¶ The second part of the Secrets of Master Alexis of Piedmont, by him collected out of divers excellent authors, and newly translated out of French into English, with a general Table, of all the matters contained in the said Book.  
By William Ward.  
¶ Imprinted at London, by John Kyngston: for Nicholas England. Anno domini. M.d.lx   

The translator to the Readers.  
IN the edition of the first part of the worthy secrets, of the reverend Senior Alexis of Piedmont, it was promised you (gentle readers) even of himself in his Epistle, that he would labour in the collection of others, tried and experimented, for the utility, profit, and pleasure of all such, as either delighted in them, or would by them be eased, of such infirmities, as they might casually have been grieved withal. You heard also the cause, why he would communicate those secrets with the world, which undoubtedly sprung of a godly zeal, toward the common case of all men. I therefore (because he hath kept touch, performing his promise, in collecting a second part) could no less do herein, than I did in the first part, that is to say, no more to spare my labour in translating it, into our native tongue, nor hide the commodity of so excellent things, from those that have not the understanding of the French tongue, than I did before. And because you should not have only, the head without the tail, that is, the biginning without the end, you shall have here, no less good and profitable matters (although not so many) then was presented you in the other, as by your judgement in reading, you shall easily perceive.   
THE Second part of the Secrets of Master Alexis of Piedmont, by him collected out of divers and excellent Authors.  

To make whey as clear as well water.  
TAke wheie and heat it on the fire, but let it not boil: then sprinkle it with a Sponge wet in strong vinaigre, or vergeous, or else the juice or liquor of Oranges, and so strain it in a piece of cloth made like a little bag, doing so divers times, until it be clear. But note, that the bag must not be made cleave at every time: but you must power it always upon the skomme of it, and it will become as clear as Amber.   

To make very good Aqua vite.  
TAke Wine that is not to old, that is to safe of a year or somewhat more or less, and let it be very good, having a good odour: and distill it in a vessel of glass having a long neck about six foot long, with a very small and slow fire, and take it up together whiles it cometh forth fast, that is to say, when one drop tarrieth not for another, and it shallbe very good and pleasant, for there shallbe nothing else but only the part of the Wine very subtle and fine, true it is that it shall not be very hot, nor burn so much as other Aqua vites do.   

To make Arms or tables of Pictures always bright shining.  
TAke very strong vinegar and Alum and beat the Alum into powder and mingle it with the Vinaigre: and than rub therewith the arms or tables and they will be always bright, or else anoint them with the marrow of a Deer.   

To make black Ynk very good.  
TAke a pound and a half of rain water, with three ounces of the waighttest Galls you can find, bruise them into small pieces and poor them into the said water and let it stand two days in the sun. Then put to it two ounces of Roman vitriolle well coloured and beaten small, and mix all well together with a stick of a Fig tree, & leave it again two days more in the Sun. Finally put to it an ounce of Gomme Arabic that is eleere and bright and beaten into powder, and an ounce of the pill of Pomegranades, and than boil it a little with a slow fire: that done strain it, and keep it in a vessel of Lead or Glass, and it will be very black and perfit good.   

To make Green Ink.  
TAke Verdegris elect & fair, and make it into past with a little strong Vinagre and distilled water of Grene gall, and let it dry, and when you will write with it temper it with the same water of green gall putting to it a little gomme Arabike.   

For Oxen that piss Blood.  
TAke three ounces of Phasioli that be red, and six drams of Pepper, & the seed of broom, and make thereof ● powder, and give him drink of it every day with white wine until he be hole, putting three ounces of the said powder to two quarte● of the said wine, and give it him every day three times.   

To make Oil of Vitriol.  
TAke the Vitriol and make it into Lime, than put into Aqua vite, and let the water cover it, than distill it, first with a very small fire, augmenting it by little and little until all become out. Then take out the Aqua vite by Balneum mariae with the water that is scant warm. This done distill again the Oil, and if at the beginning there come any water, put the said Oil into some vessel and set it in the Sun: but it were much better to set two vessels well closed together one upon another, and the water being in the Sun will come and cleave unto the vessel that is uppermost, and therefore you shall take away the said vessel and set to another, and by this mean you shall purge away all the said water, and the Oil shall remain not only pure & neat, but also more delicate, than the common Oil of Vitriol.   

To make white Teeth.  
TAke Lemons, and make distilled water of them, and wash your Teeth with it, for it is a sovereign thing, or if you will not make the water, take the liquor of them which is also good for the same purpose, but the water is moche better, because it is finer, so that in distilling, it lose not his force.   

For the same.  
TAke lees of wine called Tartarum, and put it in a vessel of Marble, and stop it surely, then bury it in the ground, and let it remain there until it become water, and then take it out, and rub your teeth with it, and they will wax very fair. Take also the water that falleth at the beginning of the distillation of salt Peter and Alum, and rub your teeth therewith. If you take also the root of Mallows, and rub your teeth with it every day, they will be bright, white, and fair without hurting the gums. Or if you take a crust of wheaten bread, and burn it even to coals, and then having made it to powder, scour your teeth withal, and wash them afterward with clean and fair water, either of the well or of the Conduit, they will be white, for it is a thing experimented.   

To take away spots from the face.  
TAke two ounces of the liquor of Lemons, and two ounces of Rose water, two drams of silver sublimed, and as much of Ceruse, put all together, and make it like an ointment, and anoint your face therewith at night, when ye go to bed, and in the morning when you are up, anoint it with butter. This is proved.   

For the same.  
TAke the white of an Egg, and stir it with some thing, until it be taurned to water, then take an ounce of the same water, and half an ounce of ceruse, and two drams of quick silver, and a dram of camfire, and mengle it all together and so anoint your face with it.   

For the same.  
TAke iiij. ounces of vitriol, and three ounces of Salt peter, & an ounce of the rubbish or scale of steel, and distill all together putting to it half an ounce of Camfire, and wash your face with it every day.   

For the same.  
TAke half a pound of the root of Serpentin● called in latin Dracuntium or commonly Serpentaria, which hath certain great red grains joined together in a lump, or else a stalk of a reed, and half a pound of a Lily root, and asmuch of with Malowes, and seeth them all together in rain water, than beat them in a mortar of Marbel, and put to it four ounces and a half of oil of Tartre, and the marrow of a Deer, and six drams of Camfire, and so mix all together, and anoint your face therewith.   

To take away little red Pimples from a man's face.  
TAke fifteen new laid Eggs, and put them whole into strong Vinaigre, then take them out and break them even with the same Vinaigre in putting to it an ounce of Senuey, than distill them with some vessel of Glass, and wash your face with the water at night when you go to bed, and again in the morning wash it with sodden water wherein must be Bren and Mallows. This is experimented.   

To make a water that taketh away the spots of the face and maketh it fair and bright, and keepeth the hands and mouth that they chap not or wax full of chinks.  
TAke a white Pigeon, and pluck of his feathers, 
Fraxinella, is called also Corrigiola, an herb which runneth on the ground like grass, Mainardus saith it hath leaves like an Ash and therefore is called Fraxinella.  then pluck out the guts and garbage of him, and cut of his head and feet, then take three good handfuls of Fraxinella, and two pound of Milk, and three ounces of Cream, and six ounces of oil of sweet Almonds, and let it be new and fresh, and put all this together and distill it in a vessel of Glass, and wash your face and hands every day with the same water, and they willbe always white, soft, and with out any spots or pimples, as in the mids of Summer.   

To make the face fair.  
TAke Fraxinella, and make water thereof in a Lembick, and wash your face well with the same every day.   

A water to make the face fair.  
TAke the white of an Egg, and make water thereof in a Lembick, and wash your face with it asmuch and as often as you li●●.   

To make a water that maketh the face white and shining.  
TAke the milk of an Ass, and Egg shells, and make thereof distilled water, and wash your face with it, & it will be white fair & glistering.   

A water to make the face red.  
TAke the leg of an Ox or Calf, that is to say from the knee downwardly, and take of the skin and the hoof from it, and then break all the rest in pieces, that is to say the bones, the sinews and the marrow, and distill it, and so wash your face with the water that cometh of it every morning.   

To make a kind of white to make the face fair, called in French Blanchet.  
TAke two ounces of Dragantum, and dissolve it with the white of an Egg well beaten: than put to it half an ounce of Borace, with asmuch of Ceruse, and asmuch Camfire, and mingle all together, and make thereof little flat balls, and when you occupy of it, temper it in some Rose water, and anoint your face with it at night when you go to bed, and in the morning wash your face, with water of the flowers of Beans, or else seeth Bren in well water, and wash your face with all.   

To make an other better, which maketh the face white and glistering.  
TAke two ounces of the skim of silver, and a pound of white vineigre very strong, and boil them together until they be diminished of two thirdendels: Then take two drams of Camfire, two of alum, two of Boras, and as much oil of Tartre, and seeth them in Rose water. Then take of these two liquors, that is to say, of the said vineigre, and of the other, as much of one as of the other, and mingle them together, and rub your face with it as much as you will, and besides that it maketh the face white and glistering, it taketh away all manner of spots and pimples from it.   

A water to make the face red and glistering.  
TAke an ounce of fish glue, and an ounce of Rock alum, and two ounces of Verzine, and put them into a quart of water, that is to say. xxviij. ounces, and let them remain in infusion three days, and then seeth them, and strain out the water, and keep it in a vessel of glass as you will.   

To make an other manner of the same, which the French men call Blanchet.  
TAke two drams of silver sublimed, and put it into a viol of water that holdeth a quart, and seeth it until it decreaseth of the tenth part. Then put to it half an ounce of Ceruse, and a dram of Camfire and of Boras, and the liquor or juice of a whole Limon, and mingle all together, and let it seeth with a slow fire, the space of seven hours. But you must note, that this, because of the silver sublimed maketh by long using it, the teeth somewhat black, and at the last to fall out, it maketh also a stinking breath, and hurteth the sinews and the brain.   

To make an other Blanchet that maketh the face white, and of a ruddy colour, and hurteth not as the other aforesaid doth.  
TAke two ounces of Boras, four ounces of Ciche Peason bruised, that is to say, without the husks, and four ounces of Phasiols, and asmuch of beans, and make them all into powder, and the gall of a bull, and the yolks of fifteen eggs, and a quart of white wine, and put all together to distill, and wash your face with the water in the morning.   

To make an other Blanchet, which is called royal that is the best, and the excellentest of all other.  
TAke a good handful of the flowers of an Olive tree, and a handful of the flowers of an Eldern tree, a handful of white roses, a handful of the flowers of Oranges, and an other of Gelsemines, and twelve new laid Eggs, twelve green Figs and fresh gathered, and twelve Snails, one dram of Camfire, an other of Alumen desquamatum, two drams of Boras, half a dram of Alum, four penny weight of Alumen plumae, otherwise called in Latin Tricbiti●, eight penny weight of silver sublimed, an ounce of red wax, a good handful of white Lilies, and distill all the flowers when they be green in their season, and also the Figs, Snails, and the eggs, and mingle all these waters together, and put a part half of the same water, and keep the other half, and put it into a vessel of glass, and mingle into it all the other things, and let them be first made into powder, and put to also the wax, than set it in the sun, and leave it there until all become like unto wax, then take it out with a white linen cloth, and take fifteen Eggs and still them in the same water, and power all this composition into the said water distilled, with a pound of raw Honey, and set it again in the Sun, and let it remain there until the water be dried up, and it will be perfect good. And afterward when you will occupy it, take asmuch of it as a Wheat corn, and anoint your face with the water that you did set apart, that is to say, that of the flowers: and it will prove a marvelous thing.   

To take out the wrinkles of the face.  
TAke a little of the wood of a white Vine, or else a little of bryony, and stamp it with a dry Fig that is fa●te, that is to say pasty, and anoint your face with it, and then go walk till you sweat: for if you should not sweat, the Vine would take of the skin, and the bryony make you black.   

To make bear slack in coming forth, or growing in young men, as well on their beard as in other parts.  
TAke a razor that is made of copper, mixed with Auripigmentum, otherwise called Arsnic or Orpine, in the melting of it, so that it be incorporated together, and shave the beard or hear withal, and it shall never grow again, or if you heat the said razor of copper in the fire, and quench it in the blood of a Salamander, or else in the milk of Sowthistles. If also you rub the place where you will not that hear shall grow, with the blood of a fish called a Tony, it will done the like. Also if you take beans and seeth them in water, and wash the place every day with that water, the hear will not grow, or at the least long or they came forth.   

To make hear grow in every place of the body where you will.  
TAke great green Lisardes, or sea Frogs, and cut of their heads and their tails, and dry the rest in an Oven, and make powder of it. Then take the yelke of an Egg, and make Oil thereof, and mengle all together diligently, that is to say, the powder and the oil, and anoint the place with it, where you will hear shall grow, and they will come for the shortly.   

To make hears black.  
TAke a Comb of Lead, and comb your head with it always, and the hears will be black. Take also Crows eggs and make oil of them and lay a comb of horn in it, and let it remain there till it hath drunk up all the oil, then take it out, and comb your head with it, and by continual using of it, your hear will be black.   

To make a water that will make the face red and glistering.  
TAke a pound of Aqua vite of three seethinges, an ounce of brasil that is good, ten Cloves oriental, and ten grains of Nasturtium, otherwise called Carda●●, in English Cresses or town Kerse, and five grains of Cubits, and stamp all together very small, then put it into a vessel of glass with the Aqua vite, and stop it sure, and boil it a little, and then distill it in Balneo Marie, or with a very small fire, and it shall be in his perfection.   

To die or colour here.  
TAke half an ounce of Aqua fortis, six penny weight of good ●●lu●r, and six ounces of Rose water, and wash your head with it. Take also Litarge, and of the ashes of Nettles and mingle them together, and rub your here with it.   

To take away the evil savour of the breath.  
TAke chervil, Mirre and Cyperus, called of the apothecaries Iū●us odoratus, as much of one as of the other, and make them into powder, then take Rosen, and of all this pills, and drink them in your wine.   

To get away the hears from the eye brows.  
TAke the gall of a he Goat or of a she Goat, but the he Goat is better, and doth it sooner, and rub your eye brows, and the hear will 〈◊〉 lie fall away.   

To die or to colour all kind of metal or stone, into the colour of gold without gold.  
TAke salt Armoniac, white Vitriol, stone salt, and Verdegris, and make all into a very fine powder, and ●a●e of this powder upon the metal, or stone that you die or colour, until it he covered over with it: then put your stone or metal into the fire, and leave it there a good ho●●●, then take it out and quench it in urine or piss newly made.   

For to make Iron or Steel soft.  
YE shall take the juice of Hemlock, and put the iron or steel being red hot into it three or four times, and let it remain in it, until it be thorough cold. Take also oil and put into it seven times some molten Lead, and then quench the iron in it at the end of four or five times.   

To harden Iron or Steel.  
TAKE the juice of Melanthium otherwise called Nigella romana, or the herb called Mouse ear, and quench your Iron hot therein three or four times.   

To make Figs ripe quickly.  
LET the figs come to their perfit greatness than pryke them with a pin, and rub thyem with a little Oil olive, then bind them about with Green olive leaves, so that they may be covered round about with them, and so let them ripe in what place you will.   

To make Hens lay Eggs all the winter.  
TAKE the tops of Nettles when they begin to have seed, and dry them, and give the Hens a little of it with Bren and Hemp seed and they shall lay every day an Egg.   

To make a Glue or paste that holdeth as fast as a nail.  
TAKE Pixe Greca, and Rosen, & the powder of burned brick which is called Ceruse, and mengle all together, and heat it when you will occupy it, and when it is cold it will hold as fast as a nail.   

To take away all manner of spots.  
TAKe a Tench and seeth him much until he be dissolved into water almost, and wash the spotted cloth therewith oftentimes. Than take Bren, and boil it likewise in the same water, & wash the cloth again therewith.   

To cause that a woman's Breasts wax not great of swelling.  
TAKE a Fish that is called Squatina, in English a Sole and cleave him in the middle, and lay him upon the woman's Breasts, and they shall not increase bigger. And if they be great and big they shall assuage and wax less.   

To purge Honey with out fire.  
TAKE the raw Honey and put in a veessel of stone well leaded within and large, and cover it well with a Paper and let it so stand, and every third or fourth day uncover it, and take out the skim that is upon it, and by this means it purgeth better than with fire.   

To stench the menstrual blood of women.  
TAKE a Toode and bind him with a little band, and bange it about the woman's neck that hath that infirmity, and in few days she shallbe cleared of it.   

To keep Roses fresh all the year.  
TAKE the Roses when they be half open, and gather them in the evening with a knife, and in the night following set them in the air abroad, and in the morning put them in a vessel of earth well leaded within, and stop it well, and cover it with dry sand.   

For the same.  
TAKE the buds of Roses when they begin to open, and take a reed that is yet growing, and clean it a little that you may put in the buds, and let them remain so, and when you will take them out cut the reed, and put the buds in lukewarm water, and they shallbe as fair as in may.   

To take away or dissolve a boil or Kernel in the groin, or the wresting of a senewe.  
TAke a Toad and bind upon the boil and it will dissolve it in short space.   

To dress and trim Olives in one day.  
TAke the Olives when they be green, and cut them a little on the side, than put them in water with Lime and Ashes: but note that you must have twice asmuch Ashes as Lime, as if you take half a pound of Lime, you must have a pound of Ashes, and let them lie a steep in it the space of twenty-three hours, than take them out, and wash them five or six times in lukewarm water, than put them in some vessel of stone or Glass as you will with salt water and so keep them as long as you list, and they will be very good.   

To preserve and keep peaches or other Fruit.  
TAke peaches or other Fruits that you will keep, in the fair and dry wether, and open them in the mids, & take out the stone, and lay them a day to dry in the sun: than take sodden sugar well purged and rub them over with it, and the next day set them in the Sun again, and rub them with the said sugar as oft as they dry until they have gathered a crust upon them, than keep them at your pleasure, and it will be an excellent and perfect thing.   

To cause marvelous Dreams.  
TAke the blood of a Lampwink or black plover, and rub your temples, with it and so go to bed, and you shall see marvelous things in your sleep, or else if you eat at night a little of the herb Solan●, or Vesicaria, or some Mandragora, or else of the herb called in Greek Hyoscyamos, in Latin it hath these names Al●ercum, Appollinaris, and Symphoniaea, in the French jusquiame, and in the English some call it Henban, and you shall see in the night goodly things in your dream.   

To make a woman bear Children.  
TAke Ceruse and Frankensens, and way as much of the one as of the other, and after you have companied with her, put the same into her matrice. Also if you give her drink of Mare's milk, or to eat the lower part of the belly of a Hare, or the Genitories or stones of a he Goat, after her menstrual purgation is come unto her, it shall profit her much unto conception.   

To heal and cure Horses of the Scab.  
FIrst you must let him blood, then take Brimstone, Quicksilver, Honey, liquid Pitch, Salt, the juice of Hemlock, Vinaigre, Alum, Helesbore, soft Soap, Oil, Sutt of a Chimney, Hogs dung, and Lime, and mingle all together, and anoint the place with it where the Scab is, and within few days he shall be healed and clean.   

To heal the kings evil, a disease called in latin Siruma.  
TAke a great Toad a live, and when the Moon● draweth toward the comunction of the sun, cut of all the legs from him, and put him about the neck of the patiented, and it will do him much good. Take also the hoof of an Ass and burn it, and say it upon the sore, for it is very good and profitable for such a sickness.   

To make one that is poisoned to vomit the poison.  
TAke two grains of Pazar, which is a stone tha● cometh out of Portugal, and is green ● tawny somewhat obscure glistering and light and ●● breaking it, it is within of the colour of ashes, and give it him to drink with a little milk, and incontinent he shall vomit by the poison, if there be any.   

To make a Candle that cannot be pu● ou●.  
TAke Virgin wax, and Brimstone well purged, asmuch of the one as of the other, and melt it together and make thereof a Candle, the which will never be put out until it be burned and consumed to the end.   

To make a Candle of Ire to burn.  
TAke a Candle of Ware made as is afore said, and take some Brimstone and coals, and stamp them very small, and fift them thorough a linen cloth, than heat the candle, and rub it over well with the same powder until it wax unto & crust round about it as thick as the back of a knife and cover it with a paper, then ●● it at the end of a guttour of your house, and let it remain there till the ye be round about it a finger thick which will be within two or three days, than take it of and it will burn as though it were of wax only, this is a thing tried and experimented.   

To make that fruit shall take what form or fashion you will.  
TAke a piece of wood and cut it after the form and fashion that you will your fruit shall have, but let it be as big as the fruit is when it is ripe, then take some plaster tempered with water, and put it about the wood a finger thick, and let it dry, and it will incontinent wax dry, than take it of, and when the fruit is not yet comen to his full greatness, bind it fast about this same form, and leave it so remaining until it be ripe, and it will be after that form and fashion. If you will also write upon it, dress the letters after this manner and form made of plaster, and they shallbe legible.   

To make that roots shall have what form you will.  
TAke green roots, but let them be great and thick like radish roots, or the root of Bryonix, and such like, and trim them with a knife as you shall think the best fashion. Then set them in the ground again, until they have gathered upon them a skin 〈◊〉 in this manner may a man make conterfete Mandragora, in trimming them with a knife into the shape of a man, and than putting them again into the ground with the head downward, and with a little barley or mill under them which will cleave and stick fast to the head of the root and seem like hear: but you must note that to make these Mandragora, you must take the roots of Bryonia.   

For to write letters upon a man's body or face that shall never be rubbed out.  
YOu must go into the stoves or hot houses which be very hot, and when you are in a sweat write upon your body with what ink you will, than cut the skin with a sharp razor, and fill the cuts with earth of what colour you will, and leave them so and incontinent by reason of the great heat the skin will close & shut up together and the letters or figures that you have made upon your flesh will remain for ever.   

For the same, but somewhat easier.  
TAke Aqua fortis of Gold, and the beasts that ●e called Cantharides, and put them together xxiv. hours, then with a pen very small write what you will upon the skin, and leave it so, and by and by there will rise certain little white bladders or bushes where you touched with the water, and that will remain and abide for ever.   

To make one have a good memory.  
TAke a Tooth or the left leg of a Badger or Brock as some call it, and as other some name it a Grey, and bind it about your right arm next unto the flesh. Take also the gall of a Partridge, and rub your temples with it that it may soak into the skin and flesh, ones in a month, and it will make you have a good memory.   

To make that no Dog shall bark at you.  
TAke a black Dog and pluck out one at his eyes and hold it in your left hand, and by reason of the savour and smell thereof the Dogs will not bark at you.   

To make all things sleme Black and Green in the night.  
TAke the black ink of a Fish called a scuttle, called Atramentum Sepiae, & take also Verdegrice, and mingle both together, and put them in a lamp with the wieke, and set it a fire in a chamber, where there is no other light but that, and all that is in the said chamber walls and all shall seem partly Green, and partly Black, which is a marvelous thing to see.   

To die Hear into a Green colour.  
TAke fresh Capers, and distill them, and wash your hear with the water of them in the sun, and they will become green.   

To dress or to keep flesh in Summer.  
TAke the flesh and seeth it, but let it not be to much sodden, than take it of from the fire, and strain out the water, and set it in the shadow the space of an hour for to dry, in a place where the wind cometh, then take an earthen pot with white Vinaigre that is strong, and take some Geniper seed well stamped, and Salt, and cast it upon the flesh: and than put it into the Vinaigre, and set the pot in some cold place, as a cane or ●ollex, and remove every day the flesh within the pot, & let it stand and remain so as long as if pleaseth you, and when you will eat of it, seeth it a little, as if you will 〈◊〉 may eat it so, for it is a thing very sweet & delicate.   

To make an instrument called Cauterium wherewith sores are burned, which shall raise the skin without any grief or pain.  
TAke soft soap, and unslekt Lime that hath not been wet asmuch of the one as of the other, and mingle them together: and when you will use of it, if the skin be not broken, lay a little piece of leather upon it with some ointment and leave a hole in the mids of the greatness that you will the wound shall be, and put in the same hole asmuch of the instrument as a wheat corn & let it remain so, and within three or four hours it will make a hole without any pain. But if the skin be rotten, as of a fellow or cats hear, it shall suffice to wash the place before you lay to the Cauterium, with strong Vinaigre, and within an hour it will raise the skin without any grief or pain.   

To make Steel cut Iron as it were Led.  
TAke the Steel and purge it well, than take of these worms that breed in the ground, and make of them some distilled water in a alembic, than take the juice of radish roots, asmuch of the one as of the other and quench the steel in it being red hot, four or five times, than make knives, sword, or daggers of it, and they shall cut Iron, as it were lead.   

To make red Ink.  
TAke strongly boiling hot, and put it in the ri●e or bark of brasil, and let it cool, than take eight ounces of the said lie, and an ounce of brasil skraped with a piece of glass, & put it to also a little Alum. Than put it in a dish upon the hot ashes, and let it boil well the space of an hour, and occupy it at your pleasure and the ink shallbe very good: but note that it is not good, but when it is fresh and recent, that is to say, made of a day or two, at the most.   

For the same, and easier.  
TAke an ounce of the same wood skraped with a piece of glass, and take ten ounces of water, and power the skraped brasil into it, and let it remain so the space of seven hours, than seeth it, and let it diminish of the four parts three, and it will be red having a good lustre. And if you let it diminish of more than three parts, it will be red and sanguine.   

To make Bones soft.  
TAke bones that be hollow in the mids, as of the legs of beasts, and take the juice of Alexander's, of milfoile, of radish roots, of horehound, and Vinaigre, asmuch of the one as of the other, and fill the bones with these juices, and stop them well that nothing go out; than buried it in Horse dung as long as you will, and the longer they be in it the softer will they wax.   

To keep Grapes fresh all the winter.  
YOu must gather the Grapes when it is fair and clear wether, and that it hath not reigned a good while before, than must you make them clean, that is to say, take out the rotten grains that be in them: than take pitch, and set it upon the fire until it boil, than take the grape, and put the end that it hangeth by into it, & let it remain so a while, and then let it dry in the sun the space of two days. Finally lay them upon wheat stray that one touch not another, and they will keep so good and fresh all the year.   

To make Melons or Cucumbers ripe before their season.  
FOr to have Melons, Cucumbers, or other like fruit ripe before their season, you must plant or set them in pots or other vessels, and every third or fourth day water them at the root with hot water, and when the wether is cloudy or cold set them before the fire, and when the sun shineth and is fair wether, set them in the Sun: Thus doing you shall have Melons, and many other like fruitoes ripe before their season.   

To take away the holes or marks of the small Pocks.  
TAke very strong Vinaigre, and make thereof some distilled water, and wash your face with it one day, and the next day following, take Bren, Mallows, and water and boil all together until it be diminished of the half, and wash your face with it that same day, and the next day wash it again with the water of the distilled Vinaigre, and the next day with the other water made with the Bren and Mallows, and continued so until the marks or holes begun, which will be very shortly. Also if you take Egg shells, & distill them, and wash your face with the water at night when you go to bed, and in the morning with the other of Bren and Malowes as is above rehearsed.   

To make the hands white.  
TAke an Ox gall, and take half a spoonful of it in the engining with well water, and wash your hands with this little of the gall, and they will become moist, soft, and very white. Take also Soap, and purge it well, than take of the root of Iris, and dry it in an oven and make powder of it, the which you shall mix with the Soap well purged and so wash your hands withal, and they will be soft and white. Take also Soap well purged, and take the Ashes of a 〈◊〉, and mix them well together, until they be well incorporated the one with the other: and wash your hands with it in the morning, and they will be moist, soft & white as snow, which thing is experimented.   

To make an odoriferous and sweet smelling grese that keepeth the lips and hands from thinks and chaps, and keepeth them moist, and soft.  
TAke a pound, that is to say, twelve ounces of calves grease, or the Dear suet that is young, and the suet fresh. Than take six ounces of Maioram, and stamp them all well together, and make thereof little halls, and sprinkle them with a little good White or Claret wine, that hath a good odour. Than put them in some vessel, and cover them well, that the good odour of the Maioram go not out, and so set them in the shadow the space of four and twenty hours somewhat more or less, than put them in water and seethe them leisurely: and than drain it again. Take also nine ounces of Maioram, and stamp it with the same grease, and make little balls of it, which you shall sprinkle over with Wine, and put it in another vessel clean, the which you shall also set it in the shadow the space of xxiv. hours, and than put water to it again, and seeth it, and strain it. And do so four or five times, adding to it always nine ounces of Maioram, and sprinkling it with good Wine, you may also put to it a little musk, or civette, thus doing you shall have a very excellent thing, to keep the lips and hands from chaps or chinks and from all great cold.   

For to make a sweet Suet called in French and Italian Pommade in latin Pomatum.  
TAke a pound of Deeres suet, or if you can not get of that, the grease of a kid, three ounces of barrous greas●, and ●●. ounces of the marrow of a buck, and purge it clean of all filth, and take out the little skins, veins, and gri●e●● that are 〈◊〉 then wash it with good white Wine so often until the wine remain clear, and the grease white, than strain out all the Wine, and let it run abroad upon a table. This don take eight Appian apples or as many Pippins, and pair them well both with out and within, and stamp them. Than take half an ounce of Cloves, two drams of Nutmegs, six grains of spike of india, and four pound of Rose water, and mingle all together with the grease, and set it to seethe in a covered pot, with a slow fire and let it seeth until the Rose water be almost consumed. Then strain it and put it into another vessel washed three or four times with Rose water, then add to it four ounces of white wax well purified and purged, and six ounces of sweet Almonds. Then set it on the fire again ●●ely until it be melted, and then take it from the fire and strain it, and put it into another vessel washed ●ith Rose water. Finally after it is congealed and ●axen hard, take asmuch musk as you will with 〈◊〉 Rose water, and other odoriferous waters, and mingle them together with a pesnell of wood, and and keep it in a vessel of Glass, and set it in the shadow toward the north, and if you put to it a little ●●orax liquida, it will be as good for the scurf or scab, as to keep the hands fair.   

To make that flies shall not torment or trouble Horses in Summer.  
TAke the leaves of Gourds, and stamp them, and so rub the Horses with it every morning and at nigh when it is hot, or else take lose of wine, and rub them with it, and the flies shall not torment ●●r ●oxe them no more than in the mids of winter.   

To keep Figs green all the year.  
YOu must gather them when they are ripe in the fair wether and at none days, to the intent that they may be dry from all dew, and put them in a fair vessel of stone or earth the matter or substance whereof must be very fine, and that the figs touch not one another, then cover them diligently, that they have no manner of air, and put them so in wine, and they will be green as long as the wine is good, which thing hath been proved.   

For to make that Pommegranates shall not open.  
TAke three great flint stones which are in the bottom of rivers, uncover the earth from the root of the tree and lay the stones upon the root, and cover it with the earth again as it was before. Also if you plant nigh unto the tree Squilla, the Pomegranates will not open.   

For to keep wine sweet all the year.  
TAke a vessel well pitched within and without, and put the wine into it before it boil in the fat, and stop the said vessel well, that it take no air, and then lay it in a river as deep as you can that the vessel may be covered with water, and let it remain so a month without removing it, then take it out, and set it where you wil Thus doing the Wine shall be sweet and good all the year, and thick like must.   

For wine that will not keep long.  
TAke two or three eggs, and if it be claret wine take only the yelke of it, & if it be white wine, take only the white of an Egg, and take three ounces of flint stone of a river that runneth swift, and make it into powder, and two ounces of Salt made into very small powder, and mingle all together. Then put the Wine into another clean vessel that hath no o●our or savour: this done cast into it all this composition, and mengle it with the wine five or six times a day, during the space of three or four days. But note that you must make this provision before it be utterly corrupt & putrefied: for if it were wholly corrupt and spilled, this would avail nothing but were ●ime and labour lost.   

To cause that wine shall not be to strong.  
TAke a piece of Salt lard, and tie it with a great thread at the Bung hole within, and let the lard touch only the upper part of the vessel. Thus doing the Wine will never be strong because of the ●ard and salt which letteth and hindereth the separation and attenuation which giveth force & strength to the wine.   

To make Vinaigre.  
TAke the fruit of the tree called in latin Cornus, in french Corneillier, there be none of them in England and therefore it lacketh an English name, the said fruit is like unto Olives but they be red, and somewhat longer, take of them when they be red, take also Blackberies before they be ripe, and dry them, and make them into powder, and with ● little strong Vinaigre, make of them little balls, the which you shall dry in the sun. Then take the wine and heat it, and when it is hot but into it this composition, and it will turn incontinent into strong Vinaigre, which thing is experimented.   

To make Vinaigre with water.  
TAke thirty. or xl. pound of wild pears, and let them lie three days on a heap in some vessel, and then sprinkle or water them every day with a little water the space of thirty. days, and it shall be as good Vinaigre and as strong as if it were of Wine▪ also if you take grapes, and wring out the wine with your hands, and put the cell into some vessel and put water upon it, it will be ●igre and sharp.   

To make Vinaigre with perished wine or wine that is marred.  
TAke corrupt and rotten wine, andbo●le or seeth it, and take of all the froth or skim that it maketh in boiling, and let it remain on the fire till it be diminish of the third part. Then put it in a vessel, wherein strong Vinaigre hath been, and put to it some serfoile, and cover the vessel well that it take no air at all, and in short time it will be good and strong vinegar.   

To take away the savour of the mouldines or putrefaction of the wine.  
TAke Meddlers well made ripe in straw, and open them in four parts & bind them with a thread, and hang them within the bung of the vessel that they may be all covered with the wine, and let them remain so a month, than take them out, and you shall take away also the evil odour of the wine.   

To make wine have a good odour.  
TAke an orange, or a citron that is not to great, and take Cloves oriental and set them in the orange or citron until it be almost full, and so put it into the vessel of wine, but let it not touch the wine: then stop up your vessel sure that the odour go not out.   

To make that Leeks shall be great.  
TAke many seeds together and set them in goats dung and let them grow and ripe, and you shall see a marvelous thing.   

To make toadstools or mushrooms grow.  
CUt a Poplar tree hard to the ground, and then take hot water with levain in it, and cast it upon the root and within three or four days the toadstools will grow about the foot of the Poplar tree where you did cast the water, and they shall be good to eat.   

To make that all manner of Codware shall seethe quickly.  
TAke the seeds that you will sow, as Peason, Phasiols, Lintelles, and such like, and before you sow them, sprinkle them with salt peter and than sow them when you will, and those that ●rowe of that seed, will seethe sooner, and easilier than ●● her will do.   

To have green Flowers all the year.  
TAke young plants of flowers in Summer and set them in some place very hot, as in stoves or hot houses, & leave them so, for by the means of the great heat, they will grow to their perfect bigness, & in the mids of winter bear their flowers, which thing is tried and proved.   

To make Corn, and podware to grow greater than they are wont to do.  
TO make Corn and podware, as Wheat, Rye, mill, Ciche peason, and all other like to grow greater than ordinarily they do, you must sow ●hem in a field where Squilla is planted, because that this Squilla is hot, and consequently giveth heat vn●o the seeds, and so maketh them grow greater than they commonly do.   

To make that fruits shall not rot upon the tree.  
TAke a Nail, and heat it glowing hot in the fire, and dri●e it into the foot of the tree, or if you will not do so, make a hole in the same place with a Percer, and leave it so, for at that hole all the superfluous suck or juice will come out, which is the 〈◊〉 that the fruits rot upon the tree.   

To make letters than can not be read unless the Paper be put in water.  
TAke Rochealome, and make it into powder than put it into a little water, and write what you will with it upon white Paper, and let the let●er● dry of themselves, and when you will read them▪ put the Paper into clear water, and the letters upward, and you shall read them as if they were written with ink, because the water maketh the Paper somewhat black, or rather grey, and the Alum shineth, by reason of the whiteness of it, which is a marvelous thing and proved.   

To make letters that can not be read but at the fire.  
TAke salt ammoniac, and make thereof powder very small, and put it in water, than writ what you will with it upon Paper, and let it dry. And when you will read it, hold it before the fire, and you shall read very well. Also if you take the suck or juice of a Limon or Dinyon, and write withal, a man can not read it but at the fire.   

To make that Aqua vite shall receive all the virtues and strength of medicines.  
TAke four ounces of Aqua vite, and put it in a vessel of Glass with a straight and narrow mouth, but yet great and thick of Glass, then take Medicamentes elect well dried and cut very small, & put them in the same glass unto the Aqua vite & stop well and surely the mouth of the Glass with the stopple, and than with white wax upon it: finally take what vessel or pot you will and fill it with hot ashes so that there be n● fire in it, and bury this vessel of Aqua vite in the same Ashes.   

To make that a woman shall eat of nothing that is set upon the table.  
TAke a little green Basil, and when men bring the dishes to the table put it underneath them, that the woman perceive it not: for men say that she will eat of none of that which is in the dish where under the basil lieth.   

To make Oil of Roses, or other Odoriferous Herbs.  
TAke a viol of Glass very thin, and of three parts, fill two with oil olive very good and clean, & fill the rest with Roses, or the herb wherewith you will make the oil. Than set the viol or glass in the sun, and cover it well first, and let it so rest three or four days, than take it out of the sun, and take out all the roses, and all the oil, and wring them well, that all the oil may come out of them, than cast them away and put the oil again into the viol, and fill it a new with fresh roses, and set it in the sun other four days. Than take them away, and wring out the oil, and put in other fresh roses, doing thus four or five times you shall have an oil as odoriferous as the roses themselves.   

To make that the Moths and Vermin shall not eat nor destroy clothes and apparel.  
TAke Wormwoode, or Southernwoode, the leaves of a Cedar tree, and valerian, and lay them in your coffers or presses where your clothes be, or in the pleytes of your garments, and you shall see that they will not hurt them, because these leaves and herbs are bitter of taste, and the savour or smell is very strong, which the vermin do abhor, and can not abide.   

For to make that wild beasts shall not hurt you.  
FOr to be assured and safe from wild Beasts, as Wolves, Bears, and such other like, take the grease of a Lion, and anoint yourself therewith over and over, and go hardly where you will and no beast shall hurt you, but as soon as they smell the savour of the grease, they will run away. And if by chance you meet with a wolf, or other wild beast, run not away but with a good courage go even to him that he may smell the grese that you are anointed with all; and he will fly.   

For to be assured and safe from Serpents.  
TAke the suck or juice of a radish root, and anoint your hands with it, then take the Serpents in your hands, and they will not bite nor sting you, because of the subtility and finesse of this juice, but will die almost in smelling only the savour.   

To take away the pain and grief of the Gout.  
TAke a great foul called a Vultour, in latin Vulture, and take the skin of her right beele and lay upon the right foot of the patiented, then take the skin of the left heel, and lay it upon his left foot, and incontinent you shall see that in half an hour the pain will go away. Which is a marvelous thing.   

For to see wild Beasts in a Dream.  
TAke the heart of an Ape, and lay it under your head, when you go to bed so that it touch your head, and you shall see marvelous things, and all kinds of beasts, as Lions, Bears, Wolves, Apes, Tigers, and other such like.   

For to make Silk white.  
TAke Brimstone and burn it, & hold the Silk over the smoke of it, & it will incontinent wax white. Also if you will have a Rose of divers colours, hold him over the smoke of Brimstone burning, and it will be red, white, and Cremsine, and will be fair, but it shall lose his sweet savour.   

To make an herb grow that shall have many and divers odours and savours.  
TAke one grain of lettuce seed, one of succory, one of alexanders, one of basille, one of a leek, and another of parsley, and plant them all together in one hole, so that one touch not another and you must plant them in horse dung; or Ox dung, or of any other beast, so that there be no earth at all, & there will grow an herb that shall have the smell, of lettuce, Alexander's, of Succory, of Basil, of leeks, and of Perslie, and this is a thing proved.   

To make an Apple or ball that provoketh sleep.  
TAke wild Poppy, the juice of Mandragora, and lose of wine asmuch of the one as of the other, and a little civet, and of all this make a round ball, and hold it in your hand, and smell to it, and it will make you sleep wonderfully.   

To make a barren woman bear children.  
TAke of these little seafish with many feet called in Latin Polipi or Polypodes, and roast them upon the embers without oil, and let the woman eat of them, and it shall profit and help her very much, having in the mean time the company of a man.   

To make hears grow upon a bald head.  
TAke oil of Tartre, and warm it, and rub your head with it, or other places where you will hear shall grow, and within viii. or ten days the hears will come forth as thick as before, and not only make those hears to grow which be fallen: but also maketh other to increase more than there was afore, and which is more, if you rub the palm of your hand with it, hears will grow there as well as in any other place.   

To make a water that dieth or coloreth copper into the colour of Gold.  
TAke the gall of a male goat, and another of a female goat, and a little Arsenic asmuch until you see there is enough, and distill all together, and wet and temper your copper in this water, but let the copper be first well skoored, and incontinent it will turn into the colour of Gold.   

To make oil of Brimstone.  
TAke ten eggs and seeth them till they be hard, then take of the shells and cast the white and them away, so that there remain nothing but the yelke, which you shall stamp, and take asmuch brimstone by weight, and make thereof powder, and mengle all well together: and so distill it with a slow fire, and it will be very good.   

For to make salt Armoniac.  
TAke a pound of man's blood, and two pound of the blood of an Ox or other beast, and six pound of well water, and mingle all together: than strain it with a linen cloth very hard & straigte and set it on the fire where you shall leave it until the water be consumed, and that which shall remain will be good salt Armoniac.   

For to make Borase.  
TAke two ounces of Alum, and temper it with two ounces of salt Alcall which men use to make glass withal, then put it into some vessel of tin, and seeth it with a sougth fire the space of half an hour, and than take out the water, and take two ounces of salt Gemma beaten in powder, and asmuch of salt alcal, and two pound of virgin Honey, and a pound of Cow milk, and mingle all together with water, and set it three days in the sun, and it will be made.   

For to make Coral.  
TAke the Horns of a white male Goat, and make them very clean, then take a good sharp knife, and skrape them finely that the skrapinges may be like powder, then take pieces of Ash, and burn them, and of there ashes you shall make lie which you shall strain three times in a linen cloth, and put the skrapinges of the horn into it and mix it well together, and let it so remain in infusion fivetene days. Then take some Vermilion made in powder, and a little water and mengle it together with the said powder, than you shall make the Coral with your hands, or as you will and let it dry: then polish it with the wheel or turn, and it will be like natural Coral.   

To die Iron in the colour of Gold.  

Melancie, is an Island called melos one of the ●iclades.  TAke Alum of Melancie, and beat it into powder, then take a little sea water, and mingle it together: then heat your iron hot and steep it in the same water, and set it a day in the sun, and it will have the colour of Gold.   

For to make Iron strong and fair as silver.  
TAke salt armoniac, and make it into powder, and mingle it with unslecked lime, than put it in cold water, and mix all well together, this don heat your iron redhote, and deep it in the said water, and it will become as white as Silver.   

For to make a water that will take out incontinent letters from the Paper.  
TAke a pound of blue vitriol, three pound of salt peter, and four ounces of vermilion & five pound of Alum, and stamp them all together, and make thereof a powder, and still it in some vessel of glass with a small fire, and there will come out two manner of waters the first white, and the second green. If you take a little of the first and lay it upon the leaf of Paper written, rubbing it with a green cloth some what course or rough, it will take away the letters from the paper, and leave it as white, as if there had never been ink upon it. Also if you take of the said water and heat it, and hold a sheet of paper written over the smoke of it, it will become incontinent like as it had been written ten year before.   

To take a spot of Oil out of Cloth.  
TAke oil of Tartre, and lay it upon the spot, and take it of by and by again, then wash it well with lukewarm water, and three or four times with cold water, and the cloth will be as neat and as clean as when it was new, and before the oil fell upon it.   

To staunch the Bleeding at the nose.  
TAke great Ciche peason, and lay them upon a Tile in the fire until they be dry, and then make powder of them very fine, and put of it in his nose, and the bleeding will cease.   

To break botches, impostumes, cartarres, or sores, coming in the throat.  
TAke the dry dung of an Ass, and of swallows, and make thereof powder, and put of it in water, or in wine hot, and gargel or wash your throat oftentimes with it and you shall be delivered.   

To take an Iron or arrow head out of a wound.  
TAke the leaves of Palma Christi, and stamp them, and at night lay of the juice or suck of it upon the wound, and in the morning you shall find the wound so wide and large, and the iron or arrow head so discovered that you may take it out with your fingers.   

To make that young Children shall have no pain or grief in their teeth.  
TAke an old Cock and cut of his comb, and take of the blood that cometh of it and rub their gums with it, & they shall never feel pain.   

For to make a clear voice.  
TAke the flowers of an Elder tree, and dry them in the sun, but take heed they take no moisture or wet, then make powder of them, and drink of it with white wine every morning fasting.   

For to fasten lose teeth.  
TAke Frankensens, Mastic, and the pills of Pomegranates, asmuch of one as of the other, and make thereof a powder: and when you go to bed, wash your teeth with a little good wine, then take of the said powder, and lay it upon your Teeth, and they will wax fast and sure in short space.   

For the Emorawdes.  
TAke a Tortese, and put him in a pot well stopped upon the fire, and let him alone until he be all burnt, then take the pot from the fire and take out the Tortese, and make him into powder: then first wash the Emorawdes with white wine very hot, then lay upon them some of the said powder and in two or three times he shallbe healed.   

For one that hath his Sight troubled.  
TAke the lungs or lights of a Barrow hog with all the appurtenances, and seeth it in water, and when it is sudden let him hold his eyes over the smoke of it, and in three or four times doing he shall be cured of that trouble.   

For one that is abroke or brusten.  
TAke of the root of Symphiton petreon, in English Bugle or Camfrey, and put of it into the bread that he eateth every day, and let him eat every day of the said root either raw or roast, and it shall be a very healthful thing for his disease.   

For one that hath his cods swollen.  
TAke Rue, and stamp it, and lay it upon his cods, and immediately they will assuage their swelling, which thing is sufficiently proved.   

To make a woman that is wont to have daughters to bear Sons also.  
KNow you that it is a had thing for a barren woman to bear Children, and a great gift and grace of God to obtain it, because the causes of sterilite and barainesse be divers, and without number: but to make a woman that beareth always Daughters to bear also Sons, it is a thing very easy, and hath good success, and hath been divers times proved. Wherefore if you will that your wise shall have male children, eat an herb called in English Mercury, in Italy Mercorella, in French Mercuriale or Ferolle, which hath only two seeds like unto the genitories of a man, and make her also eat of it before you company with her, and eat both of you the right stones of some beasts and of the skraping of an elephants tooth.   

To make that the hands shall not chink nor cleave.  
TAke a radish root, & make him hollow within unto the bottom then take three ounces of oil of Roses, and an ounce of Turpentine or more, according to the greatness of the radish, and then cover the said radish and leave it in the hot ashes or embers, until it be half consumed, than take it out, and anoint your hands with it.   

For to make a man's Berde black.  
TAke Aqua fortis, and a penny weight of fine Silver, and melt it in the said water by the fire, and when you will occupy of it anoint the beard at the roots of the hear with oil of Roses, and with a spong wet your beard, so that you touch not the flesh, and let it dry, than wash it with lie, wherein there hath be mirabolans and Pommegranades sodden.   

To make a woman bear Children although it be not always assured, yet it is the best remedy that can be found.  
first cause the woman to be purged well and give her some water of the banns of Aquario, or other mine of Brimstone, then let her eat of the flesh of a hare, and the man also as much as is possible, that is to say, leaving all other kind of flesh, than take the kind of that Mercury, that hath curled or wrinkled leaves, mugwort or mother wort, valerian, and make thereof long, or round morsels without past, with grease, spices, cheese, and eggs, and let her eat nothing else in the morning with bread three times a week continually, and let her drink good wine, and perfume herself three days together with Frankensens, bay leaves, Nutmegs, Bengwine, & a little Musk, and let the husband also take three mornings some of this powder following. Take the small skraping of Cyprus, a dram & a half of town Cresses, called in latin Nasturtium, long Pepper, Nutmegs, fine wood of Aloe, of each of them half a penny weight, and the kidney and stones of a hedgehog, dried and not burned, and make thereof a powder the which you shall take at three times with Malmsey, and remain viii. 
This stone is called in greek Active, and hath many goodly virtues, as you may read in Hermolaus barbarus in corollario.  days without the company of her, and after having companied with her, let her sleep, and carry upon her left arm an Eagle stone, not of the common sort but of those that be as hard as steel, and let her also keep every day upon the reins of her back a new laid egg beaten with five or six drops of strong black Vinaigre, and remove it every day.   

To make a woman labouring, to bring forth her Child that can not be delivered.  
TAke of the said Egle stone, called in latin Lapis Aquilinus, and bind it upon the left thigh of the woman, then give her to drink three ounces of white Lilies, and she shall be delivered incontinent in adding to it a little Safran and sugar, and make her to vomit and niece. And if she be not delivered for all this, or if the child be dead in her body long afore, you must make this composition following, which is a thing experimented. Take three handfuls of green Maioram, and asmuch of green ysope, and stamp them together, and press them until you get out three ounces of juice, the which you shall strain, and give it her warm to drink fasting, and let her eat nothing in five hours after, & she shall be delivered of her Child without doubt, and if she be not she shall die, because she is to weak, or else you must cut the Child out, because it may lie overthwart, and except these two cases, she shall not fail but be delivered.   

For to make teeth that do ache to fall out.  
TAke the root of crow foot, called in latin Ranunculus, gathered in May, and dry it a little in an oven, and keep it all the year. Then take a little of it being beaten or stamped, also take a little pitch made with clammy Turpentine, and put the said root in the hole of the said tooth that acheth, and if it have no hole, put it upon the top of the said tooth, and lay the said pitch upon it, so that it be fast to it, and let it remain so three hours, and in two or three times doing it at the most, the tooth will fall in pieces within eight days.   

A remedy for the falling sickness.  
TAke wheat slower, and kneath it with dew gathered in the morning on midiomer day, & make thereof a cake, the which you shall bake, and give the patiented to eat of it, and he shallbe healed.   

Against the Plague.  
TAke three ounces of the liquor of the innar rin● of an Ash tree and s●ill it with three ounces of white wine, & give the patient drink of it every iij. hours, & within xxiv. hours he shallbe cured.   

For the same.  
TAke three ounces of walnuts that be not yet full ripe, prepared and distilled, at midsummer, and let him that hath the plague drink of it, and he shall be hole: but it shall be better to take the outward pills of the walnuts in September when they be black, so that they be not rotten, and distill them, and give the patient a glass full of it to drink, and let it be lukewarm before he be let blood, and this shall help him much.   

For the putrefaction of the teeth.  
TAke the roots of an herb called in latin Pes Alexandrinus, and cut them very small, and distill them with the best wine you can get, and hold a spoon full of the water in your mouth, and you shall find ease and remedy in short space: for this healeth sore and corrupt teeth, and maketh them clean: And besides that, it helpeth much in purging and cleansing away of all manner of filth of the mouth.   

For the stinking of the breath, and to make the teeth white.  
TAke a pound of skimmed Honey, half a pound of Aqua vite, three ounces of Lignum aloe, two ounces of gomme Arabic, nutmegs, Galingale, Cububes, cinnamon, Mastic, Cloves, Spic, and Lavender new, anna three drams, two drams of Amber beaten, mix all this together, and still water of it in a limbeck, & this water will take away the stinking of the breath, whiten the teeth and maintain health long.   

A water to make clean teeth.  
TAke salt Armoniac, and salt Gemma, three ounces of each one, an ounce and a half of Alumen Such●●●num, and distill it, or temper it in two pound of water, the space of eight days, and with this liquor distilled, or so tempered, you shall rub your teeth and they will be white.   

Another water to whiten teeth.  
TAke a pound of salt well purged, and beaten, an ounce of Alumen Glaciale, and distill it in a limbeck, and mingle an ounce of the water, with an ounce of Plantain water, and rub your teeth with the composition, and with cotton, and they will be white and clean.   

To take away the smell of Garlic, Leeks, or Onions.  
AFter that you have eaten Garlic, Leeks, or Onions, take the rote of Beete, and roast it under embers, and eat it, and you shall see the effect: or else eat a piece of the root of Zeduaria, and you shall not smell at all, and this is easier to be done than with the root of Beete.   

A principal remedy for the flux or lax.  
TAke Panike beaten and stamped, and give the patiented drink of it with claret wine, and he shall be cured. The said Panike being also sodden with goats milk, and eaten twice a day, at morning and night before meals, it worketh the like operation.   

For to make that hears shall not grow.  
TAke the skins or husks of green Beans, and make a plaster of them, and lay upon the places where you will that hear shall not grow, and if there be any they will fall of and grow no more.   

A very profitable remedy for the hardness of women's breast after they be brought a bed.  
YOu must take wheat Bran, and seeth it with the juice of Rue, and lay it upon her breasts that be hardened after her lying down, and they will wax soft and supple. The like remedy is also very good against the biting of Venomous beasts.   

For Apostumes, Botches, Cankers, or other swellings.  
TAke Barley and Bran, and seeth them until they be like unto a plaster very thick, and lay it upon the sore and it shall help much.   

To make women's milk increase.  
TAke Fenell seed, and seeth it in barley water, and give the woman drink of it, and her milk shall increase abondantly. Also the broth or water that Ciche peason be sodden in, is very good for the like thing.   

To know whether there be any water in the wine or no.  
TAke raw Pears, and pair them and make them clean, and cut them in the mids, or else take Mulberries, and cast them into the wine: and if they swim upon the wine, it is pure & clean without water, but if they sink to the bottom, theris water mixed with wine.   

To make Vinaigre.  
MEn make Vinaigre putting the wine in some vessel, wherein Vinaigre hath been before, and setting it in the sun, or by the fire, or putting into it new and clean tiles or bricks heat or made hot in the fire.   

To make dry Vinaigre, which may be carried where a man will.  
TAke wild Cherries, when they begin to wax ripe, but the fruit of the tree called Cornus in latin, is better, and Mulberries or Blackberies when they be red, or the great green Grape, & the wild acorn before it be ripe, and stamp all this together, then take the best Vinaigre you can get, and incorporate all the said things together, and make of the past little loves, which you shall dry in the sun, and when you will make Vinaigre, steep of the said passed in wine, and it will be good Vinaigre.   

Another composition for the same.  
TAke green Grapes & stamp them, putting to them some vinaigre, & a make paste or dough thereof, whereof you shall make little loves and dry them in the sun: And when you will make vinegar, steep these loves in as much wine, as you shall see will suffice, and you shall have strong vinaigre.   

To make Rose Vinaigre very sweet and odoriferous.  
TAke good white Vinaigre, and put into it fresh and new red Roses, or else dry, keeping all together in a vessel well leaded within the space of forty days, than take out the roses, and but them into another vessel, and keep them in a cold place.   

To make Vinaigre of Graine.  
TAke an ounce of powder of Graine, wherewith men die fine cloth and put it into a sufficient quantity of Vinaigre, and keep it in the sun certain days in a vessel leaded, and well covered, than keep also together, without separating the Vinaigre from the Grain, and it will be the excellentest vinaigre of all, because the grain is very sweet of savour and odoriferous, hearty, and hot, and for this cause it tempereth and moderateth the great cold of the Vinaigre.   

A preservative in time of Pestilence or plague, and against all Ven●m or poison, and biting of a mad Dog.  
IF you eat before your meals, a walnut or two, two dry Figs, and some leaves of Garden Rue, with a corn of salt, it will be a good preservative in the ●ime of a plague, and against all poison that a man eateth it. And the same being stamped and laid to the biting of a mad dog it healeth it, so do Nutmegs also work the like effect.   

Against stinking vermin called Pinneses.  

They that have travailed in France ●●owe what pinnese be.  YOu must anoint well the place where you doubt this vermin will breed, with oil olive mixed with the juice of wormwood, and there will breed none.   

To purge Coler and Flame.  
TAke some little nosegays of Coleworts, and put them in seething water, and leave them in it after it hath begun to boil, while a man will go five or six p●se, then take them out of the water, and stamp them, and take the juice of thy, and strain it thorough a linen cloth, and keep it in an earthen vessel the space of a night in the air abroad, then put to it some corns of Salt, and a little Commine cut small or minced. Now, he that will purge himself, and take this medicine, must go to bed supperless, and wash well his legs, hands, and arms with hot water, and drink the said juice so made, in the morning, and walk upon it three or four hours, and when he hath lust to vomit, let him vomit and he shall cast up so much Coler and Phlegm that it shallbe a marvelous thing to see. And besides this, this juice will purge also his head.   

A remedy to keep flies from flesh.  
IF you lay an Onion upon the flesh, there will never fly come near the flesh as far as the savour of the onion extendeth.   

To keep Flesh all the summer without corrupting.  
Cover the Flesh in Meal, Flower, or Bran, and it shall not mar in a long time. The like shallbe done if you cast upon the flesh Coriander seed beaten and mingled with Vinaigre.   

To know if a Melon be good.  
MEn say commonly that a Melon is good when the tail is bitter, and the head of him hard, and is very heavy.   

To kill and destroy Flees.  
TAke Penniriall when it is in blossom, and burn it where the flees be, and the smell of that will kill and destroy them.   

To ripe a botch, impostume, fellow or cats hear, or any swelling sore.  
TAke Hogs suet or grease, or else lard, and lay it upon the sore or Botch, and it will ripe incontinent. Also be that hath many life or nits in his head, anointing and rubbing it well with the said suet or lard they will die. Also the oil of Laurel or bay will do the like.   

An excellent washing for the teeth.  
TAke the flowers of Pommegranades, and seeth them in Wine, and take of this wine in your mouth for it hath the virtue of restraining & fastening the gums swollen, and to make the flesh fine.   

To make abaite for river fish.  
TAke the blood and the flesh of a calf and minse it together, and put it in a vessel, and let it remain so the space of ten days, and then occupy it.   

A remedy that no kind of herbs shall be hurt or corrupted by flees or lise.  
WIth the Herbs that you will sow you must sow also rocket, or else wash the seeds of the Herbs that you will sow in the juice of Singreene, and when the herbs be come by they shall never be hurt nor corrupted by lise nor flees.   

To drive away the stinking Vermin called Puneses.  
If you steep Rue in water, and sprinkle your house or place where this vermin is you shall drive them all away. Also if you lay in your bed steed a branch of hemp, you shall not be molested with Pinaises. Also rubbing your bed steed with liquid or soft pitch which some think to be tar, and the juice of wild Cowcombers, and the Pinneses that be there will die. Likewise if you rub your bedstead with Squilla, stamped with Vinaigre or with the leaves of a Cedar tree sodden in oil, you shall never feel Pinnese. The like shallbe done if you rub your bedstead, with fish glue sodden. Also if you set under the bed a pail full of water, the Pinneses will not trouble you at all.   

For to Kill and destroy Flies.  
TAke white Hellebore, and steep it in milk or sodden wine, than put to it some Auripigmentum otherwise called Arsenic or orpine, & sprinkle your house with it, and you shall destroy all the flies. Also the decoction of Eldern cast about the house worketh the like effect.   

Another way to Kill and destroy Flees.  
WOrmwoode, or wild Cowcomber roots steeped in sea water, destroyeth flees: so doth the water wherein M●lanthium otherwise called Nigella Romana hath been steeped, casting it about your house. Also if you boil or seethe the water with Rose cakes, or with hemp seeds, and casting it about your house it will do the like.   

For one that hath eaten venomous toadstools or Mushrooms.  
THere is no presenter remedy for him that hath eaten venomous Mushrooms or toadstools, than to make him vomit as soon as may be possible in giving him drink the roots of the leaves of Rue well stamped, and of Organy, and Honey, and after that, the use of treacle which shall be very good, and Mithridatum with strong vinaigre, 
Oximellun scylliticum, is honey and vinaigre sudden together, having the roots of Scylla steeped in it.  or with Oximellum scylliticum, or else with Aqua vite. Also to eat raw Garlic helpeth much in such a case, which the most part of the peasants of the country do, using it in steed of treacle.   

For to confite Mushrooms or toadstools, so well that a man may eat them without any danger.  
seeing that Mushrooms or toadstools are so pleasant in taste that men can not abstain from them, let them learn at the least way the mean to assure themselves from the danger that may ensue, doing as followeth. first of all seeth them with wild pears, or with the leaves of the tree that beareth the said pears. And if you can find no wild pears, you may do it with garden pears, so that they be naturally sour and sharp, and suck as can not well be eaten but they must be roasted, and you may take them either dry or green, and they will take away all the danger of the venom or poison.   

A remedy against the stinging of wasps, or Bees.  
TAke Ox dung sprinkled over with Vinaigre, or else take Mallow leaves so used with Vinaigre, or in touching the stinging with an iron, it is done also with the milk of Figs.   

To make women have a quick and speedy delivery of their Children, and without pain, or at the l●ste very little.  
TAke leaves of Dittany, and stamp them, or else make powder of them, and give the woman that laboureth drink of it with a little water, and she shallbe delivered incontinent, and without any great pain or grief,   

To take of warts from the hands.  
TAke as many Ciche peason as there be warts, and touch each of them with one of the Ciche peason, so that every pease touch his wart, then wrap up the said peason in a little clout, and cas●e them behind you, and all the warts will dry up.   

For the dysentery or flux of the Stomach.  
TAke green beans, pods and all, and seed them with water and Vinaigre, & eat them so pods and all, and that shall stop you.   

To fasten the gums, and lose teeth.  
TAke a little myrrh, and temper it with Wine and oil, and wash your mouth with all, & you shall see a wonderful experience. The myrrh also killeth the worms in a man's body, and being chewed in the mouth maketh a sweet breath.   

To take away the tooth ache.  
TAke Ysope, and make thereof a decoction with Vinaigre, and it being hot wash your mouth withal, & the pain of the teeth shall go away. The Ysope also being stamped, and incorporated with Honey, and a little Nitrum, killeth the worms in a man's body.   

Another remedy for to heal the tooth ache.  
Boil frogs with water and vinaigre, & wash your mouth with the decoction, and it will be very profitable for the pain of the teeth.   

To make Hear grow.  
TAke three quick Frogs, & burn them alive in a pot, and mingle the ashes that you make of them with honey or with tar, which is far better, and rub the place with it where you see there groweth no hear, and in short space it will grow abondantly.   

To make Hear black.  
TAke leeches or blood suckers, and let them rot the space of three score days in red wine or vinaigre in some vessel of lead, and anoint the hears with it in the sun, and they will become black.   

To kill the worms in the teeth, and to take away the stinking of the teeth.  
TAke a hundred frogs, and dry them all night in an oven, so that they may be made into a powder: and put to it asmuch salt beaten into powder, & rub your teeth with it, & it will kill the worms, and take away the evil savour of the teeth.   

To heal pussive and broken winded Horses.  
TAke molin or longwort, and make thereof a powder, and give it the horse to drink with his water, and it shall not only take away the cough: but also heal him if he be altogether pussife and broken winded. Also Gencian will do the like, which thing is sufficiently proved and tried.   

To preserve a man from vomiting on the sea.  
YOu must drink the juice of Wormwood, and you shallbe quite from such pain, and vexation of vomiting.   

A remedy against the biting or stinging of Serpents.  
TAke ash leaves, and stamp them, and lay them upon the place that is stonge, or else get out the juice of them, and give him drink of it, and you shall see a marvelous effect, because that the Serpent is so great enemy unto the Ash tree, that he would rather go thorough the fire, then to pass by an Ash.   

For them that spit Blood.  
TAke fine Rye flower, and make thereof a cake, and when it is bake give it the patient to eat, as hot as he may endure it, and it shall do him great ease.   

A remedy against the worms in young Children.  

lupines, is a kind of ●ulse corn.  TAke dry lupines, and make flower of them, and kneath it with Honey and lay it upon the stomach of the Childeland it will heal him.   

A remedy for the flux or Lax.  
TAke green Acorns and stamp them a little with the skin and all, and with the ends of the young and tender leaves, and make thereof distilled water in a limbeck, and give the patient drink of it, and it shallbe a very good remedy.   

For the running of the urine that is to say for one that can not hold his water.  
TAke the small ends of Oaken leaves, and seeth them in Claret wine, and then stamp them, and make a plaster of them, and lay it hot upon the yard of the patient, & shortly he shallbe cured.   

For those that can not keep their meat but vomit it up again continually.  
TAke the tender leaves of an ash tree, and seeth them in strong Vinaigre, and then stamp them, and make thereof a plaster, which you shall lay upon the stomach of the patient, or upon his belly and he shallbe greatly eased of his disease.   

To make that Ants, or Emettes shall not eat the figs upon the tree.  
TAke a kind of Onions, called in latin Cepa Scylliticae, & stamp them with Barrowes grease or lard, and anoint the foot of the plant a handful or two of height, and the Ants will not go up into the tree, and this must you do in March.   

To make Hore hears black.  
TAke mulberry leaves, vine leaves, & the leaves of a red fig tree, and boil them with rain water, and wash your head with it, and the hears willbe black.   

For the tooth ache.  
TAke the roots and leaves of Chickwood, and boil them in water, with the which you shall wash your mouth, and hold it in your mouth a certain space, and it will take away your pain.   

To destroy lice and other small beasts, that do waist and mar the herbs in gardens.  
LEt a woman that hath her flowers walk three or four times in the allees, and all the vermin will fall down dead.   

A remedy for Deafness.  
IF a man be Deaf by some accident and not by nature, take the juice of Coleworts mixed with warm water, and drop it into his ears, and he shall find a marvelous ease and remedy.   

Against the stinging of Scorpions.  
TAke Penniriall either dry or green, and stamp it with good wine, and make thereof a plaster, which you shall lay upon the wound or stinging of the Scorpion, and he shall be safe, and healed.   

A remedy that the Sun shall not hurt you shining upon your head, when you go any jornaie.  
IF you put a little branch of Penniriall in each ear, the Sun shall never make your head ache when it shineth upon it.   

A remedy for the Horsnesse of the voice.  
IF by cold you be Horse, take Penniriall, and seeth it in water, and take of it at night when you go to bed, a dishefull somewhat hot, with a little sugar melted in it, and doing this three or four times, you shallbe rid of your Horesnesse, and have a clear voice.   

A remedy for them that can not piss.  
TAke five or six leeks, and fry them in the oil of Scorpions, and then stamp them and make of them a plaster and lay it upon their cods as hot as they may endure it. Also the beard or hear of Leeks will do the like, if there be dried, and made in powder, and given them to drink in white Wine, and will make the gravel, and small stones to come out.   

To make a bait to catch wild Geese and wild Ducks, and all other sort of foul.  
TAke the seed of Belenge and the roots also, and steep them in water the space of a day and a night with the seeds: than seeth the said things with the water that they were steeped in, so that the seed may well drink and soak up the said water: than lay the said seed or grain in the places where wild Ducks and wild Geese are wont to rest, and they will eat this grain or seed thus prepared and thereupon will sleep as they were drunk and in the mean time you may take them with your hands▪ but there must be a great quantity of this Belenge specially for wild Geese. This may also serve to take all other manner of foul that go together in shoals or companies. Men use to seethe this grain with brimstone and lay it in the places where birds and foul are wont to feed and all that eat of it, will fall down and die: but to keep them that they die not, you must give them to drink oil olive, and shortly after they will revive again.   

To make that Dogs shall never be mad, and a remedy for them if they be mad, being bitten of wild Dogs or wolves.  
IF you cut of the dogs tail within thirty or forty days after he is whelped, he shall never be mad, unless he be bitten of some mad dog or wolf: for if he be bitten, you must give him to eat the space of thirty day continually hens dung with bread or other meat, laying upon the place so bitten, a plaster, of the roots of wild Roses, and put a colla● of it about his neck, and in the wound some Garlic or Onions stamped, and if you be nigh unto the sea, cast him into it every day twice or thrice, so that he may thoroughly wash, and continue so the space of twenty days, because the sea water hath a virtue against the madness of Dogs.   

To make that flies shall not vex or trouble Dogs.  
TAke the green outward shalt of walnuts, and stamp them, and anoint the dog with it where the flies vex him, and specially in the ears, and the flies shall not touch him.   

A remedy to keep Dogs from Flees.  
rub the Dogs over with oil olive, and they will die incontinent, or else take the root of Belenge and seethe it water, with the which you shall wash the Dogs, and if there be any flees they will die, or if you take the juice of the leaves of it, and rub them with it twice or thrice. The like effect will the water of Toruisque work, if you wash the Dogs well with it, but true it is that they must be washed afterward with clean water, for if the dog should touch that water with his tongue, it would hurt him, because it is very venomous.   

To purge Dogs when they be sick.  
IF dogs have any wound, you must heal them with molten pitch mixed with oil olive, and rub the wound every day with it. If they be otherwise sick you must purge them, in gi●ing them drink whey of goats milk. This don seeth a shows head, skin, and hear and all, and put a little Gi●ger in it, and make them eat it hot with the broth and all together.   

To heal mangy Dogs.  
IF you kill a calf, take the blood of him hot, and sm●re it upon the dog where he hath the disease, and when that is dry plaster him over again with calves blood warm as it is when it cometh from the calf, & this must be done divers times. And then wash him well with lie made with the ashes of the shrubs or twigs of Vines. It shall be also good to cast him some time into the fats or tub where they die chevril, and there wash him well, for that cleanseth marvelously, some wash Dogs in the water that myrrh hath been stioped in. It shallbe good also to take a little good plaster of Paris with asmuch of the seed of Alegre●, and stamp them wet together, and mingle them with molten pitch, and anoint the Dog with that, which is also good for men.   

To ●ake warts from the hands.  
TAke earth and kneth it with Dogs piss, and lay it upon the warts, and they will dry up and consume away.   

To make the Teeth white.  
TAke goats horn and burn it, and make thereof powder, and rub your teeth with it, and they will be white, and will also fasten and confirm the gums.   

To take away the pain of the eyes.  
TAke the Langes or Lights of a ●idde hot as they be taken out of his belly, and lay them upon the eyes of the pa●ient, and it shall take his pain fr●● him.   

For him that is stung with a Salamander.  
TAke Rosen prepared and compound with Honey in manner of an electuary, and let him drink it with the decoction of Nettle leaves: But he that by fortune hath eaten of a Salamander must vomit, in giving him drink divers times oil, and making him sharp glisteres, for to draw the venom out, and to comfort his heart after, in giving him good treacle and mithridate, and that his meat be fat flesh of young beasts.   

For one that hath drunk Leches or bloodsuckers.  
Give him drink of some brine, and the juice of Beets with Vinaigre, and you shall kill the beast, that hurteth so that it choketh the patient sticking fast at the mouth of his stomach.   

For one that is stonge with the beast called in latin Psalanx which is a kind of Lisard called Stellio.  
YOu must sing and play upon divers instruments, and make the patient to dance continually until he be healed.   

For one that is bitten with a mad Dog.  
YOu must use all diligence to get immediately the Livar of the same mad dog, and let the patient eat it hot roasted, 
Cucurbitulae, be certain cups that surgeons do use to dra●e out blood with by skarissing the skin called cupping.  and above all things you must enlarge the wound with a razor, and cut away all the torn and perished flesh, and cause the blood to issue out abondantly because it bringeth the venom with it: And to draw out blood also with little cups well flamed, called Cucurbitulae, & to give him garlic, onions and other like things to eat, and to drink Milk, and good, sweet wine.   

A remedy for him that is stonge with some Venomous Beast.  
TO get the Venom out of the flesh & the blood of him that is stung venomously in any manner of sort, the best and the chiefest remedy that can be found, is to suck out the Venom with a man's mouth: but you must note that he that shall suck it out may not be fasting, but must have eaten some thing, specially fat and greasy things his belly full. Then having washed his mouth with good wine, let him take into his mouth some oil olive, and let him begin to suck: Then to enlarge the place that was stung, with a razor, that the venom may come the better out, and set these cups called Cucurbitulae, under with much stame for to draw it out. This done make him a plaster upon it with Garlic and Onions stamped small, and wash the place with hot vinaigre, The diet of the patient must be the blades or leaves of leeks, garlic and Onions, with Pepper and salt enough, and much bread, good wine with organy, and the seeds of Nettles, bay berries, and Genuper berries, the flesh of Hedge hogs of the land, and citrous with their seed.   

To preserve a man from Poison.  
TAke dry Figs, and eat them with walnuts, or raw Citrons, the seeds of navews which is a kind of rape drunk with wine, or else the leaves of Calamint, and Terra sigillata, and ruddle or red chalk, in taking of all these things a dram at a time, and like wise the leaves of Rue eaten with a walnut, two dry figs, and a corn of salt, using daily these simples you shall be preserved from poison. As concerning compounds, the principal of all Antidotes or conterpoisons is mithridate and treacle, for in taking every day the quantity of a Hasill nut of treacle there shall never Poison hurt you.   

To drive away all venomous beasts from your house.  
TAke juniper, the seed of Agnus castus, the shells of river crevices, Hearts horn, the grease or suet of a Buck, Kerse or town Cresses, Organy, and Dittany, and make of all these droges a dough or past, and when you will use it occupy it, burn it, for where as the smoke thereof goeth the beasts will void away.   

Against all poison, eaten or drunk.  
Having knowledge that any man is poisoned, the chief remedy is to make him vomit the poison, in giving him oil olive lukewarm to drink, alone, or mixed with water, & if you have no Oil, give him Butter with hot water, or with the decoction of line seed, or the seed of nettles, or of Scinigrecum, and all these things purge the venom as well dounewarde as upward after having made him vomit divers times, you must purge him with sharp glisters downwardly: then give him water mixed with Honey, and also old Wine enough to drink. But if you can get good treacle or Mitridate, they are the principal against poisons with Terra sigillata, acorn shells, and give him of it in good wine. Let his meat be the fat flesh of old beasts, and fat broths, specially of Hens and fat fish, and let him not sleep, & in continuing this means he shall be delivered, by the help of God.   

Against all Venom or Poison.  
TAke a quantity of Flies, and dry them, and make powder of them, and give it him that is poisoned to drink in wine, and immediately he shallbe cured.   

A remedy which king Nicomedes used that no poison should hurt him.  
TAke juniper Berries, Terra sigillata or ruddle, of each of them two drams, and make it in to powder very small, the which you shall mix with honey, or oil olive, and so keep it. And when you will occupy it, take the bigness of a hazel nut of it at a time, with water mixed with honey, and you shallbe assured not to be poisoned, for in eating poisoned meat after it, as soon as it is in your stomach, there will come upon you a vomiting, so that you shallbe constrained to cast up the meat and the poison together: but if there be none in your meat, the said preparative will not hurt you at all.   

A secret or remedy, not to be stonge of Scorpions.  
CArry about you of the root of Polimonia, or Polimonium, and you shall never be stung of Scorpions, and if you be stung with them they shall do you no hurt.   

A remedy not to be stung of wespes or Bees.  
TAke Mallows & stamp them with oil olive, and where as you anoint yourself with the unction, never flies, Wespes, nor Bees will touch you.   

To make what quantity of strong Vinaigre you will.  
TAke Squilla, which is a kind of an Onion, and take the leaves of from it, & tie it upon a thread, and leave it five or six days in the air. Tha● plunge it into the vessel of wine that you will make Vinaigre of, and there must be so much void space in the vessel that the Squilla, may not touch the wine being tied by the bong, and let it hang so five or six days, and the Wine will become strong and sharp, and will turn into good Vinaigre.   

For one that hath eaten venomous mushrooms or toadstools.  
THe chiefest thing is, that he be made to vomit in giving him drink oil olive, and lie made of the Ashes of the shrubs of vines, or of the branches of a wild pear tree, with salt and vinaigre tempered with water. hens Eggs also be good being drunk with Vinaigre tempered with water. And these remedies be good for any man that hath drunk Plaster, or eaten any thing that choketh, or him to whom some man hath given menstrual blood to drink, as wicked women some time do.   

To be assured and safe from all Sorcery and Enchantement.  
TAke Squilla, and tie it upon the principal gate or door of your house, and you shall assure all the inhabitants in it from all sorcery and enchantmentes. Also this Squilla, assureth and keepeth all plants and trees that are about the house, where it is planted or set, from all noisomeness and infection of the air.   

Against lightning and tempest.  
IN the place where there is tied the skin of a beast called in latin Hyena, or of a Cocodrille, 
Hyppopotamus, is a beast living in the river of Nile having feet like an ox his back and mane like a horse, a winding tail and tusked like a Boar, and neigheth like a horse.  or of a Hyppopotame, or of a sea Calf or seal the lightning tempest and thunder will never fall there, nor likewise upon a hay tree nor fig tree.   

To keep that fruits shall not fall before they be ripe.  
IF you tie wild Figs upon the trees in your Garden from the which your fruit falleth, it shall not only not fall down, but also these figs will keep them safe.   

To keep that wesels and other like beasts shall not eat nor destroy Poultry.  
rub your Pultrie with the juice of Rue or herb grace, and the Wesels shall do them no hurt, also if they eat the Lungs or lights of a Fox, the Foxes will not eat them.   

To make Flax as soft as Silk.  
TAke what quantity of Flax you will that is good and fair, & comb it as ready to be spun: Then take fresh and recent calves dung as much as will suffice to passed over the said flax, and let it be well washed after it hath remained five or six hours so soaked and covered with the dung, and it will be as soft as silk, & may be spun as fine as a man will.   

To heal the pain of the Head.  
TAke Maioram, and press out the juice of it, and let the patient take of it into his Nose.   

To heal lips that be cleft and full of chinks by means of cold or wind.  
TAke gomme Arabike, and Dragant, asmuch of the one as of the other and make powder of it, and incorporate it with Oil of Violettes, and anoint your lips therewith.   

To heal hands that be full of Chaps by cold or wind.  
TAke mastic, frankences, new wax, and oil of roses, & make of all this an unguent or ointment, and anoint the chaps or chinks of your hands, and they will immediately be hole.   

To grind Gold and Silver.  
TAke the cutting or paring of beaten Gold the value of half a crown, than take some gomme Arabic asmuch as two beans, and steep it in so little water that it scant becovered over, and leave it so a night: than bray it a little upon a marble stone, and put to it the Gold by litlle and little, and incorporate it well with the gomme. Then bray it slightly the space of two hours, in gathering it up under the stone that grindeth it: for in spreading it abroad much of it is lost, and with a pencil wet the Gold round about, for sear less it should dry: for you should lose it because of the gum that maketh it to dry up: Then you shall take half an ounce of salt peter, which you shall put in a little c●fer or casket of iron, and put to it so much water that it may be scant covered, and boil it on the fire skimming it well, then strain it with a double linen cloth and thick, and let it cool, and it will congeal and be white: Then bray it with the Gold the space of an hour and a half, and than it is ground. This don take it up with a fine pencil, and put it in a cup or goblet of glass, and resolve all into water. Than must you have ready three or four cups of Glass for to empty the water in from hand to hand: then put the water upon the Gold, and with the end of your finger wash it well with the gum and salt peter, and you shall empty the water from hand to hand into the cups of glass. Also you must have ready some shells clean and dry for to put it in: and the Gold being well washed in the cup or goblet, let there be a little water in it, and stir the Gold with a pin, and you shall empty by little and little in the dish all that quantity which you think you will cut of, and make thereof such measure that you may have your money again. And you must know that there is always half in half gotten upon it. And in emptiing it mix it well together, to the end that the course may go to the bottom and mingle it not with the fine, for you should do hurt unto your work and yourself wrong: but keep it, for you may grind it once again, and when it is in the dish, you shall hold it over a flambing coal, not letting it rest still but removing it fair and softly and it will wax dry, & seem fairer to the eye. And than keep it from all filth, & dust.   

To make fair Verdegrise after the new fashion.  
TAke strong Vinaigre, and viii. ounces of the siling or scales of Copper well made clean from all dust, four ounces of Bay salt, two ounces of   

it, and than fashion what bede stones you will, & make the hole of them little, and let them dry well in the sun, and if you bake them in an oven, they will dure longer, and will be stronger. Than give them a light colour with hole armenick, & the white of an egg, & lay silver foil very fine upon them, but weate it first with water: and then polish them with a dogs tooth, and make them glister and shine. Then take the shearinges or paringes of parchment that be white and not coloured or painted, and wash them with lukewarm water, and boil them in a new pot, until they be well sodden, and somewhat engrossed & waxen to a substance or body, then strain them finely, and when you will occupy them about your work, let them be lukewarm: Than take your Pearl and put it upon the end of a needle, or some other fine or small iron, to the intent the hole be not stopped, and so plunge it into the said parchment glue, & take it out quickly again, and turn it round that the glue may not rest in one place of it, but that it may be of like thickness round about the Pearl, and if it appear not thick enough unto you, dip it in again, and it will show better, that is to faith the whiteness will shine under the glue, & will make a certain obscure mark with in, and glistering without, so that it shall seem a natural colour of a Pearl. And when you shall compare him with a natural Pearl, this shall appear always fairer to the eye, because it hath more gloss and lustre and shallbe rounder. And for to make these your Pearls to be more esteemed keep them in little boxes, and show but a few of them at one's, and if you will win much you must make many of them.   

To imprent medalles in boast with Dragagant.  
TAke six ounces of Dragagant, and steep if in strong Vinaigre the space of three days. Then stamp or beat it well, and engross it into a body or substance with pla●ter ground very small, and if you will make them of other colours, put into it what powder you will, be it white or Orpiment, so that the past may be somewhat hard, and all well incorporated together. Then take your hollow forms or moulds, and anoint them a little, and fill them with the said paste, and press it well down, and let it dry in the sun, & you shall have the print of your mould neete and fine. And of this past you may make also other works as you will as beads stones or other.   

To make a past meet and good to make all manner of medalles or pictures in mould.  
TAke the bones of the legs of all sort of beasts, and put them in a pot after they be broken: and cover them well, and se● them in a brick maker's fournese. And when they be cold again stamp them and bray them very small. This done take the flower or offal of iron that is beaten from it when it is hot and wash it well & clean, and when it is dry again, stamp it and bray it very small upon a marble stone, and wet it much with strong vinaigre until it be like as it were an ointment, than put it in a pot well covered, and set it in the said fournaise: and when it is cold braie it again upon the marble, arrowsing & watering it with a little Aqua vite, and let it dry, and it is made. This don, you shall take a dish full of the said flower or offal of iron, and two dishes full of the first powder, and incorporate them well together, and when you will make the past for to make your medalles in the mould, weate the said powder with salt water, Vinaigre, Piss, or Lie, and mingle and incorporate well all together, and then frame your medalles in the mould, and let them dry. This done cast in your metal, or what you will make, and your medalles shallbe very fair and neat.   

To make medalles, and figures chased and embossed, with Fish glue.  

Fish glue is that which joiners do use commonly.  TAke a slice of fish glue or more or less, & beat it well with a hammer upon a flint stone, than wash it well in fresh water, and finally with lukewarm water, and than put it in a new pot, and put some clear water upon it, and let it steep a night, then put a little fire or embers in a chafing dish, and boil all in this little pot fair and softly the space of an hour and more, until you may perceive that it is incorporated, or else prove it otherwise in putting a drop upon your nail, & if it bide firm, fast & clean, take it from the fire, and cast it upon your medalles that you have made ready, and let them be in this manner following. Take your chased and embossed medalles, and lay round about them a little wax candle, to the intent that the glue fall not by, and anoint it: with honey, and lay on the glue so thick that all the embossing may be covered: than set it in the sun, and let it be equal, and so let it dry, and when it is dried enough, it will lense itself from the medalle, and will be as thin and as fine as paper and all the lineaments very well seen and perceived be they never so subtle and small, and will have a good gloss or lustre, and fold them, & bow them which way you will and they will not break, and if you will alter the colour of them, colour the water with Saffran or verdigris, so that it be scant coloured, and use this water to seethe the glue in, so that it be not to thick: for than your work would be to gross, and not fair to look to, and you may also give it a colour within side or paint it without, and it willbe a very fair thing.   

To make a Green, Yellow, Red and Blue colour without thickness, for to write with upon Paper.  
TAke Verdegrise grossly beaten, and put it in a viol with Vinaigre very strong, and put to it also a little Gomme arabic and a little juice of Rue, & the viol being so full, stop it, & set it in the sun the space of xv. or xx. days, or else boil it upon the fire, and than strain it, and let the verdigris be well melted: this done put it into the viol again, and keep it well from dust, and when you will occupy any of it, stir it well together that it may be thick and troubled, and write or paint with it, and it will be a fair green. For to make the red take head lie, and put into it some verzine cut in small pieces, and let it steep therein a night: then put to it a little alum, and boil it until it decrease of the third part: then strain it, and keep it against you will occupy it. And when you will put it in effect, take asmuch as shall serve you, and boil it again, and put to it some Gomme Arabic, and the more you put in the redder and clearer it will be, but let it be hot, and if you will have it clear, pot into it a little Alum beaten, but very little at one's, & you shall make what colour you will, red, dark, or bright. For to make the yellow, take little apples of Spinceruin, not fully ripe, and stamp them grossly in a mortar: then steep them in head lie, and seeth them until they decrease and diminish of the third part, and strain them finely: and then set again on the said broth, and put into it a little Alom beaten, and when you see it begin to boil take it from the fire, for else it would all go out, and strain it once again, and so keep it against ye have need of it, and when you will occupy it, stir it and trouble it, and lay it on any thing you will very thin, and you shall make a fair yellow which shall continue a long time, and if you add to it a little Saffran, it will be livelier and brighter. For to make the Blue, take Palma Christi, that cometh out of Germany which is like the flower of woad, and steep it a night in piss, and in the morning bray it upon a marble stone, and put among it a little unsicked lime asmuch as you shall think good, according as you shall see the colour come clear or dim, and temper or steep it with nothing else but with piss, and it will continue a year or more always of one colour, and when you will put it in effect, stir and trouble it well within the viol: and take a pen or a pencil and wet it, and you shall see a fair Blue: and if you will give it a gloss or lustre, steep it with the said piss, and some Gomme arahicke.   

To make a piece of violet cloth to write or paint upon.  
TAke of these little apples of walwort tree which commonly groweth on dike sides, and stamp them in a mortar, and after they be well stamped, leave them in some warm place, until they rot and putrefy, then stamp them again, and get asmuch juice out of them as you can by pressing them in a press, having first made ready your pieces of cloth clean and fine, and old, and take half a dish full of quick lime, and wet it in a basin, so that when it is well weate, there may be two or three dishes full of water above the lime, and no more, and pour it out handsomely that it may be clear, and steep therein your pieces of cloth well, then take them out and dry them in the shadow. This done, take some clear water, and put some Alum into it, and boil it, and seeth your pieces in it the space of a Credo: then take them out, and let them dry in the shadow, and when they be dry, steep them in the said juice two or three times, and at every time let them dry in the shadow, and in the wind upon a net, and let them be flat to the intent that the colour run not at one side, and they shallbe made and well coloured, and so keep them well from dust, and from the air that the colour go not of. And this is the perfit and true secret to trim and dress pieces that men make to paint upon, and to take all manner of colour, and is the mean, that the excellent painter john the Evangelist did use. For to make another colour of violet, take little apples of a myrtle tree very ripe, and stamp them, and press them under a press, and get out the juice of them, and steep your said pieces in it, and dry them in the shadow. For to make a green piece, and of divers colours for to paint on, take verdigris ground small, and some saffron, and temper it with strong vinaigre, and put to it asmuch more juice of Rue, then steep again the said pieces in piss and dry them, this done plunge them three or iiij. times in the said colour, and dry them in the shadow. Take also half a quarter of orpiment, & two ounces of strong lie, and a little brass of the foulest you can get, half an ounce of Verdegrise, an ounce of Geniper berries well stamped, & put all together, and seeth it until it be a quarter diminished. Then steep your pieces in the said compositions, and dry them in the shadow as before, and you shall make a fair changeable colour. If you will make also a fair green, take the leaves of the herb called in latin Raphanitis, which is a kind of lily or flower deluce, called of the Frenchmen Lies celest●s: stamp them well, and get out the juice of them, and put into it a little Alum stamped, and it will be the clearer, and steep your pieces therein oftentimes, & they will receive the colours, and then dry them as before. But if you will make them of a sanguine colour, you shall make this foresaid colour with grain, wherein you shall steep your pieces. If you will make them Blue, take the flowers of Line, or of the forenamed Raphanitis, & do as before. And when you will take of the colour from every piece, you shall have a little gommed water, and wet the piece a little with it, and wring it well, and you shall have asmuch colour as you will, and so use of it with a Pencil when you will.   

To get oil out of Talchum artificially, and of his own strength.  
TAke six pound of Talchum, and beat it small, & put it in a pot not baked nor leadid within, but thick and great of earth, and put of the said Talchum into it until the pot be full: then set the cover upon it and bind it well with wire, and stop the said pot well with Lutum sapientiae, and let it well dry and so put it in a furneise of brick, or lime keel near unto the mouth where the fire reverberateth, and when you will take it out, beware that it break not. This don● bray it small upon the marble until it be like unto flower, and do it quickly, to the intent it take not much air, and put it in a little sack pointed at the bottom like a jelly bag, and lay upon it a cup of glass or some other well leaded and glazed within, which may be meet to receive the said oil. Then let it down into a well with a cord about a two pards, or a yard and a half from the water, and very nigh unto the wall, but that it touch it not, and remove it not in xx. or xxv. days. Then if you see that it hath begun to cast some oil you may take it out of the well, and set it in some moist place, that is to say in the corner of a cellar, for fear lest the air or the wind or any kind of best should hurt it. And leave it so long in the said place until all the liquor become out of i●: Then take the lees that remaineth, and distill it thorough a lembick with a small fire augmenting it little and little until by the force of the fire all come out that may come, and it is called of the Alkemistes the fire of Talchum. Now the first that is gotten out by the humidite and moistness, is called the earth, and is very medicinable. The second is the very richesses of the Alkemistes: And I will say unto you that many which profess Alk●●ni● have sought this secret, and have done in all things as is here written, and yet could never find this means to give it this great humidite, and of such abundance and with so long time: And for asmuch as the matter in itself is very stiff and dry, so will it have great moistness and in abundance. And because it hath had great and it must needs have much moistness, and having had these parts there is made of it two Clementes, separated as you see. Then take this last lees, and stamp it in a mortar, and put it in a pot or cauldron pouring upon it some well water, and let it boil a certain space, and then strain it, and wash your body with it, and you shall see your skin will be very white, and will heal a man of all manner of scabs and skurt, and swelling of the legs. And in using the said water for to wash your hands with, you shall have them soft and clean from all spots or frackles. This is the perfect way & mealy to make oil of Talchum, which hath many properties of the which the Duchess of Savoy did use and occupy. And who so ever useth this liquor, it will take away Freckles, Spots, warts, scars of wounds, or cuts, and other marks, and in short space you shall see a marvelous experience of it. It maketh white teeth, and taketh out the wrinkles of the face: And t● you drink of it two or three drops with Wine or pottage, it will make you have a sweet breath, if it co●ne because of the stomach. It comforteth the mother and causeth a good appetite, and restoreth into his nature every evil stomach that is marred by some accident or occasion of sickness. And finally much desired of the Alkemistes: for in putting into the said oil some Mercury well purified it congealeth incontinent and will endure the hammer, and this is very true.   

To make that all metal shall seem like Silver.  
TAke of Aqua fortis separativa, and put into it the value of viii. pence or silver well beaten thin with a hamer, and so cut it in small pieces, and set the viol upon the coals for to heat it a little, and it will incontinent melt in the water: Then take it from the fire, and put into it some Tartarus or lees of white wine beaten into powder small, and put so much into it that it may suit and drink by the said water, and you shall make a dough or past, where with you shall rub all manner of metal what you will, and it shall seem white as it were fine silver.   

For to take much Fish, and to make a light in the night.  
TAke a certain quantity of these little worms that shine and fly in the night, and distill them in a Lembick of glass with a slow fire, and put the water that cometh of them in a viol of glass, or some round apple of glass that is clear & bright, and put into it four ounces of quick silver purged, that is to say, passed thorough leather or kids skins, and slop well the glass that no water come into it. Then place it handsomely in the middle of the net, so that nothing break, and than cast your net into the water, and it will make a goodly and clear light and shining, and all the fishes that see this light will run in a shoal together, and will fall into the net: for all fish naturally taketh pleasure to run toward the light. And carrying also the said round apple of glass in the night it will give a great light. It will do the like also in a chamber.   

To make a mixed stone which being weated with spittle, maketh fire.  
TAke quick lime, & salt peter fined divers times, ●utia alexandrina not prepared, calamint, asmuch of the one as of the other, quick brimstone, and Camfire, of each of them two parts. And let all these things be beaten or stamped small & sifted thorough a sarce or sieve. Then put the said powders in a new linen cloth and bind them hard. This done take two great goldsmiths crosettes or melting pots, & put the said powders in them, & set the one upon the other mouth to mouth, and bind them fast with wire, and Lutum sapientiae so that it may sake no manner of air & dry them in the sun, and when the said powder is dry, it will be yellow. This done set the croset in a furneise of brick or lime, & when it is cold again take it out, and you shall find your substance of the colour of brick, and it shall be perfect and good. And when you use of it for to make a fire or light a candle, weate it with a drop of water, or with a little spittle, & incontinent put to it your match, & it will light and burn. And when you will quench it again, blow it as you blow out a candle and you shall blow it out.   

To make a Varnish of Mastic, to lay upon paintings made with oil.  
TAke two ounces of hard Mastic, and an ounce of the oil of a fir tree. Than take a little new pot, & put the mastic into it beaten or stamped; and so melt it with a little fire. This done put into it the oil, and let it boil a little, and stir it still together, and let it boil almost nothing, because the varnish would be to clammy: and to know if it be sod enough, put into it a hens feather, & if it burn by and by, it is a sign that it is made, keep it well from dust. And when you will occupy it, let it remain in the sun until it be hot, and when it is dry again it will give a very fair gloss or lustre.   

To make that a white skin shall have black spots of the colour of a leopard or panther and also to make grey hear black.  
TAke Litarge of silver one ounce, ij. ounces of quick lime, and three basins full of water, and seeth all this in a new little pot wit● a small fire, until it wax warm. Then take it from the fire, mixing it always with a stick, and it will be made. Then take a Pencil of Hogs bristles, and mark your white skin with spots as you shall think good, one spot here and another there, one nigh unto an other, and some what great according to your skin. Then dry them in the sun, & when the skin is dry, beat it with a wand and you shall see the spots dim of the colour of Tawny. And if it be not well coloured to your mind you may do it once again touching the same places you did before, & the colour will be livelier, this doing you shall come to your purpose. And this colour keepeth always, and giveth a good odour. Also laying the said matter upon the hears of a man's head or beard that is grey, it will make them black.   

To make good oil of Nutmegs.  
TAke two or three pound of Nutmegs, and cut them small, and stamp them well, then put them in a pan and heat them mixing, them always together. This done, you shall put them into a canuesse or strong linen cloth, and put them in a press, and press them well, and get out all the liquor of them, which willbe like Man●a. And then skrape it from the Canues bag asmuch as you can with a knife, than put it in some vessel of glass and stop it well, but set it not in the sun although it seem evil favoured: for it will wax clear and fair of itself with in ten or xv. days, and is worth thrice as much as the Nutmeg itself. And this oil hath great virtue for to chafe and heat, and in anointing the stomach warm, it suageth the pain of the mother, and Sciatikes.   

To make perfect oil of Spike.  
TAke the flowers of spick neat and perfect, and in quantity asmuch as you may get, and stamp them well, then put them in a little canues bag strong, and press them under a press as hard as you can, and take it up together diligently although it seem jewel favoured, and put it in a strong vessel of glass: but set it not in the sun, for it will be clear of itself, and wax fair and bright, and will have a very sharp odour of Spike. And by like mean may you make oil of Lavender, and serve your turn with it in many things, because it is very hot sharp, and comforteth the stomach, and if a man put some of it in well water, it will smell all of it when a man washeth his hands with it. And of this water men use fo● sweet Balls and many other things.   

To make odoriferous oil of Storax.  
TAke a bottle of double glass, and put into it a pound of oil of sweet Almonds, and four ounces of Storax, grossly broken and clean, and put it into it, stopping it well. Then set it upon the hot embers until the Storax be melted, then take it from the fire, & being so hot as it is put into it half an ounce of Mastic made into powder, and when it is cold, strain it diligently pressing and wring well the bottom. And if you will make it more odoriferous you shall add to it some Bengewine, and two ounces of cloves, and it will be perfit.   

To make an odoriferous oil of Bengewine.  
TAke a pound of good Bengewine, and beat it small, and put it in a limbeck well glued and closed with past, or else into some viol of glass, so that you may put in your hand, and let it be shallow and not very deep, because the oil may mount up with ease. And put thereupon two pound of rose water, and incorporate it well together: this done, set on the cover of the Limbeck, and trim it so well that it may not breathe out. Then give it a slow fire, in such wise that ye may get out some water, and augment your fire little and little, until the oil begin to come forth, and by and by change the recipient or receptorie, pouring out the 〈◊〉 water into some viol, and then give it a good and quick fire, until you think you have drawn out three ounces and a half of oil, and keep it in some viol of glass well stopped, and leave it in the Sun the space of. viii. days, and it will be perfect and good. And thus may you make oil of Storax, and if you put to it four ounces of Storax, it will be the better.   

To make good oil of Laudanum.  
Take a pound of good Laudanum, and cut it as small as you can, and put it in a pot of Copper, and put into it six ounces of Rose water, four ounces of Oil of sweet Almonds, this done seeth it fair and softly the space of two hours, and strain it so often until the oil wax clear, and it will be perfit and good oil of Laudanum. And first of all in taking away the earth, if you knew that it were not clean, take the said Laudanum, and cut it small, and put it in Rose water upon the fire for to melt it, then take it of again, and let it stand and rest, the space of half an hour, and gather together that is upermoste with a spoon, and put it again into Rose water, until it be thorough cold, and than make and compound it as before.   

¶ To make oil of Orange flowers, and other sweet flowers.  
TAke fresh and clean flowers of Oranges one pound, and put them in a great viol of glass at the fire, and put to them a pound and a half of sweet Almond oil, and a little burned Alum, & three grains of Ambergrise, six grains of Musk, six scruples of Camfere, and bray them after the accustomed manner. First of all the Musk, than the Amber, with fine Sugar as much as a Bean, tempered with a little Rose water, and bray the Camfire alone with Sugar, and put it in last, but let there not be to much of it, because that the savour of it is to sharp, and put in but a little at one's, for you may alway add to, but you can not diminish it, when it is once in. And let not the viol be to full, to the intent you may mix and turn up and down the compositions, for to incorporate them, and leave them in the Sun, eighteen or twenty days, until a month be paste, and it will be perfect, and that the flowers may seethe the more in the oil, then strain them, and wring them well, and put them again into the viol in the Sun, the space of two or three days, until it purify. This doing you shall have a marvelous oil, and of a very good odour, and if the flowers seem unto you but a few, you may put other upon them, and they will augment the odour: by this mean you may take of all sorts of sweet flowers, and have oil of divers sorts, using the means aforesaid.   

To make a perfume suddenly in a chamber, where a sick man lieth.  
TAke a little earthen pot, and put into it a Nutmeg, two scruples of the stick of Cloves, two scruples of the stick of Cinnamon, four scruples of Storax calamitae, Rose water, or water of Spike, or some other sweet water, and seeth it. Then put it in a pot shared, with a few hot ashes and coals under it, and set it in the chamber, and the smoke thereof shall give a very sweet amiable and hearty savour.   

To make long and round parfumes, to burn● in a chamber.  
TAke six ounces of Timiama, two ounces of Laudanum, three ounces of Storax solidae five ounces of Frankencens, an ounce of Bengewine, a pound of sweet coals, eight ounces of Dragant. And of all this make a very small powder: but you shall put the coals, and the Dragant to step in Rose water, or some other sweet water, and leave them so the space of three days. Then stamp them in a mortar, and put into them all the powders, and stamp them so that they may be well incorporated together. Then put in the coals stamping always, and incorporating it, and put so moche in of it, that the passed wax somewhat hard. And then make your parfumes long and round as you will, and dry them well in the shadow. And if you will not bestow so much cost upon them, take the lees and bottom that remaineth, of some sweet odoriferous waters, and make thereof a powder, and they shall be good, putting to them a little Timiama, the which will multiply your work, and make a good odour, and if you put to it a little Camfire, they will make a noise in burning, as it were cracking.   

To make a fine and sweet powder of Cyprus.  
TAke four ounces of Cardamomum or town Kerse, two ounces of Storax solida, two ounces of Frankincense, three ounces of dry red Roses, an ounce of Sandalum citrinum, three ounces of Bengewine, two ounces of Cloves, a pound and a half of clean Egg shells, eight grains of musk, six scruples of Canfire, and of all these drugs make powder, each of them by itself, and let the powder of the Egg shells be very fine, than put the Canfire melted into the said powder, and the Musk brayed small with a little fine Sugar, and let all be well incorporated together in the mortar, and sifted small, and so all made into fine powder, and keep it in some vessel of glass that it take no air, for it would lose some of his odour. You may make also of it another sort no less good & of another colour. Take red ox dung in the month of May, and dry it well, and make thereof very small powder sifted, and not● that of itself it will give a very good savour alone without any other thing with it: for in that season of May all manner of flowers smell pleasantly. And he that knows not what it were would judge it to be a powder made of a thousand herbs: notwithstanding put into it some of the foresaid powders such as yo● shall think good, and also put to it some Musk, Ambergrise, and Camfire, after as you will make it good.   

To grind Ambergrise for to put with other drugs, to give them a good odour, and to make little marks and spots upon beads.  
TAke asmuch Ambergrise as you will, at the least a grain, & take a drop of oil of sweet Almonds, or of Gelsemines, or of the or of the oil of Ben, which the parfumers do commonly use in all their parfumes and odours, for of itself it hath no savour at all, but giveth an odour unto all things where it cometh, and never waxeth evil at any time, and if peradventure you had neither one nor the other, take two Almonds, and stamp them, and take the juice of them, and bray the Amber with it, and if you will get out much of it, let the said Amber stiope a night in the oil: then bray it very small: for the more you bray it, the more it worketh his effect in mingling it with musk, and other sweet drooges. And if you will make sweet and odoriferous marks upon a payer of beads, take five ounces of dragant, and dreye it in rose water the space of three days with asmuch water as will be above it four fingers, then br●se it upon a mortar, and put to it two ounces of Laudanum, two Nutmegs, & an ounce and a half of Storax solida, and asmuch of fine cinnamon, half an ounce of Spicknard●. And let all these things be made in powder very final, and sifted thorough a sieve or sarce, and incorporated with the dragant. And when they be well incorporated, you shall put to them some good musk of Levant, that is to say eight grains, and six grains of Ambergrise, three grains of Civet, two scruples of Canfer, & bray all well in the manner aforesaid with the said oil, & well let it be incorporated with the said passed or dough. And if it be not hard to your mind, for to cast it into a fashion and to make the whole in it, let it remain so a day or two until you may well handle it. Than fashion your beads for to make marks upon them with it, in making two little roses of silver upon the corners of the holes for so keep them from the heat or sweeting of the hands, and so dry them in the shadow, and when you hold the beads in your hands, it will give a marvelous odour and sweet smell, and shallbe a piece of work for Ladies, gentle women, and personages of great estate: for in keeping them among their clothes, they shall take the odour of it.   

To make fine Muscardines, white and Red.  
TAke what quantity you will of white Dragant, and sliepe it in Rose water, that it be well covered with it the space of two days: Then stamp it well in a mortar, and make it into a body or mass with flower of Amilum or barley that is fine and clean, and a little fine Sugar, and as much powder of Mastic as will lie upon a penny, and a little Musk well broken a sunder, and make hereof passed or dough, the which you shall remove and stir up and down betwixt your hands being fair and clean, until all be well incorporated together: And if you put to it a little Irios, and white Sanders the white ones shall be the best, & if you put to it red Sanders they willbe red, or else some dragon's blood. This done cut them very small, and dry them i● the shadow, and make them so fine that they may be like sand, and than they shall be made so that you may use them as you will.   

To make counterfeit Camfire.  
TAke four ounces of white varnish, two ounces of Mastic, and asmuch of white Encens, two drams of true Camfire, and let all be made into fine powder: then take the whites of four eggs, and a little Aqua vite, and so beat it well together that it become in a foam, then incorporate well the said things together, & fashion your little balls or loves, and set them in the sun during the sign of Leo, the space of fifteen or twenty days, as long as you shall think good, and it will come into such perfection, as that which is conterfeted in Constantinoble.   

To make the beard grow, and to keep that the hears fall not of.  
TAke as many Bees as you shall think good, when men do empty the Hives, and burn them in a fire pan, and make a very fine powder of them, and incorporate them together. Then you shall make some oil of green Lisardes that be drowned in common oil cold, and shall put it in a bottle of glass before the fire, and make it boil until the Lizardes' braced, than take it of and set it in the sun the space of xv. or xx. days, and keep it so with the beasts in it and it will be an oil as clear as fine Gold, and will keep well. Incorporate the said powder with this oil, and anoint morning and evening the bare place where you will that the bear shall not fall of, and they will not fall away, but grow abundantly. But first you must make some lie with the ashes of vines, and boil in it these three herbs, that is to say, Capillus veneris, agrimony, and Edera arborea, of each of them five handfuls, and when it is sodden, strain it, and keep it from dust, and wash your head with it twice of thrice a week, and when it is dry anoint yourself with this ointment, & by the means of this washing the hears will grow thick and long: for it augmenteth the length of them, and keepeth them from falling. This hath been experimented and proved of divers men, that have been very piled and bald.   

To get away the hear, from what place you will.  
TAke four ounces of fresh quick lime, an ounce of orpiment in powder, a pottle of strong lie, & put all this into a pot, and put to it the said powders, and boil it so long vn●ill it wax thick, or else deep a Ducks feather into it, and if it pill or fall of, than it is sodden, and mix it oftentimes, and in seething it will wax into a body or mass, then keep it in a pot leaded within, and when you will, spread it abroad handsomely, and lay it with measure upon the place where you will the hear shall fall of. But anoint first the place with oil of sweet Almonds, than lay upon it the said composition, and you shall not feel the heat at all, or else very little. But if in case you ha●e a fine or tender skin, that causeth you to feel the h●ate that you can not suffer it, but if you can endure it, it will the sooner work his effect. Otherwise, take two ounces of rose water, an ounce of Plantain water, half an ounce of fine sugar, and put them together, and wet your face with it, and incontinent the heat will cease. And you may make this medicine every second day until you have your intent and purpose. And if you fear to do that which hath been experimented, make these others, that is to say, take salt ammoniac, and the gall of a he Goat, and bray them together, and anoint the place from whence you will take the hears, and they will fall away. You shall take also the juice or suck of the root of Celidonia, and a little orpiment, the juice of ivy, and Ants, or Emettes eggs with a little Vinaigre, and incorporate all together, and anoint the place with it and though hears will fall away, & if it grieve you, weate it with the aforesaid water, and you shall a lay the heat of it.   

To make hore bears black.  
TAke five flagons full of rain water, and seeth it with strong Ashes, & put into it some Litarge of Gold the quantity of six ounces, with a handful of a black fig tree leaves, and as much of sage, and let it seeth until it be diminished of a quarter, and than it is done and made, wash your head with this composition twice a week, and when your head is dry again, take the juice of sage, and put into it an ounce of tartre or lose of red wine, and half an ounce of the litarge of gold, and have ready a comb of lead which you shall anoint with the said juice and so comb your head and your beard well with it, and they will become incontinent black, using the said comb with the said juice and powder, which thing hath been proved. For the like effect you shall take oil of tartre, and heat it, & when you have washed your head and dried it again, you shall anoint your comb with the said oil, and so comb your head in the Sun a good while, or else anoint yourself with a sponge for to make your hears black, and do it twice or thrice a day, & in a week you shall have your hears as black as ever they were, and the like may you do to your beard, and if you will have it savour sweetly use at the end some oil of Bengewine for to anoint the comb withal, for it helpeth likewise to the blacking of the hears, and is of good savour. This is an excellent secret. For the like also, take white Honey, and distill it in a Limbeck of glass, with a sharp fire, and keep that liquor that cometh of it, and wash your head with it, and what it is dry again, anoint yourself with it & the hear will be black. Take also good Saffran, & incorporate it well with yolks of Eggs ●osted, and a little Honey, and you shall make of it, as it were a manner of ointment, with the which you shall anoint your head or beard morning and evening, and continuing so a month at the least in washing yourself often, the hears will ●● of the colour of Gold: but first anoint the kombe with oil of bitter Almonds, and do that while ye are in the sun, and the hears will be bright and fair as Gold. Take also the root of succory, and seeth it with lie, and in continuing of it, it will make your hears white, and dry yourself in the Sun, and wash yourself twice a week, and boil also in the lie some common lickerous, and when your hear is dry again, parfume them with quick brimstone, and they will become of the colour of Gold. To make also hoar hears black, take black Soap, and quick lime, and some litarge of Gold, and make thereof as it were an ointment, and rub your hears with it, and continue so a while according as you shall see need, and when they be become black, leave them so, and if they return to be white again, do as before. Also for to make them Red, being hoar and white, take three handfuls of walnut leaves, and a handful of the pills of Pomegranades, and distill them in a limbeck of glass: then wash only your white hears and not your face, for you should then make it black, and doing thus the space of fifteen days, it will continue a month, and you shall have your hear Red. Take also ground worms burned, and make thereof powder, also the leaves of a black Fig tree, and make thereof a fine powder, and temper it with oil of almonds, and they will be Black. Now to make them grow apace and quickly, take a certain quantity of hens eggs, and seeth them whole in water: than take out the yolks, and fry them in a frying pan without any other thing, until there come forth of them some humidite and moisture: then take them of and put them in a little bag, and press them in a press, and get out all the substance that may come out of them: then burn an ox horn, and make thereof powder, and incorporate it with the said liquor, and put to it also goats turds ●urned: and so anoint the ●are place with the said composition divers times, and the hears will grow incontinent after.   

To make white hear in the shadow: without the sun, and shall become white and shining like silver.  
TAke of the root of the greater centaury three ounces with two ounces of gomme Arabic and asmuch of Dragant and Alum, a pound of Venitien Soap, a pound of Alumen fecis albae, and have ready first xxv. pound of river water, and put into it of this root of century cut with a few of his leaves which you shall boil until the water diminish of the third part, then let it stand in the sun the space of fifteen days, and boil in it all the said things, and than it is called of the French men and Italians Blonde a la venitianes. And in the morning when you please wash your hear well with it, and wrap or bind them up in a Naptkin or kerchief, and when night cometh you shall wash them ordinarily, and put into it this your lie of the herb called vitriol, & then wipe them dry where you think good, be it in the sun or by the fire, and do this twice or thrice a week, and your hears will be white and shine as it were silver.   

A sofee dough or paste as it were Pomatum, to wash the hands, and when the mouth, Nose, Lips, or Hands do chincke or chap, and it keepeth the flesh soft and sweet.  
TAke white Almonds, Alumen fecis, flower of Amilum of each of them six ounces, white Pine apple kernels, clean seeds of Gourds, and Be●●ne flower, of each of them four ounces, powder of Cloves, Storax solida in powder, and Macaleb in powder of each of them three ounces, with two ounces of white Salt beaten, a pound of white Honey, and asmuch of venise Soap, a scruple of Musk and as much of Civet, the whites of ten Eggs. first take the Almonds, and Pine apple kernels, with the seeds of Gourds or Melons that be very white and neat, and stamp them well in a mortar. And note that all the importance is that they be all well stamped very small: then put in the Alumen fecis, and stamp them well, than put in the Honey and incorporate it well together with the pestle, And after this, you shall put in the soap cut in small pieces, and incorporate them diligently, this don, put in two pound and a half of the herb called Brionia, & temper all well. Put all this into a new pot, and leave it so covered a day, than set it on a fire of coals with out smoke, and let it seeth the space of a quarter of an hour, and stir it always in the pot with a wooden spoon, that it cleave not to the bottom, and so take some evil savour, then take it from the fire, and pour it out into a great earthen pan. Then put into it the foresaid slower, and that being well incorporated, put in the powder of Cloves, and all the other powders together and all being well incorporated, cover it close that it may take no air, and let it remain so the space of ten days. Then put into it the Macaleb, the musk and the civet braid and beaten very small, and incorporate all well together with a slice, this done put in the eggs beaten, so that they become as it were a skim or froth, and then put in the salt, and mix all well together, in such wise that the whole may be well incorporated. And then the paste or dough willbe of a Grey colour, and odoriferous, and is called Imperial ointment, because it is a thing noble and full of virtue, and a man may use always of this precious odour which comforteth the memory, and if you use it to wash your hands and face with, it will give a sweet savour to them, and maketh the flesh delicate and soft, white and well saudring, and closeth up quickly all manner of clefts, chinks or chaps of the mouth, hands and lips. And if you will not wash yourself with it, anoint yourself morning and evening, and you shall incontinent b● healed, for this hath been many times proved by experience.   

White Pomatum, fine and sweet for great lords.  
TAke thirty or twenty Appiane apples, or other tender and mellow Apples and divide them in to four parts, and make them clean within ●nd without. Then take Cloves, and Cinnamon, & flicke the apples full of it as they were larded, & so lay them in rose water, that they may be covered over with the said water, and put into it six Nutmegs, with two drams of Mace, and let them thus lie a steep the space of six days, and let them he well covered. Then take Hogs grease, & take of from it the little sk●nne that is upon it, and cut it very small, and put it to purge in fresh and clear water three or four days and change the water twice a day, and put it the last time to step in rose-water, or some other sweet water, and by this means it shall be well purged and purified, and shall not have but a good savour and odour, then take three or four pound of the said grease, and put it in a pot or other vessel that is not greasy, nor savoureth evil, and put the apples cut in pieces as they are into the said pot or vessel, and add thereto an ounce of the oil of Oranges, and of the water which the French men call Eau de ●afe, whereof we have spoken in the first part of this work, or some other sweet and odoriferous water, so that all may be under the water, and boil them an hour or more with a slow fire, until the Apples be well sodden, and then break them well with a wooden slice, that they may be turned as it were into a broth, this done pass them through a strainer, and then strain them hot again thorough another finer and close strainer: and whiles it is thus hot, put into it three ounces and a half of white wax cut very small, and two ounces of white Sandalum made in powder very fine and mixed together until it be all well incorporated: and when it is cold, wash it with rose water until it be very clear, and this Pomatum will be as white as snow. And after it is washed, you shall put to it eight grains of Musk, and four grains of Ambergrise that be very smally ground, and so incorporate well all together, and leave it in the air abroad the space of five or six nights, and the Pomatum willbe perfect good and odoriferous, And if you will not have it thus perfit, you may put less drugs to it as Musk and Amber: but here note and understand that we have made of it divers times, and never left of this order aforesaid, and it hath been excellent perfect and good. There is also another sort of it which serveth for every hot disease, and for to anoint the hands, the mouth, and nose, as is afore said. Take two ounces of sheep suet, and an ounce of goats suet, and chop it small, and melt it, and then strain it thorough a strainer, and put into it three ounces of new wax, and two ounces of the oil of sweet Almonds: And melt all this on a slow fire, mixing and stirring it always: than take it of, and add to it four scruples of Camfire broken, and mingle it still together until it be cold, and so keep it, and anoint yourself withal diligently. There is another better than this and well allowed & proved, which is made as followeth. Take new wax, the suet of a he goat, and the marrow of an Ox, of each of them an ounce and a half, an ounce of the oil of Saint john's wuit, and asmuch of oil of Roses, and asmuch salt beaten very small: but cut the suet and marrow and melt them, and strain them, this don set them upon a slow fire, so that they may not be scant warm: and put the wax being cut in pieces, with the said oil and salt, and mingle them well together with your slice of wood. Then take it from the fire, and put into it six scrupules of Camfere, somewhat beaten, and mix it always until it be cold. Then keep it in earthen cups leaded within. And the older it is, the better it is. men use of it for all manner of hot disease, for chaps or chinks of the Nose, Mouth, Lips, or hands, and for kibes on children's heels, and also for a fellow or cats hear, for in anointing them with this, they will go away, and also taketh away the pain, as it hath been well proved many a time.   

For those that have a stinking breath, because of the stomach.  
TAke an ounce of Sage, and make thereof powder, three ounces of Rosemary sloures, half an ounce of Cloves, two drams of fine cinnamon, two Nutmegs, two grains of Musk, and make them all into powder: Then take asmuch purified Honey as shall be sufficient to knethe the said powders, or to incorporate them well together, this done, put it in a box of earth and let it remain in the Sun four or five days, and it will be perfect. Then take of it in the morning fasting half an ounce, and as much at night, to the intent it may comfort the meat, that it corrupt not nor putrefy in the stomach, and in using it oftentimes you shall be cured, and delivered from the evil smell of the breath.   

To make one have a good stomach, that hath a naughty one.  
TAke Abrotonum, Rue, Penniriall, fine Mint of each of them a handful, and two pints of white Wine, half a pound of white Honey, and boil it until it be sodden enough, and put thereunto some powder of cinnamon and Cloves, of each half an ounce. This done strain it, and keep it in some vessel of glass, against you have need of it, and tak● thereof in the morning the height of two or three fingers in a glass, and let it be somewhat luke warm, and it will comfort your stomach, but use it not to much.   

A remedy for him that can not keep his meat in his stomach, without vomiting.  
TAke Quinces, and make them clean within and without, and seeth them in strong vinaigre, then stamp them in a mortar, and put into them a little mustard seed beaten into powder, & so incorporate well all together, & lay it hot upon a linen cloth putting upon it some powder of Cloves, & lay it upon his breast, and in doing this three or four times, he shall keep his meat without vomiting.   

To make a natural white Skin.  
TAke a pound of distilled vinaigre, with as much water of Gourds, and put them into two viols, then put into the viol with the Vinaigre an ounce of Litarge beaten very small, and into the viol with the water of Gourds, an ounce of salt Gemma, and set these two viols upon a tile nigh unto the fire, and let them boil an hour: then pluck the tile back, and let them cool: this done set them in the sun the space of eight days, & than keep them until you have need of them. And when you will use of them, take a dish or goblet, and put as much of the one as of the other into the said dish or cup, and it will become as white as milk, and so wash your face with it with a sponge, rubbing well the flesh, and it will wax as white and as soft as cotton, and delicate to touch, and of marvelous effect. But if you will make it red and shining, take a pound of white vinaigre distilled twice: for it shall be the better, and put it into a little violle, and put into it an ounce of red Sanders, cut and beaten, and so made into a very fine powder. This done seeth it on the fire the space of half an hour, and put into it a little Alum beaten, for it will augment the gloss of it, and if you will have it of a good odour or savour for any great Lord or prince, you may put to it two grains of Musk or civet, than sprinkle or wet it a little with a sponge, and if perchance it be to red, you may put into it a little Alum, and it will ware clear, and so you shall make a fair shining red of it, which will make a sweet flesh or skin.   

To make the flesh or skin fair and bright.  
TAke a pound of white tartre, half a pound of Talcum, & asmuch salt, and put all into a pot not bake or aneled, & cover it. This don bind it with wire, and set it to calcine in a keell of lime or of brick, than take it out, and bray it small upon a marble stone. After this put it into a little bag pointed at the end like an hippocras bag, and hang it in a moist place that it touch nothing, and that to much enter not into it, & set under it some cup of glass to receive the oil that shall come out of it the space of fifteen or xx. days & more or less occording as it shallbe in a moist place: and keep this oil as a treasure. And first wash yourself with lie or water and when you are dry again, weate a sponge or a linen cloth in the said oil, and rub your skin finely with it, and you shall see that every spot will go of, be it sun burning or any other impediment, and will make your flesh white, soft and clear. And in continuing this you shall attain to your purpose in few days. And if you will make an other sort of it, which men use newly in Venise, take two long white Gourds, and three dishes full of Fasils' the black spots or eyes at the end, as they call them: being taken away, with the crumb of three white loves, and step them in milk one night, and then take a dishefull of the seeds of Melons, with half a dishful of peach kernels made clean of their skin or pill, and a pound of white Pine apple kernels, and let all be well stamped in a mortar each one a part, and two great pigeons, the which you shall cut in pieces a live, taking out only the bowels, and so set all to distill together in a limbeck of glass, and use of the same water that cometh thereof and it will make your skin and flesh fair & soft, as it hath divers times been proved.   

To clear and m●ske clean the face from all manner of spots.  
TAke two pound of turpentine of Venise, and twelve new laid eggs of the which you shall only take out the white, and distill all together in a limbeck o● glass twice, then put into the said water ten scruples of Camfere beaten, and dissolve it well in water, than take an ounce of the said water, and asmuch of the water of a torteise, and put all together, and wash well your face with it divers times and it will wax clean and clear from spots.   

To take away a ringworm tetter, or spots and other marks, or else a privy mark in the body by birth.  
TAke a pound of Salnitrum, and asmuch tartre of white wine, and stamp each of them be itself very small, and then incorporate them together, and sift them in a fine sarce so that all may be well mixed together, then put the said powder in a pot of earth, made pointed like a Sugar loaf, and so close and strait together, then set a hot coal upon the top of it, until it burn and consume of itself, and it shall be the salt nitrum because that the most● subtle and moist parts, and the gross part which is the tartre, will calcine of it, and willbe like a cake, the which you shall break in small pieces in a dish, and put some warm water upon it, so that all may turn into water, and for to make the thing neter, you shall distill the said water in a guttur of felt, and then the water willbe clear. This done you shall put the water into a new pot, setting it upon the hot coals or ashes that it may scant seeth, until almost all the water be drunk up: Then you shall take the powder which remaineth in the bottom, for it is the bontie and best of all your work, then take a vial of Syrup, & put in to it four ounces of distilled vinaigre, with an ounce of Aqua vite of three distillinges: This done put into it of the said powder, incorporating it well together, & leave it three days in the sun well stopped: and in the morning when you rise, and at night like wise wash the spots of your body and they will go away shortly and never grow again, and it will make your skin white and fair where you wash it with this water. Also for the same effect, take white wine ●●es, and set it in some corner of your house upon the pavement, and let it there dry well: then burn it in a pot shared or fire pan, until you may make powder of it. This done put it into a bag of the fashion of a jelly bag in some moist place that it touch no wall, & set underneath it a cup of glass to receive the oil that will come out of it within xx. or thirty. days, and keep it in some vessel of glass as a precious thing, and anoint your face therewith, and the marks or spots will vanish away in short space, so that your flesh & skin shall become soft. And if you will have it odoriferous or well savouring, put into it some Cloves. And to take away lentils from your face, and that quickly, take five or six ox galls, and two pound of Alum, six ounces of fine sugar, and eight lemons cut very small, distill all this in a limbeck of glass, and put into the said water an ounce of sublime beaten into small powder & so put it in a vessel of glass, & let it stand in the sun the space of ten days and than it will be perfect, than may you wash the lentils with it, with a little fast sponge rubbing hard the flesh, and they will go of in short time, and so your face shall remain white & fair. You may also take the fire pan, and heat it hot, and lay upon it a dish full of wheat to roast, then stamp it hot as it is, and strain it and so get out the liquor of it, and rub the lentils with it and they will shortly go of.   

To take away red rubies that grow in the face by reason of the heat of the Liver.  
TAke hogs suet well purified & brimstone asmuch of th'one as of tother w● tother water distilled of a Peche tree and fern, and incorporate all together with a slow fire, and make thereof an ointment wherewith you shall anoint yourself divers times, and they will go away. In the mean time abstain● from wine and all hot things: and to take away a ringeworme, take celydoine early in the morning, and stamp it between two stones, and lay it upon the place, and in using this oftentimes you shall shortly be healid.   

To take of from the hands or feet the hardness of the flesh gotten by labour.  
TAke new wax, Verdegrise, and Blanc rasil, of each of them an ounce, & half an ounce of sublime, two drams of burned Alum, two ounces of oil of roses, and all this being braid very small, make thereof an ointment with a slow fire: This done wet the wart or hard flesh in water, or hot lie, and pair it handsomely with a razor, and so lay of this ointment upon it with a plaster, and continuing this same, it will go away. You shall take also the flower of line seed, and with strong Vinaigre you shall make a past or dough somewhat hard, and use to lay it upon the hard flesh and it will shortly dry up. You shall take also green wax, and spread it upon a plaster, and lay it upon the place, being first weated with water, than cut the hard flesh as finely as you can, & in using this, it will kill the root, so that it shall grow no more.   

Another secret to take away warts or hard flesh that grow between men's toes.  
TAke the greatest Singreene of Walls, & take of the little outward thin skin that is upon it, and lay the said herb● upon the wart or hard flesh between the toes that it may lie right upon it & do this five or six times in the morning and evening, and they will go away all though they were never so old, weate them well and pair them asmuch as you can, and take of the said herb and make juice of it, and put into it a little burned Alum, and incorporate it together, and lay upon it a little burned Alum, & incorporate it together, & lay little weate pieces upon the place that it may be always fresh, and within ten or twelve days, the wart or hard flesh willbe gone so that you shall feel it no more. A man may make yet another means, take the staulkes of Brionia or wild Gourds, and burn them, and make fine ashes of them. Then take the leaves of the said Brionia or wild Gourds, and of the leaves of Molin or Longwort, and of his flowers and stamp them, and so get out the juice. This don, take of the said ashes, and put asmuch of it into the said juice, as will make it like unto anointment: and therewith anoint your warts and hard flesh, and they will go away and never grow again. If you take also the flowers of Molin or Longwort and distill them in a Limbeck of glass, and wet them often with the water, and than taking the said flowers and breaking them between two stones, and lay them upon the place of the warts binding them with some linen cloth, and doing it oftentimes they will consume away.   

To make letters of Gold and Silver embossed.  
TAke two or three garlic heads and pill them and make them clean and stamp them, and get out asmuch juice of them as you can, and put a little ink into it until it be black, or else a little Saffran in powder without ink, and write with the same juice great letters, or other: and let them dry, then go over them again once more, for to make than of the greatness that you will have them, this done let it dry, and when you will-laie the Gold upon them, heat it again with your breath and so lay it on: but the Gold must be in leaves. Then cover the letter lightly with cotton and rubbing them a little you shall take of all that cleaveth not upon the letters. And thus doing your work will remain of Gold and embossed, which willbe a very fair thing to see.   

To make a devise or arms or other things, upon a violet or a rose.  
TAke salt Armoniac, and bray it in a mortar with vinaigre, and a little Sugar candy, and keep it in a box, then take the rose, or Violet, or jelly flower, and dress the little leaves fastened together with red wax, in such wise that they may be equal. Then with a pencil very fine, make what devise or arms you will, & let it dry an hour or more, and than lay gold or silver upon it in foil, and press it down a little with cotton, so that which cleaveth not on, will go away and your work shall remain fair.   

Soap to get out all spots of cloth.  
TAke a pound of Alum and burn it, six ounces of powder of Ireos, and let all be well beaten in powder together. Then take two pound and a half of white soap, and half an ox gall, and the white of an Egg or two, and incorporate them well together: Then take the Alum and the powder of Ireos, and incorporate them all together, and put into them a little Salnitrum or salt peter: This done put into it asmuch of the said incorporated Soap, as will make it have a substance or body: to the intent that ye may fashion and make round balls in a good ferme and fast paste or dough, and so dry them in the shadow and not in the sun, because the sun is contrary to it. And if you make them for to sell, make them by measure, and by weight, and when you will take out your spot, weate ar●●e the cloth up and down: then rub it well with the soap, and cloth against cloth: This done you shall wash it with cold water until the water were clear: and if you think it be not out all together, let the cloth dry, and do ones again as you did before, and the spots will go out.   

Another like secret.  
TAke a pound of white Soap of Venise, the yolks of six Eggs, and half a spoonful of beaten Salt, and asmuch juice of Beets as will suffice to incorporate the said Soap, and make thereof a cleaving past, whereof you shall form and make your balls, and let them dry in the shadow, and when they be dry weate your cloth up and down with clear water, and then rub it with soap, and wash it as is afore declared, and the spots will go away.   

Another like.  
TAke a pound of white Soap cut very small, the Gall of an Ox, or he Goat Alumen catinum, of each of them an ounce, the yolks of two Eggs, and a few ashes very fine, and incorporate well all together with the soap in a mortar, and so make thereof passed, whereof you shall make balls and do as before is said.   

Another mean.  
TAke the Gall of an old Ox, and a pound of Fenigreke made in powder, a pound and a half of white soap, three flagons of strong lie, & put all together and seeth it on a slow fire until it diminish of the half. Then wash what spot you will with it refreshing it divers times with cold water and it will take it away.   

Another means for spots, of fat or Oil.  
TAke a pound of rock Alum, and as much fresh unsleck lime, six ounces of Alumen fecis, three pound of white Soap cut small, four pound of clear water, and let it boil a certain space in some vessel that is not fatty, and than strain it, and when you will occupy of it, let it be lukewarm, and wet the spots with the said water on both sides of the cloth, and the cloth together: then wash it with clear water, and the spots will be gone, then wash it again with a little Soap and fresh water, and at the second or third time, they will without all peradventure go out. Also for spots you may take two pints of renning water, the Gall of an ox, four ounces of Alom De fece burnt, and three ounces of Alumen fecis broiled, and two scruples of Camfer, and put all together, and seeth it, until half be diminished: Then strain it, and wash what spots you will with it, and within twice or thrice washing, they will go out.   

To take spots out of Skarlate or Velvet, without burting the colour.  
TAke the herb called Lavaria, of the Apoticaries' Condisi, and get out the juice of it, and lay it upon the spot the space of two or three hours, them wash it well with warm water, and if you think the spot not well taken away, do it once more, and if the cloth be not died in grain, put to it a little soap, with another little quantity of the said juice, and incorporate it well, and so wash the spot with it, and it will go out.   

To take spots out of white silk or Velvet in griene or Crimson Velvet.  
TAke strong Aqua vite of three stillinges, and wet the spot with it up and down: then take the white of a new laid Egg, and spread it upon the spot, and so set it in the sun to dry. This done wash it trimly with fresh and clear water, and so wring well the spot between your hands, and it will go out, and do this twice at the lest: for the colour will not perish nor decay. Also for a cloth in grain, take Alum water, and wash well the spot with it, rubbing it hard cloth against cloth, this done, wash it again with clear water, and in twice doing it, it will go out. Also for the like effect, take roche Alum, Tartre of tons, and white Soap, of each of them three ounces, and make them into very fine powder: this done, take two Ox galls, and an earthen pot that is not in any wise fatty or greasy, and put into it handsomely at your discretion, and so set it on the fire, and when it beginneth to seethe, cast in by and by the ox gall, and the powder, and let it so boil until it be diminished of the third or fourth part. Then wash the spot with this water three or four times and at every time dry the cloth. And finally renew it with fresh water, and you shall see the effect.   

To take out a spot of ink or wine of a woollen or linen cloth.  
TAke the juice of Lemons, Oranges, or citrons, and wet the spot with it divers times, letting it dry at every time, this done wash it with hot water, and it will go out. Use also white Soap with white Vinaigre, and the spot of ink will easily go out.   

To restore the colour to a cloth, that hath lost it in taking out a spot.  
TAke a pound of Tartre of white wine, and calcine it in a fornaise of brick, until it be white, and take an ounce of it, than take a pint of strong Vinaigre and clear, and put the said powder into it, & so set it on the fire. And when it beginneth to boil, take it by and by of, and it is made: Then weate by little and little, the place that hath los●e his colour ●●ners times, and the colour will come again.   

A water to take all manner of spots out of clo●●● of any colour.  
TAke two old ox galls, and two scrupules of rock Alum, and asmuch of Alumen fecis, four ounces of Tartre of white wine, one scruple of Camfire, and stamp all together very small: This don take two flagons of clear water, and put all together, and so seeth it with a slow fire until it make no more froth or skim. Then put into it three ounces of Aqua vite of three distillinges, and so keep it in some vessel of glass until you will occupy it. And if the spot be in skarlate, take a corner of the same cloth, and wet it in the said water, and rub well twice or thrice the spot, and than wash it again with clear water, and it will go out. The like may you do in all sorts of coloured cloth, in taking a little of the like coloured cloth, or other that is nigh unto the colour weating it and rubbing as is afore said, and it shallbe done.   

To drive away Flies, Spiders, Scorpions, and other Vermin from your house.  
TAke what quantity of Lapwinkes feathers you will, and burn● them in your Chamber, and when such Vermin shall smell this savour they will not abide.   

Against gnats which sting men in the night.  
TAke Comine, and chew it well, and anoint your hands, your face and all your body if it be possible with the juice that shallbe in your mo●th and the fly feeling this savour which is troublesome unto him, will not molest you at all. And if you will drive them out of your house, and that they come not into your chamber, take Commine, and make thereof powder very fine, the which you shall incorporate with good white wine, and take a burgeon of a vine, or other branch having green leaves upon it, and steep it in the said wine, and so sprinkle your windows and doors of your chamber, or the place where you will not have them come in. And also sprinkle of it a long upon the walls: for in smelling this savour they can not abide. If you will also drive away flies, take Santonicum or Lavender cotton, and the leaves of Eldern trees, with some Comine, and seeth it with water, and sprinkle your house with it or your chamber, and they shall not trouble you, for the savour of the water is very contrary unto them, but beware you lay no bait for them to give them occasion to enter in boldly, for afterward they will not greatly care for the savour of it.   

A very excellent Secret, for to take out spots or hard flesh gotten by labour.  
TAke salt peter, Blue vitriol and verdigris, of each of them two ounces, two ounces of Alumen Sucharinum, and half an ounce of unslecked Lime, and let all be made into powder, then distill it in a limbeck of Glass. True it is, that the first water is not very good: but the second will be excellent good to wash them withal often times, and they will dry up by l●ttle and little, so that you shall not perceive it. You may take also some powder of Euphorbium or Euphorbius, tempered with lie, and oil of Tartre, and incorporate it well, and so soak the spots or hard flesh with it, and cut it as near as you can, and laying this medicine upon it you shallbe hole. Take also the water that falleth from the vines after they be cut, and wash the warts oftentimes with it, and they will were away leaving the skin clean with out any black spots. You may make also powder of Cantharides, and incorporate it with Rosen & Pitch, and make thereof a plaster which you shall lay upon your warts and hard flesh, and you shall kill their root, so that they will dry up of themselves, and will go away without any pain. Take also glass heaten small, and wash it, and take the finest of it, and mixed it with a little woman's milk and some levaine of wheat, and make thereof a plaster, first cutting the wart or hard flesh & paring of the head of the wart, and so lay it upon it at night, and in oftentimes using this, they will go away.   

To take oil or grease out of a cloth of what colour so ever it be, without any drop of water.  
TAke some sheeps feet, and make them very clean: then seeth them and eat them, & keep the right bones, the which you shall burn, and make thereof a clean and fine powder. This don heat the said powder and lay it upon the spot, and let it remain in the sun, and when you see that the powder beginneth to wax black, take it by and by of, and put other fresh upon it, and do this so often that you see the powder no more black, and than the spot will be gone, and the colour of the cloth not perished.   

Balls of Soap for Barbers of divers sorts and savours.  
first you must note that the Soap is purged and purified two manner of ways. The first is the venetian Soap beyng3 cut small must be put in a pot that is not fatty, nor having any evil savour, and put into it some rose water or other sweet waters, or else in this manner following: Take well water and put into it chevers of cipers, and seeth it a good while, than strain it, & it will be very odoriferous and sweet: or else put in the flowers of myrtle tree, of Orange tree, Cedar tree, Spick, Lavender, Agnus castus, Sticados, beyond sea Violettes, Sage, and such other odoriferous flowers or herbs, as Ced●●, Bay, our ladies glooves, Mint, Maioram, Time, and other sweet herbs, and make of all this a composition, & so make a sweet water of divers savours, and so seeth it a little: This done take of the soap that swimmeth above with a Spoon, and lay it upon a new Tile, and it will incontinent be dry and shall remain neat and clean, because the water hath taken away all the filth and unctuosity of the soap, and therefore will be fair and white without any evil savour, having augmented the good smell of it. And this may you keep against you have need of it: And this is the very true purging and purifying of it, marry it diminisheth it of an ounce or a little more in the pound. Also another manner is, that you must cut the soap very small or else grate it, and dry it in the sun or in an oven, and make thereof powder passing it thorough a fine sarce. This don wet it with Rose water or water of Spick, and let it dry in the shadow or in the wind, or else for to make it sooner, cut your soap and stamp it, and nothing else, and put unto it some powder of Irios, Storax, and a little Camfire, and beat it all together, and then make your Balls, and so you may incontinent after distribute them. True it is that they be not of any great value. But for to incorporate the odours in the soap for Barber's balls, you must take six ounces of the said soap, and stamp it well in a mortar, and put into it all these things following made into fine powder, for in this lieth the honour and perfection of your work. An ounce of Labdanum, four ounces of Macaleb, an ounce of Anise, three Nutmegs, Maioram, dry Roses, Cipres powder, of each of them half an ounce, three ounces of cloves, six ounces of Irios, eight ounces of the flower of Amylum, with asmuch of Storax liquida, as will lie upon a penny, three grains of Musk, or four at the most, six scruples of Camfire, with a little of the finest Sugar that you can get. And let all these things be well stamped, and incorporated with in the Soap, & you shall make a past or dough some what fast or farm, of the which you shall form and make great or small balls as you shall think best, and let them dry in the shadow and they will be perfect. For to make also of another sort, take two pound of the foresaid soap, and stamp it well, then put into it the juice of Macaleb about two ounces, and for to know it, note that it is like a corn of wheat, and of the same colour, but somewhat round & a little greater. And for to get out the juice of it, steep it in Rose water, or other sweet water, & let it remain in it until it swell. Then stamp it and put it in a linen cloth, and strain it hard, and the white juice that cometh out of it, is the juice of Macaleb, and of the savour of Macaleb, and the rest that remaineth you shall dry and make of it powder, the which you may also occupy because it hath the like virtue & the savour of violets: with that you shall take two ounces of Cloves, three ounces of Irios, an ounce and a half of Laudanum, an ounce of Storax, & all this being made into very fine powder, let it be incorporated into the Soap, & you shall make a past or dough farm & fast, whereof you shall form and fashion your balls setting them to dry in the shadow. To make also balls of white soap, take five pound of the said soap, and put into it four ounces of Irios, two ounces of white Sandale, three ounces of the flower of Amylum, an ounce of Storax, & make all this into powder; and stamp well altogether, & steep it a little in Rose water, or musk water, and you shall make of it a good past, whereof you shall form & make your balls even as you will. Also for to make them simple & good, take iiij. pound of the said white soap▪ with v. ounces of the powder of Irios, two ounces of cloves, iij. ounces of the powder of Macaleb, & incorporate them well together in a mortar with the water of Trefle or of spike, and you shall make a form and fast dough, whereof you may make your balls, and they will be very soon dry.   

To counterfeit all manner of green leaves which shall seem natural.  
TAke green leaves of what sort you will, and skrape or bruise the biggest strekes that be like ribs upon the leaf the contrary way, with a knife. Then make this colour following. Take common oil or the oil of line, or other liquors that make smoke, and burn them in a lamp, and set over them a pot for all the smoke will stick and cleave round about it: This done gather together the same smoke, and temper it in a dish with a little oil or varnish, and incorporate it well together. Then with the said colour you shall black the leaf on the side where you have bruised and skraped the great ribs with a linen cloth or cotton, and turn the leaf upon the Paper double and with your hand or with a piece of Cloth press down somewhat lightly the said leaf, until you be assured that it hath left the colour upon the Paper. Then take it of handsomely, and you shall find all the print and devise of the said leaf to be as it were natural, yea, even unto the least vain or rib, so that you shall think it fair, and with all the natural signs and marks, and if you will make it green according to his nature: take Vinaigre very strong, verdigris, gomme arabic, bladder past, called in French paste de vessre, and put all together and seeth it, and it will be green as we have before said, and with the said water you may make all these leaves green, and it will be fair to see, for to make a painting frysed or rough about your chamber, ye specially in winter time.   

To make a Paper bird of beaten and stamped Paper for moulds and hollow things.  
TAke the shearinges of white paper, and see that it be neat and clean and specially with parchment, and steep it in clear water the space of six or eight days. Then put them again into a pot that is not greasy with other clear water, & seeth them the space of two hours. This done take them out of the pot with as little moisture as you can possible, & so stamp them i● a mortar as small as you can, for they will make your work so much the finer. Then put them in a little bag which you shall steep in clear water, and if you should leave them there a year, they would continue still, in changing the water ones a weak: This done have ready moulds of lead or earth, for they be both good, so that they be clean with in, than you shall take this chopped paper and in wring it a little and casting out the water, you shall put it on the mould and press it down diligently having a sponge in your hand for to press it the better above, and to drink or soak up the water. Then set it in the Sun or in a hot house, and when they be dry, they will come of easily of themselves from the mould. And by this means you shall make your picture fair and neat, and lively as is your mould. And if the paper be beaten small enough, they will be like plastre, & as white as paper: and if you will paint them or give them a lustre, give them first one cover over with strong glut, that is to say, of that that painters occupy in their work, and when it is dry, lay such colours upon it as you shall see to be most meetest, and it will be a goodly thing to see them with some lineaments of Gold, as friar Cherubin did.   

To give a fair gloss unto Pictures or figures painted.  
TAke a pound of white and fat rosin, with two ounces of Plomme tree gomme, two ounces of Turpentine of Venise, two ounces of oil of line. And take first the Rosen, and melt it, & strain it hot as it is, and steep the gum in Commune oil until it be melted: then strain it, and put the oil and the Turpentine together in a little pot of earth that is not greasy, & set it on a slow fire: and mingle it always in the pot until it be all well incorporated together, and take it from the fire and keep it, and when you will occupy it, let your pictures or Images be neat and clean, and let this varnish be some what hot, and so lay it upon your said pictures even as men do other varnish, and it will be a very fair piece of work and have a good gloss. And for to make another Varnish which shallbe incontinent dry after you have laid it on: take Frankensens of the male-kind called Olibanum, and writing varnish, that is to say, Sandracha, which is Genuper gomme, according to your discretion, and make thereof a powder the finest that you can, and incorporate it together. Then take Turpentine of venise, and put it in a little pot that is not fatty, and melt it, than put it into the said powders by little and little incorporating them well together, but let it not be to soft, and so strain it hot through a strainer. And when you will occupy of it let it be hot, and spread it abroad thinly, and your work shallbe very shining, and will be dry incontinent. Also for to make a liquor which men use for to varnish upon pictures, take oil of line, and distill it in a limbeck of glass. Then take three ounces of varnish of Amber that is fair, and an ounce of the said oil, and incorporate it well together upon a slow fire, & when you will occupy it, let it be hot as varnish is, and you shall have a good success and issue of your work as well in wood as in linen cloth, and other work, doing it handsomely.   

To make another manner of green water clear.  
TAke the little Apples of Nerpru● when they be ripe and black, and break them, and put them in a pot that is not fatty, and put to them a little Alum beaten, and set it in a hot place the space of six or eight days, and it will boil and work as wine doth in the fat. This done strain it into a cannals under a press, & so get out the substance of it, and put into it a little Almain blewe: and it will make you a fair green, and if it seem unto you to dark, you may put to it a little Alum, and so put the said composition in a bladder, and dry it in the shadow, and you shall have a very fair paste or dough, not so farm or fast as that whereof we have spoken afore▪ but yet both be good.   

To take out a devise made in a mould, with black Sope.  
TAke a pound of black washing Soap, with strong lie, and seeth it until it be diminished of two thirdendeales, and keep it so, but when you will draw out the devise from the natural, and that you have not leiser to do it, do thus. Take of the said Soap sudden, and Soap over your Paper handsomely, than lay it upon the devise or picture that you will draw out, and press it softly with your hand, and hold it fast, & the mould will take all the devise: so that you may draw it at your pleasure and ease in another manner: or else make a case of wood, and past a piece of Paper upon it: then bind the devise unto it laying the mould upon the Paper, and holding it in the air you shall see all the devise, and do what you will with it, and so shall you come to the end of your purpose. But if you will make the Paper shine for to draw out the left thing that is, take very fine Paper, and anoint it with the oil of line, and rub it well, doing so divers times, and the oil will go of, and so let it dry in the shadow: for a man may write upon it with ink and with other colours.   

To make cleave the hears, and to dry up the sweat under the arm holes.  
TAke litarge of gold made into powder very fine, and when you have sweat in summer time, or at any time else, take a little of the said powder between your fingers, and rub your arm holes, breast, and other parts with it, and specially where you have sweat, or where you smell an evil savour, for incontinent after by the virtue of this powder, all the sweat will dry up, and in short time will make cleave the hear which is knotted with the sweat, and will keep it neat and clean, so that it shall no more savour jewel but well, and in using oft this powder, causeth that you shall not sweat so much in that place, neither doth it hurt you, nor staineth neither your flesh nor short. This secret is very excellent and guesen.   

To make Roses, Flowers, Gillefloures, and of all other sorts, white, red, green, yellow, and incarnate in short space.  
TAke fat earth or clay asmuch as you will, and dry it so well in the Sun that you may make a fine powder of i●. Then put it into the vessel wherein you will plant your Violettes, Roses, or white natural flowers, for to make them grow of an other colour. Then plant in the said powder those that you will have not suffering them to feel any other moisture than this that followeth. If you will have them red, take water, and seeth in it some Brasile cut very small, and let it seeth until it be diminished of the third or fourth part, and water by little and little morning and evening the earth with this red water being cold, and give it no other water then this, until you think it hath taken effect and wrought as you would have it. And if you will make them Green, take litt●● Apples of Nerprum when they be thorough ripe, and if you will have them yellow take them when they be not ripe, and break them a little, & seeth them in water, and the first will be Green, and the other that be not ripe will be Yellow. And with the said water, water your earth, and the flower will grow of the same colour, and water it until the plant or root be thoroughly watered, which will be, in continuing it the space of xv. or xx. days. And if you will make them black, you shall make the water with gall and vitriol, as men do make ink, and if you do water the earth with it as you do the other, the white flower will grow black, but leave it not abroad in the night time, for fear of the dew. True it is that all the whole flower will not be of that colour: but partly, so that it will take part of two colours. If you will make them of three colours, water them in the morning with one colour on one side, and at night with the same colour on the other side: then in the morning on one side with another colour, and at night with the same colour on the other side, so that it be watered in the morning and evening with two manner of colours, in changing the sides: for there as you have watered in the morning with one colour put nothing at night but on the other side, and in doing thus you shall have your flower of three colours, and of this plant you may make as many as you will, for this hath been proved.   

To make trees of all sorts to grow which shall bring forth fruit; far greater than commonly they do.  
TAke the half of a plate of iron that is old and rusty, and specially thin: for if it were thick, you could do no good with it, and trim the said iron plate after the manner of a cornet, and wet it within with brine, to the intent it may soon rust, and let it have a little hole on the pointed side. This done put into it your seed or kernel that you will set, be it Peche, Apple, Pere, Plum, or other fruit, and lay them all with the young spring turned toward the point of the cornet. Then put to his bottom made of the same plate of iron, and let it be well closed and soldered without and within, so that it may have no air but at the side of the point where by you shall water and sprinkle it with brine: And so plant it in the ground the point upward in the month of September or Octobre, to the intent that the ground may rot the cornet: for when the seeds or kernels so enclosed in do feel the moisture, and be swollen enough, they begin to cast out the young springs and the root, and wreeth and turn so much a boyt the said plate of iron that they pierce it thorough underneath, because that the roots are sharp pointed and hard, and turn so much about, that with the help of the earth which rotteth the iron, they make little holes, and so enlarge themselves by little and little, & the buds or springs turn also and taketh the savour of this brine and colour of the iron, and when the said spring or bud will come forth, it is by force, and so they come all out at one time, and wax great incomming out, & cleave fast and join all together: so that all they make but one plant, and grow great marvelously, which will be fair to see.   

To soften and mollify Olives with lie, in less than eight hours.  
TAke green Olives and lately gathered, and that they be not bruised in any wise, because than they will perish shortly after, and will not continue above eight or ten days, but the so●ter you put them in the lie, the better they will be in fast and savour, and the softer also. Wherefore do it quickly and make the lie out of hand. And for to make a bushel of it, take a bushel of the ashes of Oak very strong, and the third part of a bushel of fresh unsleckt lime, and incorporate them both well together, sprinkling it with a little fresh water, so that there may rise no dust of the ashes or lime, and that it be well closed together and be hot and chafed the space of two hours. This done put it into some vessel of earth or wood that hath a hole underneath, and stir it as much as you may. Then cast upon it three or four pails full of hot water, and let it drop out by little and little, and when you have got out of it about two pails full, you shall cast upon it two other pails full of cold water. And so use the matter that you may have two pails full of the said lie, and so put your Olives into it, and leave them in it until you see that they go to the bottom, where you shall prove them after this manner. Take one of them, and break him with your Teeth, and if you see that he come from the kernel, and that he be somewhat yellow. Then take them by and by out of the water, and put them into fresh water, and change it three or four times one after another, and strait way pill them, and take them out of one water to put them in another, and leave them not uncovered with water, because than they will be soon black, and lose the fair colour that giveth them so goodly a show beside the good savour that they have, which seemeth a thing almost against nature, to see an Olive with the leaf to be of the same colour that it was upon the tree. Leave them in fresh water three or four days changing the water twice a day, and if you change it four or five times in the day, they will be soft and sweet in two days, and you may eat of them with Salt and Vinaigre, and after you have made the brine and is cold, put them into it, and within two days you may eat of them, for they will be good. But note, that if the Olive have tutched no water, it will have always a tender skin, and willbe soft to eat, but if it have tutched the water, it must be steeped the more, and would never be so delicate to eat, because he would have the rind tough and hard, although it be fair and green. You may also dress them another may, take them dry, and that they have tutched no water, and steep them in brine the space of a month then change them into another kewe brine, the space of fiveten or twenty days: then make unto them a third brine good and strong, and they willbe soft: but of this men use not.   

To make a water that will die or colour allthings be it bone or wood.  
TAke strong white Vinaigre, and put it into a vessel of Glass, and put into it of the filing of Copper, with some blue vitriol, rock Alom, and verdigris, and leave it seven days in infusion: then boil it in some vessel, and boil what thing you will in it, as wood or bone, and it shall take what colour you will● But note that in stead of verdigris you may put in what colour you will, that is to say, red, yellow, or other, with a little rock Alum.   

A water to make Teeth white.  
TAke a pound of common Salt, eight ounces of rock Alum, half an ounce of salt peter. And all this being made into a fine powder with a handful of sage, and asmuch of Lentiscus cut very small and half a dishfull of black Berries, and so distill all this in a limbeck of glass, and when the water is come out, change the recipient, and set under another giving it a sharper fire, and the finer part of it will come out. And if you think good to mingle it, at your discretion be it, but it shallbe the stronger. Then keppe it in some vessel of thick glass, and welstopt: & when you will make your teeth while, make them first clean from meat or other things that may stick in them, and specially the white filth that is about them, with a point of a knife. Then you shall have a tooth piko● of the wood called Lentiscus, or of some other little stick, and wet i● in the said water, and so rub your Teeth with it, and they will incontinent be as white as ivory, and will continue so a long time without hurting them at all, but rather will make you have good gums, and fasten the teeth in the said gums. If you will also make another sort for to make clean your teeth, take the sharp husk of a chestnut when it is ripe, and dry it, and make thereof a powder then take asmuch more of the seed of nettles made also into a fine powder, and incorporate them well together. And when you will make your teeth clean, rub them with the said powder, and that will set such a beat in the gums, that scant you shall be able to shut your mouth, by reason of so great abundance of water that will come out of your mouth, but it will do you n● hurt: for in taking a little Rose water into your mouth, and a little Sugar candy, & so refreshing it there with, the pain will pass away incontinent.   

The true secret and manner how to ma●● beyond sea Azure, or else for all tutches or paragon. Also for to make strong paste, for to incorporate the Azure stone in it called Lapis lasuli, and to take it out again in his time, and when you think good.  
Have first some clear & neat Turpentine four ounces with six ounces of fair Rosine, and asmuch of fair Pix greca, three ounces of fair Mastic, and asmuch of clear new ware, an ounce and a half of Line seed purified, or an ounce of oil of bitter Almonds. But you shall take first a new pot of earth well leaded, and wet, and put into it the Turpentine upon a fire of embers somewhat slow, until it be melted, stirring it always with a wooden spoon made after the fashion of an apothecaries slice, and when it is well molten, put into it by little and little the Rosine cut as small as is possible: then put into it by the same means the Pix greca, & the mastic beaten and stamped three or four times: and then the wax being cut very small, mingle it well with the said slice or spoon until all be well incorporated together, and above all things see that there be but a little fire, for otherwise it would burn, and the fire would take it because they be all hot things, & ready and apt to be kindlid. This done put the oil into it: true it is that the oil of line seed, is much better than the oil of Almonds, not withstanding you may put in of that which is most commodious, and let your pot so stand on the fire, that the said composition may wawme and bubble a little the space of a quarter of an hour, or more if need be: and when the said past is sodden, you shall know it by this experience. Take a spoon of wood and stir it well about with it, then take it out, and make two or three drops of it into a dish of fresh water, and if the drop ren a broad in the water, it is a sign that it is not sodden enough, and therefore seeth it more until the drop keep together in the water. Also you may prove it this way, weate your fingers in the water, and wring the said drop, & if it stretch out a long in drawing it out, & unlouse itself, than it is a sign that it is sodden enough, and than take it from the fire, & empty it so hot as it is, into a bag sharp pointed at the bottom like a jelly bag being first weate in hot water, and let the past drop into a basin being set in a pail full of fresh water, and do it diligently and circumspectly to the intent that all may come out, and wring the bag between two sticks, and it will the sooner come out. And when it's cold again, take it out of the water, and toss it up and down between your hands, until you be sure there is no more water in it. And if by reason of the heat it did cleave to your hands, anoint your hands with oil of line seed, well purified as we will declare after in the chapter of purified oil. After that you have well rubbed it between your hands, and well cleansed from the water, than keep it always in fresh water, and note, that if it be in summer you must change the water every day, or every two days once. And in thus doing it will keep viii. year, being always good and strong.   

To make the second paste, softer for beyond sea Azure.  
TAke four ounces of fair Turpentine, six ounces of fair Rosin, six ounces of clear Pix greca, an ounce of fair Wax, three quarters of oil of line seed, and seeth it like as the other was in the chapter before: true it is, that it is sooner sodden, because it is softer, that is to say, it will make you sooner Azure than the first, which is much stronger, but if you would labour for Azure with both these pastes, let the softer be always the first, and if the stone be not of perfitest having vein of Gold, give it never both the pastes: But note, that in these two pastes consisteth the true art to know well the perfect beyond sea Azure, for therein lieth the gain and the loss, and therefore do it diligently and wisely.   

To purify the oil of line seed for the Azure.  
TAke what quantity of oil of line seed you shall think good, so that it be fair and clear of a yellow colour like Gold, and put it in a horn of Glass, or in an Ox horn that hath a hole in the bottom, and put upon it some fresh water, and stir it well with a stick, than ●ette it stand still a little while, and open the hole underneath, and let out the water, doing so seven or eight times, or until the water come out as clear as when you did put it in: and in this manner men purify the said oil, then keep it in some vessel of Glass, against you have need of it. And if peradventure you can not get of of the said Oil, take the oil of bitter Almonds, for you may use and occupy it without and more purifying: true it is that it costeth more, and yet is not so good as the other, but for a shift. And note well that when you hear speak of oil, it is of this purified oil.   

Lie for to wash beyond sea Azure.  
TAke eight or ten handfuls of the ashes of vines well sifted, and put it into some vessel that holdeth at the least a pail full and a half of water and thath hath a hole in the bottom, and so order it that the water may run out, and that the ashes keep in, and stop the hole without side. Then put in the said ashes and press it down asmuch as is possible, this done power upon a pail full of hot water by little and little, and open it not underneath until the water begun to the bottom: And than let it out as fast as it will, & keep this first water in a vessel of glass, and distill it thorough a felt, that is to a band of old white cloth, then distill it again with a piece of felt, or white cloth, and than it will be neat, clean and purified, and keep it well from dust in some vessel lead within. Then put another pailful of hot water in to it, and let it out as before you did the other, and keep always of these two sorts against you have need. This done do it the third time in the like manner, and put each of these waters or lie by themselves, the first is strong, the second weaker, the third is weakest of all and sweet, of the which lies men do use for to wash the foresaid paste with all when the Azure will not come out, as you have learned before. Now when you will occupy of this lie, take of all three sorts asmuch as you shall think good. A man may make yet another manner of lie, to wash the paste with, and to purge it from his unctuosity and fatness. Take asmuch calcined Tartre as you will, and boil it in clean water the space of a quarter of an hour or more, then let it go down to the bottom & keep it so clear: for you may occupy it when the past is unctuous or fatty, and also for to wash the beyond sea azure, for asmuch as it augmenteth lighteneth the colour of it. It is also good for to heal the scab, scurf, and lasarie, if a man use to wash himself with it, and maketh all the body clean and white.   

How the Vessel ought to be, wherein all the waters are put that the azure is washed with.  
THe vessel must be of earth bake and anelled, and well leaded, and polished in the bottom, and if it be not of earth, it may be of Copper or Laton well polished at the bottom, and let it have three pipes or conduits, one in the middle, another somewhat lower, and the third within two fingers of the bottom. And if you think that it is not yet azure, let it stand eight or ten days until it be well settled, and you shalt see at the bottom a little azure. Then wash it with fresh water as you did the other, and so put it with the other, or else keep it a part, for it is fair and good.   

The first part how to know the virtues, good 〈◊〉 and signs of Lapis lasuli, and to make true beyond sea Azure most perfectly and expertly.  
W●ate first the said stone with spittle or water, and set a piece of white cloth before it, and you shall see it give in it a fair lustre of a Violet colour, which shall comfort your ●ight. And if you will make the proof to know if it be fine, take a little of it, and lay it upon hot embers and make it flame, them take it out, & if you see that it is not altered, it is a sign that it is good, and if it change not at all, it is of the finest, because it feareth not the fire, but rather augmenteth his true and perfect colour. If you will make another proof, lay it upon a fire pan, or upon some other iron, and so heat it on a flame and then quench it with white vinaigre very strong, and take it of, & if you see that it hath not lost nor changed the colour, it is of the best, and if it take colour again it is of the finest and most perfect. And if a man could get of this second, which increaseth his colour, he might sell it for three or four crowns the ounce, but very little of it is to be had that will keep his natural colour, but will change some thing in the triing. And you must note, that in making these trials with fire, if the stone do not keep wholly his natural b●ate, the azure shall not be of the fairest, but of the mean sort. To know when it is powder, whether it be good or no, take a goldsmiths melting pot, and put a little of it, into the said pot at your discretion, and set it on the fire and let it flame & heat, and then let it cool again. And if it be not good it will melt like glass, but if it be good it will remain unmolten in his own substance and essence, & although it be in powder, it will yet be good, and if incace it were but half good, and half bad, the bad will melt, and become like a cake, and the stone will remain in his state and colour still. And this fraud and deceit is commonly wrought of them that sell it, and therefore let every man beware of it. And of all the three sorts of Azure, you shall get out for every pound of stone, I mean of that which endureth the cimentes above said, about a five ounces and a half of Azure, and the first which shallbe the finest will be sold for xii. or xiii. ducats an ounce, the second for iij. or iiij. crowns, and the third a crown. Than shall you take out the last which is called cinders which is of no great value, & yet nevertheless it will bear the cost & charge of your past, and by this means you may give judgement of the gain and profits of your work. But if it were of those stones which in trying of them do decrease and lose their colour, a man can not make so much no● so fine: but if you will take pain for to fine them the more, you must give them the past, as it shallbe declared afterward. True it is that it diminisheth much in weight. But that is good, true, and perfect, which is full of veins of Gold, and shining: and that is it that sustaineth and abideth lively all cimentes of fire, of Vinaigre and also all other trial.   

The manner how to prepare the stone Lapis lasuli, and to calcine it when you will grind it.  
TAke the said stone, that is to say, that which hath the veins of Gold, and which hath been in cimentes and foresaid profess, and break him into pieces as big as hazel nuts, and wash them in hot water, then put them into a goldsmiths melting pot and set it on the embers, and make them red hot and flaming, then take them out one after another, & quench them in white Vinaigre distilled thorough a felt three or four times, or else quench them in the urine or piss of a young child that is in health: And then distilled in the manner aforesaid: but note that Vinaigre is better, and make this calcination six or seven times, for in stamping it, it will break the better, and be the easier to grind: whereas if it were not well calcined a man could scant stamp it, because it casteth itself within the Copper. But the other which can not endure the fire, and remaineth not in his proper colour being put in cimentes, ye needs not so calcine thus, because it would lose all the means of his virtue and colour, and so should you lose both your labour and your time.   

To get out the Gold of Lapis lasuli, after it is ground.  
TAke of the said stone prepared, and broken in a mortar of Copper, and bray it very small upon a Porphire, and let there not be less than a pound of it: and put an ounce of purified Mercury in the said powder, and put this powder in a linen cloth and wring or strain it hard, and the silver will leap out bringing the Gold with it. This done put the said matter into a Golsmithes' melting pot, and set it on the fire, and the Mercury will fly out and turn into smoke, and the Gold will remain at the bottom of the pot, and make of this little quantity of Gold, what you will, for it is fine in all perfection: but truly there is no great gain or profit to get out the Gold after this sort: but nevertheless I thought it good to give you the knowledge of it, because the way and mean is easy enough. Yet I will tell you that this Gold which is within the said stone, 
What beyond sea Azure is.  is the very true beyond sea Azure: For it augmenteth his gloss or lustre, and the trimness, and in painting it is very soft under the Pencil, and spreadeth abroad very softly. For to stamp the stone afterward being calcined or not calcined, take it and stamp it in a mortar of Copper covered, then pass it thorough a siue very fine, and cover it over: for this is the finesse, beauty, and goodness of it.   

The manner how to make the liquor wherewith men bray the Lapis lasuli, for to make beyond sea Azure of.  
TAke three or four glasses full of well water, and distill it thorough a felt that there may not be, not past three glasses full of it in all, and put it in a little new pot, and put as much as an Egg of raw Honey to it, so that the water may be as it were yellow, and let it seeth so much until there ●ise no more skomme or froth: for than it is sodden, and you may take it from the fire and keep it in a Violle. This done, take fine Dragon's blood asmuch as a Nutmeg, and bray it upon a Porphire stone, with a little of the said honnied water, and keep it in another viol or glass, and add unto it asmuch of the said water that it come of a Violet colour, and that is the liquor that men use, but keep it well from dust. But if the stone, out of the which you will get your Azure have a violet colour lively and perfect, put to it the said liquor that it may make a Peacocks colour, that it be not of to high a colour, and that it be rather clear then red. And if the stone have to much colour, let your liquor be of a dark and clear colour, and if the said stone have a clear colour, let your liquor be of more high colour. But note that you must apply all these sorts of colours to your fantasy and mind, in adding to the matter or substance little or enough according as you shall see the colours. Take also of that Dragon's blood which the Goldsmiths do use: true it is that commonly they use that which they call Lachrima: but take of that that is in powder. There be some that grind & bray it with two parts of the foresaid lie, and one part of Dragant: other make it with Bdellium, tempered with a little water, and then it is good.   

The manner how to bray or grind the Lapis lasuli upon a porphire stone, and the signs of the same.  
TAke of the said powder beaten and sifted, and begin to bray or grind it, sprinkling it by little and little with the same liquor, and that it be well closed, and kept together as straight as possible for being at large you should lose much of it, and being close it will bray the better. Now, you must bray and grind a pound of the said stone, at twice or thrice, and no less, and you may not be less than ij. hours about it at every time, if you will have your money out of it, and so sprinkle it round about with the said liquor to the intent it may not cleave to the stone in grinding it. And note, that you may bestow a hole glass full of the said liquor about one pound of the stone. And when you have ground one part of it take it away, and grind the rest in the same place if it be possible, and take heed that you put none other water to it than the said liquor. And if you will know when it is ground enough, put a little of it between your teeth before, and if you feel it crack as it were powder, than it is well ground. But in the mean time beware also that it be not ground so small that it lose his colour, but let it be indifferently well ground. And to dry the said stone after all is ground, lay it upon a clean stone, & dry it in the shadow out of the sun for the sun is hurtful unto it. And when you think that it is dry, touch it with your fingers, & if it turn into powder like earth or dry clay you must take it away, and in not taking it away, it would not hurt it. But if it be dry and turn easily into powder: than take it away, and so it is a sign that the powder is fatty with Honey, and therefore must you purge and purify it, to the intent it may come in due time out of the paste. And to wash afterward this said Azure, take a Barber's basin or a little basin of earth, made for the purpose, which must be well polished with in every where and in the bottom, and so put the Azure into it, than put into it some sweet lie which we have spoken of before, and let it be above it about the height of four fingers, and wash it well with your hand, and than let it sink down to the bottom until it be well settled: than pour out fair and softly the said water into the vessel before mentioned, and let it dry a little in the shadow in the said Basin. This done take it out circumspectly and diligently, and spread it abroad upon the Porphire stone, and let it so dry thoroughly: Then put it among the paste for to incorporate it in this manner following.   

To incorporate Lapis lasuli in the strong past, or other soft, after that it is ground.  
TAke a pound of Lapis lasuli when it is ground, & ordered as is aforesaid, and take also a pound of the strong past which is the first, & wash it well with your hands on the out side, than cut it in small pieces, & put them into a little pot well leaded within & so steep it, than set it upon the hot embers, & ye shall melt the said past: but take good heed that it fry not, & if peradventure it should fry, put into it a drop of the foresaid oil, & by and by it will leave friing. And when the past is well molten take the little stick or sklise that you did occupy when you made the past, & anoint it with the said oil, & when the past is turned mix it well, and in the mean time another shall put in by little & little the foresaid powder prepared, as men do oil upon salads & never leave turning of it so long as there is any, but yet a little at one's, & with the sklise incorporate it together a long time until you see that the powder be well mixed with all, that nothing may be seen out of the past, but all well fastened & pierced in. And when you see this, by & by take the pot so boiling, & pour it into a basin of cold water, and even forth with make the said pot as clean as you can with the sklise, that there remain nothing in it, & when the said past is cold so that you may handle it with your hand, anoint your hands with the foresaid oil, & if you see that the past is well died & coloured it is a good sign, & with your hands so anointed toss the past up & down the space of an hour & a half, drawing it out always in length & overthwart again, to th'intent that if it had made any hollow bladders within it might be all the better brought into one massive body or substance. And note, the more you remove it up & down in your hands, so much the more shall you get out of it in washing it. This done make it into the form of a long or round loaf, as you shall think good, than put this past into a bacin well polished, & clean with clean & fresh water that is clear enough, & let it so soak the space of x. or xv. days or more for the more it soaketh the fairer shall it be & the parfiter, and will easeliar and sooner come out of the paste.   

To get beyond sea Azure out of the paste.  
TAke the past prepared, & wash it handsomely and well without with your hands in the said cold water, than put it into a basin, the bottom whereof you must anoint with the afore said oil, & that the said base be at the bottom very fine & well leaded: this don, pour upon it some lukewarm water that is scant warm, & let it be two fingers above the past, & if the said water were distilled thorough a felt, it would be much better, & for to be assured, you shall way the past after it is washed, to the intent you may know what to do, & how much you ought to take out of it, in considering with your judgement the oil that may peradventure be entered in in handling it, & so leave it in the said water lukewarm the space of a quarter of an hour if it be in summer, but if it be in winter, less. Then remember to empty out all these waters into the foresaid vessel, having three gutters or pipes, & when you void out the first water, put in other lukewarm water, to the intent that the past may be the softer, & so by little & little the good will come out. For if you would have it out all at ones, you should do your things evil. Remove & stir fair & softly the paste with the foresaid stick or sklise. And if in case the past should cleave to the bottom, anoint your hands, & turn it handsomely & so often until the water begin to wax blue, & when you see the water coloured & died, empty it out upon the other, holding & sustaining up the past with the little sticks or sklises, to th'intent that it cleave no more to the bottom of the basin, & know, that very little of the first Azure that cometh out will stain & colour a great deal of water. And when the past is in the way to tender & give out the Azure, it will cast out as it were certain blue beams of the sun. And than you shall empty out the said water upon the other, & when you empty the water that is in the basin, strain it thorough a strainer for to save certain little pieces of past, if in case there should come any among the Azure, and so will it come the cleaner and purer. This done put from hand to hand some lukewarm water upon the past and turn prettily the said passed with your foresaid sticks, leisourly and handsomely, specially at this beginning for fear lest the paste should lose and undo itself and so render and give out all the Azure at one's: which thing would be to no purpose, neither could you afterward sort it, or order it. After you have thus turned it four or five times, take up together your past, and you shall see how much there is come out, for of the first there should come forth four or five ounces & a half, & that is to be understand if the Lapis lasuli, be of the finest, and there should no less come out. And because it is the first, set it a part by itself: for it is the true beyond sea Azure. By this same manner and way continue to get out the self like azure which shall be the second, and set it also a part, and you shall get out of it three or four ounces. Keep this same order and mean in getting out the third with this same water always lukewarm, and that the cold water be scant out, & stir it with your foresaid sticks. After, it shall be at your discretion to get out the fourth which is called Cenders or Cinerarius of the colour of ashes, and if you will have it out, the water must be somewhat hotter, and than it will be of grey or ash colour. And herein you must wring and press hard the paste with the sticks, and if it will not come out with the water, give it a little of the foresaid lie: This done put all the Azures severally ●y themselves for the one will mar another else, and specially the last. And here you must understand that before all these Azures be gotten out you must bestow about it eight hours, and before they will strike to the bottom, it will be no less than ten or twelve hours, for therein lieth your gain, and so empty the water diligently. And if in giving it the lukewarm water, the Azures will not come out but in a small quantity, give it two parts of water and one part of sweet lie, & if yet it come never the more give it a greater quantity of lie: And yet if therefore it will not come out, give it cold lie, but if not withstanding all this it will not come out as you would have it, take a pot, and put into it some ashes of vines, and clear fresh water, and seeth it the eight part of an hour: then poor it out and let it stand to clear itself, but let it be somewhat sharp in taste upon the tongue. And shall you make for the last remedy, specially for to get out the last Azure. You may also take of it hot for to wash the paste with, and than cast it away for it is no more worth any thing, and note, that in getting out these Azures consisteth either your loss or your gain. Now the sticks or instrumetes of wood that men use in the paste must be of boar or other fine wood, and about the breadth of two hands or more, and a fingar thick or a little more, and greater at the upper end and flat like a Amande.   

Of what colour the Azures are when they come out of the paste, and what sign or token they show.  
THe manifest sign and token of the first Azure when it cometh out, is, that it seemeth somewhat courser & thicker than the other, which is because of the veins of Gold that are in the said stone. The second shallbe finer and thinner but you shall not see so good a colour in it. The third shall seem unto you more fine and thin, but it shall be paler of colour, and clearer and open, and that is to be understand when the Lapis lasuli is good and perfect. The price of the colours hath been before spoken of. The stone costeth ordinarily six or eight crowns the pound, according to the places. And if the stone be good and fine (as it ought to be) a man shall get out of it at the least all counted ten ounces and a half, and the stone be not so fine, you shall get out at the least eight ounces. Yet nevertheless y● slone may be so evil that ye shall gain nothing at all, but rather be a great loser.   

The manner how to wash, and purify the Azures as soon as they are gotten out of the paste.  
When you have gotten them out of the paste, and have taken out the water, put upon them some sweet lie that is clear, and wash them handsomely with your hands. And so shall you do to every sort of the Azures, each one by himself, and empty out each of the waters a part, and let the said waters settle before you put them into their basins, and wash them so often until they be cleansed from all manner of grease or fat of the past. Than rinse them three or four times with fresh & cold water to the intent they may be the more purified & made clean.   

To purify perfectly the Azures with the yolks of hens eggs.  
TAke the yolks of five or six eggs of hens that have been nurrissed and fed with corn, & not with grass, and pierce the yelke with some sharp pointed thing, and sprinkle it here and there, as men do oil upon salads, upon the Azures a little upon each sort, and do so in every basin, and incorporate well together with your hand the egg with the Azure, than wash it again with strong sweet lie, and wash it so long until you see it come out as clear as you did put it in: than rinse it three or four times with fresh water, and this is the true washing & the perfect purifying which giveth a gloss unto all azures, & this secret do all the excellent masters use, and above all things let the water always settle before you empty it out into the other basins, for you should diminish to much the great mass of Azure. There is yet another goodly secret for to give a gloss unto the said azures, which is unknown to many men, and that is when the Azure is well washed and purified, as is before mentioned. Take the gall of a bull, and break it upon the Azures, as you did the yelke of the Egg according as the Azure is, upon every sort. Then rub them we●l with your hand and wash them as before. And note, that all these manners of purifiynges are made one after another, when the Azures be out of the paste▪ and you shall make all the said purifiynges diligently handsomely and leysourly in the basin. And this is a very excellent secret.   

The manner how to strain the Azures, after they be purified, made clean and washed.  
IT is necessary to strain beyond sea Azure, & other also, if happily there be any grease or filled or any pieces of the past remaining in it: for these Azures must be marvelous well ordered and trimmed, as we have here before mentioned. And therefore you shall do thus. The last water that you shall give them after they be purified, you shall pass it thorough a sarse or siue: then thorough another that is finer, and the last time thorough a strainour, and when you will make this washings, always let the water stand until it be clear, or else you shall take up the water by little and little with a sponge, but take heed that the Azure entre not into the sponge, After that you have taken all the waters thus up, let the Azures be in their basins, and let them dry in the shadow and not in the sun, for it is not good for it. And specially keep all your work from dust & all other immundicites & filth: and when they be dry take them up diligently each one by himself, & so put them in bags of leather in the smoothest side, & when it is bosid up rub it well with your hands, for it is made fine by that means. And the longer it remaineth made, the better colour it getteth when you hold it in the air, and if you will fine again your azures for to make them of a greater price & vain, you must put them once again to incorporate into the strong past, following the manner and order before declared, and let them remain so three days: then take them out in like sort as we have showed you before: And the oftener you do thus, the finer it will wax. It is true that it will diminish always in the weight: but yet for to put it in work, one ounce will go as far as three ounces of the other, and therefore you must be diligent in all things, & specially in the washings, lest you should lose your labour. And also be ware and vigilant to know the stone, to make your cimentes, and to compound your pastes.   

To make black Soap for clothes, with all the signs and tokens that it giveth and maketh in beiling.  
TAke thirty pound of unslecked white lime, if you can get it, and that is in great hole pieces and not in powder, and four score and ten pound of the strongest ashes you can find. Then order & dress the ashes round about the lime, in form and manner of Mortar, and sprinkle with a broom wet in water the small pieces of lime a little at one's and often, to the intent that the fire may enter into it, and when it is well mollified and augmented by reason of the heat which is in it, let there be two of you, the one to incorporate well with a spade or shovel the lime with the ashes, and the other to sprinkle water with the broom well upon it & round about it, to the intent there rise no powder or dust of it. And let all so well be mixed, that a man may not know or discern the lime from the dust or ashes, and water it so much round about, that in taking a handful of the same matter, and in wring it, it cleave together. And when you see that it raiseth no more powder or dust, give it no more water. This done close up together all this mortar with your spade, and let it so remain in a heap two or three hours, for it heateth and boileth being in a heap, and when it maketh chinks or clefts about it, it is a sign that it is risen. And if it be in cold weather you may cover it, for fear that it take no cold and so lose his heat, for than it would make no good magistrale. When all this is done, strain the said matter in a vessel of earth having a hole in the bottom, being covered with a little straw, and a dish over it, to the intent that the matter may run in time: and when you put it in press equally every where as much as you can, and let it be always even above: then pour upon it some hot water, or else do as followeth, as I myself do. Make ready six or eight pails full of the strained lie, and pour it on the vessel I mean of the first which is good, and at the first put in two or three pails full, the which being sunk down, put in as much more, and open not the hole in the bottom, until all the matter be drunk up: then let it run out by little & little, and because you may the better know the first, the second and the third, take an Egg new laid, and bind it round about with a thread and as the magistral lie cometh out, put the Egg into it, and whiles the egg remaineth above, put it all into a vessel, for it is the first which you ought to make much of. And when the egg sinketh in the lie, put that second by itself: and if you can get of the first fo●rty pound, you shall get of the second thirty, and of the third twenty, and of the fourth asmuch as you will: And let all these be put by themselves: & if you cover them well that they do not evaporate nor breath out, they will continue always a year being still good, when you have done take thirty. pound of the first, and ten of the second, and put them together and look well if the egg remain above, & if it appear not much, weaken it no more, for it shallbe well so. And note, that unto three pound of the said lie, you must have one pound of oil, and in pouring it in stir and mix it well with a stick, for fear that the oil be not hurt by the violence of the said lie: And make this composition at night, to the intent that it may remain in infusion all the night: then in the morning seeth it the space of seven or eight hours or more, according as the quantity is great or little: for when it is above a hundredth pound, it must seethe ten hours or more: and when it beginneth to seethe and swell much, take it by and by from the fire, and stir it always above until it begin to boil softly. And in the mean time cease not to stir it, for fear it burn to the bottom. And when you make the composition in a cauldron, let it never be full by a hand breadth, because it riseth and swelleth always in seething, and the oil would be lost: and mixing it oftentimes the oil incorporateth with the lie, and seedeth the sooner. And when it hath sodden about eight or nine hours, you may begin to assay and prove it, and see that you keep always a little of the first and of the second for all occasitions that may chance. And when it hath boiled unto the said hour, you shall see it wax thick, and make the bubbles in seething long and thick. Than may you begin to make your proof and assay. That is to say, in taking a little of it with a spoon, and putting it into a little earthen dish, and let it cool, then cut it with a little stick, and if it close together again, it is a sign that it is sodden enough: and if it do not close together again, it is not, and therefore finish the seething of it. And make many of these proofs and assays. And when it is sodden, take the fire from under it, and so take it of, and set it in some cool place, and when it is cold you may occupy of it, and it will be good and perfect. And if you make it with clear oil although it be strong, it is all one: but if you make it with oil parched or thick, it will not be very clear. One of the best signs that you may see in it when it beginneth to wax into a thick substance, is that in taking of it up with a spoon, the threads or little strekes do break without shrinking up again, & this is a sign that it is sodden enough. And when you have taken up a little, and have let it cool and so cut it, and than if it be firm and fast on the sides, and in setting it up it tarry upright, than it is sodden. And if after an hour it were not sodden, that is to say, that it had not the sinew, put upon it a little of the first magistral a little at one's, and so let it boil an hour or a half. And than you shall make again the like assay or proof as before, and if it show you not good signs, you shall put yet a little more to it until you make it have a fast and solid body, & let it be not to soft nor to hard. And he that hath experience of this knoweth what is to be done in seeing it boil only. And when you see that it is well take it from the fire.   

The signs that Soap giveth in seething, if it be to hard, or to soft, whether it be liquid or white.  
IF when the the Soap is sodden you would take it out, and that you see it white, and in making the proof or assay it wax hard, note, that than it is very good, & if you will have it strong take it of, for being made it returneth to his colour again, but it remaineth still strong. But if it be to strong, it is not to be commmendid, for it waxeth hard, and so goeth in pieces when you would occupy it, so that you shall be feign to seethe it again, and to make it return into a good and measurable sort, for being so strong or hard it fretteth to much the clothes and consumeth them. And by my Counsel you shall set it on the fire again, but putting first into the cauldron a little of the third or fourth magistrale lie, together with a little oil, & so boil it, This don put in the strong soap, & all will incorporate together, & let it so seeth an hour, and you shall see that it will not be so strong or hard. And indeed it is better when it is somewhat softer. It is a thing of great importance to know with the tongue what there lacketh in the boiling. Take your ladle and stir it well about: and then take a little upon your fingar, and put it upon the end of your ●●ng, and you shall judge of yourself what there lacketh, for if it be strong beyond measure, you shall think that a coal of fire had tutched your tongue: but if it be not to strong, it will not seem unto you so burning sharp in tutching it with your tongue. And when it is so strong it hath need of the fourth magistrale lie with a little oil. And if it were to soft (which thing you shall also know by your tongue) it hath need of the first magistrale lie, & give it these mixtures a little ●t ones, to the intent that it be not let or hindered from seething, & mingle it in fair & softly. It is also a great sign and token that the soap is strong, when it breaketh in little pieces, and leaveth much magistrale lie in the bottom of the vessel, where it remaineth long: but when it is soft and evil sodden, it maketh as it were a certain jelly: than you shall put into it a little of the first magistrale, and boil it until it be well sodden, and wax hard and firm, but when it is enough it will draw toward the colour of green wax some what dark and obscure, and that shallbe when the soap is somewhat soft, and not much sodden. The sign and token that strong soap ought to have when it is well sodden and indifferently enough, is, that it will have the colour of Marmelade, & draw somewhat toward a Violet, and shall be obscurely glistering, and have a fair flower upon it, and shallbe good and perfect. But when the black soap is become somewhat white and strong give it a little oil, or else some of the third magistrale lie, & that a little at one's, lest you weaken it to much, and so it should lose his strength: for than you should give it more oil, and more of the first lie, and so there should be great danger in it. And therefore beware and see that you bestow and distribute well your lies. But in this case you shall give it a little oil, and in boiling it, it will be whiter, and softer. After this, continue with the first lie, and lot it be hot and a little at one's, and proving it often times as we have said afore, you shall by & by know that it will be well trimmed and ordered. And when it shallbe to much sodden, or burnt, the sign or token shallbe when it is so strong and white out of measure, that it is burned. Than must you give it some water only, or some of the fourth lie hot, not boiling it any more, or at the least very little, & by this means you may perfectly achieve and come to an end of your work. And always when you will add or put to it any matter upon the cauldron, boil it evermore a little, because it will incorporate the sooner: And make often times your profess and essays. And if your work go well, do no more in it, but be diligent and circumspect in taking it from the fire, and take it so hot as it is out of the cauldron. For to make afterward the Magistrale, you shall do thus: when you have gotten out the first, which keepeth or beareth the Egg above, which willbe about nine pints, and of the second that beareth not the Egg, a thirdendeale, which is three pints, and of the third the half which willbe three half pints, and of the fourth asmuch as you will: for of that men use not much, and as nigh as you can keep them all by themselves and covered, because they will so keep well enough. True it is that some men are wont to put them all together, that is to say one measure of the first, one of the second, and half a measure of the third, and somewhat less, & one measure of oil, which are in all three measures and a half, and by this means you may multiply asmuch of it as you will. After you have thus ordered and dressed it, in the cauldron, make fire under it, so that it may be but scant lukewarm, and stir it always in the cauldron with your ladle, to the intent that the oil may incorporate, & pierce thorough the magistrale: then leave it all the night in infusion, and give it fire again in the morning, and when it is hot stir it well that it may incorporate together. And note, that it must boil ten or twelve hours, and will not make any lie at the bottom, and in boiling lift up your ladle a high, and it will make long strekes like thread the space of six hours, and then will begin to fasten and close up itself, and will make strekes which being broken will return upward again, & that is a sign that it is not yet sodden enough: but when they break not neither return backward but remain fast and whole than it is sodden, and therefore you shall take it from the fire, for this is the true sign & token of it. The other sign is, when it is cold cut it in little rolls, and if they stand upright and not fall, it is a sign that it is made. Lay of it oftentimes upon your tongue before it be sodden, and if you feel it to strong give it a little of the third or of the last magistrale, according as you shall perceive it to be strong, or else little or enough after as you shall see it hath need. If you see it to white and strong, give it a little oil at ones, and it will alter & turn. When it is almost sodden and that it make a jelly, give it a little of the second or of the third, according as it shall have need by your judgement. If it pass his ordinary time or hours in seething, and that it fasten not neither close itself, give it a little of the first: but let not the soap be to strong, therefore assay it first: for that were no small fault. But if it be not to strong nor to white, and yet do not fasten and close itself, you may give it of the first, as we have said, and if it be somewhat strong, you may give it of the second after the accustomed manner. When it is almost sodden and maketh as it were a jelly, and is strong, and not being white, give it a little of the fourth, but yet very little at one's, to th'intent you take not away to much of his force. But when it is almost sodden and is very white, give it a little oil, and it will be well. When it should be sodden and that the hour or time of his seething is paste, and is neither strong nor white, give it a little of the first or of the second, or of the other, after as you see it strong more or less, and it will return into a good state, and must boil fair and softly, for fear it stick not to the bottom, and burn by the reason of to much fire: for such a fire is of great importance. The fourth lie, is not set a work but when it maketh as it were a jelly, and is strong and to raw. There be some good Masters & work men, that put in the second magistrale with the oil, to the intent that the oil might not be so much hurt by his strength, and then they put in a little of the third, and then a little of the fourth, and after that a little of the first: but there is no hurt in that, for there be measures in it, and these mixtions are made in the presence of other men, when the master will not suffer it to be known, for fear least that other should easily learns it. The good and perfect magistrale lie will bear always an egg overthwart, and weigheth ever more twice as much as water doth, and contrary wise when it is less strong it weigheth less, and the oil weigheth as much as the fourth. If you order and appoint the said lie● by measure, give ever the advantage to the oil four or six for the hundred, if you will have it fat and fair: for he that is well experimented in it knoweth well in boiling what is needful to it, be it oil, lie, or any other thing. When you will make white Soap, keep and use the same mean and way, & when it is more than half sodden, put into it some salt, according to the measure & quantity of it, and let it boil a little: then take it out of that cauldron, & put it into another, & when it beginneth to boil put in again more salt, and let it seeth to his perfect measure. This done, set it to dry in a plain and even place, and cut it in pieces, for it will be perfect good. men make the like with Soda, as they do use at venise, the salt must be grossly beaten, and ten pound of it for the hundredth, and mix it with it all about, and put in but a little at ones.   

To heal the scurf.  
TAke the root of the herb called in latin Panis porcinus, and skrape or grate it, and put it in a little pot, and put to it six ounces of oil of roses and let it seeth well, and when it beginneth to boil put in six ounces of litarge of Gold, and a dram of Precipitatum prepared, and let it remain a little on the fire, mixing & stirring it still, and also afterward until it be cold: then anoint the skuruy head with it and strow upon it like spice a little flower of the grain called lupines, and some bean flower mixed together, and so put a coif upon his head, and that shall suffice once a day in doing it three days together. And if the hears fall not of themselves, pull them out by little and little, and within twelve or thirteen days he shall be cured. Also another way, take Sage, Rosemary, our Ladies glooves, Camomille, and Panis Porcinus, cut this very small, of each of them a handful, boil them until they be sodden enough and that the virtue and strength be remained in the wine, than strain it and press well the herbs, and wash the skabby head with the said wine and dry it well, this done make a fine powder of a piece of flesh of a young bull, and strow it upon the head like spices, and bind the coif upon his head, doing this once a day, and pluck every day some of the hears away, for they will die away by little and little of themselves. And do thus so often until you see his head neat and clean, and than shall he be thoroughly whole. There is yet another secret whereof men make little or none account, and yet nevertheless if you prove it you shall find a marvelous effect of it. Take three pound of old lard of a barrow hog, and lay it to step two days in strong Vinaigre, and let it be covered over with the said vinaigre: this don wrap it in three or four sheets of paper, and upon that two or three leaves of Cabbage, and lay it under the hot embers or ashes when you cover your fire, & there let it lie two hours or more or less, according as the fire was great, or as long until you think it be roast enough: then take it out of the fire, and make it clean, and strain out the grease of it, passing it thorough a linen cloth, and by and by put into it a quarter of an ounce or more or less of verdigris brayed very small, according as the infirmity shall be great or small, and incorporate it well together with a stick the space of an hour, until it beginneth to wax cold, to the intent that the Verdegrise descend not all to the bottom, and keep this grease as a precious thing: and the older it is, the better operation it maketh. And anoint the head of the patiented with it, every second night, and wash also his head twice or thrice a week with sweet lie, with a handful of lean bran boiled and dry it well again, and anoint his head again, putting the coif upon his head and none other, and when you have anointed it three or four times, the root of the hear willbe ripe, and you may pluck always some out in washing, and they will come of easily and without pain. And if in case they would not come of easily neither with force, care not for that: for the disease hath not pierced thither and therefore let them alone: for some time they be not dangerous: but if they were infected or hurt with the disease they would be lose and fall of or else ●asy to be plucked of, because that the ointment doth ●ipe the root, and when the head is all bare, without hear and made clean, fear not: for all the hear will ●ome again fairer than ever they were, and he shall be cured and sound. This hath been oftentimes proved, and hath wrought well almost in all men: for you must know that there are four kinds of skurfes, the one is more gross and fleshy than the other, and therefore marvel not, if you find so many divers receipts: for there be many men that heal the scurf which know it not: but if it be the scurf look upon his nail, & if there be a black circle about the white at the root of the nail, and the greater the circle is, the worse kind of scurf it is, and therefore you shall use the remedies aforesaid, and let him not eat any hogs flesh nor eager or sharp things, and with the help of God he shallbe healed. Take also a great lisard or two, and drown them in common oil, and than seeth them until they consume, and with this oil anoint his head oftentimes, and the hear will come so fast and such great quantity, that he shall not tell what to do with them. There is also another remedy for to heal the simple scurf. Take of the grease of a male hog as much as you will, and some strong vinaigre for a third part, and half an ounce of salt beaten and stamped, and boil it with a small fire until all the vinaigre be consumed: then take it from the fire, and put into it all these powders following: verdegris, alum of the rock burned, of each of them two drams, brimstone and suet of each one a dram, and pigeons dung, and let all be well incorporated together, and anoint his head with it ones a day, and wash it twice or thrice a week, and boil in the lie the root of Lapathum or Rumex, in english Sorrel, and strain it, and then wash him with it, and when it is dry again, anoint him a fresh. Of the four kinds of scurf the first is called Porrig● farinosa, flowery or white scurf, the other Furfurea or Furfurosa, because it hath the colour of bran and scales like unto bran, the third Viscosa, clammy or cleaving like bird lime, and the fourth Lupinosa, because it is like the grain called lupins. And in the form and matter the one is dry, the other moist, the one ulcerous, & the other without ulcers, & here of it followeth that the one is more sharp and smarting than the other, for the causes of the scurf are gross humours corrupt & clammy, which sometime is brought with us even from our mother's womb, & some by evil governing of ourselves in our life, the moist scurf is with broad sores, & the dry with crusts.   

An excellent and a tried water for the scab.  
TAke a viol full of well water or Rose water, or else of other sweet water, as though you would make it for some noble man, & put into it an ounce and a half of silver sublimed that is beaten very small, half an ounce of salt. This done, set it before the fire upon a tile, to the intent that the viol take no hurt in boiling, and let it boil until all the length of the neck of the viol be decreased. Then take it of, & when it is cold, put into it the whites of three new laid eggs well beaten that they have no more viscosite or clamminess in them, and put also into it the juice of four Lemons, and of two sour Oranges, & let all be well incorporated together in the said viol, and stir it well, when you have thus done leave it in the sun two or three days & it will be made. And in this manner is the said water made, & thus men use it. At night when you go to bed wash yourself only about the iontes with a sponge wet in the said water, and then wring & pressed hard, wash yourself ●ligthly over with the said sponge. This said water willbe as white as milk and odoriferous, and where as you wash yourself with it there it will make the skin white, & do thus every second night, and where there is any scurf or crust, weate it with this water rosid about not touching the crust, for that would grieve you. You may make another water simpler, & without danger. Take a glass or viol as before, and fill it with water, & put into it two ounces of rock alum, half an ounce of silver sublimed, and asmuch salt, and all being beaten into powder very small, boil it as the other before was, until it be decreased beneath the neck of the viol: then strain it handsomely, and occupy it as before the other was: for by this means the scabs will come out at the joints, and will incontinent dry up, leaving your flesh and skin neat and fair, as it hath been oftentimes proved.   

A remedy for any burning or scalding, either by fire or by hot water, or any other casual chance what so ever it be.  
TAke unslecked lime asmuch as you will, & slecke it in common oil, and take it out as dry as you can possible, and incorporate it with oil of Roses, and it will be as it were an ointment, wherewith you shall anoint the place that is burned or scalded, and it will shortly ease the pain and grief, and heal within six or eight days, not leaving any mark or scar upon the skin. Also for the same effect. Take an ounce of litarge of gold, and seeth it in white wine and a little Vinaigre, than take it of, and make thereof a very fine powder. Take also an ounce of butter, and asmuch oil of Roses, and wash it four or five times in fresh water: than take half an ounce of Blanc rasill burned, and the yelke of a new laid Egg, and a little fine sugar, and incorporate all together with a little Rose water, and spread this ointment upon a linen cloth, and it will profit you very much. Another for the same. Take some strong white Vinaigre, and the white of a new laid egg, with the juice of the rind or bark of an eldern tree, and mingle all together, and w●●e some pieces of linen cloth in it, and lay them upon the burned place one after another, and you shall be hole, and when you will heal up the wound, take a little of the second rind or bark of an eldern tree, and get out the juice of it, and a little powder of ●●ankensens, a little oil of roses, and a little new wax, and make thereof as it were an ointment, and spread it upon the pieces of linen cloth, and lay them upon the burned place, and you shall see that they will consolidate and heal up in short time. For to make afterward an ointment to the intent that the consolidation and closing up may be fair: take ten ounces of oil of Roses, two ounces of new Wax, and set them on a slow fire, and when these things be melted, put into it two ounces of Minium, in english Sinople, red lead, or vermilion, and four ounces of Litarge, and let all be made into a very fine powder, and make it to come into a substance or body, and lay it upon the sore, and you shall see a marvelous effect. There is yet another mean & remedy for any burning that is, take old lard of a male hog, and chop it well, them take a flagon of white vinaigre that is very strong, and let the lard seeth in it the space of two hours: then take it from the fire, and let it cool, and take of the grease that is upon it, and wring it hard with your hand, that all the vinaigre may go out and none remain in it: This done keep it in an earthen pot leaded, and the older it is the better it will be, because it doth his operation sooner. And when any man burneth himself, let him take of the said grease, and anoint the place with it and the pain will cease. In the mean time you must have made ready the hear of a hare chopped or cut as small as is possible, and when you have anointed it, strow of the said hear upon it as it were spice, and let it remain so. And when you anoint it again at night, and in the morning anoint it upon the other ointment, which you used before, and then cast on more hear as before, and take it never of until it come of, of itself, which will be within six or eight days, and the thing healed perfectly without any mark or scar. And note here that at the beginning of the evil, ●he oftener you anoint it, the more the pain will decline away, and the patient shall feel great allegement and ease, and shall be merry. And for to take away the pain out of the hand, and to do a marvelous cure, as soon as the inconvenient shall have happened skrape a little lard of a barrow hog upon it, and do it quickly, for in doing it with speed you shall perceive it fry, as though it were in a frying pan, and the patient shall feel great ease, and the pain will cease. Lay to it of this at the beginning three or four times in an hour, and the patient shall receive great consolation and comforth. This secret is good, and ought not to be contemned, all though it be no great matter.   

To make pills of Turpentine.  
TAke an ounce of turpentine of venise, and wash it well with borage water, or with some other cordial waters, eight or ten times as you shall think good. Then take three ounces of fine sugar beaten small, and incorporate it well together by little and little: for that taketh away the viscosite and clamminess of it, in such sort that it cleaneth not together: and at the end you shall leave a little of it without incorporating it, in the paste: for it shallbe always good to take at any time, & never perisheth: and when you will take of it, you may do with it at your pleasure. And this past hath one excellency in it, that is, that it cleaveth not to a man's fingers, but may also be chewed so that it will not stick nor cleave to the palate or roof of a man's mouth. And when you have made them, take a little cinnamon mixed with sugar, and roll them in it: then hardly take them at all times and hours, for they will work marvelously in phlegmatic, and choleric stomachs, and rid men from many inward passions, and will cause a good appetite, and the urine of the man shall give an odour as it w●re march violets.   

An electuary of Nerprum, that is to say, a solutive julep marvelous good for the Gout.  
TAke these little fruits of Nerprun about the end of September, when they be thorough ripe, and have had a white frost, and gather them early in the morning, and stamp them a little in a mortar, so that they be scant broken, and put them in a pot or some other vessel leaded within, that hath no savour of any thing, and cover them well, and set them in a hot place to confite the space of eight or ten days, then press out the juice and substance of them the most that you can: and for every pound of the said juice you shall put in a pound of purified honey. This don, set them on the fire, and boil them slowly until they be sodden, and assay upon a piece of Paper, if the drop remain fast together it is sodden enough, if it run abroad it is not sodden enough: Than take it from the fire, and put into it an ounce of Cinnamon, and two ounces of Ginger both well brayed and beaten, and incorporate it well together so hot as it is, and so keep it in boxes well covered, and the older it is, the better. Take of this before your meals a spoonful as well in the morning as at night, and keep yourself specially out of the air, and so it will do much good to them that have the gout more than to any other, because it easeth the pains very much, and doth good thorough out all the body likewise by reason of the evacuation.   

To make giltinges upon leather which shall seem like Gold, and laying them upon Silver or glass, they shall appear to be Gold in deed.  
TAke a new pot well leaded of the same bigness that you will make your work, make also a fourneise of the height of the pot, for fear that the fire get not into it, because it is almost like unto artificial fire, and therefore you must take heed. This done, take three pound and four ounces of line seed and seethe it slouly in the said pots until it be sodden, and if you will know when it is sodden, 〈◊〉 into it a hens feather, and take it out again incontinent, if the feathers go of in it, it is sodden enough, otherwise let it seeth, and when it is sodden enough, put into it eight ounces of Rosen, and Sandrac, that is to say, Vermix such as scrivenats' use, four ounces of Aloe epaticum: and all this being well beaten and stamped very small, put it in stirring and mixing it with a stick and if all come together in a mass, be not therefore abashed, but augment the fire, and never leave stirring it: for in feeling the great heat, these things will melt, and become liquid. And then let them boil slowly a good while: having so done take an assay of it upon a piece of paper, or upon your nail, as men commonly do, when they will know if the julep be well sodden: or else between your fingers to see if it be thick enough or no, and if you think it be to clear you shall put to it, for two days, an ounce and a half of Aloe sucotrinum, which giveth it a colour somewhat darker, and the work shall not be so bright or clear: but put to it also so much the less of Sandrac as you shall that it is sodden. This don pluck back the pot by and by from the fire, and let it stand where any flame is, because it draweth unto itself the heat, & so the fire would burn it all: them empty it out handsomely before it be cold, into a couple of little bags pointed at the end, one within another like hippocras bags. And the matter that is not melted will remain in the bags, which will be more than the half, and that will no more be any thing worth for that purpose, and by this means you shall have made your varnish for to guilt with all, which will keep very well and long, and the older it is, the better operation it hath, keep it therefore well from all manner of dust, and let it not drop or run out. And note, that the Aloe is it that giveth the yellow colour to it and maketh it look like Gold, and the other things make it thick. And if you will make it exceeding firm and fast, when the oil is sodden, being put in by measure, you shall take out of it as much as you think good, then go forward in your work, and when it is sodden, there will not be of it above three or four pound, and that is the lest you can make at a time: and yet nevertheless those that meddle with the making of it, make xl. or lx. pound at a time, and keep it for their necessity. And if you will lay it upon glass or tin, either the matter must be hot or else the glass or tin, and it must be laid abroad upon it with a pencil, and so shall you have a fair piece of work.   

An experimented oil against poison.  
TAke three pound of old oil olive, and divide it into three sundry vessels, and to one pound put three handfuls of Hypericon, in english saint johns wort, and leave it in the sun eight days, them boil it in Balneo mariae the space of twelve hours, which is made as we will show you afterward. This don you shall strain it hard, in pouring upon it some good wine, as Maluoisie, and after that put also to it three handfuls of the said herb, and a pound of the said oil, and so set it viii. days in the sun as before, in boiling it afterward twelve hours in Balnea mariae, and wring and strain it hard again as before, whereunto you shall put three handfuls of the seed of the said herb, and a pound of the said oil. This done do as before, with straining it in the sun, and in Balneo mariae, you shall also after this put into it these drugs following, as gentian Crocodilium, an herb (after Pliny) like the thistle called Camaelion niger. Ruellius supposeth it to be that which is called commonly Carlina or Cardina, Zeduaria, Aristolochiarotunda, Tormentill, white Dittany, sandal of all sorts, boil Armenik, prepared, of each of them two ounces, and put all the said things in a great glass, the space of ten days in the sun. Having thus done, you shall seethe them thirteen hours in Balneo mariae, & strain them afterward very hard: then shall you add to it saffran, Aloe, Spicinardi, Reubarbari electi, of each of them six drams, and set them in the sun again the space of six days, & boil them a new in Balneo mariae, four & twenty hours, & make the same expression & straining that you did before, whereunto you shall put an ounce & a half of good Mitridatum, & than it is made: and being thus made, keep it for your necessity & need, for it is a very sovereign thing against poison taken at the mouth, & hath a secret property against the plague, & for worms. M●n use it also in anointing all the pulses, & the heart, that is to say the left side, then cover all his body and let him alone with the hot linen clothes until he fall into a great sweat. And this hath been proved divers times. Now Balneum mariae is thus made, you must set a cauldron full of water on the fire, & in the same water a great glass such as men still with all, wherein to you must put all your things to boil. And make your cauldron of water so boil that the things in the glass may also boil, and because that water in the cauldron consumeth, you must fill it up again always, and lo here is Balneum mariae.   

For the heat or burning of the urine.  
TAke the seed of purslane, of wild succory, and garden succory of each of them two drams, the flowers of Nenuphar, and of Violettes, of each of them a dram, an ounce of the seed of white P●rpadol, two ounces of the seed of Sebest●●, half a dram of jusquiama alba, a dram of saffran, five drams of Lignum dulce, ten drams of the berry of a pine apple tree, and boil all this in six pound of water, until it be decreased of the third part, then strain it, and take six ounces of this straining with an ounce of julep of violets, and drink it lukewarm every morning at the break of the day, and you shall see a marvelous effect, within four days.   

A water of a marvelous and excellent virtue to bring again the sight of the eyes, to him that hath lost it, or is diminished by sickness or any other accident or chance.  
TAke three drams Tutia, made in powder very small, and asmuch Aloe Epaticum in powder, two drams of fine sugar, six ounces of rose water, six ounces of good white wine, rather sweet than other wine: but true it is y● to sweet is not commendable. Mix all this together, & put it in some clean vessel of glass, & being well closed and stopped, set it in the sun a month together continually, mixing & stirring together all the said things at the lest ones a day, to the intent they may incorporate well together. This don take of the same water, & put certain drops of it upon your eyes morning and evening, & in continuing so a certain space, it will cause the sight to come again as clear, and as pure as it was before. And this was made and ordained by a consultation and counsel assembled of the wisest & best physicians of all Italy, to bring the Emperor of Constantinoples' sight again the year 1438. when he was at the synod and concile of Ferrare with pope Eugene the fourth, and his sight came again unto him, as fair as ever it was, by the mean of this water.   

To remedy or help bloodshotten eyes coming by any Rheum, fluxion, or such other like cause.  
TAke the tops or ends of Wormwood, which is an herb well enough known, and stamp it, mixing it with the white of an egg, and rose water, & make thereof as it were a plaster, and spreading it upon a linen cloth which you shall lay upon the eye where the blood is, or else upon both. And do this at night when you go to bed, and the next morning take it of, and you shall see that this plaster shall have drawn to itself all the blood and all the redness that was in your eyes, and so you shall be quite of it.   

To take away the yellow jaundice from the face of every man to whom it is happened be reason of the gall run and shed about the body.  
TAke a great white Onion and make a hole where he buddeth out, casting away the green of it, and put into this hole as much good triakle as the quantity of a chestnut, but let this triakle be incorporated with half an ounce of saffron beaten, and let him roast by little and little nigh unto the fire, for fear that he burn not or roast to much, or else take some filth of the ashes. And when he is roasted enough, lay him in a white linen cloth and wring him hard that the juice may come out. And let the patient drink of the same juice in the morning fasting, three days together, and the jaundice will go away. Also for the like effect. Give him to drink a dram and a half of Scolo pendria in english hearts tongue, well made in powder, with white wine lukewarm every morning fasting, the space of twenty days together and all the yellowness and paleness will go away. The like effect worketh Lapatium acatum, sodden with his rote. And likewise the wine wherein valerian hath been sodden, being drunken in the morning fasting, healeth the spleen and the livar, which many time● are the cause that maketh the gall to run and spread abroad, as we have afore said.   

To make come out of the ears any thing that i● by chance fallen into them, or hath purposely bone put in.  
TAke the herb Marmorella, and stamp it, and put of the juice into the ears of the patient, for it hath the virtue and strength to draw out any thing that is in them.   

For the tooth ache.  
TAke the little grains or seeds that come of the herb or shrub called in latin Fusaria, or Euonimos, or Anonymos, some there be that say it is the tree called Anagyris, which is an herb or shrub very pleasant to see to, and hath a fair yellow flower, but a very horrible and stinking savour, look Dioscorides, in his third book the. 142. chapter. Take of the seeds hereof if you can get them, if not, take some of the root, and make of it a powder: This done, take a little dry or green organy, and boil all this in strong vinaigre unto the third part of it. Then wash your mouth with this vinaigre as hot as you may endure it, and incontinent you shallbe healed. Also for the same grief, take Cloves, honey rosat, & aqua vite asmuch of the one as of the other, than put it all together into a little pot, and take of the said composition in your mouth on the side where the tooth grieveth you, and hold it so a certain space of time, and the pain will cease.   

To make an a king tooth to fall out of himself, without any instruments or iron tools.  
TAke wheat flower, and mix it with the milk of the herb called in latin Herbalactaria, in french Tintima●ll●: or herb a laite in English Spurge that hath milk in it, in greek Tithymalos, which is an herb well enough known, and thereof make as it were a past or dough, with the which you shall fill the hole of the tooth, and leave it in it a certain time, and the tooth will fall out of itself. Also if you wash your mouth every month on's with wine where in the root of the said herb hath been sodden, you shall never have pain in your teeth. Also the decoction or powder of the flowers of a Pomegranate tree, being put in your mouth and between your gums fasteneth the teeth.   

An electuary for the head, which conserveth the memory, cleareth the sight, and comforteth the stomach.  
TAke the flowers of bugloss, of Borage, & of Rosemary, of each of them a pound, take also fennel seed, anise seed, the seed of sea fennel, and Siler of the hills of each of them six ounces, with an ounce of fine cinnamon. Beat & stamp all that aught to be beaten and stamped, and sift all those things that must be sifted. This done mingle them together & make thereof an electuary, of the which you shall take in the morning the bigness of a chestnut, and you shall see a marvelous operation, for this is come from a great parsonage.   

Against the pildnesse or baldness of the head, and to let that the hears either of the head or beard, shall not fall of.  
TAke the roots of bramble or blackbery bush called in latin Rubus or Sentis, of the kind that beareth flowers at the first, & the roots of nettles. Then take pigeon's dung, and burn it into very ashes, have also some ashes of Vines, with the which you shall boil the said roots, and make thereof some lie, and wash your head with it and also your beard, and the hears will not fall of. Also for the same effect, take honey, fenigreeke, and the eyes clipped or shorn of from a bramble or blackberie bush, asmuch of the one as of the other, and incorporate them well together, and distill them in a lembick, & keep the water of them, and if you will distill a few broom flowers withal it will make you aberne hears, weate and moist your head and beard the day time in the sun, & at night when you go to bed, and the hears will not fall away. Also for the like matter distill in a lembick the herb called in latin Sisymbrium aquaticum, in english water cresses. And of the water that you get of it, you shall make yet another distillation with agrimony, Capillus veneris, rosemary, sage, and cloves, of each a handful, and let the distillation be made in Balneo mariae, and in oftentimes washing yourself with such water your hear shall fall no more away, as many men have proved and tried.   

An ointment to cure the scurf.  
TAke good old lard, at your discretion, and enterlard it round about with rosemary, like a piece of roast meat, & let there be a good quantity of rosemary, then put it to roast on the fire turning it fair & softly. This done you shall take and save the grease that droppeth from it, in a dripping pan, & cast it hot as it is into a dish full of cold water in washing it very well, and when you have well washed it, put it into another clean dish, and so shall you the grease thus taken up fair and neat. Having thus done, way the grease, and if there be a pound of it, you shall put to it two ounces of fine sugar well beaten, & upon that asmuch verdigris puluerised as the quantity of a hazel nut, and four demers of quick silver, with asmuch soot of an oven of the hardest▪ as the quantity of a hazel nut: but let it be well puluerised & made in powder. This ended, incorporate all together, ●it will be a very good ointment, wherewith you shall anoint the first morning the head of the patient, and leave it so anointed until the next morning: th●n wash his head with lie that is not to strong but somewhat temperate, then anoint it again, & let i● alone so until the third morning, & do thus nine mornings in washing and anointing it, and it will be as neete as a pearl. Also bitter almonds blanched and stamped, and laid as it were a plaster upon the head of the patiented, it will easily heal the scurf, changing and renewing the plaster certain days.   

To kill lise, and nits in the head.  
TAke the powder or scraping of Had●●s horn, and make the patient to drink of it, and there will no lise nor nits breed in his head, but ●● you 〈◊〉 the said powder upon his head, all the lise and nits will die.   

For one that can take nothing at the mouth, or else to make him go to the stool, and to sweat well.  
FIrst the patient must be well rubbed with hot linen clothes, from the head to the foot, and must be very warm kept in his bed, them give him this ointment following. Take asmuch pepper as will lie upon a groat, and put it into half a glass full of vinaigre and oil, asmuch of the one as of the other, and let it be very warm, and anoint all his body over with it, & let him be well covered in his bed: and than shall he sweat, and go well to the stool.   

To heal those that have the disease of the Spleen.  
TAke Lignum aloe, and make thereof a powder, and put it in some manner of broth, or wine, asmuch as will lie upon a groat, and let him take of it three mornings together. Also the seed of an Ash tree doth the like, and the root of Palma christi, if it be eaten nine mornings fasting.   

For the pain of the side, or colic.  
Boil a handful of Rosemary with water, wherewith you shall temper the wine of the patient, and let him drink none other water. Also for the like. Take a dog, and keep him xv. days in a chamber, and give him only lambs or motton bones to gnaw, then take of his excremendes, and dry it in the sun, and make thereof a powder, and give the patiented to drink of it every morning half an ounce in white wine hot, and doing this three mornings, he shall be delivered of the pain, as it hath been oftentimes tried. Also for the like effect, take the dung of a black ass as hot as you may find it when it cometh from him, and seeth it in white wine that is not sweet, wring well the dung into the wine. Of this make warm glisters for the patient: for it is the best, and the aptest remedy, that can be found for such a disease: as many notable men, worthy of credit, have affirmed. Likewise for the same disease, it shall profit much if he eat every day, or four times in the week four peach kernels each day. Thus doing he shall never feel pain of the colic. This secret was had first of a jewe. There is yet another remedy easier than all the rest, and that is, you must take four Garlic heads, and boil them in a little pot with a pint of good white wine, and let it seeth well. Then take a glass full of this wine, asmuch as you may endure to drink, and so go to bed, covering yourself well, and you shall feel incontinent great ease. If you take also an ounce of the rote of Imperatoria made in powder, with white wine hot, fasting, the pain will incontinent go away.   

For him that can not piss.  
TAke the stones and kernels of peaches and medlars, asmuch of the one as of the other, and make them into powder very fine, and sift it in a sarce: this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this, and mengle all together, and the patient drink of it in good white Wine, and incontinent he shall make water.   

For one that is broke by reason of any travail, either riding post, or by any other accident or chance.  
TAke salt Armoniak and Rosen, of each of them two ounces, and steep it in Vinaigre the space of xxiv. hours, and dissolve it by the fire, so that it burn not: Then mix with it half an ounce of powder of Cyprus, and half an ounce of Gall, and make thereof as it were a Ciraene. True it is, that these gums ought not to be thoroughly melted. And if it be in winter so that the Ciraene be to hard, put into it a drop of mastic, and then spreede it abroad upon the rapture or the place a broke, and change it once in four days, and you shall see a marvelous operation.   

To take away the pain, and to heal the Goat.  
TAke a little whelp of a brake, that hath a while begun to see, and the fattest that you can find, and scald him like a Pig, and take out the guts and garbage at one of his sides: This done, take Nettles stamped, with two ounces of Brimstone, four yolks of eggs, & four ounces of turpentine, and incorporate all together, and put it into the whelps belly sowing up surely the hole for fear lest the composition should run out: then roast him with a temperate fire, and receive the grease that cometh of him and anoint the place of the Gout with it: for it will bring great ease, and cease all manner of convulsions of the sinews or muscles, and pain of cramp that may be felt in a man with this remedy many have not only eased the pain of the Gout, but have also healed it & put it clean away. Also for the like effect. Take a new pot, and fill it half full with oil, & the other half with good white wine, & put some Nettles into it the which you shall seethe, and lay them as hot upon the place as the patient can endure, & in twice or thrice using this, the gout shallbe clean driven away.   

Against the hot Gout.  
FOr asmuch as there is two manner of gouts, the one hot and the other cold, you shall make this medicine following for the cold one, take the juice of great reisins, & sugar rosat of each of them an ounce, with sugar made with Buglose, five ounces of Diapruni soluti●i, an ounce of Reubarbari electi, and mingle all these things together with a julep of Violettes, & make thereof a composition, of the which you shall take half an ounce every morning an hour before day, and in short space you shallbe healed.   

A marvelous and very good water for divers infirmities and diseases.  
TAke an ounce of Frankensens of the male kind called in latin Olibanum, & asmuch of Sarcocolla, six ounces of Aloe epaticum, good and clear honey, the juice of Plantain, white Rosen, of each of these three ounces, & stamp them all well together, & mingle them. This don, put them into a great vessel of glass meet to distill in, well closed & luted about, and distill these things in a lembeck as we have before declared, holding the recipient close underneath well luted round about the mouth, to th'intent there may no breath go out, & give it a slow fire, that the matter mount not upward: for it would mar, if you made it not descend incontinent, in weating the mouth with river, well, or conduit water. And this water that cometh out is a wonderful water for all the infirmities & weakness of the members: for I have seen the experience of it upon a young maid that had broken her arm: whether it were that it was not well dressed, or by any other occasion, I know not, but with in four days it began to putrefy and to rot, in such wise that the physicians and surgeons would have cut it of: But by the counsel of master Seraphin, this water was laid to it (which is made in four or five hours,) & after they had well washed and rubbed her arm, and the bands that she was bound with all, in laying it upon the broken place and wound, she was cured within few days after. In distilling this water you must understand that at the end it changes colour, and than you must chance the recipient, because the last would mar the first which is very good, & having ended your distillation, you shall take up the lies, or the gum which hath no less virtue than the water. And if you make powder of it, it will be good for putrefied wounds.   

For one that can not sleep nor take his rest either for pain in the head or other like cause.  
TAke oil of violets with the yelke of an egg, & woman's milk, as much of the one, as of the other, and having mingled all together, make thereof a plaster, and lay it either upon his forehead or upon his eyes, and the pain shall cease, and desire of sleep shall come upon him.   

To consolidate and close up the chaps or chinks of the mouth.  
TAke Honey and the dry marrow of a Hog, and mingle it together heating it a little at the fire in a little pot, and so anoint your lips with it.   

A water to keep the hands delicate and soft.  
TAke small Lemons, dry Figs, and the root of Enula campana, asmuch of the one as of the other, and make them very fine and small: then put to it a handful of sodden wheat, & seeth it with a slow fire in one part of vinaigre, and two parts of river or fountain water, and let it seeth a little, and then take it of, and keep it covered that no dust come into it. Wash your face with this water oftentimes, and you shall see a marvelous trial of it.   

An excellent water, and of small cost, for to wash a man's face, and to keep it in one state always.  
TAke the flowers of Oranges, incarnation Roses, the flowers of thorns as much of one as of the other, except of the thorns which must be less in quantity. And being all distilled together: keep the water of them, which is very precious.   

To take out the wrinkles of the face.  
TAke an old Capon, and pluck of his feathers, and cut him a long the back, and dress it as it were to eat. Then fill him full of little yellow Lemons cut very small, and the fennel seed, and put all this together in a limbeck with a moderate fire. And than wash your face with the water that cometh out of it, and the wrinkles will go away.   

To maintain and keep the face without wrinkles.  
TAke a new fire pan of iron, and set it on the fire, and when it is very hot, sprinkle it with good white wine, and so perfume your face over the smoke of it, and than wipe it with fine white linen clothes: this done, set the pan upon the fire again and a little Myrrh upon it, and so perfume your face again over it, and in the mean time keep yourself covered so that the smoke may not go away from you. This done bind up your face in some linen clothes and so go to bed and sleep. And this you must do ones in fifteen days.   

To heal a swollen face, and that is hurt or marred by reason of some strange skorching, which only chanceth when the subline is not good.  
TAke the juice of Barba iovis, in English Singreone, and rub your face with it twice or thrice a day, you may do the like with the juice of Purcelane, but if your face were to much marred or hurt, take xl. or l. yolks of eggs, and put them in a frying pan upon a great fire, and get some oil out of them, wherewith you shall anoint your face.   

To know whether the sublime be good or no, or whether it be made with arsenic.  
I Have showed you in the first chapter of the sixth ●ooke in the first part of my secrets, the manner of subliming quick silver as it ought to be sublimed. Now for asmuch as many men have not this manner to make sublime: they must buy it ready made: and therefore I thought it good to show you the mean and way how to know whether it be good or no, or whether it be made with Arsenic: for all the sublimes that are made with Arsenic, destroy commonly the face, and make it swell. Take therefore of sublime the quantity of a bean, and cast it upon the hot coals, and if it be good it will burn, and will make a blue flame: but if it make any other colour, it is not good.   

To take letters out of Paper.  
TAke Salnitrum, and blue Vitriol, a pound of each one, and distill them, then take a sponge, and wet the letters with the same water, and they will easily go of. Also for the like effect, take powder of white bones, and two ounces of plastre, & stamp it very small, and mingle them both together, and temper it with the yelke of an egg, and anoint the letters with it, and let it so dry, and then scrape them with a pen knife, and the Paper will remain white.   

To renew old and worn Letters.  
TAke Galls, and stamp them a little: then lay them a steep one day in good white wine. This done distill them, and with the water that cometh of them, you shall wet handsomely the letters with a little cotton, & they willbe fresh & new again, in such wise that you may easily read them.   

To mollify or to make soft ivory and bones to work what thing on them or with them.  
TAke strong vinaigre, and Sage, and boil the ivory and the bones, in it and they will be soft. Also for the like effect, take blue Vitriol and salt prepared, and all being made into a powder very fine, distill it, and keep the water of it, and than lay your ivory and bones in it, and leave them so half a day, and they will be soft: Then put them three days in the juice of Beets, and they will be tender, so that you may make of them what you will. And when you will harden them again, lay them in strong white Vinaigre.   

To take out the marks that are commonly made in the faces of slaves, for to know them, and also such as many men carry upon their bodies, for divers causes.  
FOr to make such characters or marks, they first draw the form or figure of them upon the flesh: then with a sharp razor, they launce the flesh upon the said mark, much like unto cupping that Surgeons do use, & when the blood is come out, they take of the powder of the smoke that Printers do use, or else of coals beaten very fine, & so rub the cut well with it, and then are they well & surely marked. Now for to take out these marks, you must cut open the flesh again & in steed of the foresaid powder or coals, you shall put into the place some Blanc rasil well puluerised, or else some flower of wheat well blu●ted or sifted, and let it so dry, & by this means all the marks well go away, be the blue or black, and the place all neat and as fair as ever it was.   

For one that is stung with a Scorpion.  
IF you can get the Scorpion that did sting you, in cutting of his feet and his tail, and letting him die upon the place where he pricked you, he will draw all the venom unto him. Any other Scorpion will do the same being bruised between two stones, and putting to it a little Sage and salt. Also for the like, let three or four drops of a green fig fall in or upon the wound and the venom will not abide.   

For one that is stung with wasps, or Bees.  
Stamp Mallows, and lay them upon the place where he is stung, or else take flies stamped with a little dirt.   

When a man is tutched or poisoned of a spider.  
TAke the Ashes of the wood of a fig tree with salt stamped, and lay it upon the place. Also take Mallows, and seeth it and with the decoction of them wet the place, or else with sea water.   

For one that hath eaten toodes or the spetile that cometh from them, which is a deadly thing.  
MAke the patiented vomit, in giving him to drink some oil olive with vinaigre tempered with water. This done, give him to drink often times after his vomiting the best claret wine that can be gotten, and two drams of the roots of reeds, causing him to run excessively, for to take away the heaviness or unlustiness that the venom causeth him to have.   

To heal cleft or kibed heels.  
TAke Dragant, and Galban●●, asmuch of the one as of the other, and make thereof a powder, then take new Wax, oil of Violettes, and a little goats suet, or Ox tallow, and melt it on the fire: then put in the said powders and make of all this an ointment, wherewith you shall anoint your heels, and the will be hole incontinent.   

To heal the canker that happeneth upon the yard of a man, or in the nature of women.  
TAke an ounce of rock alum, and half an ounce of verdigris with smiths water: and put it in some vessel of glass, and seeth it two hours, then strain the said water, and keep it in some kind of vessel for to occupy at your need.   

To heal a foundered Horse.  
TAke an Onion and stamp him: then steep him a good while in strong Vinaigre, then take the said Onion thus stamped and imbibed with the Vinaigre, and make the Horse swallow it do●●● this done, cast the Vinaigre, wherein the said Onion laid into the nosetrels of the horse, and ●e shall forthwith be cured.   

To kill the botts in horses.  
TAke a good handful of agrimony, and make the horse eat it early in the morning, and then let him tarry fasting, and without meat until noon, do this four or five days, and he shall be healed.   

For a horse that cannot stale.  
Give him to drink hot water, that is more than luke warms, and he shall stale.   

For a horse that is cloyed or pricked with an nail.  
TAke out the nail, and when his foot is well made clean, make a little hole even unto the quick flesh, where the nail touched, then fill it up again with Rosen: and with a hot iron, melt some Pitch upon it: This done, lay some Cotten upon it, and shoe him well, and then fear not to ride him after where you will.   

To make a horse to have a good hoof.  
TAke Ox dung, and temper it with Vin●gre, and at night lay it hot upon his feet, and wrap them up in some clouts, to the intents that the heat may keep in, whiles it maketh his operation, and by and by it will be a good hoof.   
FINIS.  

The Table.  

TO make wheie as clear as well water. Folio. 1.  
TO make very good Aqua vite. Idem.  
To make arms or Tables of pictures always bright shining. Idem.  
To make black ink very good. Idem pag. 2.  
To make green ink. Idem pag. 2.  
For Oxen that piss blood. Idem pag. 2.  
To make oil of Vitriol. Fol. 3.  
To make white tethe. Idem.  
For the same, idem.  
To take away spots from the face. idem pag. 2.  
For the same. idem.  
For the same. idem.  
For the same. idem.  
To take away little red pimples from a man's face. Fol. 5.  
To make a water, that teketh away the spots of the face, and maketh it fair and bright, and keepeth the hands and mouth, that they chap not or wax full of chinks. Idem.  
To make the face fair. Idem.  
A water to make the face fair. Idem.  
To make a water that maketh the face white and shining. Idem pag. 2.  
A water to make the face red. idem.  
To make a kind of white to make the face fair, called in French Blanchet. idem.  
To make an other better, which maketh the face white and glistering. idem.  
A water to make the face red and glistering▪ Fo. 7.  
To make an other manner of the same, which the French men call Blanchet. idem.  
To make an other Blanchet, that maketh the face white, and of a ruddy colour, and hurteth not as the other aforesaid doth. idem.  
To make an other Blanchet, which is called royal, that is the best and the excellentest of all other. idem  
To take out the wrinkles of the face. idem pag. 2.  
To make hear slack in coming forth, or growing in a young man, as well on their beard as in other parts. Fol. 9  
To make hear grows in every place of the body, where you will. idem  
To make hears black. idem.  
To make a water that will make the face red and glistering. idem.  
To die or colour hear. idem pag. 2.  
To take away the evil savour of the breath. idem.  
To get away the hears from the eye brows. idem.  
To die or colour all kind of metal or ston●, into the colour of gold, without gold. idem.  
For to make iron or steel soft. Fol. 11.  
To harden iron or steel. idem.  
To make figs ripe quickly idem.  
To make Hens lay eggs all the winter. idem.  
To make a glue or paste, that howeth as fast as a nail. idem.  
To take away all manner of spots. idem.  
To cause that a woman's breasts wax not great● or swelling. idem pag. 2.  
To purge honey without fire. idem.  
To stench the menstrual blood of women. idem.  
To keep roses fresh all the year. idem.  
For the same. idem.  
To take or dissolve a boil or kernel in the grieve, or the wresting of a sinew. idem.  
To dress and trim Olives in one day. Fol. 13.  
To preserve and keep peaches or other fruit. idem.  
To cause marvelous dreams. idem.  
To make a woman bear children. idem pag. 2.  
To heal and cure horses of the scab. idem.  
To heal the kings evil, a disease called in Latin Struma. idem.  
To make one that is poisoned, to vomit the poison.  
To make a candle that cannot be put out. idem.  
To make a candle of ice to burn Fol. 15.  
To make that fruit shall take what form or fashion you will. idem.  
To make that roots shall have what form you will. idem.  
For to write letters upon a man's body or face▪ that shall never be rubbed out. idem. pag. 2.  
For the same, but somewhat easier. idem.  
To make one have a good memory. idem.  
To make that no dog shall bark at you. Fol. 17.  
To make all things seem black and green in the night. idem.  
To die hear● into a green colour. idem.  
To dress or to keep fresh in Summer. idem.  
To make an instrument called Cauterium, wherewith sores are burned, which shall raise the skin without any grief or pain. idem. pagi. 2.  
To make steel cut iron as it were lead. idem.  
To make red ink. idem.  
For the same, and easier. Fol. 19  
To make bones soft. idem.  
To keep Grapes fresh all the Winter. idem.  
To make Melons or Conconibers ripe before their season. idem.  
To take away the holes or marks of the small Pocks. idem. pag. 2.  
To make ●he hands white. idem.  
To make an odoriferous and sweet smelling grease, that keepeth the lips and hands, from chinks and chaps, and keepeth them moist, & soft. Fo. 21.  
For a sweet suete called in French and Italien, Pomade, in Latin. Pomatum. idem.  
To make that flies shall not torment or trouble houses in Summer. idem.  
To keep Figs green all the year. idem.  
For to make that Pomegranates shall not ●pe. fo. 23.  
For to keep wine sweet all the year. idem.  
For wine that will not keep long. idem.  
To cause that wine shall not be to strong. idem. pa. 2.  
To make vineigre idem.  
To make vinegar with water. idem.  
To make vinegar with perished wine, or wine that is marred. idem.  
To take away the savour of the mouldines, or putre faction of the wine. Fol. 25.  
To make wine have a good odour. idem.  
To make that Lekes shall be great. idem.  
To make toadstools or Mushrooms grow in a. idem.  
To make that all manner of codware shall seethe quickly. idem.  
To have green flowers all the year. idem. pag. 2.  
To make corn to grow greater, than they are wont to do. idem.  
To make that fruits shall not rot upon the tree. idem  
To make letters that cannot be read, unless the Paper be put in water idem.  
To make letters that cannot be read, but at the. fo. 27  
To make that Aqua vite shall receive all the virtues and strength of medicines. idem.  
To make that a woman shall eat of nothing, that is set upon the table. idem.  
To make oil of roses, or other odoriferous her. idem  
To make that the Moths and vermin shall not eat nor destroy clothes and apparel. idem. pag. 2.  
To make that wild beasts shall not hurt you. idem.  
For to be assured and safe from serpents. idem.  
To take away the pain and grief of the gout. fo. 29.  
For to see wild beasts in a dream. idem.  
For to make silk white. idem.  
To make an herb grow, that shall have many and divers odours and savours. idem.  
To make an apple or ball that provoketh. idem. pa. ●.  
To make a barren woman bear children. idem.  
To make hears grow upon a bald head. idem.  
To make a water that dieth or coloureth Copper, into the colour of gold. idem.  
To make oil of Brimstone. idem.  
For to make salt Armoniac Fol. 31.  
For to make Borace. idem.  
For to make Coral. idem.  
To die iron into the colour of gold. idem. pag. 2.  
For to make iron strong, and as fair as silver. idem.  
For to make a water, that will take out incontinent letters from the paper idem.  
To take a spot of oil out of cloth idem.  
To staunch the bleeding at the nose. Fol. 33.  
To break botches, impostumes, Cartarres, or sores coming in the throat. idem.  
To take an iron or arrow head out of a wound. idem  
To make that young children, shall have no pain or grief in their teeth. idem.  
For to make a clear voice. idem.  
For to fasten lose teeth. idem. pag. 2.  
For the Emeralds. idem.  
For one that hath his sight troubled. idem.  
For one that is abroke or brusted idem.  
For one that hath his cods swollen. idem.  
To make a woman that is wont to have daughters, to bear sons also. idem.  
To make that the hands shall not chink or cleave. fo. 35.  
For to make a man's beard black. idem.  
To make a woman bear children, although it be not always assured, yet it is the best remedy that can be found. idem.  
To make a woman labouring, to bring forth 〈◊〉 child, that cannot be delivered. idem. pag. 2.  
For to make teeth that one ache, to fall out. Fol. 37.  
A remedy for the falling sickness. idem.  
Against the plague. idem.  
For the same. idem. pag. 2.  
For the putrefaction of the teeth. idem.  
For the stinking of the breath, and to make the teeth white. idem.  
A water to make clean teeth. idem.  
another water to whiten teeth. Fol. 39  
To take away the smell of Garlic, Leeks, or. idem  
A principal remedy for the flux or lax. idem.  
For to make that hears shall not grow. idem.  
A very profitable remedy for the hardness of womennes' breasts, after they be brought a bed. idem.  
For Apostumes, Botches, Cankers, or other swellings. idem. pag. 2.  
To make womennes' milk increase. idem.  
To know whether there be any water in the wine or no. idem.  
To make vinegar. idem.  
To make dry vinegar, which may be carried where a man will. idem.  
another composition for the same. fol. 41.  
To make rose vinegar very sweet and odorife. idem.  
To make vinaigre of grain. idem.  
A preservation in time of Pestilence or plague, and against all venom or poison, and biting of a mad Dog. idem.  
Against stinking vermin called Puneises. idem pa. 2  
To purge collar and phlegm. idem.  
A remedy to keep flies from flesh. idem.  
To keep flesh all the summer without corrup. idem.  
To know if a Melon be good. fol. 43.  
To kill and destroy flees. idem.  
To ripe a botch, impostum, fellow, or cats hear, or any swelling sore. idem.  
An excellent washing for the teeth idem.  
To make a bait for river fish. idem.  
A remedy that no kind of herbs shall be hurt, or corrupted by flees or lice. idem.  
To drive away the stinking vermin called pu. idem.  
For to kill and destroy flies idem. pag. 2.  
another way to kill and destroy flees. idem.  
For one that hath eaten venomous toadstools, or musheromes idem.  
For to confite Musheromes or toadstools, so well that a man may eat them without any danger. fol. 45.  
A remedy against the stinging of wasps or bees. idem.  
To make women have a quick and speedy delivery of their children, and without pain, or at the least very little. idem.  
To take of warts from the hands idem pag. 2.  
For the dysentery or flux of the stomach idem.  
To fasten the gums; and lose teeth idem.  
To take away the tooth ache idem.  
another remedy for to heal the tooth ache idem.  
To make hear grow idem.  
To make hear black fol. 47.  
To kill the Worms in the teeth, and to take away the stinking of the teeth idem.  
To heal pussive and broken winded horses idem.  
To preserve a man from vomiting on the sea idem.  
A remedy against the biting or stinging of serp. idem.  
For them that spit blood. idem.  
A remedy against the worms of young chlid. idem. pa. 2.  
A remedy for the flux or lax. idem.  
For the running of the urine, that is to say, for one that cannot hold his water. idem.  
For those that cannot keep their meat, but vomit it up again continually. idem.  
To make that Ants, or Emettes shall not eat the figs upon the tree. idem.  
To make hoar hears black idem.  
For the tooth ache Fol. 49.  
To destroy lise and other small beasts, that do wa●● and destroy the herbs in gardens idem.  
A remedy for deafness idem.  
Against the stinging Scorpions idem.  
A remedy that the Sun shall not hurt you, shining upon your head, when you go any journey. idem.  
A remedy for the hoarseness of the voice. idem.  
A remedy for them that cannot piss idem. pag. 2.  
To make a bait to catch wild Geese, and wild Ducks, and all other sort of foul. idem.  
To make that Dogs shall never be mad, and a remedy for them if they be mad, being bitten of mad Dogs or Wolves idem.  
To make that flies shall not vex or trouble do. fo. 51.  
A remedy to keep Dogs from flees idem.  
To purge Dogs when they be sick idem.  
To heal mangy Dogs. idem. pag. 2.  
To take warts from the hands. idem.  
To make the teeth white idem.  
To take away the pain of the eyes idem.  
For him that is stung with a Salamander Fol. 53.  
For one that hath drunk leeches or blood suckers. idem.  
For one that is stung with the beast, called in Latin Psalanx, which is a kind of Lizard called Stellio idem.  
For one that is bitten with a mad Dog idem.  
A remedy for him that is stung with some venomous beast idem.  
To preserve a man from poison. Idem. pag. 2.  
To drive away all venomous beasts from your. idem.  
Against all poison, either eaten or drunk. Fol. 55.  
Against all veneme or poison idem.  
A remedy which Nicomedes used, that no poison should hurt him idem.  
A secret or remedy, not to be stung of Scorpi. idem pa. 2  
A remedy not to be stung of wasps or Bees. idem.  
To make what quantity of ●●ong vinaigre you. idem.  
For one that hath eaten venomous Musheromes, or toadstools idem.  
To be assured and safe from all Sorcery and enchantment Fol. 57  
Against lightning and tempest idem.  
To keep that fruits shall not fall before the be ri. idem.  
To keep that Weselles and other like beasts, shall not eat nor destroy Poultry. idem.  
To make flax as soft as silk. idem. pa. 2.  
To heal the pain of the head idem.  
To heal lips that be cleft and full of chinks, by means of cold or wind. idem.  
To heal hands that be full of chaps, by cold. idem.  
To grind gold and silver idem.  
To make fair verde grise after the new fashion. fol. 59  
An other way briefer for to have Verdegrise. idem.  
To make a past or dough of Amber, for beads. fol. 61.  
To counterfeit pearls that shall seem natural. idem.  
To imprent medalles embossed with draga. idem. pa. 2.  
To make a paste meet and good, to make all manner of medalles or pictures in mould. Fol. 63.  
To make medalles, and figures chased and embossed, with fish glue. idem.  
To make a Green, Yellow, Red, and Blue colour without thickness, to write with upon. idem. pa. 2.  
To make a piece of violet cloth to write or paint. idem.  
To get oil out of Talcum artificially, and of his own strength. Fol. 67.  
To make that all metal shall seem like silver. fol. 69  
For to take moche fish, and to make a light in the night. Idem. pag. 2.  
To make a Mixed stone, which being weated with spittle maketh fire. idem.  
To make varnish with Mastic, to lay upon paintynges made with oil. Fol. 71.  
To make that a white skin shall have black spots of the colour of a leopard or Panther, and also to make grey hear black. idem.  
To make good oil of Nutmegs. idem. pag. 2.  
To make perfect oil of Spike. idem.  
To make odoriferous oil of Storax Fol. 73.  
To make an odoriferous oil of Bengewine. idem.  
To make good oil of Laudanum Idem. pag. 2.  
To make oil of Orange flowers idem.  
To make a perfume suddenly in a chamber where a sick man lieth Fol. 75.  
To make long and round parfumes to burn in a chamber idem.  
To make a fine & sweet powder of Cyprus. idem. pa. 2.  
To grind ambergris for to put with other drugs, to give them a good odour, and to make little marks and spots upon beads. Fol. 77.  
To make fine muscardines, white and red. idem. pa. 2  
To make counterfeit Camphire idem.  
To make the beard grow, and to keep that the hears fall not of Fol. 79.  
To get away the hear from what place you wil idem.  
To make hoar hears black Idem. pag. 2.  
To make white hear in the shadow: without the Sun, and shall be come white and shining, like Silver. fol. 81.  
A soft dough or paste as it were Pomatum, to wash the hands, and when the mouth, nose, lips, or hands do chincke or chap, and it keepeth the flesh soft and sweet. fol. 83.  
White Pomatum, fine & sweet for great. idem. pa. 2.  
For those that have a stinking breath, because of the stomach. fol. 87.  
To make one have a good stomach, that hath a naughty one. Idem.  
A remedy for him that cannot keep his meat in his stomach, without vomiting. idem. pa. 2.  
To make a natural white skin idem.  
To make the flesh or skin fair and bright Fol. 89.  
To clear and make clean the face from all manner of spots. Idem. pag. 2.  
To take away a ryngworme, tetter, or spots and other marks, or else a privy mark in the honey by birth. idem.  
To take away red rubies that grow in the face, by reason of the heat of the livar. Fol. 91.  
To take of from the hands or feet, the hardness of the flesh, gotten by labour Idem. pag. 2.  
another secret to take away warts or hard flesh, that grow between men's toes Idem.  
To make letters of gold and silver embossed. Fol. 93.  
To make a devise or arms, or other things, upon a Violet, or a Rose Idem. pag. 2.  
Soap to get out all spots of cloth Idem  
An other like secret Fol. 95.  
An other like Idem.  
An other means Idem.  
another means for spots, of fat, or oil Idem.  
To take spots out of of Skarlate or Velvet, without hurting the colour Idem. pag. 2.  
To take spots out of white silk or Velvet in grain, or Crimson Velvet Idem.  
To take out a spot of Ink or Wine, of a woollen or Linen cloth Fol. 97.  
To restore the colour to a cloth, that hath lost it in taking out a spot Idem.  
A water to take all manner of spots out of cloth of any colour Idem.  
To drive away Flies, Spiders, Scorpions, and other vermin from your house Idem. pag. 2.  
Against gnats, which sting men in the night. idem  
A very excellent secret for to take out spots or hard flesh by labour, called in Latin calum Fol. 99  
To take oil or grease out of a cloth, of what colour so ever it be, without any drop of water. idem. pa. 2.  
Balls of Soap for Barbers, of divers sorts and savour Idem.  
To counterfeit all manner of green leaves, which shall seem natural. Fol. 101.  
To make Paper board of beaten Paper, and stamped Paper for moulds and hollewe things. Fol. 103.  
To give a fair gloss unto Pictures or Figures painted Idem. pa. 2.  
To make an other manner of green water clear. 105.  
To take out a devise made in a mould, with Black Sope. Idem. pag. 2.  
To make clean the hears, and to dry up the sweat under the arm holes Idem.  
To make Roses, flowers, gilly-flowers, and of all other sorts, white, red, green, yellow, and incarnate, in short space Fol. 107.  
To make Trees of all sorts to grow, which shall bring forth fruit, far greater than commonly they do Idem. pag. 2.  
To soften and mollify Olives with Lie, in less than eight hours Fol. 109.  
To make a water that will Die or colour all things be it bone or woo●● Fol. 111.  
A water to make teeth white Idem.  
The true secret and manner how to make beyond sea Azure, or else for all tutches or Paragon. Also for to make strong paste, for to incorporate the Azure stone in it, called Lapis Lasuli, and to take it out a●●ain in his time, & when you think good. idem. pa. 2.  
To make the paste, softer for beyond sea azure. 113.  
To purify the oil of linseed for the azure. idem. pa. 2  
Lie for to wash beyond sea azure Fol. 115.  
How the vessel ought to be, wherein all the waters are put that the azure is washed with. Idem. pa. 2.  
The first part how to know the virtuous, goodness, and signs of Lapis Lazuli, and to make true beyond Sea Azure most perfectly and expertly. Idem.  
The manner how to prepare the stone Lapis Lasuli, and to calcine it when you will grind it. Fol. 117.  
To get out the gold of lapis Lazuli, after it. idem. pa. 2.  
The manner how to make the liquor wherewith men bray the lapis Lasuli, for to make beyond sea. 119.  
To know whether the sublime be good or 〈◊〉, or whether it be made with Arsenic Idem.  
To take letters out of Paper. Idem. pag. 2.  
To renew old and worn letters Idem.  
To mollify or make soft ivory and bones, to work what thing you will on them, or with them. Idem  
To take out the marks that are commonly made in the faces of slaves, for to know them, and also such as many men carry upon their bodies, for divers causes Fol. 159.  
For one that is stung with a Scorpion. Idem.  
For one that is stung with Wasps or Bees. Idem.  
When a man is touched or poisoned of a spider. idem  
For one that hath eaten Toads, or the spittle that tommeth from them, which is a deadly thing. Idem. pag. 2.  
To heal cleft or kibed heels Idem.  
To heal the Canker, that happeneth upon the yard of a man, or in the nature of a woman. Idem.  
To heal a foundered horse Idem.  
To kill the worms in horses Fol. 161.  
For a horse that cannot stale Idem.  
For a horse that is ●l●ied with a neile in shoeing. idem  
To make a horse to have a good hoof. Idem.   
Finis tabulae.   

¶ Imprinted at London, by John Kyngston: for Nicholas England.