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walnut-tree leaves, and an equal quantity of alum ; put these 

 together into a pot, pan, or pipkin, and boil them half an hour; 

 and having so done, let it cool, and being 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 use- 

 ful 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 having so done, then take a 

 pottle of water, and put into it two handsful 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 you intend to color ; 

 tlien 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. And as for painting your rod, 

 which must be in oil, you must make a size with glue and water 

 boiled together, until the glue be dissolved, and the size of a lye- 

 color ; tlien strike your size upon the wood with a bristle, or a 

 brush, or pencil, whilst it is hot : tlmt being quite dry, take white- 

 lead, and a little red-lead, with a little coal black, so much as all 

 together will make an ash-color ; grind these all together with 

 linseed-oil ; let it be thick, and lay it thin upon the wood with a 

 brush or pencil ; this do for the ground of any color to lie upon 



wood . 



For a green : take pink and verdigris and grind them together 

 in linseed-oil, as thin as you can well grind it ; then lay it 



