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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07761	A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times..	Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.; Batholomaeus, Anglicus, 13th cent.; Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.; Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Mizauld, Antoine, 1510-1578.; Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586.	1586 (1586)	STC 13481; ESTC S92994	21,157	68

a wéecke or Cotten Candle letting the same to hang somewhat vntill it be colde which through cold then light it in the like sort as you doo a common Candell and it will not after goe out with no winde so long as the substance endureth and in like sorte maye lighte be made to serue in the night time if so be that fine linnen raggs be first soked in the oyle of hempséed and after dipped into molten Tallowe which so bound or wrought on a staffes ende to carry about or otherwise on a staffes end lying in an iron plate How to make quarters of wood to hang so fast togither that they can not be shaken a sunder without breaking TO make quarters holde and hange togeather thus without tying must be doone on this wise Firste laye one of the quarters downe as these two betters A. and B. doo instruct on the which laye the other quarter euen as these two letters C. and D. doo héere represent and on that C. and D. laye the third quarter as the letters E. and F. doo héer expresse and in such sort that E. and F. must lye vnder A.B. And being then thruste hard togither they cannot after fall away without breaking in that A. and B. is staied and helde of E. and F. and E. and F. of C. and D. and C. and D. holden of A and B. so that none of them can fall a sunder the one from the other Also that place where B.D.E. is holden or stayed togither and dooth the like holde together as by triall of the same shal more manifestly appeare Also the more and harder they be thrust togither the longer they cōtinue so hanging togither And some suppose that a like triall vnto this maye be assaied and prooued either with thrée stickes made flatte for the nonce or with thrée kniues being a like if they be orderly vsed How to make a colour like to golde in vnderstanding this secret AND to doo this take of Aloes Hepaticke and of salt Niter of each six ounces those grinde and perfectly mixt together on a smoothe Marbell or other harde stone that being so laboured together they can after be seperated by no meanes and after distill the same in a Limbeck of glas well luted about that you may so drawe out all the moyst substance that will come And with this maye you gilde what you list vnderstanding how to drawe this lycour Also by a shorter way lesser paine may you doo the like although not so perfect as the other aboue saide which in déed is right meruailous And now this is on this wise First take of Aloes Hepatick thrée ounces of Rosen six ounces and of oyle of Lineséed wel boiled a pinte and a halfe these set ouer the fire in a pot and mingle them well together after straine the same licour through a Linnen cloath putting it into a potte which you must stop close and so kéepe the same vntill you haue néed to gilde any thing therewith To make Siluer like any mettell which shall so continue a long time FOR to doo this take halfe an ounce of Aqua-fortis and a scruple of Quicksiluer and a little of the Tarter made of the white wine and a little Salt These put altogether in a Pot or earthen Pan working and labouring the same together ouer hotte Imbers which so doone you may after with this composition make siluer like any mettall you list and to continue so a long time How to stick an Iron or Steele Bodkin into the head of either Cocke Hen or Chicken AOD to doo this write firste these woordes following that is to saye Gibell Got Gabell in a Scrole and binde the same about the Bill of the Cocke Hen or Chicken to colour this secret withall which so doone then pearce the head of the Birde iust in the middle as you can gesse with a verrie sharpe poynted Bodkin and after set the Birde downe and you shall sée the Birde so lustely runne away from you as if nothing were sticking into the heade if the Pullet be bigge vnto the woonder of such as shall sée the same And now the reason of this is in that the head and brain of the Pullet is deuided into two partes in the bone and the bone also doubled in the middest so that the Bodkin may easily enter without danger and of this the braine so pearced the Pullet neuerthelesse liueth which if the ignorant sée they wil perhaps beleeue and think that the woordes onelie dooth the same which is nothing lesse To make a Candle that wil not goe out vntill the whole substance be wasted AND to doo this take the best Wax and the pure Brimstone of eache a like portion which take and melte togither and after make a Candle thereof which being lighted set the same in a Candlestick to burne And the same Candle so lighted will not goe out vntill the whole substance be spent thus Cardanus writeth How to make Iron softe a proper secret AND to doo this take the iuice of the Hemlocke and quenche the Iron in it béeing well heated thrée or foure times letting it there remaine euerye time vntill it be throughlye colde Also Cardane writeth that if you take oyle putting into it molten Leade seuen times together and after quench your Iron redde hote into that Oyle for foure or fiue times together and it will so make the same soft to woork To make a Swoord Dagger or Knife to cut Iron so easily as Lead OF this thinge Hermes writeth if a Swoord Dagger or Knife being only Iron and fashioned and being red hote if the same be afterward quenched into the iuice of the Radish mixed with the liquor of the fresh Woormes of the grounde or rather the water of Artely distilled being before somewhat brused such a Swoorde Dagger or Knife saith he shal after haue such a strange edge if the same red hote be quenched foure or fiue times in it that with the same you may cut Iron so easily as if it were Leade Also he writeth that if Stéels be often molten in the Furnace and be purified vntil the same be so white as Siluer in a manner and then after of the same fashion grauing Instruements with their edges and pointes orderly like as to the arte of grauing belongeth which instruments being redde here quencht after into the iuice of Radishe and the distilled Water of the Woormes of the earth mixed together Or else with the water of the Woormes drawne through a cleane Linnen cloath so that there be so much of this water as of the iuce of the Radishe and then those instruments quencht foure or fiue times in the aboue said licour And after will the edges and pointes of the instruements be so hard that you maye cut and graue in any stone and Iron so easily as the same were Leade How to keep weapons cleane and faire for a long time ANd to doo this take Barrowes greace common Oyle new waxe Ceruse

very soft and tender which wil be within fiue or fix houres then woork it like paste to make smal roles therof which whē it is like vnto paste stretch it or draw it out very thin when you will work with it then put of the same into an earthen pot with a little faire water ouer hote embers and skim the same very cleane and let it so seethe a little while after work with the same kéeping it still ouer the hote embers vntill you haue doone with it for so it fasteneth bindeth the strōger And in such sort that it fasteneth péeces of glasse together How to drawe a Ring off being very harde thrust on and the finger swelled AND if eyther man or woman hath thrust a Ring so harde on theyr finger that he or she cannot drawe the same off through the swelling of the finger then thréede a Néedle and drawe the same vnder the Ring and wind the thréed about the finger on the other side and so of ten winde the thréed about and diligently consider that the whole ioynt and parte of the finger lying or being betwéene the ioynt and the ring be couered about with the thréed and that no part be seene of the skinne through the close couering of the thréed and euen drawe the Néedle againe vnder the Ring and winde the thréed like about on the other side and that spéedilye whereby the King drawne remooued on the thréed by little and little may so passe ouer the ioynt and come of But whylest you are in the dooing of this make no taryaunce or delaye for that the finger dooth so lightly swell that without great pain the Ring cannot be drawn off To make fruits as Apples Peares Quinces and such like to haue what proper forme you wil on them AND to doo this counterfeit on a péece of wood being in bignesse to the fruite which you desire what forme you will Or else cutte Romain or other fashion letters in it to expresse if you list some proper words which so doone then make a moulde with water and Chalke vnto the thicknesse of thy litle finger the same part into the iust halfe And when this moulde is drie which soone drieth seperate then the same from the wood with oile before And when you haue gotten off the mould from the wood and parted it in two iust halfes then take the same moulde and binde it most close vnto the fruit being growne vnto his halfe bignesse and let it so continue vntil the fruit become vnto his full bignesse and thē take the moulde away and you shal sée the triall of the former taught How to cut a Glasse a proper secret AND to doo this stéepe a thréede in Oyle and brimstone mixt together and compasse the Glasse with the thréed in the place where you would haue it parted and after kindle lighte the same and so often doo thus vntil the place be hot and after compasse the same with a thréed wet in colde water it will part so clean a sunder as if the same had béen cut with a sharpe pointed Diamond How to soften Christall to imprint what you list therin a proper secret AND to doo this take the blood of a Lambe and the blood of a Weather mixing these together after take thy Christall Stone heating it in the fyre burning hote and then quench it in the blood which after wil become so softe as paste then with a Copper print woork therein what you list and after sette the same abroad in the ayre and it will come againe vnto the former hardnesse How to walke on the water a proper secret FOR to doo this take two little Timbrels and binde them vnder the soules of thy féet and at a staues end fastē an other and with these you may safelie walke on the water vnto the wonder of all such as shall sée the same if so be you often exercise the same with a certaine holdnesse and lightnesse of the body ¶ To make a Candle to burne a proper secret FOR to doo this firste make a wéecke of Sylke and infuse the same in the Oyle of Hemp séed and when the wéecke shal be sufficiently soked role the same in Snowe vntil it be of the dignesse of a great Candle whereby it maye so be well wrought together after light the same setting it in a sticke and it will giue the like light as a Wax Candle Also make a Candle of Purpen stone waxe together about the which role Snow and the Snowe will burne vntil it be all wasted Also take Snowe and mixe therwith the powder of Camphire and of the same make a Candle and it will burne being lighted How to drawe many Candles the one after the other being laid a foot distance or more a sunder FOR to doo this take Brimstone Orpiment and Oyle these labour together and make thereof an Ointment after take so many Candles as may well serue your Table which laye on the Table a large foote a sunder and all a roe the one behinde the other as long as you list to laye them yea a hundred may you lay down on this wise a length if you lay them straite then take a long threed and annoint the same in this ointment which after laye a long on the Candles and after drawing the formost all will followe by order ¶ How to cut an Apple into many peeces without harming of the skin or paring TO doo this take a moste fine Néedle with a small thréed and thrust the same by little and little vnder the paring thrust it in againe right against the place vntill you haue so gone round about the outside of the Apple And this also remēber that you thrust the néedle through the paring at straite corners one againste the other of the Apple and this so often doo vntill you come againe vnto the first place where you began And if so be you would deuide the same in six or eight péeces then draw the thréed againe by a like distance alwaies taking héede to deuide the Apple vnder the skin and when you haue thus doone with the Apple and the péeces yet couered with the skin then draw out the ends of the thréed and you shall after deuide the Apple within without harming of the paring or skin into so many péeces as you list And when you haue thus drawne out and taken the thréed quite away you may kéepe the apple so long as you think requisite How to make a Cup of Glasse being set in the fier not to burne AND to doo this take what Cuppe or Pot of glasse you list and séethe the same in common Oyle by the space of fiue houres and after take it foorth and it will be then made so strong that the said Cup of glasse or pot will indure the heate of the fier How to make a Candle to be meruailed at a proper secret AND to doo this take fowre ounces of Salte

Niter sixe ounces of fine Frankensence thrée ounces of brimstone six ounces of Oyle and sixe ounces of the Milke of Cataputia all these beate fine and mixe together after take thrée ounces of Waxe and make then a Candle of altogether in the end of which Candlesticke sticke déepe a Néedle and after set the same in a narrowe mouth glasse ful of water and you shall sée after what the same will doo ¶ How to make Quick-siluer in a maner so hard as Siluer AND to doo this take the strongest Vineger and whites of Egges wel beaten together and thrée ounces of quicksiluer vnto one of the other these first still together in a Limbeck well luted and in that distilled water put the quicksiluer and it will be after so harde that you may woork it with the hammer Also take quicksiluer and wash it in the distilled water of mans blood and euery time you wash the same let it drie and in the end it wil come to be so hard as siluer How to see many and diuers strange signes in an Vrinall AND to sée these take a new and cleane washed Vrinall into which powre either cleane water or other running water after take the white of an new laid Egge and a little Saffron binding it in n clean linnen cloath after that powre a litle of the water into a dish and put the cloath with the Saffron into it so long vntill it haue coloured it somwhat and being on this wise then beat the white of the egge with this water seuen or eight times with thy finger and thē powre the same into the Vrinall and you shall after sée in it Towers Castels Hills and many other strange sightes How to catch Fowles without a Nette TO doo this take Arsenick putting the same in water and in that water boyle wheat or any other grain and cast the same foorth vnto Fowls and so many as eate therof will not be able afterward to flye away And take the iuice of Celidone and infuse Wheate in the same letting it there remaine for thrée daies after giue the same vnto Fowles to eate such as eat therof you may after take with the hand Also take Wheate putting it in wine Lées and let the same remain there eight dayes after that put it into the iuice of Celandine and horehounds to stéepe which so doone then giue of the same vnto the Fowles to eate and such as eate therof cannot flye away How to make a loafe of bread new set vpon the Table to leap off TO doo this take a quill fylling the same with Quick Siluer and stopping it cloase thruste the same after into a hote Loafe newe drawne out of the Ouen and the loafe will by and by daunce on the Table How to make an Egge flie about a merrye conclusion AND to doo this take a Goose Egge and after the opening and cleansing of it take a Batte that flieth in the Euening which put into the shell then glewe it fast about on the toppe and the Batte will flye away with it which perhaps will be thought of some to flie about in the ayre of it selfe How to make Artificiall fier diuers wayes and that maruailous AND firste to make a flame of fyre to passe sodenly out of the mouth of a pot full of water take an Egge making an hole in the head and drawe out al the substaunce of the same which so doone then fil the same with the powder of brimstone and vnsleikt Lime mixed together shutting the mouth with Waxe and then let if fall to the bottome of a quart potte full of Water taking quicklye your hand away and sodainly will issue foorth a flame out of the mouth of the Potte And also if thou wilt spit fier out of thy mouth without paine and to doo thée no harme take the powder of the willowe sticke finelye beaten and searsed with the which ioyne a little new Silke making it rounde vp lyke vnto a ball into which put this powder wrapping the Silke well about it and after put it within with the powder a little fine Flaxe and then properly stitche it vp rounde about which so doone then cut it open a little on the one side putting a quicke coale or a light Candle vnto it to set it on fire a little then put it againe into thy mouth holding the same sofly with thy téeth and turning also the parte cut inward in thy mouth and when thou wilt spit fier out then halde the ball strongly in thy mouth and blowe and the lookers on shall sée then a great flame issue foorthe of thy mouth and doo there no harme at all Also to make a fyre flie vp in the ayre Take Towe and wet the same in Aqua-vitae and after put fire to it and blowe the same away which after will flie vp in the ayre and burne How to knowe a naturall pretious stone from a counterfeit AND to doo this rubbe the same on Leade and if it chaunge the colour then it is counterfeite if it change not then it is a natural Stone Also if the Stone haue lyke vnto a Bladder within then it is counterfeite How to make a man to appeare on a flame burning without any harme TO doo this take Brimstone Orpiment and commun Oyle of these make an ointment with the which anoint thy garment all about thy head and handes and after light the same it wil burne all at once without harme Also take iuice of Adders tongue the iuice of March Mallowes or other Mallows the white of an Egge these mixe together annointing therewith all about thy body and then cast the fine pouder of Brimston on the same setting it ouer a fire it wil strangely burne and neither harme hands nor garment annointed therewith How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day AND to doo this take that parte which shineth of the night woorms and bruse them well which after set in hote Horse dung in a glasse stopped and let it there so stand for fiftéene dayes and after distill the same in a Limbecke of Glasse with a soft fire the which water so drawne stoppe close in a narrow necked pot of Christall Glasse and hang the same in the entrie of the house and it will so giue a very bright light How to make two Dogges fight together a proper secret AND to doo this take the Seclifset of the Woolfe and cast the same betwéen two Dogges and they shall so long fight together as they lye there betwéen them and when you wil haue them to cease fighting then take them away How to make a Bitch that she shall not desire to be couered with any Dog TO doo this take Bées and prepare them orderly which after giue vnto the Bitch with bread or with meat and she will not after suffer any Dogge to touch her To make a blowne bladder to daunce and skip from place to place TO doo this put Quick-siluer in a