^ Sweet llag, ^Pot-pourri and other l^cipes (%£ 



at once, and then hang it up to dry and then finish the 

 other side. Ten grains of Musk will give a sufficient 

 perfume to eight paire of gloves. Note also, that this 

 perfume is done upon a then Lambsleather glove : and 

 if you work upon a Kid's skin or Goat's skin, which is 

 usuall leather for rich perfumes, then you must adde 

 more quantitie of the oyle of Ben to your gum and go 

 over the glove twice therewith. 



Sir Hugh Platt. Delights for Ladies (1594). 



To perfume Gloves. 



Take Angelica-water and Rose-water, and put into 

 them the powder of Cloves, Ambergreece, Musk, and 

 Lignum Aloes, Benjamin, and Calamus Amoraticus : 

 boyl these till half be consumed : then strain it and put 

 your Gloves therein ; then hang them in the Sun to dry 

 and turn them often : and thus three times, wet them and 

 dry them again : or otherwise take Rose-water and wet 

 your Gloves therein, then hang them up till they be 

 almost dry ; then take half an ounce of Benjamin, and 

 grind it with the oyl of Almonds, and rub it on the Gloves 

 till it be almost dryed in : then take twenty Grains of 

 Ambergreece, and twenty Grains of Musk, and grind 

 them together with oyl of Almonds, and so rub it on the 

 Gloves, and then hang them up to dry, or let them dry in 

 your bosome, and so after use them at your pleasure. 



Gervase Markham. The English House-Wife (1625). 



To perfume Gloves. 



To perfume gloves excellently take the Oyl of sweet 

 Almonds, oyl of Nutmegs, oyl of Benjamin of each a 



249 



