DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING OF A LINE 



which is only good when the weeds rot, then put in the more 

 Marygolds, and abate most of the Copperas, or leave it quite 

 out, and take a little Verdigrise instead of it. 



This for colouring your hair. And as for painting your rod, 

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

 water boiled together until the glue be dissolved, and the size 

 of a lye-colour : then strike your size upon the wood with a 

 bristle, or a brush, or pencil, whilst it is hot ; that 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-colour ; 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 colour to lie upon wood. 



For a Green. Take Pink and Verdigrise, and grind them 

 together in Linseed-oil, as thin as you can well grind it ; then 

 lay it smoothly on with your brush, and drive it thin : once doing, 

 for the most part, will serve, if you lay it well ; and if twice, be 

 sure your first colour be thoroughly dry before you lay on a 

 second. 



Well, Scholar, having now taught you to paint your rod, 

 and we having still a mile to Tottenham High-cross, I will, as 

 we walk towards it, in the cool shade of this sweet honeysuckle 

 hedge, mention to you some of the thoughts and joys that have 

 possessed my soul since we two met together. And these 

 thoughts shall be told you, that you also may join with me in 

 thankfulness, to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, for 

 our happiness. And, that our present happiness may appear 

 to be the greater, and we the more thankful for it, I will beg 

 you to consider with me, how many do, even at this very time, 

 lie under the torment of the Stone, the Gout, and Tooth-ache ; 

 and this we are free from. And every misery that I miss is a 

 new mercy : and therefore let us be thankful. There have been, 

 since we met, others that have met disasters of broken limbs ; 

 some have been blasted, others thunder-strucken ; and we have 

 been freed from these, and all those many other miseries that 

 threaten human nature : let us therefore rejoice and be thankful. 

 Nay, which is a far greater mercy, we are free from the un- 

 supportable burthen of an accusing, tormenting conscience ; a 

 misery that none can bear, and therefore let us praise Him for 

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