•^ Sweet 'Bag, Tot-pourri and other 1(ecipes (g 



out of the bowle with a little Rose-water at once, till 

 all the scent be gotten out, putting the Rose-water still in 

 a glasse, when you have tempered the same in the bowl 

 sufficiently. A pint of Rose-water will be sufficient to 

 mingle with the said proportion : and if you finde the 

 same not strong enough put one graine and a halfe, or 

 two graines of Civet to the weight of three graines of 

 the aforesaid composition of oyles. ,, • i 



Water for the castyng glasse 



Put into some little vessell of Silver, a little Rose water 

 made with Muske, and a little Civet, and Cloves, and 

 Styrax. Mix them and perfume any clothes with the 

 vapour or the smoke thereof, it is a marvellous sweet 

 savoure, if thou wilt kepe close the vessell diligently, and 

 when thou thinkest good, put more Rose water unto it, 

 that it maie be renewed. 



Bulleins Bulwarke of defence . . . which Bulwarke is 

 kepte with Hillarius the Gardiner (1562). 



Another. 



Thou shalt put into fower pounds of Rose water, 

 somewhat gross beaten Styrax and Cloves, Camphire, 

 Muske, Civet, putte these together in a glasse, shutte 

 with a Parchment, prickte through with tenne or twelve 

 smalle holies, and let the vessell boile fower howers in a 

 kettell full of cleane water, as though it were in Balneo 

 Maria, after when it is colde, strain it through a fine 

 linnen clothe, and kepe it in a glasse in which graines XII 

 of Muske shal be put, whiche beyng moisted, and steped 

 with water, thou shalt stoppe the glasse, and sette it in the 



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