530 | The five and thirtieth Booke. 
orrankling matter that lieth fecret within: for ifa place be anointed therewith,whenitisrediced G 
intoa liniment with water,in cafe it wax notdrie, be fure there is fone fuppuration underneath, 
Astouching Sandaracha and Ochra,K. /vba writeth that they are to be found in Tapazus, an 
Hland within the red fea; butthat which we have,was never brought from thence. How Sanda- 
racha is engendred, I have faid alreadie in the difcourfe of Mines. There is an artificial] and fo- 
phifticat Sandaracha,made of ceruffe burntin a furnace, The colour of Sandaracha oughtto be 
fierie like a flame:a pound thereof is bought for five affes, /.halfe a denier.Calcine this and Rud- 
dle togither, and of both, being concorporat in equall quantitie, you fhall have the colour cal- 
led Sandyx. Howbeit,I doe obferve in /#gi/ that he tooke Sandyx for an hearb,as may appeare 
by this verfe: : ; bi 
Sponte fua Sandyx pafcentes vefliet agnos, 3 BE) GOH a Sie 
Atuddie fleece fhall Sandys yeeld, if” 
To lambs, as they doe graze in field, ; 
This Sandyx to bee bought and fold, carrieth but halfe the priceof Sandaracha: neither bee 
there any colours more weightie than thefe in the ballance. 
Among the artificial and made colours, I reckon Scyricum,which as I have alreadie faid,fer- 
~ -veth fora good ground to take vermillon. The manner.of making it, isto mix the beft ruddle Si- ; 
nopis and this Sandyx togither. : 
Painters blacke [called in Latine Atramentum]I count an artificiall colour,although I know 
there is a vitrioll or coperofe going under that name, which is mineral], and is engendred two 
manner of waies; for either it iffueth and oofeth out of the minein manner of afalthumor orli- 1 
quor ; or els there groweth an earth it felfe of abrimftone colour,which ferveth for it,that it may a 
be drawne out thereof,Some painters have been knowne,who for to get black,liave fearched in- 
to fepulchres for the coles there among the reliques and afhes of the dead. Butin mine opinion, 
all chefe be but new devifes, and foolith irregular toies without any reafon: for a man need feeke 
no farther but to foot, and that made many waies, by burning either of rofin or pitch :in which 
regard many have built places and forges of purpofeto burne them in; without any emiffaries, 
tunnels, or holes,that che faid {moke or foot may not get forth.But the beft black in that manner 
made,commieth of the {moke of torchwood. This fine foot is fophifticat with the groffe foot that 
doth gather and engender in forges, furnaces,and ftouphs : and this is that inke wherewith we ufe 
to write our books, Some there be who take the lees or dregs of wine,and when itis dried,boileit. K 
throughly: and they affirme,that if the wine were good whereofthofe lees came, the {aid inke or 
black will make acolout like Indico, And in truth,Polygnotws and Mycon (two astenowmed pain- 
ters as ever were) ufed no other blacke at all, but that which they made of the maree orretufe of 
grapes after they be prefled,& this they call Tryginon. 4pelles devifed a way by himfelfe,to make 
it of yvorie or the elephants tooth burnt,and this they named therupon Elephantinum.As tou- 
ching the blacke called Indicum, it is brought out of India: butas yet 1 know not the manner ' 
either of the making or the engendring of it. Akind thereof Ifee the diers doe make, of that. ti 
black florey which fticketh to their coppers, Alfo, there is a black made oftorchwood burnt and 
the coles that come of it punned to powder ina mortar, Andheerecommethto my mind the . 
wonderfull nature of the Cuttle fithes,which do yeelda black humor from them likeuntoinke: L 
howbeit, I donot find thar painters or writers make any ufe thereof, But all blackes whatfoever 
take their perfection by funning: if it bee writing inke with gum (Arabick;) ifto colour parget 
ting or walls, with glew among: and looke what blacke is diffolved and liquefied in vinegre, the 
fame will hold well & hardly be wafhed off, And thus much of the ordinarie colours low prized. 
Of all the colours befides,which(as | faid once before) for their high price the poore painters 
be ferved with from their matters hands whoferthem on worke, the rich rofet or purple red that 
ismade of Tripolie or gold{miths earth, is fimply the beft; for this Tripolie is commonly died 
togither with purplessand no filke,wooll,or cloth, will fo foone take that tinture, as it. The prin- 
cipallis that,which having had the floure of afatt,hath drunkthe fill asit were,whilestheliquor = 
_ isyet boiling, andthe drugs within the caudron be in their verdure and havenot loftthe heart, yg 
When this firft Tripolie thus deeply died, is caft up and taken forth, that which is putinnextinto 
the faid liquor,is counted the fecondin goodnefie ; and fo confequently by degrees: for the for- 
mer evermore taketh the higher die, and the oftener you dip therein, the weaker will the tincture 
be: whichis the reafon shat the rofet or purple red of Puteoli,is more commended, than a 
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