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.

Of what colour the Azures are whan they come out of the paste, and what signe or token they shewe.

THe manifest signe and token of the first Azure whan it commeth out, is, that it seemeth som∣what courser & thicker thā the other, which is bicause of the veines of Golde that are in the saide stone. The second shalbe finer and thinner but you shall not see so good a colour in it. The thirde shall seeme vnto you more fine and thinne, but it shall be paler of colour, and cleerer and open, and that is to be vnderstād whan the Lapis lasuli is good and parfite. The price of the colours hath bene before spoken of. The stone costeth ordinarily sixe or eight crounes the pounde, according to the places. And if the stone bee

good and fine (as it ought to be) a man shall get out of it at the least all compted ten vnces and a half, and the stone be not so fine, you shall get out at the least eight vnces. Yet neuertheles y^• slone maie be so euill that ye shal gaine nothing at al, but rather be a great loser.