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well washed and cleansed in common water, at least ten times: put it into a lyc ofsweet water, and after fifteen days, into a pot, or earthen vessel, with a broad mouth;pouring in the sharpest vinegar, put in your lwines grease , that the vinegar may iwitnthree fingers above it: then fasten a plate of lead on the mouth of the pot, well lu-ting the joynts with linnen cloths, that the vinegar tnay not evaporate. Every fif-teen days take off the cover, and fee how it is > if the lead be difloived,and scrape thecover of all that hangs upon it,and put in thecoverjanoinr it alt about,and let it Handso long, till all the rest be performed, as I said before, and the whole lead be turnedtoceruss. Cerussmustbe wafht thus: Pour water into a vessel, put the ceruss intoit; stir it up and down , that what dregs there is may swim on the top: the ceruseis heavy, and will sink to the botcom: Pour forth what swims above in the vessel,and pour on fresh water; and do this lo often , until the pure ceruse be found with-out dregs r dry it, and lay it up. If you will do it

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Take two handful* of cleansed barley, let it steep all night in fair water; then dry iton a linnen cloth,spread abroad in the sun. When it is dried , poun it in a marblemortar; when it is bruised, put it into a glazed vcflel, which is full of vinegar, andcast upon this four whole eggs, with their shells; then stop the vessel with a plate oflead, that is arched, or not very even, and let there be ho place that gives venc. Setit half in the sand, and let it stand in the open fun,- after ten days, take off the cover-ing of the vessel , that you stopt it with i strike down the ceruse that is in it with afeather, and tcrape it off: then take the eggs out, and put in new, and do as youdid 5 and after so many days scrape it off, unt il the whole plate be consumed. Letdown the ceruse you have stricken off, into a vessel full of water,bound up in a linnendoth that is clean,and moderately fine • and stir it in the water, carrying it about hereand there, until the muddy part of it run forth, and the sediment remain in the cloth:letthe water fettle, and strain it, and pour it forth, changing the water so long, untilno dregs remain. Lastly, strain forth the water, and lay up the powder when it is dry.This alone with fountain water, will make the face white, mingled with the white ofan egge,and will make it shine, Some

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wash ceruse, and make it pure. Mingle hards of hemp, with whites of eggs wellstirr’d: role up the cemss in the middle of it: and wrapping a doth about it, boil itone hour in a new earthen pot, putting water to it: as it boils, take off (he skum:then take it from the fire ; and if any Lead be funk down, cast it forth: afterwardsmake Troches of it wi'b Gum-Traganth,that it may keep the better. Seme bid boylin water of white Lillies, Ceruse very finely powdered, tied up in a skin, andfast-Bcd in a Linen-clotb over it to the handle of the Vessel. The manner of boyling isthe fame as I first shewed. Then pour it forth into an earthen dish, and strain it gentlyfrom all its moy stare: dry it fifteen days in the Sun, and keep it. a

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I Shewed in particulars how you might procure whiteness, lustre, and softness tothe Eace: now (hall I speak of waters made of these , that will at the lame timemake, if it be first rub’d clean,

■ ■ TheFace white, char, rttddy md soft.

These I speak of can do it, being composed together, and distilled. Take Ceruseready washed, one ounce; half as much Mercury sublimate $ Gum-Tragamh as much j

Tartar, one ounce : powder all these , and put them into a young Pigeon warned

and unbowelled, and sow them in : put ic into a new Earthen Pot full of water,distilled by a Retort: boyl it till the flesh part from the bones ; then distil it: when

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