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TAke a newe potte well leaded of the same big∣nesse that you will make your worke, make al∣so a fourneise of the height of the pot, for feare that the fire gette not into it, bicause it is al∣most like vnto artificiall fire, and therefore you must
take heede. This done, take three pound and foure vnces of line seede and seeth it slouly in the said pottes vntill it bee sodden, and if you will know whan it is sodden, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into it a hennes fether, and take it out a∣gain incontinent, if the fethers go of in it, it is sodden inough, otherwise lette it seeth, and whan it is sodden inough, putte into it eight vnces of Rosen, and San∣drac, that is to saie, Vermix suche as scriuenats vse, foure vnces of Aloe epaticum: and all this beyng well beaten and stamped very small, put it in sturring and mixing it with a sticke and if all come togither in a masse, be not therfore abashed, but augment the fire, and neuer leaue sturring it: for in feeling the greate heate, these thinges will melte, and become liquide. And then let theim boile slowly a good while: hauing so done take an assaie of it vpon a pece of paper, or vp∣on your naile, as menne comonly do, whan they will know if the Iulep be well sodden: or els betwene your fingars to see if it bee thicke inough or no, and if you thinke it be to cleere you shall put to it, for two daies, an vnce and a halfe of Aloe sucotrinum, whiche giueth it a colour somewhat darker, and the worke shall not be so bright or cleere: but putte to it also so muche the lesse of Sandrac as you shall that it is sodden. This don pluck backe the pot by and by from the fire, and let it stande where any flābe is, bicause it draweth vnto it self the heate, & so the fire wold burne it all: thē empty it out hādsomely before it be cold, into a coople of little bagges pointed at the ende, one within another like Ipocras bagges. And the mater that is not molten will remaine in the bagges, whiche wil be more then the halfe, and that will no more bee any thing worth for that purpose, and by this meanes you shall haue made your vernishe for to gilte with all, whiche will keepe very well and long, and the older it is, the bet∣ter operation it hath, keepe it therefore well from all maner of duste, and lette it not droppe or runne out.
And note, that the Aloe is it that giueth the yellow co∣lour to it and maketh it looke like Gold, and the other thinges make it thicke. And if you will make it exce∣ding firme and fast, whan the oile is soddē, beyng put in by measure, you shall take out of it as much as you thinke good, then go foreward in your worke, and whan it is sodden, there will not be of it aboue three or foure pound, and that is the leste you can make at a time: and yet neuertheles those that medle with the making of it, make xl. or lx. pound at a time, and kepe it for their necessitie. And if you wil laie it vpon glasse or tinne, either the matter must be hote or els the glas or tinne, and it muste be laide abrode vpon it with a pensill, and so shal you haue a faire pece of worke.