You may with Liquid Gold or Silver Draw or Write any thing with the Pen or Pencil, as with any other liquid colour; I could shew you how to make it, but to make a small quantitie it is not worth the while, neither will it quit the cost; there∣fore I would advise you to buy it readie prepared, which you may do where you buy your Colours, or of some Gold-beaters, who make it of their cuttings of the ragged edges of their Gold.
When you use it do only thus, put into your Shell a drop or two of fair water, and with a clean Pencil tamper up so much Gold as will serve your occasion at that time, with which Write or Draw what you will; then about two or three hours after, the longer the better, burnish it by rubbing hard up∣on it with a Dogs-tooth, and it will be pure Gold; this is the best and easiest way of laying Gold that I know of.