For to write letters vpon a mans body or face that shall neuer be rubbed out.
YOu muste go into the stooues or hote houses whiche be very hote, and when you are in a sweate write vpo~ your bodie with what inke you will, then cut the skin with a sharpe ra|sour, and fill the cuttes with earth of what colour you will, and leaue them so and incontinent by reason of the greate heate the skin will close & shut vp togither and the letters or figures that you haue made vpon your fleshe will remaine for euer.
From The Seconde Part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by Girolamo Ruscelli, 1560
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