To Marble Paper.

Grind your Colours, as Lake, Mastick, Azure, yellow Oker, red Lead, red Oker, and others with the Gall of an Ox; then fill an earthen Bason full of luke-warm water, and with a stick turn it round till it work; at the same time let your Colours be ready, and taking a little of each with a thick Pensil, touch the middle of the Water, and you will see all the Colours spread; then presently with another Pensil, or Feather, take another Co∣lour, with which touch the Water in the same place as before, and so presently set in all the Colours whilst the Water is stirring, and goes round; when it stops, you will see it all spread Page  235with sundry Colours, then lay your Paper up∣on the water, and without dipping of it, take up your Sheet, drawing it over the Water to the edge of the Bason, then lift, dry, and bur∣nish it: The Paper must be good, and the wa∣ter prepared with Gum-Dragacanth.