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 make Oile of Vitriol.

TAke the Vitriol and make it into Lime, than put into Aqua vite, and let the water couer it, than distille it, first with a very small fier, au∣gmenting it by little and little vntil al become out. Then take out the Aqua vite by Balneum mariae with the water that is skant warme. This doen distil againe the Oile, and if at the beginning there come any water, put the said Oile into some vessell and set it in the Sunne: but it were muche better to set two vessels well closed togither one vpon another, and the water beyng in the Sunne will come and cleaue vnto the vessell that is vppermost, and therfore you shall take awaie the said vessell and set to another, and by this meane you shall purge awaie all the said water, and the Oile shall remaine not onely pure & nete, but also more delicat, than the comon Oile of Vitriol.