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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- 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 17, 2024.
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with Fishe glue.
* 1.1TAke a slise of fishe glue or more or lesse, & beate it well with a hammer vpon a flint stone, than washe it well in freshe water, and finally with luke warme water, and than put it in a newe pot, and put some cleere water vpō it, and let it stiepe a night, then put a little fire or embers in a chafing dishe, and boile all in this little pot faire and softly the space of an houre and more, vntill you maie perceiue that it is incorporated, or els proue it otherwise in puttinge a droppe vpō your naile, & if it bide firme, fast & cleane, take it from the fire, and caste it vpon your medalles that you haue made ready, and let them be in this ma∣ner following. Take your chaced and imbossed me∣dalles, and laie rounde about theim a little waxe can∣dell, to the intent that the glue fall not by, and anoint it: with hony, and laie on the glue so thicke that all the imbossing maie be couered: than set it in the sunne, and let it be equall, and so let it drie, and whan it is dried inough, it wil lense it self from the medalle, and will be as thinne and as fine as paper and all the li∣niamentes very well seene and perceaued be thei ne∣uer so subtile and small, and will haue a good glosse or lustre, and folde them, & bowe them which waie you will and they wil not breake, and if you will alter the colour of them, colour the water with Saffran or ver∣degrise, so that it be skant colored, and vse this water to seeth the glue in, so that it be not to thicke: for than your worke would be to grosse, and not faire to looke to, and you maie also giue it a colour within side or paynt it without, and it wilbe a very faire thing.
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* 1.1
Fishe glue is that whi∣che Ioyners do vse co∣monly.