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 16, 2024.

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To make counterfete Camfire.

TAke foure vnces of white Vernishe, two vnces of Mastick, and asmuche of white Encens, two dragmes of true Camfire, and lette all be made into fine pouder: then take the whites of foure egges, and a little Aqua vite, and so beate it well togither that it become in a fome, then incorporate wel the said

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thinges togither, & facion your little balles or loues, and sette them in the sunne during the signe of Leo, the space of fiuetene or twentie daies, as long as you shall thinke good, and it will come into suche per∣fection, as that whiche is conterfeted in Constanti∣noble.

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