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
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
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
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
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
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
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