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colours. And for to make a good grene 

 colour on your heere ye fhall do thus. 



^f Take fmall ale a quarte and put it in 

 a lyttyl panne and put thereto halfe a 

 pounde of alym. And put thereto your 

 heer : and lete it boyle foftly half an houre. 

 Thenne take out your heer and let it 

 drye. Then take a potell of water and 

 putte it in a panne and put therein two 

 handfull of oodlys or of wyxen. And 

 preffe it with a tyle ftone : and lette it 

 boyle foftly half an houre. And whan it 

 is yelow on the fcume put therin your heer 

 wyth halfe a pound of coporofe betyn in 

 poudre and let it boyle halfe a mylde waye: 

 and thenne fette it doune and lete it kele 

 fyve or fyxe houres. Then take out the 

 heer and drye it. And it is thenne the 

 fyneft grene that is for the water. And 

 euer the more ye put thereto of coporofe 



