The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.
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- The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.
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- Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
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- Anno domini. M.D.lx. [1560]
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- title page
- The translatour to the Readers.
- To make whey as clere as well water.
- To make very good Aqua vite.
- To make Armes or tables of Pictures al∣waies bright shining.
- To make blacke Ynk very good.
- To make Greene Ynke.
- For Oxen that pisse Bloode.
- To make Oile of Vitriol.
- To make white Teeth.
- For the same.
- To take awaie spottes from the face.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- To take away little red Pimples from a mans face.
- To make a water that taketh awaye the spottes of the face and maketh it faier and bright, and kepeth the handes and mouth that they chappe not or waxe full of chinkes.
- To make the face faire.
- A water to make the face faire.
- To make a water that maketh the face white and shinyng.
- A water to make the face redde.
- To make a kinde of white to make the face faire, called in Frenche Blanchet.
- To make an other better, whiche maketh the face white and glisteryng.
- A water to make the face redde and glisteryng.
- To make an other maner of the same, whiche the Frenche men call Blanchet.
- To make an other Blanchet that maketh the face white, and of a ruddie colour, and hurteth not as the other aforesaied doeth.
- To make an other Blanchet, whiche is called roiall that is the best, and the excellentest of all other.
- To take out the wrinkles of the face.
- To make beare slacke in comming forthe, or growing in yong men, as well on their beard as in other partes.
- To make heare growe in euery place of the body where you will.
- To make heares blacke.
- To make a water that will make the face redde and glisteryng.
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To
die or colour heere. - To take awaie the euill sauour of the breath.
- To get awaie the heares from the iye browes.
- To die or to colour all kinde of metall or stone, into the colour of golde without golde.
- For to make Iron or Steele softe.
- To harden Yron or Steele.
- To make Figges ripe quickly.
- To make Hennes laie Egges all the winter.
- To make a Glue or paste that holdeth as fast as a naile.
- To take avvaye all maner of spottes.
- To cause that a womans Brestes waxe not great of swellinge.
- To purge Honnie with out fier.
- To stenche the menstrual blood of women.
- To keepe Roses freshe all the yeare.
- For the same.
- To take awaye or dissolue a boile or Kernell in the grine, or the wresting of a senewe.
- To dresse and trim Oliues in one daie.
- To preserue and keepe Peches or other Fruite.
- To cause meruelous Dreames.
- To make a woman beare Children.
- To heale and cure Horses of the Skabbe.
- To heale the Kinges euill, a disease called in la∣tine Siruma.
- To make one that is poisoned to vomite the poison.
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To make a Candell that cannot be pu
ou . - To make a Candell of Yre to burne.
- To make that fruite shall take what forme or facion you will.
- To make that rootes shall haue what forme you will.
- For to write letters vpon a mans body or face that shall neuer be rubbed out.
- For the same, but somwhat easier.
- To make one haue a good memorie.
- To make that no Dogge shall barke at you.
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To make all thinges s
eme Blacke and Greene in the night. - To die Heare into a Greene colour.
- To dresse or to kepe fleshe in Somer.
- To make an instrument called Cauterium wher∣with sores are burned, whiche shall raise the skin without any greefe or paine.
- To make Steele cut Yron as it were Lead.
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To make red Yn
ke. - For the same, and easier.
- To make Bones softe.
- To kepe Grapes freshe all the winter.
- To make Melons or Coucombers ripe before their season.
- To take awaie the holes or markes of the small Pockes.
- To make the handes white.
- To make an odoriferous and sweete smelling grese that kepeth the lippes and handes from thinkes and chappes, and kepeth them moist, and softe.
- For to make a sweete Suet called in Frenche and Italian Pommade in latin Pomatum.
- To make that flies shall not tourment or trouble Horses in Somer.
- To keepe Figges greene all the yeare.
- For to make that Pommegranates shal not open.
- For to keepe wine sweete all the yeare.
- For wine that will not keepe longe.
- To cause that wine shall not be to stronge.
- To make Vinaigre.
- To make Vinaigre with water.
- To make Vinaigre with perished wine or wine that is marred.
- To take awaie the sauour of the mouldines or pu∣trefaction of the wine.
- To make wine haue a good odour.
- To make that Leekes shall be great.
- To make tadstooles or musheroms growe.
- To make that all maner of Codware shal seeth quickly.
- To haue greene Flowres all the yeare.
- To make Corne, and podware to growe greater than they are wont to doe.
- To make that fruites shall not rotte vpon the tree.
- To make letters than can not be reade onles the Paper be put in water.
- To make letters that can not be reade but at the fire.
- To make that Aqua vite shall receiue all the ver∣tues and strength of Medecines.
- To make that a woman shall eate of nothing that is set vpon the table.
- To make Oile of Roses, or other Odoriferous Herbes.
- To make that the Mothes and Vermine shall not eate nor destroie clothes and apparell.
- For to make that wilde beastes shall not hurt you.
- For to be assured and safe from Serpentes.
- To take awaie the paine and greefe of the Goute.
- For to see wilde Beastes in a Dreame.
- For to make Silke white.
- To make an herbe growe that shal haue many and diuers odours and sauours.
- To make an Apple or ball that prouoketh sleepe.
- To make a barraine woman beare children.
- To make heares growe vpon a bald hed.
- To make a water that dieth or coloreth copper into the colour of Golde.
- To make oile of Brimstone.
- For to make salt Armoniac.
- For to make Borase.
- For to make Corall.
- To die Yron in the colour of Gold.
- For to make Yron strong and faire as siluer.
- For to make a water that will take out incontinent letters from the Paper.
- To take a spotte of Oile out of Clothe.
- To stanche the Bleeding at the nose.
- To breake botches, impostumes, cartarres, or sores, comming in the throte.
- To take an Yron or arrowe hed out of a wounde.
- To make that yong Children shall haue no paine or greefe in their teeth.
- For to make a cleere voice.
- For to fasten lose teeth.
- For the Emorawdes.
- For one that hath his Sight troubled.
- For one that is abroke or brusten.
- For one that hath his Coddes swollen.
- To make a woman that is wont to haue daughters to beare Sonnes also.
- To make that the handes shall not chinke nor cleaue.
- For to make a mans Berde blacke.
- To make a woman beare Childrē although it be not alwaies assured, yet it is the best remedy that can be founde.
- To make a woman laboring, to bring forth her Child that can not be deliuered.
- For to make teeth that doe ake to fall out.
- A remedy for the falling sicknes.
- Against the Plage.
- For the same.
- For the putrefaction of the teeth.
- For the stinking of the breath, and to make the teeth white.
- A water to make cleane teeth.
- Another water to whiten teeth.
- To take awaie the smell of Garlike, Leekes, or Onyons.
- A principall remedie for the flixe or laxe.
- For to make that heares shall not growe.
- A very profitable remedie for the hardenesse of we∣mens breast after they be brought a bed.
- For Apostumes, Botches, Cankers, or other swel∣linges.
- To make wemens milke encrease.
- To know whether there be any water in the wine or no.
- To make Vinaigre.
- To make drie Vinaigre, whiche maie be caried wher a man will.
- Another composition for the same.
- To make Rose Vinaigre very sweete and odoriferous.
- To make Vinaigre of Graine.
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A preseruatiue in time of Pestilence or plage, and against all Ven
m or poison, and biting of a madde Dogge. - Against stinking vermine called Pinneses.
- To purge Coler and Fleame.
- A remedie to keepe flies from fleshe.
- To keepe Flesh all the somer without corrupting.
- To knowe if a Melon be good.
- To kill and destroie Flees.
- To ripe a botch, impostume, felon or cattes heare, or any swelling sore.
- An excellent washing for the teeth.
- To make abaite for riuer fishe.
- A remedie that no kinde of herbes shal be hurt or corrupted by flees or lise.
- To driue awaie the stinking Vermin called Puneses.
- For to Kill and destroie Flies.
- Another waie to Kill and destroie Flees.
- For one that hath eaten venimous tadstooles or Musheroms.
- For to confite Musheroms or tadstooles, so well that a man maie eate them without any danger.
- A remedy against the stinging of waspes, or Bees.
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To make wemen haue a quicke and speedy deliuery of their Children, and without paine, or at the l
ste very little. - To take of wartes from the handes.
- For the dissenterie or flixe of the Stomacke.
- To fasten the Gommes, and lose teeth.
- To take awaie the toth ache.
- Another remedy for to heale the tooth ache.
- To make Heare growe.
- To make Heare blacke.
- To kill the wormes in the teeth, and to take awaie the stinking of the teeth.
- To heale pussiue and broken winded Horses.
- To preserue a man from vomiting on the sea.
- A remedy against the biting or stinging of Ser∣pentes.
- For them that spitte Bloode.
- A remedy against the wormes in yong Children.
- A remedy for the flixe or Laxe.
- For the running of the vrine that is to saie for one that can not holde his water.
- For those that can not keepe their meate but vomite it vp againe continually.
- To make that Antes, or Emettes shall not eate the figges vpon the tree.
- To make Hore heares blacke.
- For the tooth ache.
- To destroie Lise and other small beastes, that do wast and marre the herbes in gardins.
- A remedie for Deafnesse.
- Against the stinging of Scorpions.
- A remedy that the Sunne shall not hurt you shi∣ning vpon your head, whan you go any Iornaie.
- A remedie for the Horsnesse of the voice.
- A remedie for them that can not pisse.
- To make a baite to ketch wilde Geese and wilde Duckes, and all other sort of foule.
- To make that Dogges shall neuer be madde, and a remedie for them if they be madde, beyng bitten of wilde Dogges or wolues.
- To make that flies shall not vexe or trouble Dogges.
- A remedy to keepe Dogges from Flees.
- To purge Dogges whan they be sicke.
- To heale mangy Dogges.
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To
ake wartes from the handes. - To make the Teeth white.
- To take awaie the paine of the eyes.
- For him that is stong with a Salamander.
- For one that hath dronke Leches or bloodsuckers.
- For one that is stonge with the beast called in latine Psalanx which is a kinde of Lisard called Stellio.
- For one that is bitten with a madde Dogge.
- A remedy for him that is stonge with some Veni∣mous Beast.
- To preserue a man from Poison.
- To driue awaie all venimous beastes from your house.
- Against all poison, eaten or drunke.
- Against all Venim or Poison.
- A remedy whiche king Nicomedes vsed that no poison should hurt him.
- A secret or remedy, not to be stonge of Scorpions.
- A remedy not to be stong of wespes or Bees.
- To make what quantite of strong Vinaigre you will.
- For one that hath eaten venemous musheroms or Tadstooles.
- To be assured and safe from all Sorcerie and En∣chantement.
- Against lightning and tempest.
- To keepe that fruites shall not fall before they be ripe.
- To keepe that wesels and other like beastes shall not eate nor destroy Poultrie.
- To make Flaxe as softe as Silke.
- To heale the paine of the Head.
- To heale lippes that be clefte and full of chinkes by meanes of colde or winde.
- To heale handes that be full of Chappes by colde or winde.
- To grinde Golde and Siluer.
- To make faire Verdegrise after the newe facion.
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- To imprent medalles in bost with Dragagant.
- To make a past meete and good to make all maner of medalles or pictures in moulde.
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To make medalles, and figures chaced and im∣bossed,
with Fishe glue. - To make a Greene, Yellow, Redde and Blewe co∣lour without thicknesse, for to write with vpon Paper.
- To make a piece of violet cloth to write or paint vpon.
- To get oile out of Talchum artificially, and of his owne strength.
- To make that all mettall shall seeme like Siluer.
- For to take muche Fishe, and to make a light in the night.
- To make a mixte stone whiche beyng weated with spettle, maketh fire.
- To make a Vernish of Mastick, to lay vpon pain∣tinges made with oile.
- To make that a white skinne shall haue blacke spottes of the colour of a leopard or panther and also to make grey heare blacke.
- To make good oile of Nutmegges.
- To make parfite oile of Spike.
- To make odoriferous oile of Storax.
- To make an odoriferous oile of Bengewine.
- To make good oile of Ladanum.
- ¶To make oile of Orenge flowers, and other swete flowers.
- To make a parfume sodainly in a chamber, where a sicke man lieth.
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To make long and rounde parfumes, to burn
in a chamber. - To make a fine and swete pouder of Cipres.
- To grinde Ambergrise for to put with other drog∣ges, to giue them a good odour, and to make little markes and spottes vpon beades.
- To make fine Muscardines, white and Redde.
- To make counterfete Camfire.
- To make the berde growe, and to keepe that the heares fall not of.
- To get away the heare, from what place you will.
- To make hore beares blacke.
- To make white heare in the shadowe: without the sunne, and shall become white and shining like siluer.
- A sofee dowe or paste as it were Pomatum, to washe the handes, and whan the mouth, Nose, Lippes, or Handes do chincke or chappe, and it keepeth the fleshe softe and sweete.
- White Pomatum, fine and sweete for great lordes.
- For those that haue a stinking breath, bicause of the stomacke.
- To make one haue a good stomacke, that hath a naughty one.
- A remedy for him that can not keepe his meate in his stomake, without vomiting.
- To make a naturall white Skinne.
- To make the fleshe or skin faire and bright.
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To cleere and m
ske cleene the face from all maner of spottes. - To take awaie a ringworme tetter, or spottes and other markes, or els a priuie marke in the body by birth.
- To take awaie red rubies that growe in the face by reason of the heate of the Liuer.
- To take of from the handes or feete the hardnesse of the fleshe gotten by labour.
- Another secret to take away wartes or hard flesh that growe betwene mens toes.
- To make letters of Gold and Siluer embossed.
- To make a deuise or armes or other thinges, vpon a violett or a rose.
- Sope to get out all spottes of cloth.
- Another like secret.
- Another like.
- Another meane.
- Another meanes for spottes, of fatte or Oile.
- To take spottes out of Skarlate or Veluet, without burting the colour.
- To take spottes out of white silke or Veluet in griene or Crimsen Veluet.
- To take out a spot of inke or wine of a wollen or linen clothe.
- To restore the colour to a cloth, that hath lost it in taking out a spotte.
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A water to take all maner of spottes out of clo
of any colour. - To driue awaie Flies, Spiders, Scorpions, and other Vermine from your house.
- Against Gnattes whiche stinge men in the night.
- A very excellent Secret, for to take out spottes or hard fleshe gotten by labour.
- To take oile or grease out of a cloth of what colour so euer it be, without any droppe of water.
- Balles of Sope for Barbers of diuers sortes and sauours.
- To counterfeite all maner of greene leaues which shall seeme naturall.
- To make a Paper burde of beaten and stampt Paper for mouldes and hollow thinges.
- To giue a faire glosse vnto Pictures or figures painted.
- To make another maner of greene water cleere.
- To take out a deuise made in a mould, with blacke Sope.
- To make cleaue the heares, and to drie vp the sweate vnder the arme holes.
- To make Roses, Floures, Gillefloures, and of all other sortes, white, redde, greene, yellowe, and incarnate in short space.
- To make trees of all sortes to growe whiche shall bring furthe fruite; farre greatter then comonly they doe.
- To soften and mollifie Oliues with lie, in lesse then eight houres.
- To make a water that will die or colour althinges be it bone or woode.
- A water to make Teeth white.
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The true secret and maner howe to ma
beyond sea Azure, or els 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 againe in his time, and whan you thinke good. - To make the second paste, softer for beyond sea Azure.
- To purifie the oile of line seede for the Azure.
- Lie for to washe beyond sea Azure.
- How the Vessell ought to be, wherin all the wa∣ters are put that the azure is washed with.
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The first parte howe to knowe the vertues, good∣
and signes of Lapis lasuli, and to make true yonde sea Azure most perfectly and expertly. - The maner howe to prepare the stone Lapis la∣suli, and to calcine it whan you will grinde it.
- To gette out the Gold of Lapis lasuli, after it is grounde.
- The maner howe to make the licour wherwith menne braie the Lapis lasuli, for to make be∣yond sea Azure of.
- The maner howe to braie or grinde the Lapis lasuli vpon a porphire stone, and the signes of the same.
- To incorporate Lapis lasuli in the strong past, or other soft, after that it is grounde.
- To get beyond sea Azure out of the paste.
- Of what colour the Azures are whan they come out of the paste, and what signe or token they shewe.
- The maner how to washe, and purifie the Azures as soone as they are gotten out of the paste.
- To purifie parfitely the Azures with the yelkes of Hennes egges.
- The maner howe to straine the Azures, after they be purified, made cleane and washed.
- To make black Sope for clothes, with all the signes and tokens that it giueth and maketh in beiling.
- The signes that Sope giueth in seething, if it be to harde, or to softe, whether it be liquide or white.
- To heale the Skurfe.
- An excellent and a tried water for the skabbe.
- A remedie for any burning or skalding, either by fire or by hote water, or any other casuall chaūce what so euer it be.
- To make pilles of Turpentine.
- An electuarie of Nerprum, that is to saie, a so∣lutiue Iulep meruelous good for the Gout.
- To make giltinges vpon leather whiche shal seeme like Gold, and laiyng theim vpon Siluer or glasse, they shall appeare to be Gold in dede.
- An experimented oile against poison.
- For the heate or burning of the vrine.
- A water of a maruelous and excellent vertue to bring againe the sighte of the eies, to him that hath lost it, or is diminished by sickenes or any other accident or chaunce.
- To remedy or help bloodshotten eyes comming by any Reume, fluxion, or suche other like cause.
- To take awaie the yellow Iaundise from the face of euery man to whome it is happened be reason of the gall runne and shedde about the body.
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To make come out of the eares any thing that i
by chaunce fallen into them, or hath purposely bone put in. - For the tooth ache.
- To make an a king tooth to fall out of him self, with¦out any instrumentes or yron tooles.
- An electuarie for the head, which conserueth the me∣morie, cleereth the sight, and conforteth the stomack.
- Against the pildnesse or baldnesse of the head, and to lette that the heares either of the head or berd, shall not fall of.
- An ointment to cure the skurfe.
- To kill lise, and nittes in the head.
- For one that can take nothing at the mouth, or els to make him goe to the stoole, and to sweate well.
- To heale those that haue the disease of the Splene.
- For the paine of the side, or colike.
- For him that can not pisse.
- For one that is broke by reason of any trauaile, either riding poste, or by any other accident or chaunce.
- To take away the paine, and to heale the Goate.
- Against the hote Goute.
- A meruelous and very good water for diuers in∣firmities and diseases.
- For one that can not slepe nor take his rest either for paine in the head or other like cause.
- To consolidate and close vp the chappes or chinkes of the mouth.
- A water to keepe the handes delicate and soft.
- An excellent water, and of small cost, for to wash a mans face, and to keepe it in one state alwaies.
- To take out the wrinkles of the face.
- To mantaine and keepe the face without wrinkles.
- To heale a swollen face, and that is hurt or mar∣red by reason of some strange skorching, which onely chaunceth whan the subline is not good.
- To know whether the sublime be good or no, or whether it be made with arsenick.
- To take letters out of Paper.
- To renewe olde and worne Letters.
- To mollifie or to make softe Iuorie and bones to worke what thing on them or with them.
- To take out the markes that are comonly made in the faces of Sclaues, for to knowe them, and also suche as many men carrie vpon their bodies, for diuers causes.
- For one that is stong with a Scorpion.
- For one that is stong with waspes, or Bees.
- VVhan a man is tutched or poisoned of a spider.
- For one that hath eaten toodes or the spetile that commeth from them, whiche is a deadly thing.
- To heale cleft or kibed heeles.
- To heale the cankre that happeneth vpon the yard of a man, or in the nature of women.
- To heale a foundred Horse.
- To kill the bottes in horses.
- For a horse that cannot stale.
- For a horse that is cloied or prickte with an naile.
- To make a horse to haue a good hoofe.
- The Table.
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