to gild upon sillver or copper
warme your worke and then
quench it in acqueafortis, and
with a copper pen, strick it out
with quicksillver, lieing in the
strainer cold watter, then rain
it of with fair watter then
dry it with a clean cloth, then
lay your gold with a copper pen
the gold and the quicksillver
being both togeather.
take a melting pott, shaue
chalk small, and rube the
inside of the pott, and set it
upon the fire.