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.

To counterfeite all maner of greene leaues which shall seeme naturall.

TAke greene leaues of what sort you will, and skrape or bruse the biggest strekes that be like

ribbes vpon the leafe the cōtrarie waie, with a knife. Then make this colour folowing. Take comon oile or the oile of line, or other licours that make smoke, and burne them in a lampe, and sette ouer them a pot for all the smoke will stick and cleaue round about it: This done gather togither the same smoke, and tem∣per it in a dishe with a little oile or Vernishe, and in∣corporate it well togither. Then with the saide colour you shall blacke the leafe on the side where you haue brused and skraped the great ribbes with a linē clothe or cotton, and turne the leafe vpon the Paper double and with your hande or with a piece of Clothe presse doune somewhat lightly the saide leafe, vntill you be assured that it hath leaft the colour vpon the Paper. Then take it of handsomely, and you shall finde all the print and deuise of the saide leafe to bee as it were naturall, yea, euē vnto the least vaine or ribbe, so that you shall thinke it faire, and with all the naturall sig∣nes and markes, and if you will make it greene ac∣cording to his nature: take Vinaigre very strong, ver∣degrise, gomme arabick, bladder past, called in Frēch paste de vessre, and put all togither and seeth it, and it will be greene as we haue before saide, and with the said water you maie make al these leaues greene, and it will bee faire to see, for to make a painting frysed or rough about your chamber, ye specially in winter time.