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gre'ene, brown, tawny, russet, and the duske couler. And to make a good gre'ene, 

 take a quart of small ale, and put it into a panne, and put thereto halfe a pound of 

 alum, and so put therein your haire, and let it boile softly halfe a hower, then take 

 forth the haire and let it drie, Then take a pottel of water and put it in a panne, 

 and put therein too hand ful of Mary golds, or of wixen, and then presse it with a 

 tile stone and so let it boile softly halfe a hower, and when the scum is yellow, then 

 put in your haire, with halfe a pounde of coperes beaten into fine pouder, and so 

 let it boile the space of halfe a mile way, then take it downe, and let it ke'ele the 

 space of fiue or sixe howers, and so take forth your hair and drie it, which wilbe the 

 finest gre'ene for the water, also the more of coperas y^e doe put in it, the greener it 

 wilbe, or ye may put in steed of it, verdigrece. 



Another kinde to make another grdene, as thus, ye shal put your haire vnto a 

 wood fatte, of plunket couler and it wilbe a light couler, and to make it plunket 

 couler, then ye shall s^eth it in goldes or wixen, like as I have aforesaide, \Tito this 

 couler ye shall not put coperas, nor verdegrece, for it will doe better without. 



To make yelloiv haii-e. 



For to make yellow haire, ye shall s^eth it with alum, as I haue afore shewed, 

 and after that \\'ith goldes or wixen, without coperas or verdegrece. Also another 

 yellow ye shall make thus. Take a pottell of small ale and stampe therein three 

 handfull of grdene walenut leaues, so put them together, and lay your haire therein, 

 so long till y^e haue it so deepe couler as you desire. 



To make a tiisset. 



For to make your haire russet, yee shall take a pinte of strong ale, and halfe a 

 pound of soote, with a little of the iuice of walnut leaues, and a quantitie of alum, 

 then boile them well altogether in a panne, then take it off, and when it is colde, 

 put therein your haire, and so let it lie till it be a darke couler, so as ye will 

 haue it. 



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