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cold, put your hair into it, and there let it lie : it 

 will turn your hair to be a kind of water or glass- 

 color or greenish ; and the longer you let it lie, 

 the deeper-colored it will be. You might be 

 taught to make many other colors, but it is to 

 little purpose, for doubtless the water-color or 

 glass-colored hair is the most choice and most 

 useful for an angler ; but let it not be too green. 



But if you desire to color hair greener, then do 

 it thus. Take a quart of small ale, half a pound 

 of alum ; then put these into a pan or pipkin, and 

 your hair into it with them ; then put it upon a 

 fire, and let it boil softly for half an hour ; and 

 then take out your hair, and let it dry ; and hav- 

 ing so done, then take a pottle of water, and put 

 into it two handfuls of marigolds, and cover it 

 with a tile, or what you think fit, and set it again 

 on the fire, where it is to boil again softly for half 

 an hour, about which time the scum will turn 

 yellow ; then put into it half a pound of copperas, 

 beaten small, and with it the hair that you intend 

 to color ; then let the hair be boiled softly till half 

 the liquor be wasted ; and then let it cool three 

 or four hours, with your hair in it, and you are 

 to observe that the more copperas you put into 

 it, the greener it will be ; but doubtless the pale 

 green is best. But if you desire yellow hair, 

 which is only good when the weeds rot, then put 

 in the more marigolds, and abate most of the 

 copperas, or leave it quite out, and take a little 

 verdigris instead of it. This for coloring your hair. 

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