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Rh  ſpreade the heares vpon, for the ſpeedier drying of them, whiche ſo ordering, doeth not onely cauſe the heares to grow long and very fayre, but dyeth them in time ſo yealowe as gold. Alſo to diuerſe other vſes, doth this red water ſerue, as afore is taught in the other Chapter. The white water (which commeth firſte) by waſhing the face orderlye with it, doeth cauſe it to become cleare and fayre, and keepeth the ſkinne from loking olde, for a long time, as the ſame hath ben experienced often by the worthy dames of Rome, Naples, and Venice. And the yealow lyke golde being the ſecond water, doth eſpecially ſerue to this vſe, that if any perſon happeneth to be infected with the plague or Peſtilence, then to take two ounces of this yealow water of Aloes Epaticke, of redde Myrre, and of the eaſt ſaffron, of each ten graines, and a leafe of the beſt golde, all which grinde into fine pouder, mixing the ſame with this water: after that giue it vnto the ſicke to drinke, whiche no doubt wil both helpe this & many other diſeaſes.

O make this ſingular and precious water, you muſt take two poundes of the pureſt white honie, being both cleare and pleaſaunt in taſte, whiche put into a body of glaſſe, being ſo bigge, that foure of the fiue parts of it maye remayne emptie, the ſame lute ſtronglye aboute, ſetting the heade after on it, and a receyuer aptelye to the noſe of the Still.

When you haue thus done, then make a gentle fyre at the firſte vnder it, but after increaſe the fire or heate more and more, vntill certaine white ſmoakes appeare in the head of the glaſſe bodye, whiche do you workemanlye coole and turne into water, by the wettyng of lynnen clothes in colde water, and layed on the heade and noſe, towards the receiuer, for that turneth into a water ſo red as bloud: and  Rh