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.

White Pomatum, fine and sweete for great lordes.

TAke thirty or twenty Appiane apples, or other tendre and mellowe Apples and diuide them in to foure partes, and make them cleane within ••nd without. Then take Cloues, and Sinamome, & flicke the apples full of it as they were larded, & so laie thē in rose water, that thei maie be couered ouer with the said water, and put into it sixe Nutmegges, with two drammes of Mace, and lette them thus lie a stiepe the space of sixe daies, and lette them he well couered. Then take Hogges grease, & take of from it the little sk••nne that is vpon it, and cut it very small, and put it to purge in fresh and cleere water three or foure daies and change the water twise a daie, and put it the last time to stepe in Rosewater, or some other sweete wa∣ter, and by this meanes it shal be wel purged and pu∣rified, and shal not haue but a good sauour and odour, then take three or foure pound of the said grease, and put it in a pot or other vessell that is not greasie, nor sauoreth euill, and put the apples cut in peces as they are into the said pot or vessell, and adde therto an vnce of the oile of Orenges, and of the water whiche the Frenche men call Eau de ••afe, whereof we haue spoken in the firste parte of this worke, or some other sweete and odoriferous water, so that all maie be vnder the water, and boile them an houre or more with a slowe fire, vntill the Apples be well sodden, and then breake theim well with a woodden slise, that they maie bee turned as it were into a broth, this done passe theim through a strainer, and then straine them hote againe thorow another finer and close strainer: and whiles it is thus hote, put into it three vnces and a half of white waxe cut very small, and two vnces of white Sandalum made in pouder very fine and mixt togither vntill it be all well incorporated: and whan it is colde, washe it with rose water vntill it be very cleere, and this Poma∣tum wil be as white as snowe. And after it is washed, you shall put to it eight graines of Muske, and foure

graines of Ambergrise that bee very smally ground, and so incorporate well al togither, and leaue it in the aier abrode the space of fiue or sixe nightes, and the Pomatum wilbe parfite good and odoriferous, And if you will not haue it thus perfite, you maie put lesse drogges to it as Muske and Amber: but here note and vnderstand that we haue made of it diuers times, and neuer lefte of this order aforesaid, and it hath been ex∣cellent parfite and good. There is also another sorte of it whiche serueth for euery hote disease, and for to anoint the handes, the mouthe, and nose, as is afore said. Take two vnces of sheepe suet, and an vnce of Goates suet, and choppe it smal, and melt it, and then straine it thorow a strainer, and put into it three vn∣ces of newe waxe, and two vnces of the oile of sweete Almondes: And melte all this on a slowe fire, mixyng and sturring it alwaies: than take it of, and adde to it foure scruples of Camfire broken, and mingle it still togither vntill it be colde, and so keepe it, and anoint your selfe withall diligently. There is another better than this and well allowed & proued, whiche is made as followeth. Take newe waxe, the suet of a he goate, and the marowe of an Oxe, of eche of them an vnce and a halfe, an vnce of the oile of Saint Iohns wuit, and asmuche of oile of Roses, and asmuche salt bea∣ten very small: but cut the suet and marowe and melt them, and straine them, this don set them vpon a slow fire, so that they maie not be skant warme: and putte the waxe beyng cut in peces, with the saide oile and salt, and mingle them well togither with your slise of woode. Then take it from the fire, and put into it sixe scrupules of Camfere, somewhat beaten, and mixe it alwaies vntill it bee colde. Then keepe it in yearthen cuppes leaded within. And the older it is, the better it is. Menne vse of it for all maner of hote disease, for chappes or chinckes of the Nose, Mouth, Lippes, or handes, and for kibes on Childrens heeles, and also

for a felon or cattes heare, for in anointinge theim with this, they will goe awaie, and also taketh awaie the paine, as it hath bene well proued many a time.