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 oile of Orenge flowers, and other swete flowers.

TAke freshe and cleane flowers of Orenges one pounde, and put them in a great violl of glasse at the fire, and put to them a pound and a half of swete Almonde oile, and a little burned A∣lome, & three graines of Ambergrise, sixe graines of Muske, sixe scruples of Camfere, and braie them after the accustomed maner. First of all the Muske, then the Amber, with fine Suger as moche as a Beane, tem∣pered with a little Rose water, and braie the Cam∣fire alone with Sugar, and put it in laste, but lette there not bee to moche of it, bicause that the sauour of it is to sharpe, and put in but a little at ones, for you maie alwaie adde to, but you can not diminish it, whē it is ones in. And let not the violl be to full, to the en∣tent you maie mixe and tourne vp and doune the com∣posicions,

for to incorporate them, and leaue theim in the Sunne, eightene or twentie daies, vntil a moneth bee paste, and it will bee parfite, and that the flowers maie seeth the more in the oile, then strain theim, and wring them well, and put theim again into the violle in the Sunne, the space of twoo or three daies, vntill it purifie. This dooing you shall haue a merueilous oile, and of a very good odour, and if the flowers seme vnto you but a fewe, you maie put other vpon theim, and thei will augmente the odour: by this meane you maie take of all sortes of swete flowers, and haue oile of diuers sortes, vsing the meanes aforesaied.