glass put it half full of water then take a Basen or wooden Bowl and put the water out of the glass into it set fire of a piece of white Paper throw it into the water that is in the Bowl or Basen and suddenly while the flame is in cover it with the glass you shall see the water suckt out of the Basen and hang in the glass To cure the Tooth-ach THis must be done by Confederacy I have won many a Pinte of Wine by it you must pretend you are grievously troubled with the Tooth-ach making wry faces and pretending a great deal of pain Then sayes your Confederate I will undertake to cure you in a quarter of an hour it is plain but a very safe and easie way he then takes a thimble full of salt puts it in a piece of white Paper twists it up Then sayes Hold this to your cheek on that fide your pain lyes and it will soon be gone You shaking your head at him ask him If he can find none to sport with but you that are not disposed He then presses you to try his Receipt which with seeming unwillingness take and hold it to the cheek a small time Then he will ask you What do you feel any ease You spitting much say Yes truely I find it much abated Then he will say to perfect it Lay down your Paper upon the Table step into the yard and wash your mouth with two Spoonfuls of cold water Now sayes he to the Company in your absence You may see what conceit does I 'll take and throw out the Salt which he does in their sight and puts the like quantity of Ashes in the Paper laying it twisted as before in its place then coming in take up the Paper again holding it as you did before The Company will be laughing and fleering at as they think your ignorance then privately conveigh the Ashes away with the Paper and another Paper of Salt like the former as you must have in readiness before hold to your cheek Your Confederate asking you Well what think you now Why indeed much alteration would one have thought that so simple a thing as a little Salt should work so great an alteration Then will one or th' other in the Company say Why do you think you have Salt in the Paper you say Yes I saw it took out the Box. He layes you a wager presently that it is not Salt when by opening the Paper his folly is discovered with no small sport to the Company To bring two pieces together TAke a piece of Money in your right hand and another in your left then stretching them both asunder say Would it not be a pretty Trick to see me bring these two pieces together my hands thus asunder Which is done by laying that upon a Stool or Table out of your left hand and turning your self round take it up with your right To win a Wager at Feeling MAke a mark with choak at the further end of a Room about the bigness of a half Crown then say I 'll hold a wager no one molesting me I will be blindfold as close as you will and yet hit that choak with my finger the first time my finger touches the Wall Which every one for the imagining difficulty will be apt to take you up when your wager is laid take a Nail tye a long string to it that will reach to the place where you are to stand then drive the Nail in the middle of the mark made in the Wall and so by the guide of your string you perfect your task An easie way to take Cunnies in abundance GO into the Woods Lanes or Fields where Cunnies are then put out a couple of small Land-spannels chace them into their Burroughs when you have so done stop them with brakes or fern or what else you can get leave two or three holes open so many as you can well manage with Hayes Nets and Men then make a fire of combustible stuff as brakes or litter at the mouth of one of the Burroughs so as the wind may drive the smoak in or for want of these you may it do with Brim-stone in a pot well lighted and put it into the hole stopping the mouth of the hole and you shall presently have sport enough for they will not endure the smoak in the ground but will boult out so long as there is one in the ground I have seen when I was a Boy a Horse-load taken at a time in this manner in Combe-wood in Warwickshire Although this be a speedy way of taking and for clearing Land in which sometimes they do much mischief yet I caution all that are not Owners or that have no licence to beware of using this way of taking Cunnies least they be taken for Knaves To take wild Ducks in abundance TAke the lights of a Sheep or Calf cut them in small pieces as big as Frogs or the like then take Jack hooks well tafted to tough wiers tye three or four of these to a stick strong enough to hold your Game and do this with as many hooks as you have fasten or tye the sticks a certain distance one from another with strong pack-thred then throw them in a Pond or River where wild Ducks use do this in the Evening for that is their general feeding time then come early the next Morning with a good Spaniel if you have him to fetch them out or if not you may fasten a cord to your pack-threds first and so pull them to you But when you use this be sure you carry Company enough with you or carry them home undeserned least you find sawce to yoru Ducks To make sport with a Maid-Servant IF the Maid locks up the Victual or Cellar-dore as there is too many do contrary to the wills of their Masters and Mistresses for a speedy revenge use this Receipts take Ants eggs the quantity of a small Nut-shell full then dry them beat them to Powder and conveigh them into her broath or drink in half an hour you shall have sport enough for she will fart without measure endeavouring to hide her self but cause all Chamber dores to be lock'd before hand then follow her where she goes and ask her If she is not ashamed to fart so You need not fear her disobliging you again for she will quickly smell the plot Or thus Observe when the Cock is treading the Hen then nimbly snatch a feather out of his Tail put this privately into the Broom and when she goes to sweep the House she cannot leave farting so long as the Broom is in her hand To make liquor boil out of a Pot. VVHen you see a Brass or Iron Pot with boyling Liquor over a fire throw but a piece of Tobacco pipe into it and it will force all the Liquor to come out But have a care that no Children be in the way that are no able to shift for themselves To keep an Host from froathing
his Pots IF you observe your Host to froath much take in the Summer time the skin of a red Herring and rub over the inside of the Pot if in Winter he uses you so when he sets the drink on the fire throw a copper Farthing into it and I 'll warrant you he froaths not that Pot in a good while for it melts a hole through the bottom and all his drink runs into the fire To hatch Chickens without a Hen. TAke Hen dung a good quantity dry it extraordinary well upon the Tiles of the House in a Sun-shiny day then beat it to Powder get a pound of Hens feathers and mix with this dung take new laid Eggs and put them into a large wooden Bowl in the midst of the feathers and Powder of Hens dung then if your conveniency will allow put the Bowl into an Oven as many Houses have Ovens out of use keep a small breathing fire in it either with small Coal dust or Char-coal for so I did it stop up the Oven with the stoper only in three Weeks time you shall have Chickens watch them that you may help them to chick If you intend for Cocks chuse long Eggs and hold them betwixt your self and the Candle to see if they have the Cocks tread in them otherwise they will not come to perfection This is held the best way for the hatching of Game Cocks Probatum est To cause it to freeze by the Fire side PUt or splash some water upon a Stool by the fire side set the Stool never so near the fire it will not hinder the freezing then take a pewter Pot or Basen put therein a handful of Snow and a handful of Salt stir these together till they be dissolved which will soon be then look and you shall see a thick Ice upon the Stool take the Bason up by the brims and it will take the Stool up with it To win a Wager of a Wag. LAy with him if he will that you place a Candle in the Room that you and all them in the Room may see it at the time where he cannot which is done by setting the Candle on his head Another to take a string off a Pipe TAke a long Tobacco Pipe then put it into ones hand whom you intend to trick put a piece of pack-thred both ends tied fast over the Pipe bid him hold one end fast in one hand and the other end fast in the other hand then say I will take this string off this Pipe without breaking the Pipe loosing your hands or breaking or cutting the string which will seem strange so speaking to the Company Let me see any of you all do this Which they not knowing how to do will be very desirous to see you do it then taking the pack-thred and slip it over his hand upon his arm the Trick is done which will make laughter that so easie a thing could not be discovered To make sport in Company WHen you are shewing Tricks and have done so many as you can well then say To conclude I will shew you the best and cleaverest Trick that ever I did in my life and that is I will set a Pot full of Water at one end of the Table and make it move of it self to the other end without the help of thred or any thing else to draw it But beforehand have the Crown of your Hat smutted with some blacking such as will be made by holding a Candle under the bottom of a tin Candle-stick Saying This being done by Black Art we must every one change Hats for the present and every one do as I do and say as I say Then rubbing the Crown of your Hat about your face they all fall a rubbing likewise cry out Iubeo sceleriter hi-pass or any such conjuring stuff But they seeing the Pot not move will fall a laughing the Fellow that is blackt not mistrusting they laugh at him will be kept in his ignorance to your greate Pastime To seem to strike three choaks through a Table TAke a piece of choak and choak the Nails of three of your fingers well on your left hand unseen then bid them look under the Table to see nothing is there choak three spots upon the Table then clapping your left hand under the Table clunching it the choaks will come of your Nails into the palm of your hand and striking the palm of your right hand upon the choaks rubs them out say Now see I have struck them through the Table when drawing forth the left hand it seems so done by the choaks they see there To convey a two Pence away HAve a small bit of soft Wax stuck on the Nail of your middle finger lay a two Pence in the palm of your hand let it lye in sight then clunch your hand and it will stick to the Wax saying Presto 't is gone opening hand and fingers the deceit is not discovered To play the wag with a dairy Maid IF you conveigh a bit of Soap no bigger then a Nut into the Churn she may Churn till her eyes are out and never make Butter To make sport with Bells TAke three small Bells such as Children have at their Corrals one of the three be planted or hung in your sleeve the other two which are in sight to the Company bid them view them and put one in one hand and one in the other hand then put the second into the left hand and say Now you think they are both in one hand which if they have seen your palm before will imagine you have it still in your right hand and shaking the right hand the Bell will jingle then say Which hand will you have them both in They will be apt to say the left as thinking they are in the right then opening both hands you leave them in wonder To cause Worms or Maggots seem on Meat TAke Cat-guts and cut them to a length small and great then strew them upon Meat hot as it comes out of the Pot. Some will eat none others will deride the Maid that drest it But the Meat is not at all prejudiced by it To write that it cannot be read but by them that understand it beforehand TAke the juice of an Onion or Lemmon when you have a mind to write any private business to your Friend that you would not have discovered then take a clean Pen and dipping it in the juice as in Inck write your mind and seal it up when it comes to your Friend it is but holding it to the fire and it may be read plainly To cut the Blowing Book MAke a Book seven inches long and about five inches broad and let there be forty-nine leaves that is seven times seven contained therein so as you may cut upon the edge of each leaf six notches each notch in depth a quarter of an inch with a googe made for that purpose and let them be one inch distant paint every thirteenth and fourteenth Page which
burnt that use it Another to eat Fire ANoint your tongue with liquid Storax and you may put a pair of Tongs into the fire make them red hot and with the help of this Oyntment you may lick them until they be cold without danger Likewise by preparing your mouth with this you may take Wood-coals out of the fire dip them into Sulpher powdered and the fire seems more strange but the Sulpher puts out the Coal and shutting your mouth close puts out the Sulpher and so they commonly champ the Coals and swallow them which that they may do without offending the Body but if they were bound to eat nothing else it would be a very sick Trade To make a Room seem to be all on Fire TAke Sal Armoniacum half an Ounce Camphir one ounce Aqua vitae two ounces put them into an Earthen Por in the fashion of a Chamber-pot but narrower something upon the top then set fire to it and the Room will seem to them that are in it to be all on fire nay themselves will flap their hair and Cloaths thinking they are all on fire when there is no Body hurt unless it be with fright Have a care of shewing this when any Women with Child are in the Room for you your self that shew it but that you knew to the contrary before would be of the same mind To set Pease or Beans when you sit down to dinner and you shall have them above ground when you rise from the Table or in an hours time TAke half an ounce of the Gumm of Carranna the like quantity of Oyl of Amber dissolve them over a gentle fire till they be like a Sirrup then put in your Pease or Beans let them lye twenty-four hours then take them and put them into a Bed of hot Mould as Horse dung or otherwise and you shall see them a foot above ground in two hours and blossom'd in twenty-four hours But you must observe to keep the Mould warm To make an Egg fly into the Air. TAke an Egg and make a hole on both ends of it blow out all what is in it fill it full of Dew or water wherein Salpeter is dissolved close it up with sealing Wax and lay it in the Sun and it will flye To form a Snake like a Crocodil out of Water TAke five leaves of Costmary put them into a small-neckt Glas into nine spoon-fulls of Pump-water let it stand some certain time in the Sun and there generates a living Snake like a Crocodil to the admiration of them that behold it A sheet of Paper called Trouble-wit TRouble-wit has not its name for nought and indeed is a very fine invention by folding a sheet of Paper as that by Art you may change it into twenty-six several forms or fashions Take a sheet of fine Paper fold it down the middle of the sheet long-wayes when you have so done turn down the edge of each fold outwards the breadth of a single Penny then measure it as it is so folded into three equal parts with Compasses which makes six Divisions in the sheet let each third part be turned outward and the other in course will fall right then pinch it a quarter of an inch deep in the manner as you pinch a paper Lanthorn that is in pleats like a ruff So that when the Paper lyes pinched in its form it is in the fashion represented by the Figure A When closed together like the Figure B unclose it again and shuffle it with each hand it resembles the shuffling a pack of Cards Close it and take each corner inward with your fore-finger and thumb it resembles a Rose for a Ladies shoo as is seen in the Figure C. Stretch it forth from the same form and it resembles a cover for an Italian Coach as is shewn by the letter D. Let go your Fore-finger and thumb at the lower end and it resembles a Wicket to a Gate or Parral to a Noble Man's Dore as is shewn by the Letter E. Close it again and pinch it at the bottom spreading it on the top and it is in the fashion of a skreen Fan as it is shewn by F. Pinch it half way and open the top and it is in the fashion of a Shoomakers cutting Knife which is shewn by G. Holding of it in that form and with the thumb of your left hand turn out the next sold and it is in the form of a curry Comb as is shewn by the Letter H. For the rest of the Figures I would have had cut but I am tied to six sheets at present which will not contain them But the Ingenious may learn it by seeing this Trick once or twice done since they have the manner of folding the Paper which is a great help to do it The next fashion is a Butrice such as Farriers use to pare their Horses heels withal In the fashion of a Lawyers Desk In the fashion of a Bridge made of wood to carry Foot or Horse speedily over a River In the fashion of a Carriadge for a piece of Ordinance In the fashion of a dark Lanthorn In the fashion of a Bow-pot In the fashion of a Lanthorn with a rose at each end In the fashion of a Court Custard In the fashion of a Mince Pye without any Meat in it In the fashion of a Cardinal's Cap. In the fashion of a Coster-mongers Cap. In the fashion of a Case for a Looking-glass In the fashion of a Sugar-dish and many more knacks to be plaid with it which for brevity I omit FINIS The TABLE TO seem to turn Water into Wine Pag. 1. To seem to conveigh a Card out of a Nut. 2. How to catch Mag-pyes or Croes. ibid. How to catch Eels 3. To make sport with an Egg. ibid. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief 4. To cause the Beer seem to be rung out the handle of a knife ibid. To deceive one with three seeming pieces of Tobacco-pipe 5. To win a Wager at Running 6. To know what is Cross or Pile by the ringing ibid. 〈◊〉 wrap a wag on the knuckles ibid. To make one laugh till the tears stand in his eyes 7. To fox Fish ibid. A Philosophical Experiment 8. To cure the Tooth-ach ibid. To bring two pieces together 9. To win a wager at Feeling 10. An easie way to take Cunnies in abundance ibid. To take wild Ducks in abundance 11. To make sport with a Maid Servant 12. To make liquor boil out of a Pot. ibid. To keep an Host from frouthing his Pots 13. To hatch Chickens without a Hen. ibid. To cause it freeze by the Fire side 14. To win a wager of a Wag. ibid. Another to take a string off a Pipe ibid. To make sport in Company 15. To seem to strike three choaks through a Table ibid. To convey a two Pence away 16. To play the wag with a dairy Maid ibid. To make sport with Bells ibid. To cause Worms or Maggots seem on Meat 17. To write that it cannot be read c. ibid. To cut the Blowing Book ibid. To ingrave or write any thing upon the blade of a Knife 19. The Egg-box 20. The Melting-box 21. The Globe-box 24. To seem to cut a hole in a Cloak and make it whole again 26. How to pinch a Cloak c. ibid. To cause a Knife to leap out of a Pot. 27. To take three Button-moulds off two strings 〈◊〉 To cut a Glass with a match-cord 30. The urt of using the Mosaical Rod c. 31. To draw an Egg through a Ring 32. To put Pease into your Eye and pull them out again 33. To cause a piece of Harts-horn grow in a large pair of Harts-horns ibid. Another that comes not behind any in rarity 34. To see to write a Letter in the darkest night ibid. To make a preparation that being anointed therewith you may walk over a Bar of red hot Iron and not be hurt c. 35. Another to eat Fire 36. To make a Room seem all on Fire ibid. To set Pease when you sit down to dinner and you shall have them above ground when you rise from the Table 37. To make an Egg to fly into the Air. ibid. To form a Snake like a Crocodil out of water 38. A sheet of Paper called Trouble-wit ibid. FINIS
crack about a quarter of an inch downward then keep the coal of the match the like distance from the end of the crack and as it follows so move your hand and cut it screw fashion otherwise it will not hold together till you have cut it to the bottom or like waves When you have done it and that it is cold as that it will soon be take it by the foot and turn it downward it will stretch so that you may put your finger betwixt each cut then turn it up again you may drink a glass of Beer in it and not spill a drop This I learnt of an ingenious German The Art of using the Mosaical Rod to find out hidden Treasure THe Miracles of this Branch are worthy of consideration and the thing found by the great Sympathy there is betwixt this and the precious Metals For when it is gathered with the Ceremonies and Observations requisite that is to say with cleanliness and gathered upon a certain day of the Summer Solstice and a sprout of one years growth it must be chosen forked like an V or in the form of a Y a clean Hasel and Red the best time is a little before Sun-rise and if Mercury is well dignified you may gather them upon any Friday For when the Sun enters Cancer the Woods and Plants in our Climate have more force then in other seasons When you make use of it hang at the single end a piece of what Metal you will and let it be made fast at the end of a little Cord take the two ends of the Fork in your hands as is shewn in the foregoing Figure and hold it stedfast towards the Sky and the other end towards the Earth And in this manner when you are in a place to find something that is hidden be it Gold Silver or other Metal If that which is in the earth be more noble then that on the Wand that on the wand will bend towards its Superiour as acknowledging inferiority But when you begin to play it say with devotion the charge but this happens most likely to him that hath in his hand the form of an V appartaining to Virgo or G in the hand near the Sun To draw an Egg throw a Ring BOil an Egg hard then put it in white Wine Vinegar and let it lye three dayes and three nights only shifting your Vinegar every twelve hours and you may rowl it like soft Wax and draw it through a Ring or put it into a Viol. To put Pease into your Eye and pull them out at your pleasure THis seems to be a very difficult thing to those that behold you put six or seven Pease into the lower Eye-lid and thrust them out again at your pleasure But it is so facile that any one may do it observing that the Pease are hard and smooth for there is nothing can be prejudiced either in the Sight or Eye-string by so doing An excellent Receipt to cause a piece of Harts-horn grow into a large pair of Harts-horns TAke a piece of Harts-horn saw'd off or otherwise then take Sperma Caeta half an ounce dissolve it into Oyl with two ounces of strong Aqua vitae put in your Harts-horn let it steep two or three dayes when you have so done have a large Glass of a Gallon or more according to the largeness you intend your Horns should be This Glass must be fill'd with half Water half Urine when the Harts-horn has lain its time in steep in the first preparation take it out and put it into this large Glass when it is grown so large as the Glass can well contain break the Glass off carefully and you shall have the perfect form of a pair of Harts-horns It is very hard and very brittle but for an artificial conclusion 't is one of the best I ever saw Another that comes not behind any in rarity VVHich is a preparation made by Art as followeth Saltpeeter one ounce Crema Tarter one ounce the best Sulphut half an ounce pound them into Powder dividually then mix them together and having the Powder in a Paper about you conveigh a grain of it into a Pipe of Tobacco and when the fire takes it it will give the report of a Musquet but not break the Pipe Or you may lay as much as will lye upon your Nail in a place on certain small pieces of Paper and setting fire to the Papers there will be the report of so many great Guns but do no harm at all To see to write a Letter in the darkest Night that is without the help of Fire or Candle TAke half a Pint of Gloe-worms four hand-fulls of Iron-wort two quarts of Fountain water distill'd together in a Glass-still to the Consumption of a quart then put it in a Christal glass and seal it up close it will hold its virtue seven years and will cast such a lustre that you may see by it to write a Letter or many other uses the ingenious may put it to To make a preparation that being anointed therewith you may walk over a Bar of red hot Iron and not be burnt Hold fire in your mouth and suffer no harm although the fire therein be blown with Bellows Take red hot Heaters out of the fire or wash your hands in molten Lead and not be burnt TAke half an ounce of Camphire dissolve it in two ounces of Aqua vita add to it one ounce of Quick-silver one ounce of liquid Storax which is the droppings of Mirrhe and hinders the Camphir from taking fire two ounces of Hematitis a red Stone to be had at the Drugsters and when you buy it let them bear it to Powder in the great Morter for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one put this to the aforementioned Composition And when you play your Trick if it be to walk over a Bar of red hot Iron rub your feet well therewith and you shall receive no harm thereby If to do any thing in that nature with your hands use them so likewise and so for the mouth But your mouth must be quickly cleansed otherwise it will cause a sallivation 'T is a very dangerous thing to be done in the mouth and although they that practice it use all the means they can to prevent danger yet I nor I think any Body else never saw any one of these Fire-eators that had a good complexion The reasons I could give but 't is known the Sons of Art already and the others deserve none Some have put bole Armoniack into this Receipt a cold thing and spoils the whole and have omitted Hematitis and Storax not understanding that is it the major heat that over-powers the minor but they had as good a shit and I caution every one to have a care how they use it 'T is in a Penny Book the 59 th Receipt how to wash your hands in melted Lead without danger of burning but I 'll warrant them