The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

CHAP. XVII.

How to Distemper Colours.

TAke about a Quarter of a Pound of Ising-glass, and put it into a Skellet, with about [ 10] a Quart of fair Water; let it boyl gently until the Ising-glass is dissolved, which done, pour it out of the Skellet hot into a dry Bladder, for if it be cold it will turn into a Jelly; then tye up the Bladder, that no Dust get in, and hang it up in some convenient place where the Sun comes, for about a Month, by which time the heat of the Sun will rot, or turn it to fair Water, which Water put into Glasses for your use, for it is better than Gum-water; for it heightens the [ 20] Colours, sets a fair Gloss upon them, and pre∣serves them from tarnishing, and resembleth Oyl-Colours as to the Gloss. The Water is made weaker, if too strong, by putting a little fair Water into the Glass, or as you Work with it; for the thicker the Jelly is, the stronger will the Water be. [ 30]