To make a fine and swete pouder of Cipres.
TAke foure vnces of Cardamomum or toun Kerse, two vnces of Storax solida, two vnces of Fran∣kensence, thre vnces of drie red Roses, an vnce of Sandalum citrinum, three vnces of Bengewine, two vnces of Cloues, a pounde and a half of cleane Egge shels, eight graines of muske, sixe scruples of Cāfire, and of al these drogges make pouder, eche of them by it selfe, and let the pouder of the Egge shelles be very fine, than put the Cāfire molten into the said pouder, and the Muske braied small with a little fine Sugar, and let all be wel incorporated togither in the morter, and sifted small, and so all made into fine pouder, and keepe it in some vessell of glasse that it take no aier, for it wold lose some of his odour. You maie make also of it another sort no lesse good & of another colour. Take redde oxe dung in the moneth of Maie, and drie it wel, and make thereof very small pouder sifted, and not•• that of it selfe it will giue a very good sauour alone without any other thing with it: for in that season of Maie all maner of flowres smell pleasantly. And he that knews not what it were would iudge it to be a pouder made of a thousand herbes: notwithstanding put into it some of the foresaid pouders suche as yo••