabick Than stiepe what colour you will in it vsing dyuers vessels if you will haue diuers colours and put in what pieces of wood you will holdinge them at the fyre or in the Sunne and at eche tyme plucke out some pieces and laye them apart leauinge the other in for the lenger ye let them lie in the water the more wyll the colour alter And in this manner you shall haue a greate quantitie of diuers colours the one cleerer the other darker and maye vse it to youre commoditie so what vse you list for they shall be coloured both within and withoute so that they will neuer lose theyr colour neither by water or any other thinge ☞ To counterfeyte the blacke woode called Hebenus or Hebenum and to make it as fayre as the naturall Hebene which groweth no where but in India ALl kynde of woode that is lyke vnto this Hebene may be dyed black but the hardest and the massiuest as boxe and other lyke are meetest for it and will be bryghter and aboue all the wood of a Mulbery tree as well the white as the blacke is the beste to be couloured albeit the blacke be muche more for the purpose Take than the saied wood and let it lye the space of three dayes in Alome water either in the Sunne or a pretye waye of frome the fyre vntill the water waxe somewhat warme than take oyle Oliue or Oyle of lyne seede and put it in a little panne wherein is the bygnesse of a nutte of Romaine Vitriole and as much Brymstone This doen seeth your woode in the sayde Oile a certaine space and so shal you haue a thinge very darke of colour And the lenger you let it boile the blacker it will waxe but to much boylinge burneth it and maketh it bryttle therfore both in thone and other you must be circumspecte and vse discretion To die skynnes blewe or of the colour of Asure HAuinge fyrst well washed the skinne and than wronge him take the berries of walwort and elder berries and seeth them in water wherein Roche Alome was dissolued passe him once thorowe this water let him drie than passe him again thorow the same water and being wiped and dried againe wash him with cleere water than scrape out that water with the back of a knife once again passe it ouer w t the same colour and let it dry so shal it be of a very blew or Asur colour To die skinnes in chickweede called in latin Rubra maiore or Rubra tinctorum into a redde colour HAuing anoincted washed wronge layd abroad the skin as is aforesaied wete it with water that white wine lees and baye salt hath ben
reasonable quantitie whereof a greate deale can do no hurte put to it a little raine water and mingle all this with the foresayd flowres stamped Kepe this colour in some clene vessel and than take the skinnes being annointed and washed as is aforsaid and put to them the graines of sap grene with the ponlder in the same maner that we haue spoken of the other washe them and scrape of the water with a knife and so let them drye and geue them one wipe ouer finely with the sayed colour that you kept let them drie again then dresse them according to the science and you shal haue fair leather †To die bones in a turkishe or redde colour ALl kinde of bones may well be died and coloured but hartes horne is farre better then anye other Take than what bone you will shape him into what forme you please and pullish him and then boyle him in Roche Alome water a good while letting him afterward drie than take good grene and stiep it in goates pisse and put it in some copper or brasen vessell well couered and hide it vnder a dongehil the space of .xv. or xx dayes and then shall you finde it verye fayre You may make the like also with the brine of a man in stede of the goates pysse And for to make it redde put in Cinabrium or Brasyll in steade of greene but than you must put it in some vessell of wood or glasse and not of copper nor brasse To die hogges brystels and other things for to make rubbers and brusshes FIrste wash well the brystels thē take water wherin Roche Alom hath ben boyled and put the sayd bristels therin and let them lye vntill they take a coloure somewhat yellow than take Chickeweede well stamped and put it in Vyneaygre Afterwarde sette a kettle with cleere water on the fyre wherinto you shal caste the saied Chickeweede with the Vyneaygre and all and whan it beginneth to boyle cast in the brystels and let them seeth but a very lyttle whyle than take of the kettle from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue your bristels of an excellent good colour ☞ To dye the saied bristels yellowe greene or blewe or any other colour FIrste you must wasshe them and let theym boyle in Alome water as the other before than take Ligustrum and saffron if you will haue them yellowe Indicum or the iuyce of elder berries or walwort or els of the flowers of Ireos if you will haue them blew If you wil haue them greene take paynters greene and dresse them as is aboue saied assayinge sometime if the coloure please you And by this meanes you maye dye theim what colour you liste ☞ To make a purple whiche is a coloure wherewith men vse to make a coloure lyke golde for to paynte and wryte with MElt a pounde of fine tinne and melted as it is take it from the fire and put into it viij or ten vnces of quicke Siluer mingle well all together vntil it be like as it were dow than take a pounde of Brimstone and a pounde of Armoniacke salte well brayed Incorporate all this with the sayde dowe of the Tinne and Quicke Syluer and braye them well together in a morter or other vessell of wood or stone and not of Brasse Than put al this composition into some violl which muste be well luted or clayed about the mouth or so emplaistred that the clayinge or lutinge be higher than the violle a finger height or twayne Than afterwarde set it so vpon the fourneis makinge to it a slowe fyre at the first and after a little bygger and so you shal maynteyne it styrringe at tymes with a little sticke that whiche is in the glasse And whan you see that it wil make a yellow colour take it from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue a very fayre purple coloure lyke the colour of golde Afterwarde braye it with lie and washe it with pisse or lie addinge to it a little Saffron and stiepe it with gommed water as you shall see hereafter moore playnely ☞ To make Lacca of Brasyll TAke twoo pailes full of stronge lie and put in it a pounde of the shearing of sine scarlette and let it boyle vntill the saied shearinge be all together dissolued and consumed into water than after poure it into some vessell of wood or stone and caste into it by little and little a pounde of Roch Alom minglinge it well with a sclyser of wood and poure also to it by little and little two payles full of colde water And after put it in a straininge bagge and lette it dreane and trickle out then put that remayneth in the bagge into some vessell of glasse This doen you shall set on the fyre a pounde of Verzine or Brasill cutte in pieces into a payle full of lye and let it seeth vntill it be diminished the thicknes of a finger than straine it in another bagge and let the water that commeth oute be set againe on the fyre with an vnce of gomme Arabick made in poulder and let it seeth vntyll it be diminished halfe a singer then powre it vpon the sayed composition that you did put into the vessel of glasse minglinge well all together with a wodden sclyser than put it in a bagge and strame it well The dowe of Verzine wil remayne in the bagge whereof you may make rounde apples or balles and drye them in the shadowe and it will be parfite ☞ To make white tables to wryte in with the poynt of a wyre suche as come out of Germany TAke plaister called Gipsum cribled and sifted and stiepe it and temper it with hartes glue or other and geue your parchment leafe one touch with it and whan it is dry scrape it that it may be euen and bryght and couer it ouer againe with the sayed plaister called Gypsum and scrape it as before than take Ceruse well brayed and sifted and stiepe it with the Oyle of line seed sodden Annoint your tables with this mixtion and let it drye in the shadowe the space of fiue or sixe dayes This doen take a cloute or linnen cloth wete in water wherewith you shall flicke and make smoeth the saied tables but the cloth muste fyrste be wronge hard and the water pressed oute then leaue it so the space of .xv. or .xx. dayes vntill it be thorowe drye than applie it to your vse ☞ To make roset or ruddle TAke an vnce of Brasill broken small a quarter of an vnce of Ceruse and a quarter of an vnce of Roche Alome mixe all these thinges well together and stampe them well than poure pysse vpon them vntil they be al couered with it leauinge it so the space of iii. dayes and mixing it iii. or iiii times a day Afterward straine it thorowe a linnen cloth and put it in a pan not leaded or in a morter of white stone and let it drie in a place where
with the Golde if not in steede of Brimstone you shall take white commun salte then dresse the Vernish in the foresaied manner puttinge to it the Almonde or Bengewine that is to saye the white that is founde in the middes of Bengewine and put in no Saffron at all And the saied Vernishe of Bengewine and Aquavite without any other thinge is very good to vernish all thinges as well painted as not painted and also to make tables and coffers of Walnutte tree and Nebene to glister and shine and of all other thinges Lykewise workes of Copper gilted and not gylted for it maketh bright preserueth aydeth the colour and drieth incontinent without takinge any dust or fylth but that you may make it clene with a linnen cloth or with a foxes taile whiche is better as if it were not vernished at al. To bray or break golde or syluer easely after the comes maner that the best workmasters do vse TAke what golde leaues you will and incorporate them wel in a cuppe of glasse with Iulep roset stir ringe it well with your middle finger little and little And when all is incorporated together braye it well vpon a Porphyre stone than poure by little and lyttle clere water vpon the said stone mixing it alwais After strain the said gold Iulep into a dish or cup of glasse and washe well the stone that there remaine nothinge Than stirre all with your finger in the saied dishe and let it so repose after poure the water out and putte in other freshe cleere and warme and washe it so vntyll all the Iulep be washed and clensed oute and that the water putting it in your mouth be in no wise sweete than let it drie This dâ—en you shall put it in a cuppe of cleane glasse and rake out a fewe hote embers a good way from the fyre that the glasse breake not wherevpon you shall set the saied cuppe vntyll the gold waxe very hote and be retourned to his naturall colour Finally temper it with goâ—med water for to put it in experience To make a lycoure that maketh a golden coloure without golde TAke the iuyce of Saffron flowres whan thei are freshe vpon the plante and if you can get none take Saffron dried wel made in poulder and put to it as muche yellowe and glisteringe Orpiment that is scaly and not earthy than with the gall of a Hare or of a Pike whiche is better braye them well together This doen put them in some violle vnder a donghyll certayne daies then take it out and keepe it and whan you will wryte with this licoure you shall haue a fayre coloure of Golde †Another licour of the colour of Golde for to wryte and to gylte yron woode glasse bone and other lyke thynges TAke an egge layed the same day that you begin to make this the whiche egge you shall open at one ende and take out all the white than take two partes of quicke syluer and one parte of salte armoniack that is cleane and well beaten and of these two thinges you shall put as much vpon the yelk of the egge that remaineth in the shell as will fyll it vp againe than mingle well all together with a lyttle sticke After stoppe the sayed egge with the piece that you tooke of closinge it well with a piece of waxe that nothing may enter into it nor any thinge issue oute Than laye it vnder horse donge right vp the open end vpwarde this doen take another halfe egge shell and make as it were a couer or a cappe vpon the sayed broken ende coueringe it with dunge and leaue it so the space of twenty or fiue and twentye dayes and so shall you haue a very fayre coloure of gold for to write and to do what you wyll withall And if the sayed substance be to harde or to thicke you may breake it or temper it with gommed water ☞ Another goodly licour to make a golden coloure with little cost and is a thinge easye to be doen. TAke the pilles of Citrons or Orenges very yelow and cleere theÌ„ well of the white that is within syde than stampe them well in a morter of stone or woode well made cleane and take good yellowe Brimstone cleare and bryght and well beaten in poulder whiche you shall mingle with the saied pilles stamped stampinge well all together This doen you shall putte all this into a violle and kepe it in a depe sellar or caue or in some moyst place by the space of .viii. or .x. days Finallye you shall heate it agayne by the fyre and then write or paint with it and you shal finde it a very excellent coloure of Golde ☞ To make yncke or a colour to wryte with in a verye good perfection TAke good Galles and breake theim in three or foure pieces that is to say stampe them slightly and put them in a fryinge panne or some other yron panne with a litle Oyle frieng them a litle then take a pounde of them and put it in some vessel leaded pouringe into it as muche white wine as wyll couer it ouer more then a good hand breadth After take a pounde of Gomme Arabick well stamped and eyghte vnces of Vitriole well made in poulder myxe all well together and set it in the sunne certaine dayes stering it as often as you may then boyle it a litle if you se that you haue neede and after straine it and it will be perfecte And vpon the lees that shall remayne in the bottome you maye poure other wine and boyle it a little and strain it You may put wine vpon the same lees as often as you will that is to say vntil you se y t the wine whiche you put in will staine or be coloured no more Then mingle al the saied wine wherunto you shal put other gâ—â—â—â—s gomme and vitriole as at the beginning theÌ„ keping it in the Sunne you shal haue a better inck then the fyrste and do so euery day for the oftener you do it the better you shall haue it and with lesse coste And if you finde it to thicke or that it be not flowinge ynough put to it a lyttle cleare lie whiche will make it liquide and thinne inoughe If it be to clere adde to it a little gomme Arabick The galles must be smal curled and massiue within if they be good The good vitriolle is always within of a colour like vnto the elemeÌ„t The best gomme is cleere and brittle that in stamping it it becommeth poulder easely without cleaning together A good waye and maner howe to make incke for to carry about a man in a drie poulder whiche whan he wil write with he must temper with a little wyne water or vynaiger or with some other licour and than he may incontinent put it in experience Vvyth the said poulder all other incke maye be amended be it neuer so euill TAke Peche or Abricot stones with their kurnels swete Almondes or bitter 〈◊〉 that thei
haue their shelles harde and that the Almondes be within them And if in case you can gette but the saied stones without theyr kurnels it shall be good ynough but yet not so good as with the kurnels Take then all the said thinges together or those that you can get and burne them vpon the coales and whan they be very redde and ensâ—amed take them out and thus beinge redacte and made into verye blacke coales kepe theim in a panne Take likewise Rosin of a Pine tree and putte it in a panne and make it flame and burne than take another little scillette or elles a lyttle bagge holden open with little stickes layde a crosse ouer it or otherwise as you shall thinke good and hold the mouth of the bagge downewarde ouer the flambe so that the smoke of the saied Rosin maye gather together and sticke rounde aboute the saied panne or bagge and whan al the Rosin to burned and all colde againe cause all the sayd smoke to fall vpon a paper or table or some other thinge and kepe it but if you will not take the paines to make this smoke bye it of them that make printers incke Of this blacke or smoke you shall take one part or what quantitie you will of the coales of the saied stones another part of Vitriole one parte of fried galles as is aforesaied two partes of Gomme Arabicke foure partes Let all these thinges be well stamped sifted and myngled together and then kepe well this poulder in a linnen bagge or of leather for the older it is the better it will be Whan you will occupie it for to make yâ—â—ke thereof take a little of it and temper it with wine water or Vynaigre the whiche beyng put into it warme the yncke shall be the better neuerthelesse beinge put in colde it maketh no great matter and you shall haue immediately very good incke whiche you maye carrye where you will without spillinge or sheadinge If you haue naughty inck put to it a little of the sayd poulder and it will becomme immediately very good black and haue a good glosse †To make a great deale of yncke quickly and with litle coste TAke of the blacke that Curriers or tanners doo black their skins with for you may haue much for moneye than take of a fyshe called a Cuttle whiche costeth almoost nothinge and chieflye in places nighe to the sea side and in eating the saied fishe at diuerse times you maye keepe the galles together Than myngle the saied galles with the Tanners colour and withoute anye other thinge you shall haue a perfit Incke To make it yet better you maye putte to it of the saied poulder made of the coales of Vitriole of Galles and of gomme and the sayd Incke shalbe very good to print in copper putting to it a little vernix a little oyle of line so that it may be liquide and flitting of it selfe for to pearce the better into all manner of engrauinges and that it maye abide well vpon the paper without renninge abroade †To make Printers Incke PRinters Incke is made onelye with the smoke of Rosine as is abouesaid and is tempered with moist Vernish you muste seeth it a little to make it liquide or thicke as you shall neede But in Winter moister then in Somer and alwaies the thicker maketh the letter fayrer blacker clearer and brighter But in what maner so euer it be it muste be euer well mixed with the smoke And to make it liquide as is saied you must put to it more oyle of line or of Walnuttes to the bernyshe If you wyll make it thicker put lesse Oyle and more smoke lettinge it seeth more If you wyll Printe redde in steade of the saied smoke mingle Vermillion well brayed with the sayed Vernishe If you will Printe greene put in green Bice If you wyll make it Blew as men haue done somtime heretofore take Azure of Almaine or of that of glasse whiche is nowe made at Venise doing in all poyntes as we haue spoken of the blacke incke ☞ To make yncke so white that although a man write with it vpon white paper it may easelye and perfytlye be redde A very goodly thinge TAke the shelles of newe layed egges verye white and wel washed then bray them well vpon a cleane marble stone with cleare water Put them in a cleane dysh vntill the poulder descende to the bottome after dreane oute the water lightlie and lette the poulder drie of it selfe or in the sunne and so shall you haue an excellente white that neyther Ceruse nor any other white in the world may be compared vnto it if you dresse and kepe it cleane And whan you will occupie it take gomme Armoniac well washed and mollified of that yellowe skynne that is about it then stiepe It the space of a night in distilled Vynagre and in the morninge you shall finde it dissolued and the Vynagre shall become whiter than milke the whiche you shall strayne thorowe a cleane lynnen cloth and with a little of this white licour you shal temper the saied poulder and than wryte or paynt with it and you shall haue a whyte excellente aboue all other sortes A noble woman of Italye vsed no other thynge to blaunche her face and kepte her self very white with al and yet it appeared not that she vsed any such thing Also the sayd poulder hurteth nothinge at all the face nor the skinne nor yet the teeth as the sublime the Ceruse and other like thinges do whiche gentylwemen ofte vse to theyr great detriment and hurte But if you will vse the saied white made of egge shelles vpon your face you must braye and consume it very fyne and that it haue almoste no palpable substaunce and that it may be penetratiue and pearsinge to thintent it maye continue In the whiche thinge euery man may proue and assaye what his witte is able to do But aboue all thinges whan you will vse it for the face it is necessary that you put to it the thyrd part of calcined and burned Talchum as we will shewe you in the booke folowinge ☞ To make a poulder to take of blottes of yncke fallen vpon the paper or elles the letters and wrytinge from the paper whiche is a rare secrete but yet profytable TAke Ceruse well brayed and make thereof a dowe with the milke of a figge tree then let it drie afterwarde braye it agayne and drye it as before and so seuen tymes then keepe it so in poulder And whan you wil vse it to take out blottes or letters out of paper take a lyttle linnen cloth wette in water pressinge and wringinge the water oute then spreade it abroade vpon the place where you woulde haue it and leaue it therevpon vntill the paper and the incke be moyste with all than take awaye the wette cloth and vpon the blotte or letters that you will haue taken awaye put a little of the said poulder of Ceruse leauinge it so the
space of a nighte In the morninge you shall take a linnen cloth cleane and drye wherwith you shall rubbe of softlye and finelye the saied poulder and the paper wil remaine exceding white for to wryte vpon agayne as well as before and better And if al be not well rubbed of at the fyrst time you may do it once againe and you shall not fayle To make a kinde of vernish but much fayrer and better than that whiche Scriuenars do vse and is of lesse cost and stinketh not as other vernish doeth THe Vernishe whiche Scriueners commonlye vse is nothinge elles but the gomme of Ieniper made in poulder and of the same is liquide vernishe made in boylinge the saied gomme in the Oyle of line and of this poulder do Scriueners vse to cause that the incke runne not abroade and that the letter be the fairer and cleaner Now for to make a poulder of like effecte and verye fayre with lesse coste and without any euil sauour take Egge shelles what quantitie you wil taking away the little skinne within side and whan you haue grossely stamped theim put theim in a panns that will endure the fyre coueringe it with some couer then set it in some glasiers or potters furneis or in a bricke tyle or lyme makers kylle leauing it there vntyll all the shelles be come into a verye white poulder whiche is called Egge lyme syfte it and kepe it And whan you will occupie it caste a little of it vpon the paper or parchement and spreade the poulder well vpon it rubbing it wel with a Hares fote or otherwise then takinge awaye that is to much write vpon it and you shall finde it of better effecte then the vernix Whan the writinge is drye if you will take awaye the saied poulder yea the common vernishe for feare leaste men shoulde white theyr handes rubbe the paper or parchement with crommes of white breade for it wyll drawe to it selfe and take awaye all the vernishe or poulder that is vpon it ☞ To make incke to rule paper for to write by wherâ— of the writinge being drie the liues maye so be â–ª taken out that it shall seeme ye haue written without lines TAke Paragon stone stampe and bray it wel then take the bygnesse of a little nutte of the fayreste tartre or lees of white wine calcined and burned settinge it to stiepe and dissolue in a dyshful of clere water and than straine it oute And with this water you shall temper the blacke poulder of the Paragon stone vntill it become like incke with the whiche you shall rule your paper or parchement and wryte vpon those lines what you will with common inck And whan the writinge is drye for to take out the saied lynes you shal take harde crommes of white breade and rubbe youre paper ouer with them and the lines that you haue ruled wyll go out as cleane as thoughe there had neuer bene line at all This is a goodly secrete and very rare * The ende of the fyfte booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE SIXTE BOOKE ☞ To sublime Quicke Syluer that is to saye to make common sublyme that Goldsmithes Alebemistes and Gentil wemen do vse and that men vse in many thinges concerninge Phisycke TAke a pounde of Quicke Syluer and put it in some vessell of wood with a little Vynaygre and Salte Peter than braye it and mortifie it well with a wodden pestell Than take halfe a pounde of commen salt foure vnces of Salt Peter and let all this be well brayed and put vpon the Quicke Syluer in the same vessell of woode styringe well all together puttinge to it twoo pounde of Roche Alome burned Incorporate well all this together and put it in a violle or some potte luted and clayed a finger higher then the substaunce within is Then put it and dispone it in a panne or scillet vpon sisted ashes than set the saied panne on the furnes settinge the Limbecke vpon the violle or potte luted and then the recipient to receaue that distelleth out as men do in all maner of distillations Make to it at the fyrste a slowe fyre vntyll all the moysture be drawen out whiche you shall take out of the recipient and kepe well for it will be good for many thinges and specially for to mortifie other Quicke Syluer to make other sublime This doen make your fyer greater and continue it so vntyll you see Mercury or Quicke Syluer to be sublimed thorowly whyte that is to saye that it be rysen aboue al the substance and made as it were a white cake And if you will make it higher that is to say vnto the necke and brimme of the violle or pot then take a sheete of paper and wrappe it rounde about the violle or potte that is to saye aboute the body of it that is vncouered aboue the furneis then encrease your fyre and make it greater and this white cake wyll rise by little and little and will cleaue to the brimme of the pot remaininge there lyke a little beâ—â—e of white sublime then let it coole Than take of the recipient and lyfte vp the Limbecke makinge the pot cleane without side to the intent that whan you break it there fal no filth among the saied sublyme This done breake the violle or potte and in takinge of the sublime you must kepe it from the smoke and in this sorte you may make a loafe or cake of a hundred or two hundred pounde or as muche as you wyll kepinge alwaies the proportion of the quantitie of the thinges accordinge to the weighte here aboue written The lees that remayneth in the bottome of the sayd potte or violl may be stamped and dissolued in boilinge water and than straine it and lette it seeth and than drie thorowlye there will remaine in the bottome a salte whiche will be of the nature of the Salt Peter of the common salte and of the Alome that you did put in And the sayde salte will be very good to make other newe sublime with other Quick Siluer and vinaiger or elles in steade of Vynaigre you maye take the foresaid water that distilleth in the sublimation and so shal you make it very perfitte And you muste note that the saied sublime made with Roche Alome is better for gentilwomen that wil paint their faces with sublime But I counsaile theim that in steade of sublime they vse some of the waters that I haue spoken of in the bookes before For Goldesmithes Alkemistes and for manye thinges required in Phisicke it is better to put in rawe Vitriole in steade of burned Alome but this is very euil and hurtful for gentlewemen for the mooste part of them that make sublime make it with Vitriole partly because it is made with lesse cost and partly because it is profitabler for many thinges theÌ„ made with Alome whiche is almdost for nothinge but for gentlewemen There be some naughty personnes that putte Arsenic Cristallyne to distille
of eche of theim lyke quantitie that is wel calcined and burned and well brayed And if you will haue it stronger put as muche salte Peter a parte as of Alome and Vitriole together put all this in some potte or violle well luted and clayed ouer and in the recipient or receptorie two vnces of well water for euerye pounde of the said substaunces Let the receiptorye be in freshe water and alwayes wette aboue with some wette linnen cloth so that it be neuer drye And by this meanes the exhalations or fumes wil better mingle them selues with their water and will not sticke or cleaue to the recipiente This doen take the potte or violle luted and trimme it so that the mouth hange downewarde ioyning it with the recipiente without a Limbecke luting and claiyng well the ioynctes and sides with flowre and the whites of Egges and dispose and order it in suche maner that the fyre come not to the recipient And at the beginning put a fewe hote coales vnder the bottome of the vyolle or potte vntyll the matter loose and dissolue it self and passe his fyrste furye This doen couer it with coales and the fyre muste be verye highe and for to do beste there muste be lyttle walles of bricke to holde vp the greate coales in great quantitie vpon the sayed potte Whan you haue made this greate fyre the space of three or foure or sixe houres all wyll be made Than let it coole and take out the water whiche is very good and perfit and kepe it in a vessell of glasse well stopped with waxe ☞ The true and perfyte practise to caste medalles and all other workemanshyppe as well in brasse as in gold Syluer Copper Leade Tynne as of Crystall Glasse and Marble FIrste of all you muste haue alwayes the earth or sande ready wherin you wyll fashion and fourme your work but because there be dyuers sortes and euerye man dresseth it as he can gette it and as he hathe skill in makinge it we will put here some of the surest and most parfitest and of diuers kyndes to thend that if a man can not get or make the one he may euermore haue recourse to the other And vnderstande that all these that we will put here may be set a worke eche of them by them selues or mixed one with another or all together for they are good euery waye The bounty and perfection of eche of these earthes for to cast anye mettall in consisteth in these thinges that is to wytte that first and chieflie it be fine and smal and in no wise roughe or full of grommels to the intent that all thinges maye easely take print Secondly that they receiue the metall well and that they neither cleaue breake chappe or waxe into a cruste They must also be tempered with a water called Magistra of the whiche we wil speake afterwarde to the intente that beynge drie thei maye be harder and holde faster together Thyrdelye that they maye continue and serue at diuers foundinges and meltinges to the intente that whan you wyll caste many medalles or other thinges all of one sorte ye neede not at euerye time make newe mouldes Also you must vnderstand that for metalles that are soft as Leade and Tynne all earth so it be good wyll suffise Prouided alwayes that it be fine and small and well tempered with the sayed Magistra as I wil declare here after ☞ The fyrste earth to caste in a moulde all maner of fusible mater TAke Emerill that men burnishe swordes or armoure with and braye it very small in flaming it as wee will shewe you afterwarde and temper it or reduce it into dow or paste with the saied Magistra as I wyll tell you hereafter and so dressinge it you shall make a very good earth whiche will continue for manye foundinges and meltinges so that it be well gouerned and tempered and the more it is occupied the better it wyll waxe Prouided that it be alwayes brayed a newe and than watered and tempered with the Magistra ¶ The second earth or sande TAke pieces of those vesselles or pottes of earth that are made in Valentia in Italie or other that glassemakers vse to keepe their molten glasse in the furnesse and if you maye onely get the bottoms or the pieces from the middle to the lower moste parte of them it shall be the better in takinge awaye the glasse that is rounde about them if not take them as you maye Than take Goldsmithes crosettes or meltinge pottes newe and breake theim in pieces and that the weight of the sayed crosettes be as muche as the pieces of the saied vesselles before All these thinges beinge fyrste beaten and stamped in a morter let them be well brayed after vpon a Porphire stone with water as men braye colours and hauinge made theim verye fine and small by seethinge them againe on the fire as we will after declare kepe them in little goates leather bagges or in some cloose boxes to the ende that because of theyr finenesse they flie not and vanisshe awaye in the ayre ☞ The thirde earth or sande TAke the filinge of yron sande or yron oore or the sparkes that flie from hoate yron whan it is beaten or elles all together but that it be pure without any earth or fylth than putte it in an yron panne or in some other vessel that wyll endure the fyre sprinklinge it with stronge Vinaigre and keping it on the fyre the space of eighte houres after this temper it agayne in Vinaygre and then incense and heate it in the fyre brayinge and renewinge it diuers times as the other And keepe it in leather bagges or in boxes well stopped ☞ The fourth earth or sande TAke pieces of a pommeise stone made hote in the fyre and quenched in Vynaygre foure times Than take ii partes of the sparkes of yron brayed and stamped one part of the pommeise stone Mingle al together and putte it in the fire and braye it often times and so kepe it as the other †The fyft earth and the most parfyt TAke mutton bones but if you take those of the heade they will be better if not take of what part so euer it be and burne thē vpon the coales or in some furneis vntil they waxe very white than stampe them and sifte them This doen you shall put the poulder in some yron panne or other thinge amonge the coales so that it may burne well than put to it a good handfull of tallowe styringe it with some yron in suche wise that all the tallowe maye be burned with the saied poulder leauynge it soo on the fyre yet halfe an howre Than take it oute and braye it and burne it agayne sprinklynge and brayinge it often tymes as you dyd the other vntill it be verye fine and small and than shall it be perfit and will serue for many foundinges or meltinges †The syxte earth TAke Cuttle bones and burne them in the fyre vntyll
they be very white and vse theÌ„ in all thinges as you didde the mutton bones and than keepe it as afore Fynallye there is also earth made of the ashes of Vynes of strawe of burned paper of horse dunge dryed and burned of bricke stamped of Boale or of redde earthe or other lyke thinges that remayne in the fyre without meltinge wherein men printe verye well all maner of metall the whiche also neither breake cleaue in sonder nor chappe as is aforesayed ☞ A goodlye waye and maner howe to make all these earthes verye fyne and small and almooste impalpable TAke whiche of these foresaied earthes you will or anye other and after you haue well stamped it and syfted it drye it in a kettle by the fyre or in a fryenge panne or other vessell vntyll it be verye whoate than take it frome the fyre and stampe it well as before with water or Vynaigre heate it agayne and braye it stylle with water or Vynaygre and neuer drye doyng so fiue or sixe times Fynallye you shall putte it in a vessell of white earthe well leaded and powre into it as muche cleare water as wyll surmounte it foure fyngars high than styrre it with a lyttle cleane sticke and lette it reste the space of an Aue Maria. Afterwarde poure the sayed water finely and wisely into some other vessell that is cleane And vpon the sayed earth that remayneth in the fyrste vessell you shall powre other water and styre it as before than powre the same with the other fyrste powred out and thus do so often vntil that with the water you haue poured out all the finest and smalleste parte of the same earth And if there remaine yet in the firste vessell anye parte of grosse earth braye it a new and than put it with the other This doen you shall let all the same fyne and small earth whiche you poured into the other vessell go downe to the bottome and than powre oute fayer and softely the water and let the poulder dry that remayneth in the bottome the whiche afterwarde you shall braye well once agayne and passe it thorow a fyne sieue or sarce of Silke if you thinke good and you shall haue a poulder suche as there is not the like whiche you muste keepe as the other before in leather bagges or in boxes of woode well stopped pastynge or glewing the sides to the intente that the poulder flie not awaye for it is a substaunce almoost as fyne and as subtyle as the ayre ☞ To make a water called Magistra wherewith the sayed earthes to make mouldes is tempered and moysted agayne at euery castinge and foundinge TO cause that the sayed earth be faste and firme and that beinge fashioned and drye it maye holde together and not fal agayne into poulder you muste make this water whiche is called la Magistra whiche is a worde not knowen frome whence it is deducted as the Philosophers haue forged and geuen names to certayne waters accordinge to the effecte that they serue for as they haue doen of this water And it seemeth that they meante by this the same thinge that we vnderstande by the meane or waye or suche a thinge that is a meane or way to kepe together or to dissolue or to do some like thinge thus it is made They take common salt the whiche they wrappe in a linnen cloth wette in water or other licour and being so lapped vp it is layde in the middle of the embers in a furneis or in some other lyke place to the intente that with aâ—payre of bellowes they maye geue it alwayes a greate fyre or elles thei put it in some croset or other small vessell iuted and clayed blowing it wel the space of an houre than they let it coole And he that will not blowe it alwayes as is aforesayde let hym laye it in the middes of hote coales and yet couer it well with fyre and whan it is coole agayne be must stampe it and put it in a pot well leaded and put to it as muche water as wyll couer it foure or sixe fingars high than muste he set it on the fyre and styrringe it he shall make all the saied salte to dissolue This doen it must coole agayne and he strained or passed thoroughe a felte twise and this is done for to moist or baine the sayed earthes and to make them holde together as we will declare afterwarde Also you maye make this Magistra with the whites of Egges beaten with a sticke of a figge tree vntil they be conuerted and tourned in a froth or scumme then let them rest the space of a nighte and in the morninge poure oute the water that is founde vnder the froth With this water is the saied earth moysted and hayned and it appeareth that it is better then other for it maketh it faster and firmer and cleaner nor cleaueth so sone vnto the thinges caste in the mouldes therefore some put a little of this water of whites of Egges with the other Magistra made of salte Other put to it a lyttle water of Gomme Arabick addinge in all thinges iudgement experience and industry ☞ To make Lutum sapientiae verye parfytie TAke of the beste white potters earth that you can get for in one place there is better than in another that is to saye of that whiche can best endure the fyre as suche as they make pottes of in Padua and likewise in Germany for it is of such perfection that the pottes whiche be made of it and wherin they dresse their meate may also serue to found metalles in Take then of the beste and specially if it must serue for a thinge that hath neede to be longe vppon a great fyre otherwise take suche as you can get There is founde of it that is of a graye colour as the common sorte is and also there is white that men vse in some place of Vicence whiche is like loaues of Gipsum or plaister and is called of the Italians Florette de Chio. We here in Englande vppon the vse thereof maye geue it what name we wyll Potters vse of it in Venise for to white the dishes and other thinges before they vernish or pollish them There is also founde of it that is redde as in Apulia where there is greate quantitie and that they call Boale and is the very same that some Apoticaries do sell for Boale Armenick and the Venitians vse of it for to paynt redde the forefrontes of their houses with lime bricke and Vermillion coueringe it afterwarde with Oyle of line This redde earth is the fattest and the clammiest of all the rest and therefore it cleaueth soonest by the fyre if it be not tempered with some other substaunce And because that all the sayed earthes be to fatte the one more than the other therefore men put to them some leane substaunce Nowe if you take of that of ashe colour whiche is most commen and the lest fatty you may compose and make it in
a little while take it from the fire and paint the yron with all than hauinge set it in the fyre to heate burnishe it and it is doen. †The lyke another waye TAke Oyle of line foure vnces Tartre or wyne lees two vnces the yelkes of egges hard rosted and stamped two vnces Aleo cicotrinum an vnce Saffron a quarter of a dragme Boile all these thinges together in a new earthen potte a good space and if the oyle of line couer not all the saied substaunces put in more water vntil there be sufficient then anoint your yron with this mixtion hauing fyrst burnished it and so shall you make it of the colour of golde ☞ To gylte yron with golde foile and water or elles with golde mixte with Quicke Syluer as goldsmythes are wont to gilte siluer TAke Romayne vitriole an vnce roche Alome two vnces salte Armoniack an vnce all these thinges beyng well beaten in poulder and boiled in common water take your yron wel burnished and wette it with the sayed water rubbinge it well than lay on your goldefoyle and let it drye by the fyre This doen burnishe it with stone Hematite as men are wont to do and it wyll be verye fayre If you will gilt with golde mixt with quicke syluer as goldesmithes vse to gilte syluer you shall adde to the saied water a dragme or Verdigreese half an vnce of Sublimatum and let it boyle al together than put your yron to boyle in the saied water but if it be so greate that it can not go in rubbe it with the saied boylinge water and heate it that it maye receiue the Amalgama of the quicke syluer and the gold the which Amalgama we haue taughte you to make in the fift boke in the chapiter of minglinge or mixinge golde And whan you haue heated the yron gylt it with the same golde so mixed with the quicke syluer and smoke or fume it at the fyre with a lampe or with Brimstone as goldsmithes commonly do or rather with waxe wherof we wil hereafter shew you a very good maner and waye and better then that is vsed in Germany or in any place where it hath hitherto ben vsed ¶ To die or coloure into the colour of brasse or also to gylte Syluer whiche sheweth better and continueth longer IT is a thinge most certaine that gold set vpon white yron or syluer sheweth not so fayre as vpon brasse for as sone as it beginneth to weare a litle men may see the whitenesse of the yron or syluer whiche is not so soone secne vpon anye redde coloure Therefore many practiciens whan they wyll gylte anye woode or other thinge laye the bottome or grounde not of redde as the most part do but of yelow to the intente that the golde shall not so soone appeare worne as vpon the redde and more vpon the white The sayed yellow can not be laide vpon yron or syluer but leauing all this aside whan you will gilt syluer or geue a colour of brasse vnto yron you shall do after this maner Take verdet or Verdegrise Vitriol of Almain and salt Armoniacke at your discretion but let the Vitriole be of a greater quantitie than the other thinges put all this well beaten in poulder into stronge Vinaiger letting it boile halfe an houre And when you haue taken it from the fyre while the substaunces be yet boilinge you shall put in your yron that you will coloure coueringe well the pot with his couer and with cloth vpon it that it vent not out and so let it coole and you shall haue your yron well coloured of a brasen coloure and thus maye you gilte it with quicke syluer as yf it were brasse Esteme this as a goodly secrete and also profitable ☞ A water or colour to laye vnder Diamondes as well true as counterfeite that is to saye made of white Saphyres as we wyll declare afterwarde TAke the smoke of a candell gathered together in the bottome of a basen and make it into a dowe with a little oyle of Masticke than putte the saied mixtion vnder the Diamonde in the ringe where you wyll set it ☞ To counterfayte a Diamonde with a white Saphyre THis secrete is knowen well ynough of the Iewellars that vse almoost all one maner indifferent good but we after we haue described theyr fashion will shewe you a way far better They take a Saphire of a good white coloure and set it in the fire in a goldsmithes croset amonge the fylinge of yron or of golde thinking because it is of great value that it is better for such a purpose but yet the fylinge of yron is a great deale better They let this fylinge or rubbysh of yron become almost redde without meltinge it and cast theyr Saphire into it leauing it therein a prety while And after they haue taken it out if the white colour like a Diamond do not like them they cast it in agayne and so often tyll they se it be to their fantasie than they set it in a ringe and colour it as before Nowe here foloweth another waye a great deale better Take white smalte well beaten in poulder and mingle it with the sayed filinge of Golde or yron but so that there be as muche smalte as filinge then take a little other smalte withoute fylynge and make it into dowe with your spettle and in this dowe wrappe your Saphire and let it dry well at the fyre This doen tye it at the ende of a small and fine wyer and leaue the other ende so longe that you maye plucke it out whan you will Afterwarde couer it with the said filinges and leaue it so on the fyre a certaine space vntyll the filinge be very hote as is aforesayd but so that in no case it melt than plucke out once youre Saphire to se if the colour please you if not put him in agayne vntill it be fayre to your minde ☞ To ingrosse thinne Ballesses to set in ringes IF you haue Ballesses as thinne as paper dresse them of what greatnes or largenesse you wyll and take a piece of fine Cristall coloured lyke a Balles then take a great graine of Mastick the whiche you shall sticke vpon the pointe of a knife and heate it well agayne the fyre and sodaynlye it wil caste out a little droppe like the teare of a mans eye hauing a lustre like a pearle with the whiche droppe glewe on the saied Balles vpon the Cristall and feare not that it will gather to a lumpe or hinder the colour Then pollishe it and geue it a lustre and so set it in golde and it will be very fayer and seeme to be veryly a Balles ☞ To make Rubies of twoo pieces and Emeraudes as they make them at Mylan TAke the drop or teare of Masticke wherof we haue spoken in the Chapiter before and if you will make Emeraudes you shall coloure it with Spanish grene tempered and mingled with Oyle puttinge to it a little waxe if neede be and
if it be to thicke temper it with water But if you will make Rubies take Gomme Arabicke Alom succarine rawe Roche Alome as much of the one as of the other and let it boyle all together in common water than put into the sayd water some Brasill cutte small and let it seeth puttinge to it some Alome Catine so called because it is boyled in a caudron of the whiche the more there is the darcker it will be then take the droppe of Masticke abouesaid and colour it with the saied redde This doen take two pieces of Cristal dressed and trimmed with the whele of what fashion and greatnes you will so that the piece whiche you will laye vppermoste be not so greate as the other vnderneth that is to saye the one dressed vpon the other as the nayle vpon the finger iust on euery side After this lay that vnderneth vpon a little fire pan or some other instrumente of yron on the coales that the saied Cristall may be verye hote and than touche it vpon with the saied redde droppe or teare whiche you shall take vppon the ende of a sticke but it must be so hote that it may droppe downe the better and whan you see that the sayde piece of Cristall is coloured ynoughe you shall take the other lesser piece that muste be set aboue whiche lykewise must be hote and set it vpon the saied droppe and it wyll conglutinat◠and glew together the two pieces of Cristal without causinge any thicknesse or let vnto the lustre of the Rubie the whiche will be cleare and brighte on euerye syde Afterward set it in your ringe settinge to the Ruby the redde leafe and the grene to the Emerauldes as we will teach you hereafter how to make the said leaues for all kinde of stones as well fine as artificiall †To make a paste or dowe for precious stones as Emerauldes Rubies Saphyrs and such like which be but of one piece well coloured within and without TAke potters lead burned iii. vnces and put it in as much water as will couer it a finger or two highe then stirre it with your finger letting it go down to the bottome Afterward poure out the water whiche wyll serue for to wette within side the earthen pot leaded to thintent that the matter cleaue not to the sydes of it wherin you put all the substaunce Than take other .iij vnces of Vermillion dried and mingle it with the sayd leade then an vnce of Cristall calcined and burned or elles of a Calcidoine stone with .xiiij. or .xvj. carattes at the moost of Rubricke or sparkes of Copper All these thinges well stamped and mingled together you shall put in a pot of earth leaded well wette within with the said water of the lead then couer it and set it in a glasse makers furneis by the space of thre or foure dayes and you shall haue a very fayre paste or dowe the which you may cause to be dressed with the wheele as you wil. At Venise men bye the stone for a grote or sixe pence at the moost And for to make yellow stones you shal put to it the rust or rubbishe of yron And to make Rubies put to it Cynople or redde leade and in those that be of colours you shall folowe the order that we wyl teach you hereafter †To make Emerauldes and other stones or Iewelles TAke Sal alcali and dissolue it in water distillinge it thorough a felt and drye it then dissolue it agayne and drie it so three times afterward beat it into poulder then take fine Cristall and cause an Apoticarye to stampe and sift it for you as they do Cristall prepared Then take two vnces and a halfe of the saied Cristal of Sal alcali two vnces Spanish grene an vnce fyrste tempered and stieped in Vinaygre and than strained The sayd thre poulders you shal put in a vessell as in a newe earthen pot leaded the whiche pot you shall lute and clay ouer and couer it that it take no vent then leaue it so clayed and luted the space of three dayes the longar the better vntill all be thorowe drye Afterwarde you shall putte it in a potters furneis the space of .xxiiij. houres Then take the sayde composition and dresse it as men do fyne stones and you shall haue them excellent And if you wyll haue Rubies put Cinople to it in steade of Spanishe greene If you wyll haue Saphirs put to it Lapis Lasuli But if you wil haue Iacinthes you muste put in Corall in steade of greene Verderame as is before sayed †To calcine or burne Crystall and the calcidoyne stone to put in the saied mixtions of precious stones TAke Tartre calcined and burned an vnce and dissolue it in a dishe full of cleare water then strayne it out and take the pieces of Cristall or Calcidoin stone and heate them vpon the fyre in an yron ladle or fyre panne than quenche them in the water that is in the dyshe take theim oute and heate theim agayne and quenche theim as before in the same water doinge so syxe or seuen tymes and they shall be verye well calcined and burned Then beat them fynely into poulder and put it into the sayd mixtion Neuertheles remēber that if you wil make Emerauldes you must beat y e said substaunces to poulder in a brafen morter but if you will make Rubies or other you muste stampe theim in an yron morter and beware that they touche not the brasse ☞ A water to harden the saied stones BEcause that all the saied artificiall stones are commonlye bryttle for to harden them do as foloweth Take little pieces of Calamita and calcine them as you didde the Cristall then beate them into poulder and putte it in a moyste place vntill it be turned and dissolued into water with y e whiche you shal knede Vitriole Almaine or Romayne raw without making it redde then make thereof a softe paste or dow or elles a syroppe whiche you shall still in a glasse or Viol with a croked necke or in an vrinal and with the water that commeth of it you shall knede barly flower makinge a harde past in the whiche you shall wrappe your masse of stones made as is before said or the stones self whan they be dressed and fashioned with the whele then put them so wrapped in the same paste into an ouen with a bache of breade and take them out with the breade And whan you haue taken of the paste you shall finde your stones harde as if they were naturall If you se it be neede you may couer theim with the sayd paste and bake them againe in the ouen and than shall you haue them parfite and harde ☞ To calcine fyne syluer SEinge that we are entered into the matter of calcininge we will shewe you the calcination of fine syluer and than of Talcum as we haue promised before There be diuers wayes of calcininge syluer wherof we wil put here three of the
put it in vre as we wil shewe you And after that you haue poured the Aqua vite out of all the saied glasses ye shall put in other freshe and set them well stopped in the Sonne and in the night in the aire as is afore saied Then put them all together with the other in the said vessell of glasse and put again in euery violle other Aqua vite and doe as before and thus must ye doe eight or tenne tymes or till you see that the Aqua vite will bee no more coloured or haue taken all the substaunce of the drooges that are in the violles A man can not chaunge the saied Aqua vite to often bicause ye must passe all the saied waters of life through a bath called Balneum Marie as wee will hereafter declare by the whiche ye maie passe as well a greate quantitie as a smalle and by this meane also ye shall lose no parte of the vertue or substaunce of the said thynges hauyng drawen and taken it all with the saied Aqua vite of the whiche ye must first haue made prouision of fower or fiue flagons Then ye must take all the saied Aqua vites beyng put into one vessell and mixte theim well together with the three first violles where the Suger the Manna and the Hōnie with the dewe is and then the violle with the Agarie and three vnces of the saied Aloes prepared and watred After this put all these thinges in a greate violle made of good and thicke glasse to thende it be not in daūger of breakyng in handelyng of it And to be more assured after ye haue well mixed all together ye maie deuide all the substaunces into diuers smalle glasses or violles to passe theim through the saied Balneum Marie at sondry times or at ones in diuers litle fourneises in this mananer You shall set and trimme the violles with strawe or Towe in the bottome of a panne or caudron wherein there must be water and set the saied caudron vpon a furnaise of yearth and this is called stillyng per Balneum Marie Then set vnto the violle his Limbecke with his recipient that the substaunce take no winde or vent then you muste make your fire so that the caudron maie seeth or boyle faire and softly and so shall you distille and make come into the recipient all the Aqua vite as clere as Cristalle the whiche bicause it hath been passed through by distillation diuers tymes will bee better for all thynges then the other and principally to be taken at the mouthe bicause it kepeth parte of the vertue and strengthe of the thynges that it was put into Also you must vnderstande that of the fiue partes onely of all the substaunce whiche shall be in the violle or violles three or fower partes must bee distilled and the rest to remaine in the bottome of the saied violles This doen let the ouen or foruaise and the caudron coole and in vndoyng the Limbecke and the recipient ye shall take awaie the violles kepyng well this distilled water for to serue you as wee haue afore saied and then put all the substaunce whiche remaineth in the said violles not distilled into some other greate and thick violle or glasse wel couered or bound in wicker or osiers stoppyng it well with waxe or bombase and aboue that with a double parechemente and locke it handsomely in some place farre from the Soonne and out of all heate This licoure hath not his like in vertue the whiche takē euery weke ones or twise the quātitie of a sponefull preserueth health driueth awaie all euill complexions from the body maintaineth and strengthneth so the naturall heate and radicall moistnesse and vpholdeth a man in his strengthe and vigoure of the heads and of the witte maketh the visage well coloured the breath swete the bodie yong and lustie that a mā is not able worthely to esteme or iudge the vertue thereof and lesse able to expresse and praise the greate goodnesse of God the creatoure that giueth soche vertue vnto thynges created and openeth the witte and vnderstandyng of man to knowe them and to vse them to the profite and commoditie of his creatures Now the maner how to vse it is this In the Spryng time ye maie take it alone or with a little broth of Veale Pigeons or Chickens or els in Maluoisie or some other good white wine In Sommer ye must take it with water of Buglose or the decoctiō of Borrage Buglose Lettese Succorie Endiue or els some of the said herbes and at all tymes it is good to take of it a sponefull putte into halfe a glasse ful of the milke of a woman new brought a bed of a man child or of a nurrice that giueth a man child sucke or els in Gotes milke And the quantitie oft vsing of it must be obserued accordyng to the persones tyme for vnto a weke and aged man and those that haue been lately sicke or weake of nature ye muste giue it oftener and a greater quātitie then vnto a yong and lustie man Also a man maie take of it oftener and more in Winter then in Sommer Now ye must vnderstande that all the flowers herbes and other thinges rehersed are not foūd together in one time and season wherefore the said licour can not be made at one tyme but beginnyng the firste or seconde weeke of Maie it shall be at the least the ende of September or October before ye can make an ende and therefore you must gather from tyme to tyme eche thing in his season as you maie get them and put them in some vessell euery one by them selues or with the other thynges that thei ought to be ioyned with after the maner aboue saied and vse to dresse and trimme the said thynges accordyng to the tyme that you maie get them in And yet if you can not furnishe your self with al soche thinges as I haue declared take those that you can gette prouided that the reste whiche you can not get bee not of to greate importaunce but it should be more expedient and sure to haue of all seyng there is nothyng of any greate coste or charge or to hard to be gotten Moreouer if you wil haue your matter in good perfection there resteth but to make a naturall dissolutiō of fine gold and when you will take of it take twoo partes of the said licoure one part of the dissolutiō of the gold whiche we will teache you to make hereafter although that in this presente booke wee will make no mention of the perfitest maner of making soche a dissolution whiche we haue gotten by great studie and obseruation and by often expertēce of the thyng that we will doe aswell for not being verie possible to shewe it by writyng without makyng demonstration thereof as for other causes but we wil put here some other maners and waies bothe good true and of soche importaunce that peraduenture better hath not vnto
this daie been found ¶ A potion or drinke to be vsed in steade of Sirop good for men of al ages and complexioÌ„s that will be purged the whiche taken what daie you will driueth a waie the euill humours without mouyng or troublyng the good or doing any burte And is also very good for the great Pockes and all infinnities as well of the stomacke as of the heade and is like wise profitable for them that be in health to take twise in the yere in steade of an ordinary purgation that is to saie in the Spryng tyme and in September TAke Mallowes and boile them in water vntill thei bee softe that thei can almoste bee no softer then strain the decoction and take pouder of Sene and of the barke of Lignum sanctum called Guatac of eche of them seuen vnces well beaten to pouder and clensed or sifted Salt Armoniac twoo dragmes and in the meane tyme set the decoction of the Mallowes vpon the fire with halfe a pound of Honie and let the said decoction be aboute twoo common glasses in quantitie whereunto ye must put halfe a pounde of wine lies and then let it boils faire and softly the space of halfe an houre skimmyng well the Honnie After this ye must straine it and put it hotte as it is into a potte by litle and litle where the foresaied thynges be that is to saie the Sene the Guaiac and Armoniac salte Now in powryng you must alwaies sturre the saied thinges with a Spone or some other thing And then immediatly ye must couer the pot with his couer in shuttyng it close and closyng it vp with claie round aboute the sides so that nothyng maie breath or respire out and so set the pot vpon the fire by the space of twoo Pater nosters and no more Then take it from the fire and wrap it in a pillowe of fethers well warmed by the fire or in a tubbe or barrell full of branne well heated or in some clothe very hote to thende it maie be well nurrished and kept warme and leaue it so by the space of ten or twelue houres Then afterward ye must open the pot and straine the saied substaunce through a strainer or thicke canuesse you must haue ready before halfe a glasse of white wine and in the same three or fower vnces of Rubarbe cut in smalle pieces and that the Rubarbe haue been in it the space of a daie or twoo before the whiche wine ye shall powre into the decoction of the said thinges as sone as it is strained as is aforesaied and put thereunto an vnce of Aloe Epaticum prepared and ordered as is aboue saied or at the lest as the Apoticaries doe sell it and call it Aloe Lotum with the iuice of Roses or other wise the whiche ye muste put in well beaten to pouder with halfe an vnce of Cassia Lignea and kepe all this coÌ„position in a violle or other vessell well couered The maner of receiuyng it is to heate it a litle at the breake of the daie and to take halfe a glasse full or more of it accordyng to the exigent of the sicknesse and the qualitie of the persone hauing taken it he must kepe his bedde a while and slepe if it be possible and then rise and walke aboute the house or els where at his pleasure Neuerthelesse it were better that he kept the house and specially bicause of the mouyng of the body And this maie he vse v.vij.ix or .xj. mornynges for the pluralitie can not hurte Also this potion or drinke is of soche exquisite bouÌ„tie for mannes body that we nede to vse none other maner of purgation or medicine ¶ A verie easie and good remedie for to heale all maner of Pockes whiche is made with litle cost and requireth not that a manne kepe his bedde or his house but maie vse it going in the streetes And it is also verie good for all sortes of grief in the iointes in what part of the bodie so euer it be TAke .iij. poundes of rawe Honie and a pouÌ„d of the Iuice of the flowers of an herbe called Molis or Lung worte whiche hath his leafe somewhat long fatt or full of carnosite and somewhat white his flower Yelowe fassioned like a belle and for lacke of the flowers the Iuice of the herbe then take halfe a pounde of Lignum Sanctum beaten into pouder and hauing let it boile in coÌ„mon water a good while ye must straine it and put the said iuice with the saied Honnie into a pot puttyng to it three vnces of Aloe epaticum ordered as is afore said or as the Apoticaries sell it wasshed with the Iuice of Roses And then vpon the saied Aloe beaten to pouder ye must poure as moche of the saied water wherein the Guaiacum hath boiled as wyll mounte in the potte fower or fine fingers high then adde thereunto twoo vnces of the Vineigre of Squilla and lette it boile faire and softly by the space of halfe an houre or a litle more skummyng well alwaies the Hâ—unie and when it hath almoste boiled inough put vnto it three vnces of fine SinamoÌ„ well beaten into pouder set it again a while vpon the fire then hauyng taken it of and setten it vp to keepe ye muste heate of it in the morning a glasse full and after you haue dronken it eate a litle piece of a Quince or of a fruite called in Latine Sorbum in Frenche Corme or grene Grapes Pome Granade or of some other bindyng thyng what ye will and keepe your bedde sleapyng as long as you will and also after you be risen and haue doen your businesse yea out of the house if it come so to passe But as we haue said to keepe your bedde or house is alwaies the best for you when ye vse Phisicke And this potion or drinke muste you take from daie to daie but if the paine be not to vehement it shall suffice being taken twise in the weeke and this doyng you shall see a wonderfull operation and ye shall not nede to vse Lignum sanctuÌ„ nor any other thing This remedy onely is sufficiente for all menne and hath been proued and experimented diuers tymes and vpon diuers persones ¶ To dissolue and reducte gold into a potable licoure whiche conserueth the youth and health of a manne as well taken by it self as mingled with the foresaied licoure spoken of in the second Chapiter of this presente booke and will heale euery disease that is thought curable in the space of seuen daies at the furthest TAke a glasse full of the Iuice of Limons and heate it ouer the fire vntill it beginne almoste to seeth then take it from the fire and strain it three or fower times through a Linnen clothe and afterwarde distille it through a long gutter of Felte then take twoo pounde of rawe Hoâ—nie and sette it on the fire in a pot mixyng with it the said Iuice of Lemons and adding thereunto halfe a pounde of
secretes healed the saied woman with this remedy followyng in the space of .xvij. daies made her as whole and sound faire and wel coloured as she was before her sicknesse First of all he had made a litle ouen like vnto soche as men bake breade in y e which he did heate with rosemarie and the sayd Ouen was in facion like a Bakers Ouen wherein he baked litle pretie loaues and cakes whiche he gaue her a lone without any other thyng to eate viij or .x. daies and gaue her white wine to drinke without water He gaue her also gentle meates with Sinamom and Suger and euery mornyng gaue her in a glasse aboute a finger heighte of water made after this maner folowing Aqua vite halfe a glasse ful wherin he put the yelowe pille of halfe a Citron or Orenge cut in pieces the flowers of Rosemarie a handfull fine Sinamom an vnce Safron a quarter of a dragme BeÌ„gewin a dragme with a litle Muske and made her to bee washed ouer and ouer or bathed in the decoction of Rosemarie and other swete herbes ones a weeke and euery night annointed her breast with the saied Oile distilled and sodden with Wormewoode And aboue al thynges commaunded her to keepe a Cushen vpon her stomacke in the night tyme and caused her to lye long a bedde in the mornyng he made her also eate the confection of Diambre And in this wise he made her in xvij daies as whole and as faire as she was before whom no Phisicion could euer finde remedy for duryng al the tyme of her sicknesse Three remedies verie good against he wormes in litle children TAke the flower of wheate well boulted as moche as will lye vpon three crounes of gold and put it in a glasse and powre vnto it well water or fouÌ„tain water so moche as will stiepe the said flower and make it looke like as it wer milke and no thinner then giue the childe drinke of it and you shall see that with his siege the Wormes will come forthe starke dedde whiche is a verie good remedy ¶ The seconde remedie TAke a Citron or Orenge and make in hym a hole as big as a peny by the whiche hole with wringyng ye shall make the licoure come out and hauyng made a hole into the middle and more ye shall powre in to it oile of Baie free or leaues the Iuice of Rue the Iuice of Wormewood Triacle flower of a kinde of poulse corne called Lupinum or Lupinus in Latine hauyng one stalke the leafe in fiue diuisions the codde creuised aboute hauing in it fiue or sixe graines harde broad and redde Thei be common in Fraunce Italie but here vnneth knowen And seeth all this a while and then powre it in a dishe and annointe therewith the childes nauell stomacke temples nosetrilles and the vttermoste part of his poulses and ye shall immediatly see a wonderfull operation ¶ The thirde remedie FOr children that be so litle that a man can not minister the medecine in at the mouth you shall take very good Aqua vitae wherewith ye shall washe or weate the stomacke or the breast of the childe then pouder ouer the said places with the pouder of fine Mirrhe and laie the child doune a litle while with his breast vpwarde and you shal see incontinent that with the dunge of the child the worme shall come out dead To heale children of the Lunatike disease whiche happeneth vnto theim by reason of a worme with twoo heades that breedeth in their bodies the whiche worme commyng vnto the harte causeth theim to haue soche a passion that often tymes it killeth theim TAke the tender stalkes of a Wildyng tree and drie theim in the shadowe then stampe theim well and sifte theim and take of the saied pouder and the roote of Gentian of long Perne of eche of them a quarter of an vnce and half a quarter of an vnce of Mirrhe All these thynges well beaten in pouder ye shall put in a disshe or in some other vessell as you thinke good moist them with a litle water then take of it with your twoo fingers and weate the lippes and the mouthe of the child Doe this three or fower times and you shall see the worme come out deade with his siege This haue I often tymes seen by experience and many children whiche for lacke of good help haue died with soche maner of Wormes the whiche afterwarde beyng opened menne haue founde the Worme stickyng vpon their hartes And for the same accidente the other remedies whiche we haue written before against the Wormes be also very good A remedie for the fallyng sick nesse TAke Germander gathered in Maâ—â— when it is in blosome drie it in the shadowe and make it in pouder And when you will vse it take the yelke of an Egge or twaine and sturryng or breakyng it with a sponefull of the saied pouder then seeth it and giue it to the paciente to eate Dooe this Mornyng and Euenyng eight daies long but all this while he must abstaine from wine and carnall company of women from al sorte of poulse as Beanes Peason Vetches Tares and soche other from Salades salte Fleshe and from all other thynges whiche are of a harde concoction or digestion A verie goodly and notable secrete To make oile of Brimstone to heale all maner of Cankers diseases or sores whiche come of a putrified humoure and renne coÌ„tinually commonly called Fistules and also to heale olde and inueterate woundes TAke Brimstone beaten in pouder and hauyng steeped and mollified it with common oile put it in a Gourde apte to still out of so that it bee brought as it were like paâ—â—e the whiche you shall distill through the mouthe of the said Gourde and the oile that shall drop out ye shall put into a violle fillyng it halfe full and afterwarde fill vp the saied violle with Plantan water and with the Iuice of Cardus benedictus and so let it boile a pretie while Then washe the wounde with Aqua vite or white wine and laie to it of the said oile and in fewe daies ye shall heale it parfitly To take awaie the venim or poyson from a wounde made by some poisoned weapon or arrowe TAke Assa Fetida and a gomme called Galbanum of eche of them an vnce and steepe them in Vinaigre the space of a night then sette it to the fier to dissolue and straine it through a Linen clothe miring with it twoo vnces of VnguentuÌ„ diabasilicuÌ„ and laie it to the wounde and incontinent the said ointmente will drawe vnto it self and kill all the venim so that the wounde maie afterward be healed as all other maner of woundes bee and in case ye lacke or can not get Galbanum it shall suffice to haue onely Assa Fetida to drawe the venim out of the saied wounde Against the bityng of all venemous beastes AS soone as the person feleth hymself bitten with any venimous beast or at the leaste as sone
wood very cleane and putte it so stamped in a violle or glasse and then powre to it as muche white wine as will couer it all ouer and adde to it of good oyle olyue aboute the height of two fyngers leauyng it so in the saide glasse wel stopped and after that ye must gather the said herbe with his blossomes vpon S. Ihons day in the mornyng after the sonne is rysen and puttyng the blossomes a part ye must stampe wel the herbe with the stalkes and after ye haue cut it very small take it out of the morter and stampe it in the same morter also a litle the floures or blossoms whiche you kepte a parte and mingle them with theyr herbe whiche was stamped before But the blossomes muste wey foure times or very nigh as muche as al the herbe that ye gathered in the moneth of Maye and before S. Ihons day and was putte in the saide violle or glasse with the wine and oyle olyue You muste after this mingle al these things together and put them in some violle or glasse or els in some pan of earth very cleane with the said wine and oyle olyue and put to it againe other wine and oyle vntil al bee couered as before and then set al this in the Sonne in some vessell well stopped And twelue or fiftene daies after when the seede of S. Ihons wort shalbe ripe you must gather of it in the morning after the Sonne is vp and stampe it well and so mingle it with the saide herbe and blossomes but you must put no wine to it sauynge onely the oyle oliue And the saied seede muste in quantitie wey as much as the fourth or thirde parte of the sayd herbe before the wyne bee putte to it also the oyle must bee of suche quantitie as maye be aboue all the substaunces a good handfull or twoo After this set a caudron of water on the fier with hey or strawe in the bottom and put the saied violle into it so that it bee not in daunger of breakyng when the water beginneth to seeth This maner of setting the violles or glasses in a caudron of boylyng water is called of our moderne Philisophers Balneum Marie and it is dressed and trimmed in thys sorte as well for to distill with a Lymbecke as for to make putrefaction euaporation or dissolution of the whiche thinges we wyll speake afterwarde when we comme to the matter of distyllyng Then muste you make the water in the saide caudron to seeth with the substaunce whiche is in it by the space of thre or foure houres according to the quantitie of the said substaunces vntyl the wine or at the least the most part of it be dronke and consumed which ye shal know in this maner Take a litle of the substaunce on the ende of a sticke and caste it in the fier and if it burne withoute anye noyse it is a signe that there is no moore wyne left The sayde violle muste bee vncouered whyle the water boyleth because the wyne maye euaporate and breathe out And if the sayde substaunce bee so great in the violle that it passe fyue or syxe pounde ye shal put to it these thinges folowing accordyng to the weyght and measure that we wyl shewe you and kepe alwais good proporcion accordinge to the quantitie of the weyghte of the water whiche shalbe moore or lesse then fyue pounde Fyrst take quicke brymstone or els when it is made into long canes or stickes half a poūd commune white salte eyght vnces of smallage a dishfull wel washed fyrst in water and then in honnye rosat or other honny so that it bee sodden and skymmed foure vnces ten vnces of Turpentyne washed once or twise in well ryuer or conduite water of the iuyce of Taxus barbatus of the iuyce of white or blacke Dictamum of eche of them foure vnces of Saffron thre vnces rootes of Dictamum rootes of Gentian the rootes of Imperatoria the rootes of the herbe called Crocodilium or Carlina the rootes of Valerian and the rootes of Selandyne of eche of them two vnces And if the sayd rootes be greene you muste stampe them wel if they bee drie ye must beate them into pouder an vnce of myrre two vnces of redde ware two vnces of fyne Triacle an vnce of the seedes of a Cedar tree thre vnces of yuy seede thorowe rype foure vnces of the seede of a Bay tree thorowe rype syxe vnces of aqua vitae an vnce of Synamom half an vnce of lignum Aloe Let all these be well stamped and put in a violle or vrinall with the saide herbe blossomes and oyle ye muste stoppe well the saide violle that the substaunce haue no maner vent or euaporation Then make a fier vnder the caudron so that the water maie be hotte without seething and keepe it so the space of two or thre dayes and the longer the better If in cace the fier go out in the night there is no greate daunger ye maie make it againe in the morning but you must kepe it so much the longer Hauing then taken the violle out of the caudron and left it in the Sonne all the rest of the Somer kepe it in your house well couered and the older suche oyle wareth the better it will bee But it shalbe good to put to it euerye yeare newe iuyce of the saide herbe S. Ihons wort and of the blossomes and seede well stamped and that the saide blossomes herbe or seedes bee sodden by the space of foure or sixe houres in oyle oliue and then muste you powre all the oyle with the substaunce into some vessell and presse well all the blossomes and the herbe and cast them away and put in other and yf ye shoulde dooe so euerie yeare the oyle woulde not be the worse but rather better If al these foresaid things can not be gotten in one season or time it is no matter for a man maye put them in as he findeth them and if ye can not get them all ye may put in theim that ye can finde or get The vertues of this excellent oile are infinite of the which we will speake onely of the chiefest those that haue been proued by experience as wel of vs as of other in our presence and by our appoyntment and orderinge First it hath as muche or more vertue then the true and right baulme and it is good for all colde griefes as well within as without the bodie for the Sciatica and colde goute in heating it and rubbing the place withal for a quartayne tertian or quotidian ague when a man anointeth the raines of the backe an houre before the ague come Also it healeth meruelous well Colicam passionem when a man rubbeth or anoynteth warmely his brest or stomacke withall and when it is put in glisters with other substaunces as we will declare in the chapter of the Colicke passion And if ye anoynt the place about the priuie membres of a man or woman it will make
ye may put in stede of it y â— oyntment called Dialtea which is found coÌ„monly at the Apoticaries And when ye wil boyle the dog in the kettle it shalbe good to put to it thre torteses that liue on the lande and not on the water and so shall the said oyntment be very excellent for the goute A certein man of mine acquaintaunce of the age of thirtie yeres vexed with the gout whome I made take of this oyle and anoynt himself a litle in the place of the griefe and about it putting to it two partes of oyle rosat one part of oyle violet two partes of the said oyle of the dogge told me that he had found a merueylous ease and helpe by it And the said griefe returning againe foure times at sondrie times yet anoyntinge himselfe therewith thre times as is aforesayde the paine came vnto hym no moore in the space of three yeares that wee were in Rome together whiche was the yere 1514. And thys man was called Diego a Portugall and dwelte at the mount Iordan Sith that tyme being gone to Venise and from thence into Leuaunt I haue heard nothynge of hym To make an oyntment the most excellent in the worlde whose vertues are infinite as we will declare afterwarde VVhiche Princes ought to commaunde to be made and kept in their coÌ„mon wealthes and that it should be made in the presence of Phisitions as Triacle is made or at the least euerie man ought to haue it in his house and speciallie bycause a man may make a great quantite of it and the lenger it is kept the better it waxeth TAke first oyle Roset the oyls of Violettes the Oyle of Neuuphar oyle of Spick oyle of the herbe called Costum commonlie called Cocus or herba marie the oyle of Bay oile of Nutmegges the oyle of the blossomes of Iasemin of eche of them a pounde The oyle of Nutmegges and of Sinamom is made in seething Nutmegges or Sinamon wel stamped in oyle Oliue And in the like maner ye may make the oyle or decoction of Xilobalsamum of Carpobalsamum of lignum Aloe of Mirrhe of Frankensence of the guÌ„me of Iuie of Masticke and of Cloues and it shall suffise onely to put in the oyle of these said spices half as much as eche of the other mounteth vnto that is to say half a pound Likewise must ye make oyle of Campher but ye muste not seeth it but onely warme the oyle Oliue in a litle pan and poure it so vpon the Campher a good way of from the fire than must you soubdaynlie couer it for the Campher is so fine and delicate that it would incontinent breath out and vanish away and therefore dothe the Campher cleaue vnto the lidde and sides of the pan bicause it cannot get out You must put onlie halfe an vnce of Campher for euerie two or three pounde of the whole quantite of the other oyles together than adde to it a pounde of the oyle of Turpentine made by distillation and three vnces of the oyle of Storar liquida after this put all these oyles so mingled together into a great cawdron or kettell tinned within which muste be high and narrow to the ende that all the thynges that ye will put in maie afterwarde be well couered with the saied oyles And the sayde cawdron ought to haue a couer that maie close him well and iustly than set it vpon a small fire and put in three of these blacke Vipers iij. Todes .x. of these litle beastes called in latine Tarantulae or Stelliones which be like vnto Lisardes hauinge spottes on their backes like Starres and .l. Scorpions And if ye can get anie other venimous beastes put them in quicke if not at the first time at the least at euerie time whan ye can haue them and after you haue well couered and closed the cawdron giue it but a light fire the space of .v. or .vi. daies It shall be good to set the saied cawdron in maner of a Fornayse as it were to make Salt peter or as Sope cawdrons be set than after by the space of a day make the fire a litle greater vntill all the venimous beastes be broken into pieces and almost consumed in the sayd oyle wherinto it should be good to haue put first a pot of good white Wine Than hauing taken the cawdron from the fire and taken all the sayde beastes presse them or wringe them hard in some canuesse or linnen cloth weatâ— with white Wine Than take the oyle of Saincte Ihons wort compounde as we haue before declared halfe as muche as all the oyle of the sayde beastes and the thyrd part of the oyle of the redde dogge mingle all well together and put to it the blossomes of Selandine the blossomes of Sainct Ihons worte suche a quantite as you will puttinge also to it a handefull of white salte the iuice of Taxus barbatus and of white DictamuÌ„ at your discretion the iuice of Crispina rubra if ye can gette it This Crispina rubra is a herbe like vnto a Thistle and is taken of Ioannis Agricola to be the brier called Respis but it hath leaues lâ—sser and tenderer than a Thistle and is eaten almost in euerie place in Italie in Salades And there it is called in some places Cardonello and in Venise Sigone The red Crispin is in al poinctes like vnto the white and greene and differeth in nothynge but in colour it is a verie precious herbe I saw once a man that clefte a yonge Kiddes head almost a sunder and after layde to it onely the iuice of the sayde redde Crispin and ioyned the head together and bounde it with a bande and in two daies the Kidde was healed as sounde as he was before Also it is verie good in the time of a Plage or pestilence as wee will afterwarde declare Than if you can get of the iuice of the saied Crispina or Cardonello ye shall put a pound of it with the said oyles and as much of the iuice of Carduus benedictus a pounde of the flouers or blossomes of the said Carduus benedictus an vnce of LignuÌ„ Aloe in pouder and an vnce of Saffran Set all these thinges well mixed together in the Sunne all the whole Sommer time in diuers vessels of glasse or of earth leaded within wel couered with paper or linen clothe And keepe it as a precious thyng whose vertues to expresse it is impossible The saied oyle is excellent good principallie for all maner of contractions and shrinkinges of the members of a mans bodie and of woundes as well olde as fresshe against Fistules Cankers and the disease called in latin Struma whiche is a swelling in the throte of gathered matter and bloud whiche wee call in English the Kinges euil or the Quinses whan the place of the sore is rubbed with it or when Towe weate in the sayde oyle is laied vnto it and beginnyng in the first quarter of the wane or decreasynge of the Moone with the grace of
night when he goeth to bedde and in the morning when he riseth This ought to be doen from the beginning of the quarter decreasinge of the Moone vnto the ende It is a verye excellent secrete It also happened to me of some men in whome the sayed disease was so olde and so farre gone that this saied remedie coulde not helpe them whome I caused to take with the saied pouder specified as foloweth whiche ought to bee made after this maner Take a certayne litle Serpent called a Slowe wormâ— boyle him in oylâ— Olyue vntill he bee broken and consumed then rubbe the euyll with the sayed oyle and lay pieces of towe vpon it leauing it so three or foure daies and after that make a newe anoynting and laye tow to it againe as before By this saied remedie I healed them perfitlye thankes bee vnto God A heauenlye water which hath many goodly and â—â—table Vertues as we shall shewe you after TAke Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zeduaria long Pepper rounde Pepper the seede of Ienuper Orenge pilles the blossomes or floures of Sage Basyll Rosemary Maioram rouÌ„d Mint Bay berries PeÌ„nyryall Gentian Calamintha the floures of Elder the flowres of white and redde Roses Spicknarde lignum Aloes wilde Cubebes Cardamomum or graines whiche the Apoticaries call Granum paradisi fine Cynamom Calamum Aromaticum Sticados Chamedrios called in Englishe Germander Camepitheos Melligetta Masticke Ensence of the male kinde Aloe epaticum Anyse seede the seede of Maioram or Maioram gentle drie figges drie Raisins Dates swete Almondes kernelles of a Pyneaple of eche of these an vnce white Honnie sixe vnces Then take Suger waiyng asmuch as all the saied composition and mengle well all together putting also to it Aqua vite waiyng as muche as all the saied substaunce but the saied Aqua vite muste bee distilled fiue times thorow a Limbecke receyuinge alwaies the best and mingle all the saied thinges together in the saied water then put all into a violle well stopped leauing it so the space of two dayes Then afterwarde you shal sette it vpon the fornesse w t his Limbecke and recipient distillinge it with a smale fier wherof wil come a cleare and precious water continue so the fier vntill the water begin to chauÌ„ge his colour and come forth white then chaunge the recipient and receyue the saied white water a part for it is not good but for to blaunche and make white the face and there is neither spotte nor lyntell or anye kinde of redde burgeons in the face of a man the whiche beinge washed with this water by the space of fiftene daies wil not go out and weare away leauinge the face and the skynne white shininge and well sauouringe This is a verie rare kinde of washinge and meete for great ladies and princesses You shall miâ—e the first water whiche is cleare with Aqua vite of like quantitie the whiche is called Mel balsami Nowe hauinge putte and left all these thinges in a violle well stopped the space of two dayes set it to distill with a smal fier then receyue and put the first water by it selfe whiche will distill verye cleare and odoriferous When you see that the water beginneth to come forthe like raine water chaunge your recipient and receyue that same likewise by it selfe vntill you see the thirde water come out whiche will bee of sanguyne colour the whiche you shall powre into a violle and stoppe it well with waxe keepe it diligentlye as a precious thinge for it hath many notable and excellent vertues of the whiche the best bee these that folowe The first is that if you laye a lytle of it vpon a freshe wounde there neede no other medicine to cure it The seconde is it is good for al old woundes against the Canker the wormes and against Nolime tangere and all other diseases growinge ye must weate the soore places with it euerie seconde or thirde daye once and by thys meanes in the space of fyftene or twentie daies he or thei shalbe healed The thirde is that if anye manne haue a Carbuncle or Saynct Antonies disease called commonlye in Italye and in Fraunce S. Antonies fier or other pestilenciall syckenesse and washe the place with the saied water will it kil it within an houre The fourth is it is good against the paine of the eyes so that the eye bee not out or lost if you putte a litle droppe of it into the eye in the morninge and as muche at nighte it will heale the paine in fiftene daies And althoughe it bee somewhat prickyng yet the griefe of it passeth soone away so that it can not in any wise hurte the eyes The fifte is that if any man haue the stone in the raines of his backe and in the bladder drinke three droppes or a dragme of it with a litle white wine he shalbe delyuered therof in few daies The sixte is that it healeth the Emeraudes or Pyles if they bee washed with it euerye daye once The seuenth is that it healeth all maner of disease or pain of the Matrice the colick when a sponeful is dronke of it with the broth of a henne or of cabbeges The eyght is that when a man batheth the shronken and endured synowes of the bodie they stretche and heale in fewe daies The nynth is that it healeth runnyng and watrie eyes when a droppe is put into them in the morning The tenth is that it is verie good to heale all maner of skabbe skurfe and other like thinges washing them with it often times The eleuenth is that if a man put a droppe of it into his eare at night or in the morninge it taketh awaie all the griefe and wormes that engender in the eare The twelfth is that it healeth all venemous bitinge when ye washe the venemous place with it and is farre better for such an accident then the triacle is The thirtenth is that it killeth all wormes in mannes bodie if a man rubbe his nosestrelles or drinke a verie litle of it And finallie it is also verie good for venemous hurtes or woundes and for all woundes incurable It healeth the kinges euill and the disease called the fallinge sickenesse and all other infirmities in the exteriour partes of the bodie and with this water maye a man washe hym selfe or elles drinke it It is also good for euerye colde sickenesse and restoratiue for olde folkes or those that are consumed and debilitate with hunger sickenesse or sorow of mind It conserueth the radicall moysture and naturall heate it mainteyneth health and keepeth a man in longe life who so euer vseth it as it oughte to bee vsed Pilles of a Meruelous operation and vertu agaynst the Sciatica which we promised to speake of in the chapiter of the Sciatica TAke â—illes Alephangines of Hermodactil maioris and minoris of eche of them a scrupule which is the thyrde part of a dragme .ij. graynes of salt Gemma dissolue and styrre them with the iuyce of roses and make
wil drawe to it self all the venim and poyson of the plague or soore so that in shorte time he shall be cured A remedye oftentymes proued †A very good remedy agaynst the markes of the plage commonly called Goddes markes TAke freshe and greene Rhaponticum which is the herbe and rote called the more and great Centorie it is named of Pliny as Ruellius writeth Rhacoma the rotes of the herbe called Sanguinaria Dactilon of some Dens canis of Dioscorides Coronopus that is to saye crowes fote Some take it to be Dandelion The rootes of Turmentylle white Dictanium of eche of these an vnce stampe all well and put it in a pot or vyole with well riuer or cunduyte water at your discretion rather to muche then to litle vntyll it passe halfe a handfull aboue the other thinges in the potte or more then let it boyle with a lytle cleare and flaminge fire without smoke vntil it be diminished of the third part than straine it out softly and it will be of the colour of wine kepe it in some vessell of glasse and whan necessitie requyreth you may geue the patient a glassefull of it in the morninge and as muche at night two houres before supper and it must be very hote than couer him well in his bedde and make hym sweate Whan the markes come forth he shall become like a lazar or leper and shall be shortly cured †Agaynst the mortalitie of the pestilence a verye perfyt remedie TAke Gentian Seduaria rootes of Turmentille of eche of them two vnces redde Sandale whit and recent Dictanium hartes horne burned white pearles Bole armenick rounde Aristolochia of eche of theim an vnce Campher halfe an vnce white Sugre two vnces of all these thinges well beaten to poulder you shal take at euery time a dragme with thre vnces of endiue water or sorell water myre the water and the poulder with the bignesse of a Walnutte of fine Triacle You must ministre this medicine before the sicknesse hathe continued with the person twelue houres for it is than surer If in case after the twelue houres it worke not so well as you woulde haue it yet muste you haue a good hope And if the patient be yet in the age of infancy you shall geue him halfe a dragme of it with an vnce and a halfe of one of the sayd waters and with a like quantitie of Triacle The sayde drinke is not soluble or laxatiue nor causeth no greif to him but onelye killeth the poyson If any man had dronken or eaten anye poison this is a verye good medecine for him it is also good agaynst a hote feuer or ague Note also that if it be possible the patient muste be let bloude before he take the sayde medecine if not let it be done afterwarde that is to say on the same syde that he fealeth the greif ☞ To make litle rounde apples or balles agaynst the plage TAke Laudanum halfe an vnce Storax calamita an vnce Olambre diamusci of eche of theym halfe a dragme Campher two graynes Cloues fiftene graines Nutmegges Mace of eche of them halfe an eyghte parte damaskine Rose a scrupule Synamom halfe a dragme Spicknarde fiftene graynes Muske Câ—uet of eche of them eyghte graynes fine Uiolettes halfe a dragme lignum Aloes foure graines Calami aromaetici the bignesse of a Beane fine Amber foure graines Myrre the bignesse of a Beane Stampe firste the Laudenum with a hote pestell than stampe well the Storax calaminta and all the other thinges eche one by it selfe and than mixe all together and stampe it still with a hote pestell addinge to it at euerye time Storax liquida and Rose water vntill all the saied thinges bee well incorporated and than make youre rounde apples or balles An oyntment to kill the plage TAke Sope makers water and boyle it vntill it waxe or become as it were an oyntment than take of the woode of Willowe or Beeche and burne it after quenche the coles in vinagre and drie them in the shadowe in suche sorte that a man maye stampe and sift them Take also quicke lime at youre discretion and mingle it with the saied Sope water then take the same pouder vntill you haue ynough and halfe an vnce of freshe and sweete Hogges grease or seyme mixe all together after this dooen take of lytle greene wormes shininge with a glosse like golde bred in the toppe of Asshes or Oliues called in Latyne Cantharidae or Cantharides halfe a dragme beate theym into pouder and mixe theym together with the rest making an oyntment somewhat harde leaue it so in some vessell well closed and stopped and if there arise anye oyle vpon it take it of fayre and softlye A verie perfite oyle against the plage and all poyson TAke oyle of the eldest you can finde and boyle it the space of an houre for euery pouÌ„d of the said oyle put in .l. scorpioÌ„s or as many as you can get put all this in a pot vncouered the which pot you shall set in a kettle or caudron of boylinge water vntill the thirde part of the oyle or somewhat lesse bee consumed Than take oute the Scorpions and powre the oyle thorowe a canuesse into another potte or violle well stopped whiche you shall sette in the Sunne the space of two or three monethes if it bee not in Sommer set it vpon hete asshes by the space of three or foure dayes sit vppon the botche or soore or the place of the plage and holde her so a good while Then you shall see that the saied Henne will haue drawen all or at the least some the poyson and infection and that shortlye after she will die It shall be good to dooe this with twoo or three or moe Hennes immediatlye one after another the whiche will drawe all the venom oute of the soore This doen annoynt the place with good Triacle and let not in the meane time to vse other remedies by the mouth whereof we haue spoken here before that is to saye the Yuy or Baye berryes or some other remedie that you finde must redie If the soore bee so harde that it will not breake you maye vse the foresaied remedies to make it breake to the intent that all the venom may comme out and voyde from the heart ☞ An aduertisement and warnynge of greate importauuce to preserue a mannes selfe in tyme of pestylence BEcause the euyll humours that be in mannes bodye do easelye receiue the corruption infection of the ayer it is good to kepe the stomacke and the head cleane purged not to ouerlade it with eatinge and drinkinge but to absteine froÌ„ grosse meates to purge him selfe as ofte as is possible with some gentill and familier purgation as Cassia pilles as the pilles of Masticke of Aloe or of other suche like thinges and aboue all to vse often of the leese of wyne called Tartre whiche you must beate well in poulder and stiepe it with hote water than straine it or dreane it
and watred with rose water than dried and finallye made in to rounde balles the whiche the parfumers do braye and without any more parfuminge them in a sieue they adde vnto it Bengewyne Muske and Ciuette more or lesse accordynge as they wyll make it good ☞ Vvhite musked Sope. TAke Sope scraped or grated as much as you will the whiche when ye haue well stieped and tempe red in rose water leaue it eight dais in the sunne Than you shall adde to it an vnce of the water or milk of Macaleb twelue graines of Muske and sixe graines of Ciuet and reducinge all the whole into the fourme and maner of harde past you shall make therof very excellent balles Another kinde of odoriferous white Sope. TAke Venise Sope of the eldest you can finde the whiche you shall cutte or scrape with a knife and sette it three dayes in the Sonne And after hauinge well brayed it you shal dissolue it in a vessell leaded within with a pounde of good rose water lettinge it boyle with a small fire than you shall put to it of the roote of Iris called Ireos beaten into poulder .iiij. vnces Amylum sixe vnces whyte Sandale two vnces Storax liquida an vnce Oyle of Spike an vnce and sturringe it alwayes with a sticke ye shall afterwarde let it coole againe And finally make balles of it euen as you wil. ☞ To make Damaskine sope musked TAke a pounde of the best Sope you can gette and after hauing grated or skraped it verie smal take fine Synamom Nutmegges Storax calamita of eche of them an vnce lignum Aloes two dragmes Bengewine perfite and thorowlye made two vnces the poulder of Viollettes an vnce Hauing beaten well to poulder all these foresaied thinges you shal adde vnto them a dragme of the poulder of Cypres a lytle Muske and Ciuet then steepe and temper it in Rose water and after leaue it fourtie daies in the Sunne in mouing and sturring it often times Than make balles of it or lytle rounde loues the whiche you muste keepe in boxes of woode with cotton wolle or bombase ☞ To get out the milke of Macaleb BYcause the vse of the mylke of Macaleb hath been putte in manye compositions as we haue saied we will teache you the maner howe to get it out which shall be this Take the Macaleb whiche are litle soote and odoriferous graynes so called the whiche you shall stampe in a morter with Rose water or some other sweete water vntill they bee lyke a sauce and hauing put them in a poke of linnen clothe you shall presse the milke out of theim in a pressoure or betwene two lytle bourdes Then braye agayne with the sayed water that whiche shall remaine in the poke and presse it a newe vntill there issue no moore milke But here I muste aduertise you that this milke continueth not aboue two or three dayes therefore you must immediatlye put it in effect and occupie it ☞ Poulder of Ciuet verye exquisite TAke Sngre candye what quantitie you list and put it in a brasen morter and after you haue wel beaten it adde to it as muche Ciuet as you wyll and make thereof poulder the whiche you muste keepe alwayes close ☞ A priucipall poulder TAke Damaskene Roses Cipre Alexandrin Sandalum citrinum of eche of theym an vnce Iris halfe an vnce lignum Aloes Calamus aromaticus Galanga Bengewine of eche of theym a grayne and a quarter you shall make of all thys a verie fyne poulder and incorporate it well keepynge in a violle well stopped ☞ A white odoriferous poulder TAke Iris electe three vnces white Sandall twoo vnces Damaske roses Lignum Aloes Bengewyn Cypre alexandrine of eche of theym twoo vnces Muske foure graynes Ciuet three graynes beate theym a parte and sifte theym then incorporate them together in the same brasen morter that you dyd beate them in and keepe the poulder of them in a violle well stopped ☞ A redde poulder TAke Damaske roses twoo vnces Sandalium citrinum an vnce lignum Aloes Cypre alexandryn of eche of them a grayne and halfe a quarter Iris halfe a grayne or more Cloues a scrupule fine Muske three graynes Ciuet two graines Amber twoo graines Bray theim and mixe them together and so keepe them ☞ A blacke poulder TAke Cipri Alexandrini lignum Aloes of eche of theym halfe an vnce Sandali citrini Damaske roses labdaniterreni of eche of theim a quarter Cloues a grayne and a lytle more Muske thre graines Cyuet twoo graynes beate theym in poulder and kepe theym ☞ Poulder of Cypre verye exquisite TAke a pounde of the mosse of an Oke and washe it well in faier water vntill the water remayne cleare then laye it abrode vpon a table in the Sunne vntill it bee dried after sprinkle or water it with rose water and hauinge it lefte it so couered in a dishe or platter you shall laye it a brode agayne in a verie hote Sunne when it is drie ynough to beate beate it in poulder and sifte it finelye almoste all You shall sprinkele or water this poulder with Muske rose water and laye it abroade vppon a greate sarce tourned downewarde good and thicke and some what course vnder the whiche sarce you shall make a perfume as foloweth couexinge it with a clothe whiche bee thus Bengewine two graynes and a quarter Labdani half a graine and more Storax calamita twoo carrettes lignum Aloes halfe a grayne and more fine Muske half a grain Beate all these thinges grosselye and after mixe them together then put by lytle and lytle the poulder vnder the sarce in some potte sharde with a litle fier in it and caste it in as you woulde dooe Frankencese staiyng at euerie time vntill the first parte first cast in bee consumed Nowe all the saied perfume beinge dooen if you will make the saied poulder verie fine and exquisite vnto euerye vnce adde these thinges folowinge Bengewine a carret Muske foure graines Ciuet twoo graines beate these by theym selues verie small and fyne and mingle them with the saied vnce of poulder so that all maye bee well incorporated together than keepe it well for it is notable and singuler ☞ Another waye to make it verie perfecte TAke the recente and fresshe dunge of an Oxe and drie it in the Sunne or in an ouen then beate it and sifte it sprinkle it well after with Rose water and leauing it so in a vessel the space of a daye drie it agayne in the Sunne And when it is drie bathe it againe with Rose water and drie it againe and dooe so three or foure times The last time you shall water it or bathe it somewhat more then the other times because it maye cleaue to the bottome of the vessell whiche muste bee well leaded within and verie cleane after this you shall remoue and sturre it well and perfume it with some perfume that the other foresayed poulder was perfumed with Then hauinge perfumed it diuers times you shall lette it drie in the
somewhat lesse with a small fyre and beinge cooled set it agayne to the fire with y e Citrons continuing so .ij. morninges to the ende to bring the honny to hys perfection according as neede shall requier If you will putte honnye in the water and not Sugre you may clarifie it twise and straine it thorowe a stramer according to the arte and maner that hereafter I will teche you to the ende you may haue perfitelye the vse and facion of makinge all suche thinges Nowe hauinge thus warmed and clarified it you shall strayne it and set it againe on the fier with the Citrons onely makinge it to boyle with a smal fier the space of a quarter of an houre than take it from the fier and let it stande and rest at euery time you dooe it a daye and a night The next morning you shal boyle it againe together the space of half an houre and dooe so twoo morninges to the ende that the Honnie or Sugre maye well and perfitlye bee incorporated with the Cytrons All the arte and conninge consisteth in boylinge this cyroppe together with the Cytrons and also the cyrope by it selfe Wherefore he that hath no skyll in the boyling of it will quickelye lette it take the smoke so that it shall sauour of the fier but he that can trimme it wel it is an exquisite and pleasaunt thing In this maner maye al other fruites bee dressed as ripe Peaches with the in side and skinne Lemons Orenges Appeles greene Walnuttes Lettuse well made cleane and voyded of their greate leanes and other thinges like all the whiche you muste boyle as is aforesayed but some more some lesse after as nede shal bee and according to the nature of the fruite So shall you make alwaies a good perfite and durable thinge ☞ The maner howe to purifie and prepare honnye and sugre for to confite Cytrons and all other fruites TAke euery time tenne pounde of Hony the white of twelue newe layed egges and take awaye the froth of them beating them well together with a sticke and sixe glasses of faier and freshe water then put them into the Honnye and boyle them in a potte with a moderate fier the space of a quarter of an houre or somwhat lesse than take theim faire and sofetlye frome the fier scumming them well and passe them so hote thorowe a strainer for it shall be the fairer and the clearer for any thing that you wyll occupie or vse it aboute Hauinge thus ordered it take for sixe pounde of Cytrons twelue pounde of Honnie The Sugre is also ordered and dressed in like sorte as the Honny is but if you will conâ—ite Citrons with Sugre you muste note this difference that for syxe pounde of Cytrons you shall putte but .ix. of Sugre for to confite theym so that they maye bee kepte all the yeare This is because the honny maketh a greate deale moore skumme and froth then the sugre dooeth and therefore you muste putte the thyrde parte moore of Honnie In keeping this proportion you can not faile to dooe it well ☞ To confite Peches after the Spanyshe facion TAke greate and fayre Peches whiche you shall pill and make cleane and cutte theym in pieces and so laye theym abrode vppon a table faire and cleane in the Sunne by the space of two dayes tourning theym euer at nighte and in the morninge and put theim hote into a Iuleppe of Sugre well sodden and prepared as is aforesaied And after you haue taken them out sette them agayne in the Sunne tourninge them often vntill they bee well dried This dooen put theym agayne into the Iulep and then in the Sunne vntill they haue gotten a faire barke or cruste as you wyll haue theym and this shall you dooe three or foure times then being thus prepared you maye keepe theym in boxes for winter for it is a soueraygne thinge ☞ To make Conserue or Confiture of Quinces called in Latyne Cotoneatum Cydoniatum or Cydonites as they dooe in Valence whiche also the Geneuoyes dooe vse TAke Quinces and purifie them and when you haue taken oute the kernelles seeth theym in faire fresh water so much vntil they open and break then straine them through a cleane strainer that there remayn nothinge in the saied strainer but onelye the hardnesse of them that is to saie the skinne the kore and suche lyke For eyght pounde of the saied strained substaunce you muste putte three pounde of faier and fine Sugre and taking a vessell of tinne faire and large in the bottome you shall myngle the Quinces with the Sugre and then sette theym to boyle with a litle fyre sturrynge theym with a broade sklyse of woode vntill all be well sodden whiche if you wyll knowe loke when all shall leuse it selfe and cleaue no more to the saied vessell for then it is sodden to his perfection and shall bee time to take it of And if you put to it anye Muske stampe it with a litle Sugre as much as you wyll cast it into the saied vessel sturring it alwaies with your sklyse of woode If you wyll adde spices to it put in Synamom Cloues Nutmegges and Ginger as muche as you wyll boylinge the Muske with a little Vinagre Thys dooen with the broade sklyse laye of this confection of Quinces vpon a table where fyrste you muste haue sifted and strowed Sugre and so make rounde broade or long pieces as you wil w t the circle of a bore of what greatnesse you lyste then set theym in the Sunne vntil they bee thorowe drie And whan they haue stande a while tourne theym vp side downe making them alwaies a bedde of lifted Sugre bothe vnder and aboue Then tourne theym still in the saied Sugre and drye theym in the Sunne so longe vntill they haue gotten a faire white crust of Sugre Better comfites of Quynces sweeter or hartier than this a man can not make In like maner maye you dresse and trymme Peches Peares and other kyndes of fruites A thing of greate singularitie ☞ To make a paste of sugre whereof a man maye make all maner of fruites and other fyne thynges with theyr forme as platters dishes glasses cuppes and such like thinges wherwith you may furnish a table and when you haue doen eate them vp A pleasant thing for them that sit at the table TAke gomme dragant as muche as you will and stiepe it in Rose water vntill it be molified And for foure vnces of Sugre take of it the bignes of a Beane the iuyce of Lemons a walnut shell full and a litle of the white of an egge but you must firste take the gomme and beate it so much with a pestel in a morter of white marble or of brasse vntill it become like water then putte to it the iuyce with the white of the egge incorporating wel al together This dooen take iiii vnces of fine white sugre well beaten to poulder and cast it into the morter by litle and litle vntil
all bee turned into the forme of paste Than take it oute of the laied morter and bray it vpon the poulder of sugre as it were meale or flowre vntill all bee like soft paste to the ende you may turne it and facion it which way you wil. Whan you haue brought your paste to this forme spreade it abrode with Sinamom vpon greate or small leaues as you shal thinke it good and so shal you forme and make what things you wil as is aforesaied With suche fine knackes as maye serue a table taking heede that there stand no hote thing nigh vnto it At the ende of the banket they may eate al and breake the platters dishes glasses cuppes and all thinges for this paste is verie delicate and saueurous If you will make a thing of moore finesse than this make a tarte of Almondes stamped with sugre and rose water of like sorte that march paines be made of This shall you laye betwene twoo pastes of suche vesselles or fruites or some other thing as you thinke good ☞ To make a confection of Melons or Pompones TAke what quantitie of Melons you wil and take them before they be ful ripe but let them be good make as many cuttes in thē as they bee marked with quarters on euery side hauing mondified them taken oute their kernelles and pilled of the vtter rine stiepe them in good vinaigre leauinge theim so by the space of ten dayes and whan you haue taken them out take other Vinagre and stiepe them a newe againe other ten dayes remouinge and styrringe theim euerye daye than whan time shall be take them oute and put them in a course linnen cloth driyng and wiping them well Finally set them in the ayer the space of a day and a night than boile them in hony and by the space of ten daies geue them euery daie a little bubbling or boilinge leauing them alwaies in the hony and let them boile at eche time onelye but one wawme Then take the saide pieces put them in what kind of vessell you will and take these spices folowinge the poulder of Cloues of ginger of Nutmegs of Sinamom whereof you shall make spices this done make one bedde or ranke of the pieces of melons another of the spices than take fine white hony and poure it vpon them in the saide vessell ☞ To make Melons and Pompones sweete and verye delicate TAke fine sugre and dissolue it in water than take the seedes of a Melon and cleaue them a litle on the syde that sticketh to the melon and put them in the sugred water addinge to them a lyttle Rose water leaue the sayde seedes so by the space of thre or foure houres and then take them out and you shall see that as soone as the sayde seede is drye it will close vp agayne Plant it and there will come of it suche Melons as the lyke hath not bene seene And if you will geue them the sauoure of Muske put in the sayde water a lyttle Muske and fine Synamom And this may you do also with the seedes of Pompones and Coucombers To confyte orenge pilles whiche may be done at all times of the yeare and chiefly in Maye because than the sayd pilles be greater and thicker TAke thicke Orenge pilles cut in foure or .vi. pieces and sti ep them in water the space of ten or .xii dayes You maie knowe whan they be stieped ynough if you hold them vp in the sunne and se thorow them for than they be stieped inough and if you cannot see thorowe them let them yet stiepe vntill you maye than afterward lay them to drie vpon a table and than betwene two drie linen clothes Moreouer put them in a kettle or vessell leaded adding to it as muche hony as wil halfe couer the saied pilles more or lesse as you shal thinke good Boile them a little styrring them always and than take them from the fire leaste the honye seeth to muche for if it shoulde boile but a litle more then it ought to boile it woulde be thicke and massife Let it than stande rest foure dayes in the said hony stirringe and mengling well euery daye the saide Orenges and hony together For because there is not hony inoughe to couer ouer al the orenge pilles you must styrre them wel oftentimes to thende they may al equally receiue of the honnye This shall you do three times geuinge them one bublinge or boilinge at eche time and so let them rest and stand .iii. daies as we haue saied Finally you shall straine or dreane them from the sayde honye and boile theim in as muche other honnye as you shall thinke will suffice and after you haue let theim boyle the space of a Credo take them from the fire and bestow them in vessels putting to them of the beste spices you can finde as Ginger Cloues and Sinamom mixe all well together and you shall haue made an excellente thinge And note that the hony that shall remayne wil be still good for to dresse and trimme other Orenges or other thinges withall To confyte walnuttes FIrste take Walnuttes whan they be litle greene with the pille or huske and al and make in them .iiii litle holes or mo than stiep them in water .xi. dayes or more or lesse make them cleane and boile theim in hony as the foresayde Orenges but make them seeth foure times as muche And note that the honye is alwayes good but you must oftentimes put in freshe because it consumeth Finally you shall dresse them with spices as the Orenges but putte not manye cloues to them for they will make them to bytter To confyte Gourdes TAke the necke of the Gourde and cut it in longe pieces as you thinke good and powre vpon thē boiling water and do so .xi. morninges but you must haue pilled them finely and taken awaye the inner part that serueth for nothinge This doone seeth them in a kettle vntill they be neither to much nor to litle boyled but euen hole and massiue not broken than drie them vpon a table in the shadowe the space of two dayes and after wipe them cleane piece by piece with a linen cloth do with them as with the Orēges To confite cheries TAke cherries and leaue them a day in the sunne than take out the stones and sette theim in the sunne agayne thre dayes after this seeth theim as we haue sayde of the Orenges but you must leaue them in hony .xv. dayes and by the fyre .iii. dayes so that they may onely be kepte warme to thende they sauoure not of burninge or of the fire And after you haue well mixed and incorporated all you shall putte them in hony with spices Al these confitures may dure many yeares so that you refreshe them with other hony boyled a litle whan they be diminished †To make litle morsels as they vse in Naples an exquisite thinge for they be very sauorous do comforte the stomacke
but keepe it so the space of a night Than in tourninge the water they put moore Sandall to it and a lytle moore Alome accordynge as they lyke the coloure ☞ An excellent white aboue all other TAke brayed Talchum and burned tinne beaten in to poulder with a wodden pestell than washe them and mingle them together and put them in some maner of platter or other great and large vessell couered with suche another and so set it in a glassemakers fornayse the space of three or foure dayes And hauing taken it out it will bee as white as snowe Than braye it finely with the water of yonge fygges or with the milke of greene fygges or with distilled vynagre or some other suche sharpe and clammy thyng ☞ To make heare as yelow as golde TAke the ryne or the scrapynges of Rubarbe stiepe it in white wyne or in cleare lye and after you haue washed your head with it you shall weate your heares with a sponge or some other cloth and lette them drye by the fyre or in the Sunne After this weate them and drye them agayne for the oftener you dooe it the fairer they wyll bee without hurting your head anye thyng at all ☞ To make lye to washe the head whiche besyde that it comforth the braine and the memorie maketh the heare long faire and yelow like golde TAke lye that is not to strong but as women commōly make it to wassh their heades and make as muche of it in a kettle as wyll serue you ten washinges putting to it this folowing The pilles of ten Orenges or of sweete Lemons if you haue anye yf not take sowre ones the pilles of Cytrons as manye as you can gette bee they greene or drie it is all one the blossoms of Camomell Baye leaues a handfull of the herbe called Maiden heare halfe a handfull of Agrimoyne twoo or three handefulles of Barley strawe chopped in pieces halfe a dishefull of a kynde of pulse corne called in Latyne Lupinus and in Frenche Lupius hauing one stalke the leafe in fyue deuisions the cod creauesyd aboute hauynge in it fyue or syre graynes harde broade and redde they bee commonlye in Fraunce and in Italye but here in Englande vnneth knowen and therefore they haue no Englishe name they must bee dried a dishefull of Fennygreeke halfe a pounde of wine lies or twoo or three disshfulles of Brome blossomes whereof it is good alwayes to haue some drie in your house to make suche thinges withal Put all this that I haue named in a great vessell with the saied lie leauing it alwayes so to take thereof and occupie when you will And the lenger the saied lye shall be compounde with the foresaied thinges the better it will bee The saied composition will bee good for fyue or syxe monethes or moore and you maye renewe it at your pleasure But when you wyll put it in vse take it handsomely and cleanely vp without touching in any wise the saied drooges put in it and in heatinge it agayne you maye put in it a lytle Myrre and a lytle Synamom and thus shall you make it verye good as well for the health of the head and eyesyghte as for to beautifie and make the heare faire ☞ Lye to make heare blacke TAke Gomme lye and boyle it with a handfull of the leaues of Beete three or foure handfuls of Sage leaues eyther greene or drie and as muche Myrre as you wyll with Baye leaues and a fewe leaues or outwarde pille of a Walnut But when you wyll vse of those lyes that make yelowe or blacke rubbe not youre face or youre necke with it least they become blacke or yelowe although they dye not the skinne so soone as they dooe the heare And after hauing thus washed youre heare you muste washe your face with common lye or cleare water or elles with white wine ☞ An oyle for to annoynt the heare which maketh it yelowe lyke golde long and glystryng lyke burnyshed golde TAke a glassefull of the oyle of Sesamum whiche is a white graine growynge in India whereof oyle is made whiche is called oleum Sesaminum if you can get of it if not take oyle Olyue not greene but verye yelowe and cleare where vnto you shall put three vnces of drie brome blossomes well mundified from the verdure and greenesse that is in them and from the white that you shal find wythin than stampe them so grosely adding thervnto an vnce of the yelowe that is in the middle of white flowre delices and a quarter of an vnce of Curcuma and the sixte part of an vnce of Saffron w t a litle Synamom Bengewine Muske and Ciuet if you wyll All these thinges will giue a good sauour helpe the colour and comfort the head you must put all together into one vessell or violle wherein muste bee oyle which you shall kepe in the Sunne all the Sommer and so take of it at euery time a litle for your face and the older it waxeth the better it will bee Also you maye at the ende putte the oyle agayne vpon the saied drooges into the vessell for they will continue still good together manye yeres or elles you maye chaunge those substaunces accordynge as you see neede It shall bee also very good to anoynt with this oyle the kombe that women kembe them selues with in the Sunne or elles laye some linnen cloth hote vpon their head and let it so lye without putting any other thing to it This is a thing very rare and excellent for a queene for to dooe thus there can not bee founde a better ☞ A very goodly way or maner howe to make yelowe aberne heare without standinge long or nothing at all in the Sunne a rare and a verie excellent secrete TAke halfe a pounde of Antimonium halfe a pounde of wine leese nine vnces of salt Peter al these thinges beinge finely brayed and incorporated take an earthen pot or panne and put it in the middle of a fire that the fire maye be both aboue it and vnderneth it vntyll it be redde hote than caste in the sayde poulders by little and lyttle with a spone tarryinge a little space betwene euery sponefull castinge in vntill the fyrst be all burned and continue so castinge in one sponefull after another vntill all be in But this muste be doone in a chymney or in an open place because there wyll ryse suche aboundaunce of smoke that it is not possible for you to endure it than hauynge letten it coole breake the sayde panne and in the bottome you shall fynde as it were a maner of a thicke cake or browne lofe Than breake the sayde matter and substaunce in dyuers pieces vpon the grounde or in some cleane place and you shall fynde in the middle certayne little graynes like vnto fine siluer but they be brittle and easy to be broken And this is it that the searchers oute of the secretes of nature do call the kinge or chiefe of Antimonium
with a pensill geue him a wype ouer with the white of an Egge well beaten and let it drye than geue him also another with the sayd composition And whan it is well dryed scrape it and pollish it wel Last of all when you will laye on the Golde wette the sayde edges with a little cleare water with a pensill and than incontinent put on the golde leaues cutte in that biggenesse they ought to be and whan it is drye pollyshe it with a dogges tothe This doen you maye make what worke you will vpon it ☞ To kepe whites of egges as longe as a man will without corruptinge and without putting Arsenick to it A secrete not muche knowen TAke the whites of Egges not breakinge them in any wise and put to them as muche white Vynaygre as shall suffise that is to saye a reasonable quantitie leaue it so the space of twoo dayes than passe it thorow some linnen cloth without breakinge or beatynge the white of the Egges leauinge it so the space of eight dayes than strayne it agayne and put it in a violle well stopped for to occupy whan you haue nede †The maner howe to make the grounde or foundation for Indicum TAke Gomme Armoniacke three partes Gomme Arabick one parte Serapinum a fourth part stiepe these in Vynaygre vntyll they be very softe than mixe them well and straine them thorow a linen cloth and it wyll be verye good to occupye whan you haue neede Another perfyt grounde for the same thinge TAke Gomme Armoniack an vnce Gomme Arabicke thre vnces and stiepe it in Vyneaygre the space of a daye and a nighte than take the biggenesse of a Walnutte of good yellowe Honnye and a Garlyke heade well pilled and made cleane and well stamped Boyle all these thinges together in stronge Vynaigre puttinge to it a little Aloe Epatic and lette it boyle a good while than straine it thorow a linen cloth and wringe out well all the substaunce of it And if you thinke it be liquide or soft or to cleare boile it agayne vntill you thinke it is thicke inoughe than kepe it in a glasse or vessell of earth leaded or of bone Whan you wil gilt any thinge anoint it fyrst with this composition with a pensill and rub it wel so that the ingraâ—ing be not filled leaue it so as long as you wil than whaÌ„ you will lay on the leaues of gold blowe a little youre breath vpon the saied foundation or ground and set on the saied leaues of gold disposing and orderinge theim as is requisite pressing them wel downe with a pensil or with a little wol or bombase and than shal you haue a very excellente giltyng ☞ A goodlye waye howe to make Golde and Syluer in poulder a thinge easye to be done and there wyll come of it an excellent coloure This is a verye rare secrete whiche hath not bene vsed nor knowen vntyll this present TAke leaues of golde a crowne weighte or as muche as you will and set it to the fyre in some little cleane pan or pipkin and in another vessell you shall put foure times as muche in weighte of quicke siluer a good waye of from the fyre so that it may but onely warme a litle for otherwise it mighte vanishe awaye Let not the leaues of golde take so muche heate that thei melt but let them waxe almost redde This doen take them from the fyre and the quicke syluer lykewise whiche you shall poure hote vpon the leaues of golde and incontinent mingle them well together with a litle stick the space of a Paternoster and poure it afterwarde into a dyshe full of cleere water and you shall haue a dowe of the saied golde and quicke syluer but the coloure of the golde will be so darkened and obscure that a man shall perceaue and see nothinge at all And this is the dowe that the Goldsmythes call Amalgama and the learned men Malagma whiche is a Greke word and being corrupted of the Arabians was chaunged into Amalgama Also you may make this colde in brayinge the leaues a good whyle with the quicke syluer vppon a Porphyre stone vntyll all be mixed and ioyned together And braying it also with stronge Vinagre or the iuyce of Lemons it will soner be made and wyl incorporate and come together the better than muste you wasshe it wise or thrise with cleare water Nowe how soeuer you haue made this dowe or Amalgama you must strain it thoroughe a lynnen cloth fyne and thicke to the intente that a parte of the quicke syluer maye go thorow or elles straine it thorough a wylde goates skynne or a lambes skinne whiche is farre better and presse it harde to thintente there may come out as much quicke syluer as is possible Than take that remayneth in the cloth or skynne and put to it halfe as much fayre quick Brymstone citrine Fyrste stampe well the Brymstone and mingle it with the saied paste or dowe and beynge so myngled sette it on the fyre in a dysshe or yron ladâ—e leauinge it so vntyll all the Brymstone be burned and all the rest yellowe Than let it cole and put it in a dish washynge it so often with cleare water tyll you haue a fayre colour of Golde Than kepe it in some glasse or earthen vessell leaded as you do the other punned and brayed Golde and whan you will put it in experience stiepe it in Rose water or other wherin you shal haue mollified or dissolued some cleare gomme Arabicke Than dresse and order it to write or paynte with and you shall haue an excellent thinge Whan you haue written or painted beynge once drye you maye burnishe it with a dogges toeth whiche you can not do to the other brayed or punned golde that Scriueners and Painters nowe a dayes do vse This secrete hath bene practised of the olde and auncient writers as we see in some of theyr bokes But nowe you must vse the practise to burnish it layinge a white paper vpon the gold and rubbinge fyrste vpon the saied paper with the dogges toeth And if you thinke that it is not yet burnished ynoughe you maye burnishe it once agayne with the toeth vpon the Golde without the paper betwixt ☞ To make a verye fayre Vernix to vernishe the saied golde and all other workemanshippe TAke Bengewine and bray it the beste you can betwixt two papers than put it in some violle and poure vpon it good Aqua vite that it be aboue the Bengewyne three or foure fingars hygh and leaue it so a day or twaine than put to it for halfe a violle of suche Aqua vite fine or sixe blades of Saffron slenderly stamped or elles whole This doen straine it and with a pensill Vernishe therewith anye thynge gylted that you will which wil become bright and fayer dryenge it selfe immediatelye and will continue many yeares Nowe if you will dresse Syluer in suche a manner do euen with the siluer leaues as you did
vessell that you can putte no more freshe poulder to it as is sayed This is the sure and perfecte waye and meane howe to make Cinabrium in as greate loaues as you will whiche hytherto hath not bene knowen in Italye You maye do the like in pottes of potters claye white soo that they be well luted and clayed ouer that they maye endure the fyre and not breake ☞ To fyne and renewe Borax BORAX was called of the auncient writers Chrisocolla and was both naturall and artificiall as Plini Dioscorides and other write and men did vse of it in Phisicke and also to sowder Gold and Syluer and other metalles as men vse yet nowe a dayes for the nature of it is to melte and to resolue quickely anye souderynge It is vsed in worke also for to make a bodye that is to saye to gather together the fylynge of Golde and siluer and in all other thinges wherein a man hath neede of a quicke and sodayne foundinge or meltinge Moreouer gentlewemen helpe theim selues also muche with it to make theim fayre for it maketh the skinne very white fine and cleane without daunger of any poyson or of hurtinge the teeth or fleshe The auncient men of olde time had of it grene whereof nowe a dayes is none founde nor yet anye man maketh it Marye we haue that is very white and alsoo somewhat blacke whiche peraduenture a man may say is like theyr grene The white is in little longe pieces with certayne synewes or veines all a longe so like vnto Roche Alome that many are deceiued or deceiue other with it For whan a man setteth the saied Borar vpon the fyre it boyleth and swelleth vp in all poyntes like Alome and so remayneth white and full of hoales lyke a sponge and easy to be broken with your handes euen as Roche Alome burned But subtyle and craftye marchauntes knowe Borax from Alome thre maner of wayes The fyrste is that Alome put in a mans mouth is eygre and sharpe of taste and restraintife but Borax hath no maner of taste but a dead and vnsauery guste as a meane betwene the sauour of Oyle and whaye of Mylke Therefore they that wyl deceaue other and falsifye the true Borax take little pieces of rawe Rocfe Alome and kepe them in Oyle of Almondes in whay or in mylke Some other put to it also honny or sugre for to moderate the eygernesse of the Alome with the swetenesse of it Other there be that melte all the saied thinges on the fyre and than set theim to coole in some colde place vntyl all be waxen into yee or little stones and puttinge to it Salte Peter Sal alcali Tartre Alome de fece and suche lyke thinges and make little stones somewhat lyke vnto Borarx but fyrste they differ in fourme and fashion for the true Borax is alwayes longe in fourme and the stones where Alome is amonge are neuer broughte into anye fourme but into little square stones Furthermore thei differre in the seconde sorte and that is this That Alome beynge burned maketh a greater lumpe then when it is raw but the true Borax is broughte and reduced into a verye small quantitie and this is an euidente signe to knowe it The thyrde whiche is of moost importaunce and the sureste is that the matter wherein the Alome is will not souder in no manner of wise and wyll not melte neither so well as the Borax will I saye it will not melte so well because that where any Salt Peter Tartre and Sal alcali is there the matter will melte at the leaste in some parte for all the saied thinges helpe to the foundinge of metalles The Salte Peter whan there is a good quantitie of it is knowen incontinente vppon the fyre for it maketh the boylinge wateryshe and casteth aboute as it were lyttle sparkes of fyre The other thinges made with the foresayed mixions dyuers tymes in whaye milke or in water and congeled into lyttle pebbles make certayne stones but they be alwayes salte to brighte and to violente to melte for whan a manne wyll souder anye worke of Golde or thinne Syluer with it it causeth the worke to melte together and where as there is Sugre it leaueth the Golde and Syluer spotted Men make other mixtures whiche are verye good for to souder or to melte whiche neuerthelesse are differente frome the Borax in fourme and sauoure of the whiche we wyll make mention hereafter Nowe for to retourne to the true Borax of oure tyme men bringe vs certayne barrels full of a kind of grease ful of certayne litle pebbles which is called the dowe or paste of Borare Vnto this daye menne haue broughte it oute of Alexandria where it was alsoo of olde tyme made and therefore is it that the aunciente Arabian Anthones whiche haue wrytten of thynges concernynge mettalles called the Borax Nitrum Alexandrinum And within these fewe yeares they haue begonne to brynge it frome the Weste partes yet I can not tell whether it be made there or elles paraduenture it be broughte latelye oute of the Indes There was within these fewe yeares soo greate lacke of it in Italye that it was solde at the leaste for a crowne an vnce of that that was made into stones And nowe within this twoo yeare there is come suche hahoundaunce oute of the Weste partes that the pounde is worth but a crowne and a halfe and lesse The waye howe to make it whiche is vsed in the saied West partes is thus In Mines where Golde and Syluer or Copper is gotten is found a kynde of water whiche as I my selfe haue seene and proued by experience is of it selfe verye neete and excellente for to souder or to founde with And also I knowe a place in Germanye where there is a greate veyne of suche water whiche notwithstandinge the paysauntes knowe not of Nowe they take this water with the earth that is vnderneath it or on the sydes and boyle it a certaine tyme and than strayne it and so leauinge it it congeleth into lyttle pebbles euen like vnto Salte Peter And therefore yf a man shoulde keepe theim longe soo thei would not continue but would resolue by litle and litle Also for to make them better and to preserue thē and norishe them in their owne nature and kynde they take the groundes or dregges that is left of the said water earth putting to it barrows grease or the grease of some other beast than they goo to the mine where they make a greate hole in the grounde in the bottome wherof they lay a ranck of the said grease vpon that a rancke of the sayde little pebble stones and than again another of grease and so consequently as much as they wyll but so that the laste rancke be of grease or of the saied dowe or paste and so they leaue it open and vncouered the space of certayne moneths yet many of them do all this within theyr houses in the earth or in great vesselles Than
whan they wyll sell it or sende it out of the countrey they take the sayed paste or dowe with the stones and all with a fyre panne or some like thing and fyll barelles and tonnes of it This is the same that commeth vnto vs whiche we call dowe or paste of Borax It is sent also from the countreye where Borax is made or little stones of the sayed paste so renewed and fined as I will shewe you About thyrty yeare ago they sent muche more of this Borax fyned and renewed than they did of the paste because that in Italye they coulde not dresse nor make it nor bringe it into little stones wherefore it was not put in vre but of certayne wemen in distillations for to paint them selues with Since there hath ben one in Venise that began to dresse it and after him a woman whom he had taught These two gat a greate somme of money and the sayd secrete was longe betwene them two onely althoughe it was desyred of euery man longe before Finally it is nowe come so farre forwarde that many men in Venyse can dresse it but one maketh it farre better then another and peraduenture very fewe haue the perfection of dressynge it with suche adnauniage that he loose nothinge of the substaunce and to make as muche of it as is possible perfectly as I will shewe you hereafter folowing Now you muste take fyrst of the sayd paste that is not mouldy vinewed or putrified for than it is a sign that it shoulde be olde and of many yeares and thereby the little stones shoulde be diminished loste or decayed Yet neuerthelesse this is of no great importaunce for it is better to assay with your finger within the past to se yf it be full of the sayed pebbles for the worlde beynge all together geuen to gayne and full of deception and fraude they that make it put sometime very fewe pebbles in the saied grease for to haue more substaunce and besyde this they that bye it to sell agayne take out also a good quantitie of the saied pebbles wherefore it is necessary to be circumspecte to the intente that diligence maye surmounte or at the leaste discouer the gile and deceate Fynallye if you will fine and renewe the sayed Borax from suche paste or dowe do thus Take water luke warme that is to saye for twoo pounde of paste halfe a payle full whiche you shall put into some earthen vessell puttinge the paste into it than with youre hande fraye and styrre it in sonder as you wolde temper leauen for to kneade after this strayne out the saied water well thoroughe a straynoure and take the little stones that remaine in the saied vessell that is to say those that be of the bignesse of a Walnut or beane and put them in a vessell sprinklinge them with Oyle Olyue as thoughe it were a salade but the Oyle must be white and if you haue none good take common oyle and set it in the sunne purginge it well and annointe the saied stones with it minglinge them well together with your hande Afterward put them in a litle bagge and mixe them well together againe as men do confitures this doen putte theim in little boxes and keepe theim and thus shall you haue the best Borax that can be possible If you will renew and multiplie it do thus Take the same water that was strayned out and put it in a kettle vpon a small fyre keepinge the fyre alwayes in one estate than scymme it with an yron ladle and put also with the scumme the ordure and filth that shal be in the bottome but take good heede that in seething it flie not awaye Continue thus dooinge vntyll it be well sodden whiche is knowen thus put a little vpon your nayle and if it renne not it is ynough sodden or els you may proue it vpon a paper as men do Syrops and if it byde still it is sodden or wette a stringe in the sayed water and holde it betwixte youre fingers than plucke it oute by the ende and if you feele it roughe it is sodden Then take the kettle from the fyre and couer it with some couer fytte for it that there fall no ordure or fylth in it this doen burie the kettle in wheate branne and close it well rounde aboute coueringe it with clothes or other thinges so that it be wel stopped You maye bury it or hyde it in a hote dungehyll and leaue it there the space of eight or ten dayes and afterwarde vncouer it and you shall finde cruste vpon it the whiche you shall take and put in on one syde and you shall finde in the sayed kettle as it were little pieces of yce whiche you shall take oute and put in another vessell wasshinge them with cole and freshe water than drye them vpon a table in the shadowe and lette those stones whiche at the firste time remayned in the straynoure be mingled with the saied pieces of yce Than take Alome de fece that is white foure pounde in thre payles full of water three vnces of Salte Peter than boyle this with a small fyre and scymme it as you dyd the other in prouinge it vpon your nayle or vpon paper if it bee sodden as before This doen take it from the fyre and let it rest and whan it is cleare take a litle payle full and a halfe of it and set it on the fyre in another cleane kettle And whan you see that it will boyle put in the sayed cruste and that it be of tenne pounde and make it seeth as the other did essayinge vpon your nayle or paper as you did before Than put it in a little virkin and lay two stickes a crosse with foure cordes wherevnto you shall tie a little leade to the intent they may stretche well and without touchinge the bottome by foure fingers and that to the ende the Borax maye sticke and cleaue to it and than burie it as before This must not be put int the bagge but anoint the same that you finde stickinge vpon the cordes with a feather and the other that remayneth stil in the vessel you shal sprinkle as it were a salade The clere that you shal take out of it must be of the biggenesse of a hasell nut or beane and the other will be lesse you shall put into the water that remaineth whiche water you shall set on the fire makinge it seeth and doinge as before and so continue vntill all the water be conuerted and tourned into Borax so that nothinge be loste And remember at the beginninge whan you dissolue in luke warme water as we haue sayed before to put to it the bignesse of a ciche pease of the ruen of a Hare for that will make all the other partes of the Borax to cleaue and take together ☞ A good and easye waye to make Aqua fortis better then any other TAke Roche Alome and Vitriole or salte peter or elles all three together
this maner Take of the saied earth foure partes of cloth-makers floxe or shearing one part ashes that haue serued in a buck or other half a part drie horse donge or the donge of an Asse one part If you will make it parfiter put to it a fewe stamped brickes and sparkes of yron let all these thinges be well stamped and sifted that is to saye the earth the ashes the horse donge the brickes and the sparkes of yron than mingle all together and make it into earth and make a bedde thereof vpon the whiche you shall caste by little and little the floxe as equally as you can This doen powre to it water styringe it well fyrste with a sticke and than with a pallet broade at the ende And whan all is well incorporated together as you woulde haue it laye it vppon some great borde and beat it wel and that a good space with some great staffe or other instrument ofyron minglinge and stearinge it well for the lenger you beate it the better it is By this meane you shall haue a verye good claye for to lute or clay and ioyne violles flagons of glasse to still with and bottels of gourdes for stilling and other great thinges as furnesses and suche like as we will declare afterwarde But he that will make it with more ease let him put the earth only the flox and the horse donge with a fewe ashes Some put no horse donge to it and some no floxe according to the purpose that they make it for For to stop and close vp the mouthes of stillinge glasses or violles to thintent they take no vent on the fyre the sayed clay wil be very good neuerthelesse men put to it two partes of quicke lime and the whites of Egges and then it wyl be surer to let nothinge vent out but the glasse it self All kinde of clay or earth would be kept moist and redy dressed for him that will occupy it continually but it muste not be kepte to watery nor yet lefte to drye for than it woulde serue for nothinge seinge that after it is once hardened a man can not dresse it anye more to do any good withal And whan you put water to it it is mollified by little and little aboue and is as it were a sauce but within remayneth harde and if you put to much water to it you marre it vtterlye Therefore whan you see that it beginneth to waxe drye feede it a newe little and little with water styringe it tyll it be well and so shall you make it perfecte †Certayne thinges whiche he that will take in hande any foundinge or castinge of metalles must alwayes haue readye and in ordre BEcause that instrumentes and meanes be those that make all thinges come oute of the workemans hande with a perfection therfore to the intente that whan the tyme is come to beginne a worke you be not vnfurnyshed or sustayne domage for lacke of thinges necessary Fyrst let your coales be of strong woode yonge and drye your crosettes or melting pottes without cleftes or chappes and of graye coloure which commonlie are better than the blacke or white you muste haue a little burde to geue it vent ouer the mouth of the croset whiche is vncouered for certayne causes a cane or reede to blowe awaye the ordure and fylth out of the croset a thinge easier than with a payre of bellowes an yron with a hoke for to take the coales out of the croset or meltinge potte and likewise a payre of tonges a presse of woode to kepe faste and sure the fourmes or mouldes in pouringe in the mettal two little tables or more of walnut tree woode or boxe or of some other harde and massiue woode or elles of copper made very euen and equall on euery side for to tourne the mouldes and to keepe theim steddye two pieces of wolle or more to the intente that if in fasteninge the mouldes in the presse they be not equall and euen with out syde these pieces may fil vp the empty place a compasse and a rule for to parte and deuide the casting holes and pipe wherin the mettal must runne an yron made like a scrapinge knife or rasoure sharpe at the end and edged at the sydes suche as gilters do vse to make euen the castinge holes or pipes of mouldes the which wyll serue to make the breathinge hooles and pipes that the vapoure goeth out at whan the worke is made and hauinge no suche instrument you may make them with a knife as handsomely as you can You must also haue readye a little oyle and turpentine in a dyshe with a litle paper or some piece of linnen cloth to wette in the sayed oyle and turpentine and to burne it for to parfume the fourmes and mouldes whan they be well wiped to the intente the metall maye runne the better And because that sometime such parfume filleth vp the holownesse and engrauing of the worke you must haue a hares foote to wipe awaye the superfluitie of it and also for to swepe together the dust to thintent it fall not whan you will caste anye thinge in the mouldes And than must you haue a brushe or rubber of latin wyer and one of sylke suche as men make cleane combes with for to rubbe and pollishe the worke before it is fourmed and fashioned to the intente to pollishe it and dresse a newe as neede shall be whan the worke is caste ☞ The maner or order that a man ought to kepe whâ—re â—e wyll cast or founde medalles or any other thinge FIrste you shall laye the medalle or other worke that you wyll caste in a dyshe with stronge Vynaigre Salte and burned straw than rubbe it well with your hande vntill it be cleane lykewise with a rubber or brushe This doen washe it in freshe water and wipe it with a linnen cloth After this laye vpon a table of hard wood or of copper well pollyshed half the moulde or fourme that is to say the female And let the myddle parte that is to saye that whiche is ioyned to the other be layed vpwarde vpon the table in whiche thinges thus layed you shall lay youre medalles or the thinge you will fourme or fashion and let it be cleane as we haue saied orderinge it in suche sorte if there be but one that it be iuste and directlye agaynste the conduyte or pype and as lowe in the frame as it maye to the intente that the pipe or cundite may be the longer and that it may haue metall ynough If there be more than one you shal order and set them on the sydes of the fourme or frame and leaue place in the middle for to make the hole or pipe to powre the metall in And yf there be more then two you muste beware that one receaue not the mettall of another but make to euery one his little pipe or condite whiche maye aunswere and come iustly to the pipe or hole in the middle Then take one
this in a furneis certayne dayes and then to seperate the salte or Tartre with hote water Other heate it vppon the coales and quenche it in pysse and do it often times Other ther be that wrappe it in litle white pieces of wollen cloth and put it in the midees of a great fyre the space of halfe an houre or more and than they finde it thorowly molten and all in a light piece and full of hooles like a sponge not much differing from burned Alome All the whiche wayes to say the trueth are nothing worth nor do not perfectly calcine it where they corrupt the nature of the Tartre and make it become lyke vnto quicke lyme or Alome or elles of little strength Nowe for to calcine it out of hand and perfectly you shal take the Talcum rawe and made into little leaues or stamped as wel as is possible and than put it in a croset or in a fyre pan among the hote coles And whan it is very hote or rather redde hote you shal put to it drop by drop distilled Vineaigre wherein Tartre hath ben dissolued and put therevnto the thirde part of Aqua vite pouring it by little and little vpon the hote lees or Tartre that is to say thre vnces of Vynaigre for euery pound of Talcum then take it from the fire and you shal find it fayr and wel calcined Finally you shal washe it with hote water to thintent to seperate the lees or Tartre from it It is calcined also beinge made in leaues as thin as is possible layinge them by ranckes or beddes with little flat pieces of syluer in a croset luted and clayed than put them in a furneis where glasse or bricke is made by the space of four or fiue dayes The like is doen also with little pieces of Tynne ☞ An excellent and very easy waye to gilte yron copper and syluer to make it seeme lyke massyue golde FIrst if you wil gilt siluer or iron you must geue it the colour of copper as we haue aforesaid than take beaten gold which you shal mixe with quick syluer and make Amalgama or paste thereof as is said before and shal put the said Amalgama in a litle dishe vpon the whiche you shal poure the iuyce of a frute called Cucumis asininus such a quantitie that it maye be aboue the sayd substaunces a fingar high Kepe this gold thus prepared and trimmed and couer it to thintent there fall no filth nor ordure into it which you may vse and occupy whan you wil. Afterward the thinges that you wil gilt must be very cleane and well polished then with a pensell you shall geue them of the said gold so prepared with quick syluer and as it were dissolued rubbynge it well all aboute If you wyll not do so you maye gylte after the common maner of goldsmithes yet notwithstandinge with golde made into Amalgama or mixed as is aforesayed chafinge the worke that you will gylte with Aqua fortis as they do Then make the quicke syluer vanishe away as the goldsmithes of Italy comonly do that is to say with a lampe of line seed Oyle and with Brimstone and make afterwarde a gylt vpon the worke that is lyke Saffron But I counsell you to vse this maner in the chapiter folowinge whiche is partly the same that the goldsmithes do vse in Fraunce and elles where but it is muche amended and this is it ☞ A parfyt maner and waye to gilte and to make the quick syluer to vanish away from the thinge gylted PVt in a pan the rubbish or scumme of copper and the filinge of yron then poure vpon it stronge Vynaigre not distilled as much as wil couer it two or three fingars high Let it boyle so the space of an houre then poure out the said Vineaigre and put in other letting it boile as before and do thus foure or six times Afterward make the sayd Vynaigres put together to euaporate or drye vp or elles make it distill oute for to haue one vynaigre of it whiche will be good for manye thinges This doen you shal put vnto the sayd poulder remaining at the bottome the eight parte of Almayne Vitriole and as muche of Ferrerum of Spaine and the half of an eight parte of salte Armoniacke with a little Brimstone then into a little molten waxe with a little Oyle of line or Oyle Olyue you shal put little and little the saied poulders well mingled together Fynallye take that whiche you haue couered with the saied Amalgama of golde and quick syluer and with a pensyll couer and lay it ouer well with the sayed waxe so mixed than put it so cyred in the middes of hote burninge coales and let it burne and consume all the waxe This doen you shall haue suche a gylt that it shall be like massiue golde And at the ende you may pollish it with brusshes of copper wyre and colde water or you may burnishe it as you wyll The ende of the Secretes of Dom Alexis of Piemount ¶ Here foloweth the Table of all the secretes conteined in this present volume THe maner and secrete to conserue a mans youth and to holde back olde age to maintaine a man always in helth and strength as in the fayrest floure of his yeres Fo. 1 To make a precious licoure of inestimable vertue the whiche taken at the mouth strengtheneth and augmenteth the naturall heate and radicall moisture purifieth the bloud and clenseth the stomacke from all superfluitie of humours and by that meane conserueth the health and youth and prolongeth the life of him that vseth it Folio 1. A potion or drinke to be vsed in stede of Syrop good for men of all ages and complections that will be purged the whiche taken what day you wyll dryueth away the euill humours without mouinge or troublinge the good or doinge any hurt And is also very good for the great pockes and al infirmities as wel of the stomacke as of the heade and is likewyse profitable for them that be in health to take twise in the yeare of an ordinary purgation that is to saye at the Springe and in September Fol. 5. A very easy and good remedy for to heale all manner of pockes whiche is made with little coste and requyreth not that a man kepe his bedde or his house but may vse it goinge in the stretes And it is also verye good for all sortes of greife in the ioynctes in what parte of the body so euer it be Fol. 6. To resolue and reduce golde into a potable licour whiche conserueth the youth and health of a man aswel taken by it selfe as mixed with the foresayde licoure spoken of in the second chapiter of this present boke and wyll heale euery disease that is thought incurable in the space of seuen dayes at the furthest Fol. 6 To heale an excrescence or growyng vp of the fleshe within the yarde of a man albeit it were rooted in of a long tyme. Folio 8. To
to make the heare fall of and maye be kept as longe as a man wyll It is also good for all occasions Fol. 78. An aduertisement or lesson for them that will make the heare fall of Idem To cause that the heare shall grow no more or to make them come out thinne and fine lyke the fyrst soft hear or mosines of the face Idem To make a kind of cloth or plaister to take the heare froÌ„ the face neck handes or froÌ„ any part of the body 79 A merueilous secrete whiche the greate lordes of the Moores do vse wherby they make that their children haue no hear vnder their armes or other place wher they wyl And this secrete found I in Siria the year 1521 by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey whose doughter I healed Idem To make a kind of cloth called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces Fol. 80. The same another way Idem To dye a white beard or heare of the heade into a fayre blacke Idem A noble and excellent poulder to make cleane the teeth to make them fast and white to conserue the gommes a better thinge can not be found and it were to present to a Quene or princesse Fol. 81. To make a very excellent conserue to scoure the teeth to comforte the gommes and to make a swete and good breath Idem An aduertisement or lesson concerning the makynge of poulders and conserues for the teeth Idem An exceding white and good poulder to scoure the teeth whiche is meter for lordes and great men than anye of the other before Fol. 82. A distilled water excellent for to make the teeth white immediatly and to preserue them wonderfully f. 83. Thre aduertisementes or lessonnes of importaunce to kepe the teeth white and vncorrupt and also a swete breath Idem A decoction to washe and scour the mouth to fasten lose teeth to consolidate and make sounde the gommes and to make the flesshe growe agayne if it were decayed or fallen a waye Fol. 84. Of the fyste boke TO make parfit Asure suche as cometh from be yond the seas Fol. 84. To make a fine confection of grayne called Lacca of grayne Fo. 86 To dye bones into a grene colour Idem Another maner howe to die bones or Iuâ—rye into the colour of an Emeraude Idem To die bones redde blew or of any colour you wil. IdeÌ„ A very goodly secrete to die or colour wood of what colour a man wil which some ioyners dovse that make tables and other thinges of diuers coloures and do esteme it among them selues to be of such excellency that one brother will not teache it another Fol. 87 To counterfeit the black wood called Hebenus or Hebenum to make it as fayre as the natural Hebene whiche groweth no where but in India Idem To die scinnes blew or of the colour of Asure Idem To dye skynnes in Chickweede called in latyne Rubra maior or Rubra tinctorum into a redde coloure Fol. 88. To dye Skinnes greene Idem To dye the saied Skinnes an other waie Idem An other waie to dye Skinnes of Asure coloure and faire Folio 89. An other maner to dye Skinnes greene Idem To dye Neates leather into a grene colour as well in gal as in leaues Idem To dye Skinnes grene with the flower of Ireos fo 90 To dye bones in a Turkishe or redde colour Idem To dye Hogges bristelles and other thynges for to make rubbars and brusshes Idem To dye the saied bristelles yellowe grene or blewe or any other colour Idem To make Purple whiche is a colour wherewith men vse to make a coloure like golde for to painte and write with Idem To make Lacca of Brasill Foli 91. To make white tables to write in with the poinct of a wire soche as come out of Germanie Idem To make Roset or ruddle Idem To gilte ouer Parchemente Leather or other soche woorke whiche menne vse in steade of hangynges or Tapistrie Folio 92. To dye Crimson silke Idem To prepare and trimme Brasill for to make of it foure diuers colours Idem To make Roset of Brasill an other waie Foli 93. To make beyondsea Asure without Lapis lasuli Idem To make a grene coloure to write or paint with IdeÌ„ To braie fine golde wherewith a manne maie write or painte with a pensill Idem The same an other waie Idem An other waie with purpurine Folio 94. To make a grounde to gilte vppon with burnisshed Golde Idem To laie or settle golde with a single ground Idem An other waie to laie on golde Idem To make colours of all kinde of metalles Idem To laye golde on a blacke ground Idem To make letters of the colour of gold without gold Id. To make syluer letters without siluer Idem To make greene letters Fol 95 To make white letters in a blacke field Idem To make a greene colour for to write and paynt withall Idem To trimme and dresse Asure Idem To dresse or trimme Cinabrium for to write or paynte with Idem A ground to lay golde vpon any metall or yron Idem To gylt the edges of bookes Fol. 96. To kepe and preserue whites of egges as long as a maÌ„ wyll without corrupting and without putting Arsenick to it A secrete not muche knowen Idem The maner howe to make the grounde or foundation for Indicum Idem Another perfit ground for the same thinge Idem A goodly way howe to make gold and siluer into poulder a thinge easy to be done and there wyll come of it an excellent colour This is a very rare secret whiche hath not ben vsed nor knoweÌ„ vntil this preset 96 To make a very fayre Vernix to vernish the said gold and all other workmanshippe Fol. 97. To braye or break gold or siluer easely after the comen maner that the best workmasters do vse Fol. 98 To make a lyeour that maketh a golden colour without gold Idem Another lycour of the colour of golde for to wryte and to gilt iron wode glasse bone other like things 98 Another goodly licour to make a golden colour with litle cost and is a thinge easy to be done Fol. 99. To make incke or a coloure to write with in a verye good perfection Idem A good waye and maner howe to make ynck for to cary about a man in a drye poulder whiche whan he will wryte with he must temper with a lyttle wyne water or Vinaigre or with some other licour and than he may incontinent putte it in experience With the sayd poulder all other yncke maye be amended be it neuer so euill Idem To make a great deale of ynck quickely and with lyttle coste Fol. 100. To make Printers inck Idem To make yncke so white that althoughe a man write with it vpon white paper it may easely and perfitlye be redde A very goodly thinge Idem To make a poulder to take of blottes of yncke fallen vpon the paper
fayer and softely out Afterwarde drie it thorowly as men do white salt than kepe the same poulder and put thre vnces of it with a pounde of sugre roset and in the morninge take a good sponefull thereof vntill there be an vnce or more and do this from day to daye for it will kepe your body cleane and purged and he that can not do it with Sugre roset let him take the leese stamped and stiepe or wasshe it in the broth of fleshe or of colewortes sturringe it vntill al be leused and vndone that may be leused then let it stand a while and after powre softely the broth into a dishe cast awaye the substances that go to the bottome and drinke the broath do this euery daye at the houres of your meales or at the least euerie seconde daye or whan you shall thinke good It shalbe good also to eate in youre pottage thinges that purge the bloude as Buglasse Borrage Succorie Let tyse and suche lyke and aboue all not to kepe your stomack ouer charged nor to emptie and in the morninge betime to take some of the foresaied preseruatiues as the poulder that was experimented in England as we haue recited or suche other like Than .ii. or iii. houres before dyner to take some of the sayde other preseruatiues as the Rue with a figge and with the Walnutte whiche is a thinge very good or some of the sayd confections or a piece of the pille of a Cytron conficte or a sponefull of the iuyce of Citrons dressed as we wyll declare hereafter and to vse of it at meales in maner of a saulce and after meales to vse of the seede of Citrons confict in Sugre as they make the Coriander and Almondes whiche is a thinge verye good agaynst all maner of venim and poysen And lykewise at your meales to eate the white and the inne side of a Cytron with a litle sugre if you wyll and to eate it with flesh or bread as men eate lemons in the morninge at none and at night when you go to bedde It shuld be also very good to bath and washe youre handes youre temples youre poulses and poure nose with Vinaygre roset or with other wherevnto you muste put a lytle Campher rose water Lignum Aloes Xilobalsamum if you can gette it if not a lytle Sinamom in steede of it It is good alwaies to kepe suche maner of Vinaigre beside you in some viole for to vse of it whan time shall require for it is a very good preseruatiue and if you can not haue the Vinaygre compounde as is sayde vse Vynaygre of common wyne Also it shall be good to cary about you some parfume or good odour either in your gloues shurte handkercher cappe bearde or to hange it aboute your necke or otherwise Your house oughte to be kepte as cleane and as nete as is possible not sauoringe of pysse nor other ordure ye ought to kepe it shut washinge often the gutters and priuies Ye muste also kepe as fewe foule and stincking clothes in your house as is possible Riche men ought oftentimes to parfume theyr houses with some notable parfume wherof we will put in the booke folowing a good nombre Poore men may make prouision of leaues and of the woode of a Baye tree of Rose mary Ienepar Cypres and to vse it as often as they may burninge it in the myddes of theyr chamber or house and principally at night and in the morninge Likewise of Orenge and lemmon pilles or other swete smellinge thinges Storax calamita and Labdanum be good chepe and are very good for this purpose As concerninge the disposition of courage and minde ye must consider that sorowe sadnesse or melancolie corrupte the bloude and other humours weaken the hearte and depraue hurte nature therefore ought a man to auoide them as much as is possible Also if a man be to merrye oriocunde it dilateth and enlargeth the pores and passages of the seede of man and the harte so that he is the more enclined to receiue the euyll ayer and venim whiche are thinges ▪ that penetrate and pearce sore Also a man must beware of drinkinge to muche wine for it maketh merry and chereth a man out of measure Now because that in time of a pestilence euery man is afraid so that he thinketh that a man can not ketch the disease in being to merry onles it be so that he be dronke as is sayd but contrarye in beinge to sadde or sorowfull for sorow sadnesse come of them selues not sought after Therfore it is good to vse temperance and moderatiō walkinge and recreating him selfe honestly not vsing to muche carnall companie or copulation And aboue all a man muste haue alwayes a sure hope and confidence in God euer to hee readye and disposed to dye when it shall please him to call vs not estemynge so muche this mundaine life or fearinge so muche death whiche is none other thinge than an issue or departinge oute of this life full of calamities and an entring into an eternal life replenished with all ioye solace and pleasure ☞ To dresse and order the Iuyce of Cytrons for to vse of it as is afore sayde TAke the Iuyce of Citrons as muche as you wyl and put it in a panne leaded within in than adde to it twoo vnces of skimmed Honnye for euerye pounde of the saied Iuyce a lytle Sugre after your discretion a litle Synamom in poulder Let thys boyle a verie litle while together and than keepe it and take of it before youre meale and at youre meales in steede of sauce whiche is a verye good remedie as well for to preserue a man agaynst the infection of the ayre as to driue it awaye after he isfected with it It is also a very good medicine for to take as soone as a man doubteth to haue receyued some poyson into his bodie ¶ The ende of the fyrste booke take Muske Amber and Ciuet as muche as ye will in a vessell suche as parfumours vse and put to it iii. or iiii droppes of fayre water after this tempre it with a lyttle rose water vntyll it be lyke tender and softe past than set the vessell for to parfume and smoke vppon the fyre lyke as men parfume chambers and se that all the fume and smoke he receyued thorowe the sayd nuttes This done you shal take out of it the oyle which wil be very excellent as well to vse alone by it selfe as to parfume gloues and all other thynges ☞ To make an odoriferous and sweete water verye good TAke twelue pounde of Damaske rose water Lauander water Cloues Synamom of eche of them a dragme Mace great Cardamomum Muske Amber of eche of them halfe a scruple drie Pylles of Citrons Sandalum citrinum Ireos of eche of them halfe a dragme Bengewin Storax calamita of eche a scrupule and of all this make a composition the which you shall put in a vessell of glasse well stopped leauinge it so by the