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to allot to them, but much may still be learnt by dipping 
into his voluminous pages. And I cannot resist copying 
one or two specimens here, even though they may be 
known to many readers. Amongst many quaint recipes 
cited there is one headed, ‘‘ Cucumber as a Wash for 
the Face,” to be prepared as follows :—‘‘ The fruit cut 
in pieces or chopped as herbes to the pot; and boiled in 
a small pipkin with a piece of mutton, being made into a 
pottage, with otemeal even as herbes pottage are made, 
of which a messe eaten to breakfast, as much to dinner, 
and the light to supper, taken in this manner for the 
space of three weeks together without intermission, doth 
perfectly cure all manner of phlegme, and copper face, 
red and shining noses (as red as roses), with pimples, 
pumples, rubies, and such like precious faces. Provided 
always that during the time of curing you doe use to wash 
or bathe the face with the liquor following. ‘Take a 
pint of strong white wine vinegar, powder of the roots 
of Irros or Orrice three dragms, stamped with two 
blanched almonds, foure lemons. Put them all together 
ina strong double glasse, shake them together for the 
space of ten daies, setting the same in the sunne, with 
which let the face be washed and bathed daily, suffering 
it to drie of itself, without wiping it away. ; This doth not 
only helpe fiery faces, but also taketh away lentils spots, 
morphew, sunburne, and all other deformities of the face.” 
Another specimen from the same author is a description 
of ‘*Solomon’s Seale and its Virtues,” and reads as 
follows :—‘* The roots of ye seale, as Galen saith, have 
(saith he) a certain kind of astriction or binding and biting 
withall; and likewise a certain loathsome bitterness as 
the same author affirmeth, which is not to be found 
in those that do grow in our climate. Dioscorides 
writeth that the roots are excellent good for to seale or 
close up grievous wounds, being stamped and laid there- 
on. Whereupon it was called ‘ Sigillum Solomonis’ of 
