Note 540 — ACT V. (continued 2)

In Guilpin’s Skialetheia, 1598, there is a long list of cosmetics. Juice of lemons is mentioned:— “They [the gallants] were plain asses if they did not know Quicksilver, juice of lemons, borax too, Alum, oil tartar, whites of eggs, and galls. Are made the bawds to morphew, scurfs, and scalls.”