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 take spottes out of white silke or Veluet in griene or Crimsen Veluet.

TAke stronge Aqua vite of three stillinges, and weate the spot with it vp and doune: then take the white of a newe laide Egge, and spreade it vpon the spot, and so set it in the sunne to drie. This done wash it trimly with freshe and cleere water, and so wring well the spotte betweee your handes, and it will go out, and do this twise at the lest: for the colour will not perishe nor decaie. Also for a cloth in graine,

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take Alome water, and washe well the spotte with it, rubbing it harde clothe againste clothe, this dooen, washe it againe with clere water, and in twise doing it, it will goe out. Also for the like effecte, take roche Alome, Tartre of tonnes, and white Sope, of eche of them three vnces, and make theim into very fine pou∣der: this doen, take twoo Oxe galles, and an yearthen pot that is not in any wise fattie or greasie, and putte into it hādsomely at your discrecion, and so sette it on the fire, and when it beginneth to seeth, cast in by and by the oxe gall, and the pouder, and let it so boile vn∣till it be diminished of the third or fourth part. Then washe the spot with this water three or foure times and at euery time drie the cloth. And finally renewe it with freshe water, and you shall see the effect.

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