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.

To make a piece of violet cloth to write or paint vpon.

TAke of these litle apples of walwort tree which comonly groweth on dike sides, and stampe thē in a morter, and after they be well stāped, leaue them in some warme place, vntil thei rotte and putri∣fie, then stampe them again, and get asmuch iuice out of them as you cā by pressing them in a presse, hauing first made ready your peeces of cloth cleane and fine, and old, and take half a dishe full of quicke lime, and weate it in a basen, so that whā it is wel weate, there maie be two or three dishes full of water aboue the lime, and no more, and poure it out handsomely that it maie be cleere, and stiepe therin your peeces of cloth well, then take them out and drie them in the shadow. This done, take some cleere water, and putte some Alome into it, and boile it, and seeth your peeces in it the space of a Credo: then take them out, and let them drie in the shadow, and whan they be drie, stiepe them in the said iuice two or three times, and at euery time let them drie in the shadowe, and in the winde vpon a net, and let them be flatte to the intent that the colour ronne not at one side, and they shalbe made and well colored, and so keepe them well from dust, and from the aier that the colour go not of. And this is the per∣fite and true secrete to trimme and dresse peeces that men make to paint vpon, and to take all maner of co∣lour, and is the meane, that the excellēt painter Iohn the Euangelist did vse. For to make another colour of

violet, take little apples of a mirtle tree very ripe, and stampe them, and presse them vnder a presse, and get out the iuice of them, and stiepe your said peeces in it, and drie them in the shadow. For to make a greene piece, and of diuers colours for to paint on, take Ver∣degrise ground smal, and some saffron, and temper it with strong vinaigre, and put to it asmuch more iuice of Rue, then stiepe againe the saide pieces in pisse and drie theim, this done plonge theim three or iiij. times in the said colour, and drie them in the shadow. Take also half a quarter of orpiment, & two vnces of strong lie, and a little brasse of the foulest you can get, half an vnce of Verdegrise, an vnce of Geniper berries well stamped, & put all togither, and seeth it vntill it be a quarter diminished. Thē stiepe your pieces in the said compositions, and drie them in the shadow as before, and you shall make a faire changeable colour. If you wil make also a faire grene, take the leues of the herbe called in latine Raphanitis, whiche is a kinde of lilly or flower deluce, called of the Frenchmen Lis celest••s: stāp them well, and get out the iuice of them, and put into it a little Alome stamped, and it wil be the cleerer, and stiepe your pieces therin oftētimes, & they will receiue the colours, and then drie them as before. But if you wil make thē of a sanguine colour, you shal make this fore saide colour with graine, wherin you shall stiepe your pieces. If you will make them Blewe, take the floures of Line, or of the fore named Raphanitis, & do as before. And whan you wil take of the colour frō euery piece, you shall haue a little gommed water, and weat the piece a little with it, and wring it well, and you shall haue asmuche colour as you will, and so vse of it with a Pensill whan you will.