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.

Against Gnattes whiche stinge men in the night.

TAke Comine, and chewe it well, and anoint your handes, your face and al your body if it be possible with y^e iuice that shalbe in your mo••th and the flie feeling this sauour whiche is troublesome vnto him, will not molest you at all. And if you will driue them out of your house, and that thei comme not into your chamber, take Commine, and make therof pouder very fine, the whiche you shall incorporate with good white wine, and take a burgeon of a vine, or other branche hauing greene leaues vpon it, and steepe it in the saide wine, and so sprinkle your win∣dowes and doores of your chamber, or the place wher

you will not haue them come in. And also sprinkle of it a long vpon the walles: for in smelling this sauour they can not abide. If you will also driue awaie flies, take Santonicum or Lauander cotton, and the leaues of Eldern trees, with some Comine, and seeth it with water, and sprinkle your house with it or your cham∣bre, and they shall not trouble you, for the sauour of the water is very contrary vnto theim, but beware you laie no baite for them to giue them occasion to en∣ter in boldely, for afterward thei will not greatly care for the sauour of it.