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.
Author
Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
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Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande,
Anno domini. M.D.lx. [1560]
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16112.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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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.
TAke a white Pigeon, and plucke of his fethers,* 1.1 then pluck out the guttes and garbage of him, and cut of his head and feete, then take three good handfuls of Fraxinella, and two pounde of Milke, and three vnces of Creame, and sixe vnces of oile of sweete Almondes, and let it be newe and fresh, and put all this togither and distille it in a vessell of Glasse, and washe your face and handes euery daie with the same water, and they wilbe alwaies white, softe, and with out any spottes or pimples, as in the middes of Somer.
Notes
* 1.1
Fraxinella, is called also Corrigiola, an herbe vvhich ren∣neth on the ground like grasse, Mai∣nardus saith it hathe lea∣ues like an Ashe and therfore is called Frax∣inella.