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then put in the more marigolds, and abate most of the 

 copperas, or leave it quite out, and take a little verdigrease 

 instead of it. 



This for colouring your hair. And as for painting your 

 rod, which must be in oil, you must first make a size with 

 glue and water, boiled together until the glue be dissolved, 

 and the size of a lye-colour ; then strike your size upon the 

 wood with a bristle, or a brush, or pencil, whilst it is hot ; 

 that being quite dry, take white-lead, and a little red -lead, 

 and a little coal-black, so much as altogether will make an 

 ash-colour ; grind these all together with linseed oil ; let it be 

 thick, and lay it thin upon the wood with a brush or pencil ; 

 this do for the ground of any colour to lie upon wood. 



For a green, take pink and verdigrease, and grind them 

 together in linseed-oil, as thin as you can well grind it; then 

 lay it smoothly on with your brush, and drive it thin ; once 

 doing, for the most part will serve, if you lay it well ; and if 

 twice, be sure your first colour be thoroughly dry before you 

 lay on a second. 



Well, scholar, having now taught you to paint your rod, 

 and we having still a mile to Tottenham High-cross, I will, 

 as we walk towards it in the cool shade of this sweet honey- 

 suckle hedge, mention to you some of the thoughts and joys 

 that have possest my soul since we two met together. And 

 these thoughts have been told you, that you may also join with 

 me in thankfulness to the Giver of every good and perfect 

 gift, for our happiness. And that our present happiness may 

 appear to be the greater, and we the more thankful for it, I 

 will beg you to consider with me, how many do, even at this 

 very time lie under the torment of the stone, the gout, and 

 tooth-ache ; and this we are free from. And every misery 

 that I rniss is a new mercy, and therefore let us be thankful. 

 There have been, since we met, others that have met disasters 

 of broken limbs ; some have been blasted, others thunder- 

 strucken ; and we have been freed from these, and all those 

 many other miseries that threaten human nature ; let us 

 therefore rejoice, and be thankful. Nay, which is a far 

 greater mercy, we are free from the uiisupportable burthen of 

 an accusing tormenting conscience, a misery that none can 

 bear ; and therefore let us praise him for his preventing 

 grace, and say, every misery that I miss is a new mercy : nay, 

 let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our 

 estates, that would give the greatest part of it to be healthful 



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