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Yet yotstnay thus dye your Hair and Beard handsomely , if they be grown Gray:Froth of Silver,burnt Brass,mull be mingled with spur times the quantity of strongLye: and when it bubbles on an easie fire , walh your Hair with it; and when theyare dry, wash them with hot water. I used this as the Ancients taught it : and Imade a Lye of Quick-Limc and Oak- Ashes, that they commonly call the Capitcl*in that I boyled Litharge of Silver: then I tried it on white Wool; for if it be dyedblack, as I would have it, then I took it from the fire, or else, I boyled it longer.If it burnt the Wool, 1 put water to it; or else, dyed with ir. AddLytharge. Walhyour Hair or Beard with this, and it will dye them with a shining black colour, and itwill not be discerned: for the more you wasla ir, the better it will shine.

Chap. IV.

'to make Hairs part smooth.

B Ecau'c sometimes a part is deformed with abundance of Hair , or for lack ofHair, I (hall (hew how to make a smooth part thick with Hair, and a hairy partsmooth, by depilatories.

A common Deptldtorjf

which men use commonly in Baths. It consists of Qjiick-Lime, four parts madeinto Powder, Orpimcnt one part : boyl them. Try with a Hens Feather ; whenthat is made bare with it,it is boyl’d : take heed you boyl it not too much,or that icstay not too long upon your skin, for it will burn : but if it chance to burn yourskin, take Populeum and Oyl of Roses or Violets, and anoynt the place , and thepain will be gore. This must be done in a Bath ; but if you cannot have obc,1ccthe Woman be covered with cloths very well, and let it be cast on burning Stonesor Tiles, that (he may receive the fume of it, and sweat. After she hath sweat, lecher wash her self with her water, and wipe it off : then let her anoynt her self allover; for the parts anoynted thus, will presently grow smooth. And thus may allparts be kept free from Hair. The Ancients used these, as Sajerna , as Varro reports,teacheth in his Book of Husbandry. If (faith he) yon would make any one smoothfrom Hair, cast a pale Frog into water, and boyl it to a third part ; and with thatanoynt the Body. But by pale Frog we must understand a Toad : for a Frog hathno such faculty. A Salamander soaked in Oyl, will pull out the Hair. Dtoscoridts.But it will be stronger, if you steep it long in Oyl, and dissolve it. The filthy mat-ter that is white as Milk, and is vomited up at the mouth by the Salamander, if ictouch any part of the Body, ail the Hair will fall cff. Diofcorides faith, Thar theSea-Scoiopendra boyled in Oyl, and smeeted on the part» will pluck off the Hair bythe Roots. But

To make Hair grow slowly■,

If you press Oyl out of Henbane-Seed with a Press, or do often anoynt the placeswith the juice of it, they will grow again very slowly. The fame is done with thejuice of Hsmlock. Ot to take off the Hairs,men added to Ants Eggs,red Orpimenr,and Ivy-Gum,whh Vinegar ; and they rubbed the place where the Hair was taken a. way. Informer times, they rubbed the down-paris of children with the Roots ofHyacinthusand the Hair would never grow there. And therefore it is well known intrimming Medicaments fold here and there, that being sineered on with sweet Wine,keeps back the Beard, and will not let it break forth. But if you would

That Hair should never grow again ,

In which business I have taken great pains , and tried many things that I found to befalse ; First, foment the part with hot water, and pull out the Hairs one by one

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