To make the fleshe or skin faire and bright.
TAke a pound of white tartre, half a pound of Tal∣cum, & asmuche salt, and put al into a pot not bake or aneled, & couer it. This don binde it with wier, and set it to calcine in a keell of lime or of bricke, thā take it out, and braie it small vpon a marble stone. After this put it into a little bagge pointed at the ende like an Ipocras bagge, and hange it in a moist place that it tutch nothing, and that to much enter not into it, & set vnder it some cup of glasse to receiue the oile that shall come out of it the space of fiuetene or xx. daies & more or lesse occording as it shalbe in a moist place: and keepe this oile as a treasure. And first washe your self with lie or water and whan you are drie againe, weate a sponge or a linen cloth in the saide oile, and rubbe your skinne finely with it, and you shal see that euery spot wil go of, be it sunne burning or any other impediment, and wil make your fleshe white, soft and clere. And in continuing this you shal attaine to your purpose in fewe daies. And if you will make an other sorte of it, whiche men vse newly in Venise, take two long white Gourdes, and thre dishes full of Fasils the blacke spottes or eies at the ende, as thei call them: be∣yng taken awaie, with the cromme of three white loues, and stepe thē in milke one night, and then take a dishefull of the seedes of Melons, with half a dishful of peche kernels made cleane of their skinne or pille, and a pound of white Pine apple kernels, and let all be well stampt in a morter eche one a parte, and two great pigeons, the which you shal cut in pieces a liue, taking out onely the bowels, and so set all to distil to∣gither in a limbeck of glasse, and vse of the same water