201vinto a box, with paper about the bottome sides, and top of it
reseruinge it for your vse, which must be in this sorte, annoynte
the Face, and skin with good pomatum, then wipe it allmost
cleane off, then dip your fniger in this powder, and rubb it very
5well into the Face, and skinn, and after it hath rested halfe aquarter
of an hower, upon the Face and skinn, then with a fine cleane linnen
cloath wipe it off gently, or if you please you may mingle some
of the powder, with a little pomatum, in the palme of your hand
and annoynte the Face and skinn therewith, which is most excellent
10for the skinn, and Face, and to make the very veynes apeare most
liuely./
To make the Powder of mountaine Cristall for
beautifyinge the face, vsed by the Queene Mother
of France./
15Take Fower Ounces of mountaine Cristall finely powdered, sett in a
crucible, and calcine it very well, then wash it with Rosemary
water, and when it is settled powre of the water, then calcine it
againe, and then wash it with beane Flower water and when it is
settled, poure of the water againe, and calcine it againe, the
20third time, then wash it with red rosewater, and when it is settled
powre of the water againe, and sett the powder vpon a Marble
stone to drye, when it is drye, powder it very fine vpon the Marble
stone, and keepe it in a box close couered for your vse, which must
be thus, when you haue washed your face very cleane, rubb some
25of this powder on, with a cleane paper, or your Finger./
Another Powder for the Face./
Take a little Allome dvplume from the Drugsters, rub it very fine
in your hand, and when you haue annoynted your Face with good
pomatum, and slightly wiped it off againe, then with your finger
30rubbe some of this powder on your face,./.
To make a perfect good red for the Face, vsed by the La: Ca:
Take a quarter of an Ounce of the best cuchanele, that scarlate is dyed
with, you may haue it_at the drugsters, powder it very fine, then take as
much of the best Allome as an egge, and wett one end of the Allome with
35your tongue, then dip it into the powder, and rubbe with the allome
stone the place so farr as you would haue it red, and with your finger
rubbe it into what fashion you would haue it, and then wipe it off
cleane, with a very fine linnen cloath./