^ The Scented Qarden $£ 



or what you will) over the said seames. These be the best 

 that a man can make : and (as I have saved) the more 

 Musk, Amber, Civet & Aloe you put in the better thei 

 will be. If you wyll make them with lesse cost, take such 

 buddes as are spoken of before, prepared and ordered in 

 the same sort, and in steede of Muske and Amber, put in 

 the pouder of Cloves, Synamom, & a little Mace, ob- 

 serving such a manner of parfuming the buddes as before. 

 The secretes of the reverent Maister Alexis of Piemont. 



To make an especiall sweet Powder for sweet Bags. 



Take of the purest Orris one pound, of Red and Damask 

 Rose-leaves, of each two ounces, of Cloves three drams, 

 Coriander seed one dram, Cyprus and Calamus of each 

 halfe an ounce, Benzoin and Storax of each three drams ; 

 beat them all save the Benzoin and the Storax, and 

 powder them by themselves, and mix it with the rest of 

 the powder ; then take of Muske and Civet, of each 

 twentie graines, mix these with a little of the foresaid 

 powder with a warm Pestle and so by little and little you 

 may mix it with all the rest, and so with Rose-leaves 

 dried you may put it up into your sweet Bags and so 

 keepe them seven yeares. 



Sir Hugh Platt. Delights for Ladies (1594). 



For a sweet bag. 



Take of Orris six ounces, of Damask Rose-leaves as 

 much, of Marjerom and sweet Basil of each an ounce, of 

 Cloves two ounces, yellow Sanders two ounces, of Citron 

 pills seven drams, of Lignum Aloes one ounce, of Ben- 

 jamin one ounce, of Storax one ounce, of Musk one 

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