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Egypt bears the palm for essence of Cyprinus, and 
the next best is the Cyprian and the Pheenician, and 
after them comes the Sidonian. The perfume called 
Panatheniacum is made at Athens, and those called 
Metopian and Mendesian are prepared with the greatest 
skill in Egypt.” 
65 B.c. Horace was very fond of flowers and perfumes. 
In his ode celebrating the return of Augustus from 
Spain he bids the slaves set rarest perfumes, and 
especially desires the tuneful Nezra to make haste 
and knot up her scented hair. 
1250. The Doge of Venice, even so far back as the 
thirteenth century, ‘‘ might receive no presents or gifts 
from any one, except offerings of rosewater, leaves, 
flowers, and sweet herbs. In the event of a marriage 
he might receive gifts of food only, and he had to 
exact an oath from the Dogaressa and all his children 
to observe this rule strictly.”—Venice: ‘‘Story of the 
Nations ” Series, p. 156. (1894.) 
1527. Master Jerome Brunswick, ‘‘ The Vertuose boke 
of Distillacyon of the waters of all manner of Herbes,” 
folio, newly translated out of Duyche into Englysshe, 
by the printer Lawrence Andrew, London. This is a 
rare and curious book, and may be taken as one of the 
earliest of ‘‘still room” guides. 
1568. Dodoens, R., ‘‘Florum et Coronarium odorata- 
rumque nonnullarum herbarum historia.” Remberto 
Dodonzo Mechliniensis Medico auctore. Antwerpie. 
Ex officina Christophori Plantini. 8vo. 1568. 
1574. Cortese, Isabella; ‘‘Secreti di la Signora Isabella 
Cortese ne quali si contengono cose minerali medicinali 
artificiose e d’alchemiche e molte del arte Profumatoria 
appartementi a ogni gran Signoria Venetia.” 1574. 
I2mo. 
1578-1580. Secretes of Alexis.—The Secretes of the 
reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont, containyng 
