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A52897 A new book of knowledge treating of things, whereof some are profitable, some precious, and some pleasant and delightful. I. How to write secretly. II. To write your name on a knife. III. To make bone or wood red for ever. IV. To make ink. V. To catch fowls. VI. To keep cloaths from moths. VII. To make the Q. of Hungary's water. VIII. To fatten fowl. IX. To make cock-ale. 10. To make lucatellus balsam. XI. To cure corns. XII. To pickle french beans, &c. XIII. To take fish. XIV. To take moles. XV. To take spots out of linnen, XVI. To make the balsam sold by mountebanks. XVII. To make pouder-ink in an instant. XVIII. To make pomatum and wash-balls. XIX. To make aqua mirabilis. XX. To make Dr. Stephen's water. With divers other notable things. 1697 (1697) Wing N585; ESTC R217444 7,252 13

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