How to make Iron softe, a proper secret.
AND to doo this, take the iuice of the Hemlocke, and quenche the Iron in it, béeing well heated thrée or foure times, letting it there remaine euerye
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AND to doo this, take the iuice of the Hemlocke, and quenche the Iron in it, béeing well heated thrée or foure times, letting it there remaine euerye
time, vntill it be throughlye colde. Also Cardane writeth, that if you take oyle put∣ting into it molten Leade seuen times to∣gether, and after quench your Iron redde hote into that Oyle, for foure or fiue times together, and it will so make the same soft to woork.