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
the Evening and rise early in the Morning going saftly to the place when on a sudden pull up your Hay by the rope and you shall have your desire I have taken sixty-four Eels at once by this means notwithstanding many dropt into the water To make sport with an Egg. IF you are drinking in Company or otherwise that you are disposed to make sport have ready a Penny-worth of Quicksilver in a quill sealed fast at both ends with good hard Wax then cause an Egg to be hard boyled or roasted and take a small bit of the shell of the narrow end then thrust in your quill of Quicksilver and lay the Egg on the ground you shall have sport enough for it will never leave tumbling about so long as there is any hear in it Probatum est To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief TO do this you must have a Ring of wyer such a one as you generally hang your Keys upon but less in the rotundity then a take a handkerchief and put therein a Shilling twisting the handkerchief round the form of the Shilling will appear Then say that you may be certain it is here I 'll shew it you once more and taking out the Shilling convey the round wyer into the handkerchief which being twisted will seem to be your Shilling the better to deceive you may rap the edge of wyer wth your small stick then open the wyer and force one end through and you may easily wyer-draw it out then produce the Shilling which you have in the palm of your hand saying look you here is the Shilling you held the handkerchief very fast In the mean time ask Who gave me this Shilling He who you had it off will soon answer I. Then thank him for it saying It 's more then I had gave me this two dayes To cause the Beer you drink seem to be rung out the handle of a Knife TO do this you must have a small piece of Spunge with drink put in it privately then unseen place this behind your right ear but let not the Spunge be to big nor to full of liquor least you be discovered then taking a Knife stick it with the handle upward in a Table or Stool but observe when you go about these Sports to place your Company before you then bid them look saying there you see is nothing of wet either on the handle or upon the Table so stretching your empty hand and taking up the knife by the handle bend your hand towards your ear darting the point saying Now some Body cross my arm and speaking some powerful words as Iubio sceleriter heigh berry bisco then have you a fair opportunity to take the Spunge into your hand from behind your ear and stretching forth your hand squeeze it gently and after a little harder which makes it run the faster to the amazement of the Company saying thus could I do till I drowned you all so sprinkle a little in their faces which will cause them to shut their eyes whilest you convey away the Spunge To deceive one with three seeming pieces of Tobacco pipe ROul up a piece of white Paper as hard as are your Lottery Tickets till it is as thick as a Tobacco pipe then fasten the outward edge with a little startch or past having so done cut the ends even have this in your hand break two pieces in the sight of the Company snake the three together in your Hat then cast them upon the Table saying How many pieces of Pipe is there under the Hat Every one will be apt to say three lift up the Hat the better to urge them clapping it down presently Say Now I 'll hold you a wager there is but two pieces of Pipe under the Hat which when laid take up the Hat and their folly will soon be discerned by your cutting the Paper with your Knife To win a Wager at Running LAy your wager thus he that comes last of you two to the Gate Wall or Stile you run to shall lose the wager which will soon be granted giving him odds enough as such a distance before you then start and run as fast as you can letting him you run with be before you when you see him at the mark run you a clear contrary way and when you come to your Company demand your wager which will soon be granted when they discover your lay that not he which came first to the place should win but he which was last should lose you came not at it at all then he must needs confess his folly in the loss of the wager To know what is Cross or Pile by the ringing THis must be done by Confederacy as thus when the Money is filipt up and you blind-folded then your Confederate that stands by if it be Cross says What is 't If it be Pile What is it And your deceit is not taken notice of To wrap a wag on the knuckles TAke a Knife in your right hand by the point then setting the point to a vein in the wrist of your left hand saying to one that stands by you Pray put a piece of Tobacco Pipe betwixt my fingers and you shall see how the blood will spring out of this vein which he will be ready to do to see the conclusion then give him a smart blow with the handle of the Knife when he is pâ—aâ—ing the Pipe betwixt your fingers telling him your work is done To make one laugh till the tears stand in his eyes TAke three pieces of Tobacco-pipes and put them betwixt your four fingers one betwixt each finger then drop them one by one saying Now let me see which of you all can do this trick The verriest Ape will presently be imitating then pretending to place them even gripe his fingers fast together and you shall have your desire which will cause no small laughter to the Company To fox Fish TAke Oculus India Berries two Penny-worth you may have them at the Apothecaries dry them and beat them to Powder then take an ounce of Wheat flower the white of an Egg and as much Aqua vita or if you cannot have it Brandy may do as will make it into a Paste then throw it in small Pellets into a Pond or standing Water where there is fish and in a quarter of an hour you shall have sport enough they will float above water in such manner as you may take them up with your hands such as Roach Tench Dace Carp c. Some say this poysons them and are afraid to eat Fish so taken but it 's contrary for they will come to themselves in a little time if the water be not too much mudded this may be used in Ponds that have schrubs or sedges where the Fish cannot well be taken any other way But I caution all that they practice not this without licence from the Owners least the Whipping-post or Pillory be their reward A Philosophical Experiment TAke a Beer bowl
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-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