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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	people_n	word_n	1,808	5	3.8257	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03420	Hocus Pocus Junior The anatomy of legerdemain. Or, The art of iugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly; so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practise. Unto each trick is added the figure, where it is needfull for instruction.		1638 (1638)	STC 13544; ESTC S116933	27,129	57

to deliver to one man six pence and to another another six pence and to make both the testers come into one mans hand DEliver into one mans hand two testers even set instead of one shutting his hand immediatly then take another tester and have in readinesse a peece of horn cut even with it Clap the said tester into his right hand with the horn under it staying the tops of your two middlemost fingers stiffe upon the tester so bending his hand a little downward draw your fingers toward you and they will slip the tester out of his hand and shut his hand presently who feeling the peece of horne wil imagine it is the testers then say he that kissed a pretty wench last in a corner shall have both Testers in his hand and the other shall have none This may also be performed without a piece of horne wringing one tester in the palme of the hand and taking it away with your thumbe being wax●d for the hard wringing the money in the hand will make the partie beleeve he hath it when he ha●h it not Conveyance of Cards and Dice THere are multitude of delightful feats which may be performed by an orderly placing facing shuffling and cutting of cards usually played withall Also a number of other strange feats may be shewed by cards and dice such as may be purposely made The cards may be made halfe of one print and halfe of another so by holding them divers waies sundry things may be presented each contrary to other For example with foure of the ●ame Cards purposely made and holding them accordingly you shall present eight severall things Now for the Dice the cunning is in forging them and a ready retaining or throwing two among three or one with two they must I say bee forged bigger towards one side than ●he other so that the weight of one side may draw up the other Othe● some may be made flatter being furnished with such like And having learned to retain them handsomely and readily you may have the game at command and know before hand what will be your cast and so vi● upon it too Moreover for the Cards there are divers other tricks of which those that are cheaters make continuall practice as nipping them turning up one corner marking them with little spots placing glasses behinde those that are gamesters and in rings for the purpose dumbe shews of some standers by But I will not stand on discovering these for in this our cousening age there are too many so expert herein that they maintain themselves better than many an honest man with a lawfull trade and calling Onely take this by the way Those that have money in their purses let them beware of Carding and Dicing lest they wish they had when it is too late As for my own part I le never play for that I am sure of already if any will play with me upon other termes I am sure I shall lose nothing by the bargain Of Confederacie SOme there are that have said I writ n●t sufficiently of this part in the former Edition I rather thinke the cause was they thought they had too little for their money Neverthelesse I will to give every one their desired content and deliver my mind more fully herein and it may be which I most desire they may learne to avoid the company of roving gamesters cheaters I mean that frequent the high-waies and principall Towns and places of resort thereabouts for they are of the same manner though for a worser end First therefore by this word Confederacie is meant a kind of Combination or making an agreement or covenanting among sundry persons for the accomplishment of one and the selfe-same bu●inesse understand me aright All these being very well knowne each to other at least the design as may appeare by their agreement thereabout do so estrange themselves as if they had never seen each other before And to the end that they might performe their designe not giving any the least suspition to any of the beholders I will give you an instance or two whereby I shall give you sufficient information for the more ready conceiving of every particular in this nature when and wheresoever you see them performed How to cast a peece of mony away and to find it in another mans mouth pocket or pu●se THe Jugler calls for some one peece of coine as a tester or a shilling of any one in the company he willeth him to marke it with what marke he will then he taketh it and casteth it away and commeth to his confederate who is funished before-hand with the like peece of coine marked with the very same marke and bids him deliver the money out of his pocket purse or if he say the word his mouth for this is concluded of before-hand Now this confederate to make the matter seem more strange will fume and fret asking how hee should come by it till having found the marke hee will confesse it bee none of his wondring at his skill how he should send it thither and all the rest be taken with a reall administration of his extraordinary cunning How by the sound of a Counter philliped to tell what side is uppermost whether crosse or pile THe Jugler drawes a Counter out of his pocket and saith to the company See here is a Counter take it who please and let him phillip it up and I will by my cunning tell you whither crosse or pile be uppermost by the very found for you shall hood-winke me Now there are three or four or more confederates in the place who seeming strangers as well as the rest will be very importunate to have the philliping it and before one of these shall have it who by some signe of the fingers or countenance foreknowne to the Jugler do give him information after he is demanded Of the same nature is that tricke formerly mentioned in the booke and called The decollation of Iohn Baptist To make one dance naked is a tricke of the same nature for the party before hand is agreed to doe it and also the manner and circumstances So that the Jugler to blind the people pronounceth sundry words to such a person he then begins to rave like a madde man and put his clothes off with a kind of violent carelessenesse though God knowes the party knowes as well what he doth as your selfe that reades it After the same manner shall you know what money another hath in his purse and casting money into a pond and finding it under a stone or threshold in another place Also to make a peece of money to leap out of a cup and run to another by means of a small hair fastened to the money which haire the Confederate guideth with a multitude of such like strange feats which may seem impossible to the judgment of the common people to be effected without the assistance of the devill or some familiar which to nominate is neither