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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77080	The book of pretty conceits. Or, The green forest of youthful delights Being merry and pleasant to all such as delight in slights, tricks, stratagems, devises, and fancies. Natural and artifical inventions and conclusions. Experimented as well to profit and delight.		1685 (1685)	Wing B3714; ESTC R231085	10,200	25

the other end having nothing to hold on the stick nor nothing under the Pail To perform this conceit do thus lay one end of the staff or stick a pretty way upon the table or stool so that it roul not off letting the other end hang over the Table likewise then take a Pail full of Water hang the handle upon the same but you must have another short stick that will deach just from the inside of the borrom of the Pail to the long stick on the rable plating the short stick under the table very stiff and then shall the pail of water hang from the ground upon the long staffs end on the table without falling which will seem very strange but this is very difficult at first till you hit just in the center of gravity but it is by those tha are knowing familiarly practised How to know the hour of the day or night by a Ring and a Glass Take a small thread and put it through a gold Ring or some other like ring and doubling the thread tye a pretty big knot at the end and cut it off let the double thread be seven or eight inches long then take a boulglass and set it on a Table and hold the knot of the thread somthing hard betwixt the ends of your fore-fingers and your thumb which will cause the Pulses of your wrist to beat let the ring hang in the middle of your glass a little within the rim then the working of your Pulse will make the Ring to move striking upon the side of the glass the hour of the day or night and then the Ring will stand still again To know if a sick person shall dye or not Take grey Nettles while they be green put them in the Patients Vrine and it they remain green he shall live and if they wither not How to make salt water fresh Take Clay and put it into a bag strain it through till it be clear and it will be fresh How to make two knives with a short stick to hang upon the brim of a glass without falling Take a little stick some four inches long and make it warp at one end like a Butchers scure and then get two Knives somewhat of an equal poise prick the points of them towards the bigger end of the stick on each side stope wise then put the small end of the stick upon the brim of the glass of Wine or Beer and you may take up the glass drink and they will not fall off To kindle a Candle at the sun Take a bright Bason put a new Looking-glass therein and set the bason in the hottest of the Sun and lay about it very dry Two chopped small and the Two will take fire with the heat of the Sun How one may put his finger or wash his hands in melted Lead without danger or burning Take an ounce of Quick-silver two ounces of good Bole-Armoniack half an ounce of Camphire and two ounces of Aqua vitae then mingle them together and put them into a brazen Morter and beat them with a Pestil having thus done anoint your hands all over throughly with this Oyntment then you may safely put your finger into melted Lead or you may wash your hands therewith if one pour the Lead upon them it will neither scald nor burn them How to make a Candle that it cannot be blown out Take a quill of Hempstalk and fill it full of Brimstone make it warm and fire it and it will never go forth with blowing How to keep Sword-blades Halberts Pistols Knives Edge-tools and other things free from Rusting for seven years or more in a dry house Take fish-glew or Iūng-glass and cut it in pieces then with a hammer beat it or bruisae it upon an Anvil or stone then put it into a little Skillet or such like with water and let it dissolve over a gentle fire still stirring it as you do your common glew then when it is well boyled take it off and with a Pensil or small Hair-brush lay the same while it is hot all over your sword-blade as thin as may be then ray it to dry it is done This thin coat keeping the moistriess of the air from the metal that it cannot rust but when you are to wear it or use it take a blunt Knife you may easily scale off the thick substance and then it will be as bright as any silver I do believe that our common glew will do the like if it be kept in a dry Room How to heal the biting of a mad Dog Take white Nettles and the innermost thin skin of a great and angry Onion with a little running Water and hony bath it How to know if a woman be with Child whether it be Male or Female Take fair Well-water and put it into a clean Bason and let the woman with Child milk a drop or two of her milk into the water and if the milk sink to the bottom it is a man child and if it float on the top above the water it is a woman-child To make a flame pass suddenly out of a pot of Water Take an Egg and make a hole in the head of it and draw out all the substance of the same fill it with powder of Brimstone and unslacked Lime mixt together then shut the mouth with wax let it fall to the bottom of a quart pot full of water taking your hand suddenly away and presently a flame will issue out of the pot How to harden the white of Eggs into an artificial Gum fit for many uses Separate the whites of Eggs clean from the yolkes and beat the whites very well into a clear Oyl of water and when it is setled skim off the Froth then put the same into Bladders and hang them in a chimney to dry where fire is usually kept and in a few days the sume will become as hard as Gum Arabick in hot weather you may hang your bladders in the Sun to dry This Gum may be used instead of other Gums with it you may varnish Prints or other things that are wash'd in Colours To make one see fearful sights in his sleep To do this take blood of a Lapwing and anoint therewith the Pulses and the forehead going to rest And if in the Evening before his going to bed a man eat a small quantity of Nightshade or Mandrake he shall see pleasant sights in his dreams To make a Sword Dagger or Knife cut Iron as easie as Lead If a sword dagger or knife being only Iron and it is fashioned being red hot being quenched in the juice of Radish mixed with the water of fresh worms distilled according to Art being before somewhat bruised such a sword dagger or Knife will have such a strange edge if it be quenched four or five times in this water so that you may cut things easily in two with it How to cleave a Groat in sunder like

THE BOOK OF PRETTY CONCEITS OR The green Forrest OF Youthful Delights BEING Merry and Pleasant to all such as delight in SLIGHTS TRICKS STRATAGEMS DEVISES And FANCIES Natural and Artificial Inventions and Conclusions Experimented as well to profit as delight LONDON Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Py-corner 1685. TO THE READER Courteous Reader KNowing that Art imitating Nature glories always in the variety of things which she produceth to satisfie the minds of the curious Inquisiters of Natural and Artificial Conclusions I have for that reason thus inlarged my self not being ignorant that amongst serious and useful Experiments that I have inserted there are pleasant Conceits such as some call the Juggling Tricks of the Art of Legerdemain which have been ascribed to the Aegyptian What I have writ was only for Divertion and harmless Recreation to be used at Festival seasons when Youth meet to be civily merry and instead of access of drinking and other vanities to purchase only to themselves an handsome Emulation to outvy one another in subtile and pleasant Sports such being only to be allowed of as are civil and honest not to the loss of their more precious time or of any their more serious imployments THE BOOK OF Pretty Conceits c. To make an Herb grow that shall have many savours and many tasts TAke one Seed of Lettice one of Endive one of Smallage one of Basil one of Leek one of Parsly putting them all together in an hole that they may touch one another but remember that you plant them together in the dung of an Ox or Horse without any earth at all with them amd afterwards these seeds shall grow up in one proper Herb which will have so many savours and tasts as there are seeds sown To make Beans grow in the space of an hour Take the Beans and put them in hot Oyl and let them there remain for the space of eleven days and after dry them and when you will make proof of them set the Beans and go to dinner and by that space of the usual dinner time that you rise from the Table go to look on them you shall find them grown well nigh a span How to make yellow Roses grow and to make trees and other things grow green all the year I have been informed that if you graft a white Rose upon a broom-stalk or a Furzen bush that the same will bear yellow Roses but they will have no sweet scent Also if you graft a Rose or any other thing upon a Holly-stalk the leaves of the same will grow green all the Year How to make Apples Pears and other fruit of several colours and to give them a dainty taste of Spices If you would give a pleasant colour to your Fruit do thus for a red boyl Brasil Turn-foil or Sanders and for a yellow use Saffron or Turimerick now to give them a dainty taste or smell you must beat Cloves Mace Cinamon and Nutmegs to powder and mix them with the water of your colours with some hony then with an Augur bore a hole in the biggest part of the tree unto the middle something slopeing downwards and then pour your water and spices into the hole then with a pin made of the same wood or tree beat it hard into the hole and saw off the end and wax it about This must be done in the winter before the Spring because when the Sap ariseth the colour scent and laste also ascendeth with the same To keep a Tapster from frothing his pots Hrovide in readiness the skin of a red herrior and when the Tapster is absent do but rub a little on the inside of his pots and he wist not be able to froth let him do what he can for a good while after To break a new big Rope with your hands only Take and fasten to one end of the Cord or Rope with a nail driven fast into it or about strong hook of Iron afterw ind the same three or four times or oftner about your hands and the other end of the Rope wind about by the top of the palm between the fore-finger the thumb that one part of the cord may reach into the nail the other unto the bottom of the palm which must be again winded about and after that winded again once or twice about this so done then with a vehement thick or force assay in the same part by which it is so over-winded with the cord for that the substance of the cord or rope which is under doth defend that the hand can take no harm of the hasty and strong pull take heed that ye overmost with of the Rope fly not in your and. And to conclude you may conceive this that in the strong and hasty plucking together the one fold of the cord doth so cut the other asunder and then more chiefly when that part shall be let loose which is between the hand and the Nail especially if both the hands be strong and the pluck outright and quick To make a Bladder skip from place to place Put Quick-silver into a Bladder and lay the Bladder in an hot place and it will skip up and down without handling How to make people seem headless Break Arsenick very fine and boyl it with Sulpher in a covered pot and kindle it with a new candle and the standers by will seem to be headless How to make a glorious Light with a candle in imitation of the Sun-shine This conceit is fit for those Artists or others that perform curious or fine works by Candle-light as Iewellers Engravers or the like or those which are weak-sighted to read by never dazling of their eyes Go to a Glass-house or Glass-shop let them blow you a thin round Globe-glass bigger than a penny Loaf the bigger the better with a short neck like a bottle they know how to make them when you have this glass with glew or wax bind a tape or pack-thread about the neck or top and making a little Loop thereabout to hang by then fill yoru Glass with the purest Conduit or Spring-water you can get putting some Aqua vitae therein to keep it from freezing stopping it close to keep out the dust having thus done if you will use it at a table or bench knock a Tenter or Nail into the Seiling or a Shelf with your tape or pack-thread fasten it and hang it up but a round stick is better to hang it upon putting it into a post or hole in the wall that you may let it higher or lower at your pleasure in turning the stick then behind your glass set a Candle lighted and you shall have a glorious light through the glass and water for your purpose Some use to place a sheet of Oyled Paper between them a Candle which will cause a good light How to lay one end of a staff or stick upon a stool or table and to hang a Pail full of Water at