☞Another kinde of redde verye good for the face, ea∣sier to make, and with lesse coste.

TAke twoo vnces of fisshe glewe verie cleare, and stiepe it in white wine, the space of fyue or syxe dayes, vntill it bee very softe: than take Brassell that is good and of a good colour, well scraped or cut in small pieces, than stiepe it in well water, so that the water bee aboue it moore than a hande breadeth, and a halfe, this dooen, boyle it together with a small fyre, assaiyng euermore the colour vpon a paper, vntyll it be to your fantasie. And before you take it from the fyre, put to it, for euery glassefull of the saied colour, an vnce of rawe roche Alome beaten in poulder, and Gomme arabicke, as muche as three or foure beanes. Than take it frome the fyre, and keepe it in a v•olle close stopped: & so shall you haue an erquisite thing. Women of base degree, are wont to seeth onely the Brasyll in wyne or water, putting to it a litle roche Alome, and Gomme, letting it hoyle vntill the colour be to their mynde.

Other take redde Sandall or Saunders, the whiche they put in wine, or at the least in Aqua vite, and not boyle it at all, but keepe it so the space of a night. Than in tourninge the water, they put moore Sandall to it, and a lytle moore Alome, accordynge as they lyke the coloure.