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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96355	A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions; unlock'd and opened, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant houres Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions. Whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water. Also fire works of service, for sea and shore, very fitting for these warlike times of action. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificiall conclusions.	White, John, d. 1671.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1789; Thomason E1295_2; ESTC R208979	53,617	175

make it sharpe at one end like a butchers Scure and then get two knivs somewhat of an equall poise and price the points of them towards the bigger end of the stick on each side slope-wise as you may see here in the Figure then put the smal end of the stick upon the rim of a Glasse of wine or beer you may take up the Glasse and drink and they will not fall off RECEIT XI A speedy way how to make a Horse Fat Plump and Lusty TAke Comminseed Annis-seeds Enulae campana and Turmerick a penny-worth of each seeth them well with three heads of Garlick in a Gallon of Ale then streine it and presse out as much of the substance as you can well wring out and give it your Horse to drink blood-warm a full quart at once then ride him till he be hot then afterward stable him curry and litter him wel until he be cold do this two or three mornings together and then turne him to grasse and he will thrive wonderfully in a short time If there were a handfull of Groundsell sodden with the aforesaid ingrediences it would doe well Now if you will not put him to Grasse but keepe him in the Stable give him to eate with his Provender some of the roots of Enula-campana with some Comminseeds beaten together or the Enula-campana shred smal shred for fourteen dayes together This will make a lean Horse to thrive and grow fat in one moneth more then he would otherwise have done in a quarter of a Yeare RECEIT XII How to keepe a Horse from tyring by the way and to make him fome at the Bit. WHen you are to ride and feare that your horse may tire carry with you in some lethern Bag a good quantitie of the powder of Enula-campana and when others doe baite their Horses in their ordinarie manner your Horse being first well walked rubbed and littered then give him a good handfull of your powder in a quart of strong Ale or Beere with a horne tying his head high to the rack and you need to give him no other provender or very little till night then let him be well meated and give him in the morning two pennie-worth of Bread and his Ale and powder but remember to water at night RECEIT XIII How one may put his finger or wash his hands in molten Lead without danger or burning TAke an ounce of Quick-silver two ounces of good Bole Armoniack halfe an ounce of Camphire and two ounces of Aqua vita then mingle them together and put them into a brazen Morter and beat them with a Pestle having thus done annoynt your hands all over throughly well with this oyntment and then you may put your finger into molten Lead or you may wash your hands therewith if one poure the Lead upon them and it will neither scal'd nor burne you RECEIT XIIII A very prettie and ready way to teach Children or others suddainly to learn their A. B. C. in manner of play CAuse foure peeces of Bone or Wood to be cut into sixe square like Dice and upon everie side or square let one of the Letters of the Alphabet be ingraven or writ As A. B. C. D. E. F. upon one of them then G. H. I. K. L. M. on the other and so of the rest in order as you see here in the figure Now the Child taking delight and using to play with them amongst other Children and being told what Letters are uppermost will soone learne their Alphabet as it were by the way of sport and pastime Also you may cause one peece of bone or wood to be made into six long square sides about an inch and a halfe of length and let each side be ingraven or written with foure Letters as a. b. c. d. and so of the rest of the sides and let them throw it and name those Letters which are uppermost and when they have learned the great Letters you may write the small Letters on as it is here on the Figure RECEIT XV. An excellent way to teach one to read speedily and truly that beforo could not distinguish their Syllables LEt a Scholler or one that can reade well take any Booke of small valew and at every Syllables end underneath or at the top with a small pen of Inke let them make a little speck or marke But if the speck or marke were made with red Inke it were the better Or if it be in a Book that you would not deface then take a small Pin or Needle and prick little holes at each Syllable which will hardly be perceived This experiment is best to be made with hard words of many Syllables as in the example following Ạbrạham Ạchịtọphel Bạrthọlọmew Chrịstọpher Dẹmẹtrịus Aṇṇabap̣tist Mạthẹmạtịtịan Nẹbụchaḍneẓzar Quọtịḍan Pạtrịmọny c. These to the Ingenious will suffice for I have known those which by no meanes could be brought to read yet in a short time by this method they have learned to read perfectly RECEIT XVI Of divers rare and dainty conceited motions performed by the operation of the Magnet or Load-stone MAny and wonderfull Mathematicall Conclusions are performed by the Magnet or Load-stone only I will give a touch at some few for recreation These Stons are to be had at the Iron-mongers but they ought to be polished and made fit by a cunning Artist This Stone hath his two Poles one North the other South answerable to the Poles of the World For if you take a peece of Wyre of foure or five inches long and touch one end thereof with a Load-stone and then thrust it through a peece of Cork putting it to swim in a Bason of water presently you shall see one end of the Wyre wil turne ful North and the other full South This Receit is profitable for some Travellers who having a sowing-Sowing-needle about them that is touched with this Stone may prick it in some little light peece of Wood or Cork and place it in the water and it will set out the North and South in stead of a compasse If for recreation you take two Wyres and put each Wyre into a Cork touch one Wyres end with the North end of the Stone and the other Wyres end with the South end of the Stone and then put them both into a Bason of water a pretty way asunder yet they will begin to move and stir and draw neerer and neerer together and on the sodaine joyne and meet Now if upon those Wyres or Corks there were placed little paper Tilters on Horse-back they would run their courses at one an other in the water very prettily Also if this Stone or Magnet be inclosed in a box of Wood Stone Silver or Brasse yet it wil extend its operation and working in many pretty and ingenious practises admirable to behold As for example If you will make the forms and pourtraitures of divers things in thin Pastboard as Horse-men Foot-men Ships Boates Beasts Birds Flyes Wormes Serpents or the like you may