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 mixte stone whiche beyng weated with spettle, maketh fire.

TAke quicke lime, & salt peter fined diuers times, ••utia alexandrina not prepared, calamint, asmuch of the one as of the other, quicke brimstone, and Camfire, of eche of them two partes. And let all these thinges be beaten or stamped small & sifted thorow a sarce or seeue. Then put the said pouders in a newe linen cloth and binde them hard. This done take two greate goldsmithes crosettes or melting pottes, & put the said pouders in them, & set the one vpon the other mouth to mouth, and binde them faste with wier, and Lutum sapientiae so that it maie sake no maner of ayer & drie them in the sunne, and whan the saide pouder is

dry, it will be yelow. This done set the croset in a fur∣neise of bricke or lime, & whan it is cold againe take it out, and you shall finde your substance of the colour of bricke, and it shal be parfite and good. And whan you vse of it for to make a fire or light a candell, weate it with a droppe of water, or with a little spettle, & incon∣tinent put to it your matche, & it wil light and burne. And whan you will quench it againe, blowe it as you blowe out a candell and you shall blow it out.