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WASH BALLS AND SCENTED SOAPS 



Musked Sope. 



Take foure pound of Castle Sope, cut it into small 

 pieces ; then take powder of Cloves and white Sanders of 

 each two ounces, Benjamin an ounce, Muske twenty 

 graines ; incorporate them all together, and put to them 

 two or three drops of Oyle of Cloves or Nutmegs. 



The Charitable Physitian, by Philibert Guibert, 

 Physitian Regent in Paris (1639). 



To make an Ipswich Ball. 



Take a pound of fine white Castill Sope, shave it thin 

 in a pinte of Rose-water, and let it stand two or three 

 days, then pour all the water from it, and put to it half 

 a pinte of fresh water, and so let it stand one whole day, 

 then pour out that, and put half a pinte more, and let it 

 stand a night more, then put to it half an ounce of powder 

 called sweet Marjoram, a quarter of an ounce of powder 

 of Winter Savoury, two or three drops of the Oyl of 

 Spike, and the Oyl of Cloves, three grains of Musk, and 

 as much Ambergris, work all these together in a fair 

 Mortar, with the powder of an Almond Cake dryed, and 

 beaten as small as fine flowre, so rowl it round in your 

 hands in Rose-water. 



The Queen's Closet Opened, by W. M., Cook to 



Queen Henrietta Maria (1655). 



To make a Musk-ball. 



To make Musk-balls, take Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, 

 Saffron and Cinnamon, of each the weight of two pence, 



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