The
Art
of
LEGERDEMAINE
Discovered
.
The
originall
of
Legerdemaine
,
and
how
it
came
first
into
this
Kingdome
.
IT
came
first
into
the
Kingdome
by
certaine
Aegyptians
,
that
were
transported
hither
,
who
growing
to
numerous
multitudes
,
dispersed
themselves
thorow
most
parts
of
the
Kingdome
:
who
being
most
expert
in
this
Art
,
and
in
Palmestry
,
cousened
the
people
in
all
parts
wheresoever
they
came
.
Now
divers
vagrant
English
joyning
with
them
in
time
learnt
both
their
language
,
and
cousening
delusions
,
whereby
at
length
they
were
discovered
,
and
therupon
the
next
insuing
Parliament
,
there
was
a
statute
enacted
:
that
whosoever
should
transport
an
Aegyptian
,
should
have
a
fine
imposed
upon
him
;
Moreover
,
that
whosoever
should
assume
unto
themselves
the
names
of
Aegyptians
,
it
should
bee
imputed
unto
them
as
fellony
,
in
so
high
a
degree
that
they
might
not
have
their
Book
granted
unto
them
,
which
statute
was
put
in
execution
,
and
since
that
time
our
Kingdome
hath
been
well
disburdened
of
those
Aegyptian
Juglers
.
The
Definition
of
the
Art
of
Legerdemaine
,
with
its
principall
parts
.
LEgerdemain
is
an
operation
,
whereby
one
may
seem
to
work
wonderfull
,
impossible
,
and
incredible
things
by
agility
,
nimblenesse
,
and
sleightnesse
of
hand
.
The
parts
of
this
Art
are
principally
two
,
The
first
is
in
the
conveyance
of
Balls
,
Cards
,
Dice
,
Money
,
&c.
The
second
is
in
Confederacy
.
The
end
of
the
Art
of
Legerdemain
.
THe
end
of
this
Art
is
either
good
or
bad
,
accordingly
as
it
is
used
:
Good
,
and
lawfull
when
it
is
used
at
Festivals
,
and
merry
meetings
to
procure
mirth
:
especially
if
it
bee
done
without
desire
of
estimation
above
what
we
are
.
Bad
,
and
altogether
unlawfull
when
it
is
used
on
purpose
,
to
cozen
,
deceive
,
or
for
vaine
glory
to
bee
esteemed
above
what
is
meet
and
honest
.
The
Definition
,
or
description
of
the
Operator
,
FIrst
,
he
must
be
one
of
an
impudent
and
audatious
spirit
,
so
that
hee
may
set
a
good
face
upon
the
matter
.
Secondly
,
he
must
have
a
nimble
and
cleanly
conveyance
.
Thirdly
,
hee
must
have
strange
termes
,
and
emphaticall
words
,
to
grace
and
adorne
his
actions
,
and
the
more
to
astonish
the
beholders
.
Fourthly
,
and
lastly
,
such
gestures
of
body
as
may
leade
away
the
spectators
eies
from
a
strict
and
diligent
beholding
his
manner
of
conveyance
.
Of
the
play
of
the
Balls
.
Some
I
have
seen
sit
with
thei
Codpice
open
,
others
play
standing
with
a
Budget
hanging
before
them
▪
but
all
comes
to
one
end
.
But
whether
you
seem
to
cast
your
Bal
in
the
aire
,
or
into
your
mouth
,
or
into
your
other
hand
,
yet
still
retaine
it
in
the
same
hand
,
still
remembring
to
keep
the
palme
of
your
hand
downward
,
and
out
of
sight
.
Now
to
begin
.
Set
your
cups
then
on
a
row
again
,
and
under
one
of
them
,
as
D
,
convey
your
fourth
Ball
which
you
retained
in
your
hand
,
and
lay
the
other
three
balls
by
.
Then
with
your
right
hand
take
up
the
first
ball
,
and
seeme
to
put
it
into
your
left
hand
,
shutting
your
said
left
hand
in
due
time
,
then
as
if
you
were
at
dice
,
cast
your
left
hand
at
the
cup
D
,
and
blow
after
it
,
saying
,
vade
pas
,
and
t
is
gone
,
then
take
up
the
cup
noted
A
,
and
clap
it
upon
the
cup
D
,
and
in
clapping
it
on
,
convey
the
Ball
you
retained
in
your
right
hand
upon
the
top
of
the
cup
D.
So
then
you
have
conveyed
under
each
cup
a
bal
,
then
take
up
the
third
ball
,
seeming
to
vanish
it
as
the
two
former
,
but
retaine
it
,
then
shew
them
under
each
cup
one
,
which
will
be
very
strange
.
Then
take
one
cup
in
your
right
hand
,
and
clap
it
upon
another
,
saying
,
see
Gentlemen
I
wil
set
you
one
cup
upon
another
,
and
in
clapping
it
on
,
convey
the
ball
you
retained
in
your
right
hand
upon
the
top
of
the
lowermost
cup
:
marke
the
figure
following
.
Then
take
up
one
ball
,
and
seem
to
cast
it
in
the
aire
,
and
staring
after
it
,
say
vade
,
that
's
gone
,
then
with
your
right
hand
take
up
the
uppermost
cup
,
say
,
see
here
he
is
crept
between
my
cups
,
and
in
clapping
it
down
againe
,
convey
the
ball
that
you
retained
under
it
.
And
lastly
,
take
the
uppermost
cup
,
and
set
it
down
first
by
it selfe
,
then
with
both
hands
nimbly
hoisting
the
two
other
cups
,
shuffle
them
one
upon
another
,
and
the
balls
wil
not
fall
out
,
and
so
it
will
be
thought
that
you
have
pulled
the
three
bals
out
of
the
bottoms
of
the
two
uppermost
cups
.
I
could
teach
you
to
vary
these
feats
a
hundred
wayes
,
but
I
leave
it
to
those
that
intend
to
follow
the
trade
.
How
to
make
a
great
Ball
seem
to
come
through
a
Table
into
a
Cup.
SEt
one
of
your
cups
upon
a
Table
,
and
take
a
good
big
stoole-ball
out
of
your
pocket
,
and
say
clapping
your
hand
with
the
ball
in
it
under
the
Table
,
My
masters
would
you
not
think
it
a
pretty
trick
that
I
should
make
this
bal
come
thorow
the
table
into
the
cup
:
Then
some
one
or
other
will
take
up
the
cup
to
see
if
it
be
so
;
then
hold
the
ball
betweene
your
two
middle
fingers
of
your
right
hand
,
stare
him
in
the
face
,
and
say
,
nay
but
you
must
not
move
my
cup
out
of
its
place
,
while
I
have
said
my
words
of
command
:
with
that
set
your
cup
in
its
former
place
,
and
in
setting
it
down
nimbly
,
convey
the
ball
under
it
,
and
say
,
He●●ortuna
nunquam
credo
,
vade
couragious
:
Now
see
(
say
)
if
it
bee
there
or
not
,
which
when
they
see
they
will
imagine
was
conjured
into
it
by
vertue
of
your
words
.
Other
very
pretty
tricks
with
Balls
.
REtaine
one
small
ball
in
your
hand
,
and
lay
three
other
small
bals
upon
the
Table
:
then
with
your
right
hand
take
up
one
of
the
three
bals
,
and
put
into
your
left
hand
,
saying
,
There
is
one
,
then
take
up
the
second
,
and
put
that
into
your
left
hand
also
,
and
therewith
likewise
put
the
ball
you
retained
in
your
right
hand
,
saying
,
And
there
is
two
(
yet
you
know
there
is
three
already
)
and
shut
your
hand
in
due
time
:
then
take
up
the
third
ball
in
your
right
hand
,
and
clap
your
right
hand
unto
the
upper
part
of
your
left
arme
,
retaining
the
ball
firmly
,
pronounce
these
words
:
Iu●eo
celerite●
,
come
all
into
my
hand
when
I
bid
you
.
Then
withdraw
your
right
hand
(
holding
the
palm
thereof
downward
)
saying
,
That
's
gone
Gentlemen
:
then
open
your
left
hand
,
and
say
,
Here
are
all
three
together
,
and
lay
them
down
on
the
Table
.
Another
.
TAke
up
one
of
the
Bals
in
your
right
hand
,
and
put
it
into
your
left
,
holding
it
firmely
between
your
for●finger
and
thumb
of
your
said
left
hand
.
Then
with
your
forefinger
and
thumb
of
your
right
hand
,
(
but
be
nimble
)
seem
to
pull
one
ball
out
of
another
,
which
you
may
doe
by
slipping
the
ball
that
you
retained
in
your
right
hand
between
the
forefinger
and
thumb
of
the
said
hand
,
saying
,
Thus
by
activity
have
I
learn'd
to
do
,
out
of
one
little
ball
for
to
make
two
:
and
all
of
a
bignesse
,
then
lay
all
foure
balls
upon
the
table
.
Another
.
WIth
your
right
hand
take
up
one
of
the
bals
and
seem
to
put
it
into
the
left
,
but
retain
it
,
shutting
your
left
hand
in
due
time
,
and
say
,
There
is
one
:
then
hold
your
hand
from
you
.
Then
with
your
right
hand
take
up
another
,
saying
,
Here
I
take
another
.
Then
pronounce
these
words
,
Mercus
mercurus
by
the
powder
of
experience
,
Iu●eo
;
then
open
your
left
hand
saying
,
That
's
gone
,
and
then
open
your
right
hand
and
shew
them
both
together
.
How
to
make
a
stone
seem
to
vanish
out
of
your
hand
YOu
must
have
a
stone
of
a
reasonable
bignes
,
such
as
you
may
well
hide
in
your
hand
,
sitting
in
such
manner
as
I
have
formerly
said
,
that
you
may
receive
any
thing
into
your
lappe
,
take
this
stone
out
of
your
pocket
,
saying
,
You
see
,
Gentlemen
,
here
is
a
stone
,
a
miraculous
stone
:
Will
you
have
it
vanish
,
vade
,
or
go
away
invisible
,
which
being
said
,
withdraw
your
hand
to
the
side
of
the
table
letting
the
stone
slip
downe
into
your
lap
,
in
which
time
stare
about
you
,
saying
,
chuse
you
whether
.
Then
reach
out
your
hand
and
say
:
Fortuna
va●iabilis
,
lapis
in
ae●timabilis
,
Iu●eo
,
vale
,
vade
,
couragious
.
Open
your
hand
,
then
tossing
it
up
,
and
blow
a
blast
,
and
look
up
,
saying
,
Doe
you
see
it
is
gone
.
Your
looking
up
will
make
them
to
look
up
,
in
which
time
you
may
take
the
stone
again
in
the
other
hand
,
and
slip
it
into
your
pocket
.
Another
TAke
your
ston
again
out
of
your
pocket
,
saying
,
here
it
is
once
again
,
and
I
wil
give
it
unto
any
of
you
to
hold
,
and
reach
your
hand
out
unto
them
,
and
opening
your
hand
,
say
,
Loe
here
it
is
.
Then
when
any
one
is
about
to
take
it
,
By
〈◊〉
and
nimblenesse
of
hand
you
may
m●ke
a
peece
of
a
ha●●s
skin
to
sti●
and
run
about
y●u
as
a
li●e
creature
,
and
at
last
to
vanish
away
,
which
will
bee
imagined
to
be
●ome
Familia●
that
you
deale
withall
.
withdraw
your
hand
to
the
side
of
the
table
,
and
make
your
conveyance
as
before
,
in
which
time
say
,
But
you
must
promise
me
to
take
it
quickly
:
Then
will
he
say
,
I
will
,
then
reach
your
hand
being
shut
out
unto
him
againe
,
and
while
he
striveth
,
thinking
to
take
it
quickly
,
hold
fast
and
say
,
Vade
couragious
,
cele●ite●
vade
:
in
which
time
you
take
up
the
stone
in
the
other
hand
,
and
hold
it
from
you
.
Then
open
your
hand
and
say
,
loe
,
If
you
can
hold
a
pretty
Lasse
no
faster
,
when
you
have
her
,
I
will
not
give
a
pin
for
your
skill
.
How
to
make
a
Card
vanish
,
and
finde
it
againe
in
a
Nut.
TAke
what
Card
you
will
,
pill
the
printed
paper
from
off
it
,
and
roll
it
hard
up
,
and
make
a
hole
in
a
nut
,
and
take
out
the
kirnell
,
and
then
thrust
in
the
Card
,
afterwards
stop
the
hole
of
the
nut
neatly
with
wa●e
,
this
nut
you
must
have
in
readinesse
about
you
,
and
when
you
are
in
your
play
,
call
for
such
a
Card
as
you
inclosed
in
your
Nut
,
or
else
have
one
in
a
readines
,
and
say
,
You
see
Gentlemen
,
here
is
such
a
Card
:
then
wet
it
,
and
pill
off
the
printed
side
,
roll
it
up
,
and
in
the
usuall
manner
convey
it
away
:
Then
take
your
Nut
out
of
your
pocket
,
eand
give
it
unto
one
,
and
say
cracke
that
Nut
,
and
tell
me
if
you
can
find
the
card
there
,
which
being
found
will
be
thought
very
strange
.
Then
have
another
such
like
N●t
,
but
filled
with
Inke
,
and
stopped
after
the
same
manner
that
your
other
Nut
was
,
and
give
that
unto
another
,
and
bid
him
cracke
it
,
and
see
what
he
can
find
in
that
,
and
so
soone
as
he
hath
cracked
it
,
all
the
inke
will
run
about
his
mouth
,
which
will
move
more
mirth
and
laughter
than
the
former
.
How
to
seem
to
eate
a
Knife
.
DEsire
any
one
of
your
spectators
to
accommodate
you
with
a
Knife
,
which
when
you
have
gotten
,
hold
it
in
such
manner
as
that
you
may
cover
the
whole
Knife
with
both
your
hands
,
the
end
of
the
haft
excepted
,
and
set
the
point
of
it
unto
your
eye
,
and
say
,
some
body
strike
it
in
with
his
fist
,
but
no
body
will
,
because
it
is
so
dangerous
a
thing
:
then
set
your
hands
upon
the
Table
,
and
looking
about
you
,
say
,
why
,
what
will
no
body
strike
it
in
,
in
which
time
let
the
knife
slip
downe
into
your
lap
.
Then
nimbly
make
as
if
you
chopt
it
hastily
into
your
mouth
,
or
to
hold
it
in
one
hand
,
and
strike
it
in
with
the
other
(
but
nimbly
)
then
make
two
or
three
sowre
faces
,
saying
,
some
drink
,
some
drink
:
or
else
you
may
say
,
now
some
one
put
his
finger
in
my
mouth
,
and
pull
it
out
again
;
some
will
say
haply
you
will
bite
me
,
say
,
no
I
will
assure
you
.
Then
when
he
hath
put
his
finger
into
your
mouth
,
he
will
pull
it
out
and
say
,
here
is
nothing
(
this
time
is
sufficient
to
convey
the
Knife
out
of
your
lap
into
your
pocket
)
say
againe
,
why
,
you
have
your
finger
out
againe
,
did
you
thinke
to
pull
the
knife
out
?
if
that
should
be
in
my
mouth
,
it
would
kill
me
.
The
knife
is
here
in
my
pocket
,
and
with
that
take
it
out
,
and
deliver
it
againe
.
How
to
rap
a
Wag
on
the
knuckles
TAke
a
ball
and
lay
it
on
the
Table
,
and
holding
a
knife
in
one
hand
by
the
blade
,
desire
some
body
to
take
the
bal
that
is
upon
the
table
&
lay
it
upon
the
haft
of
the
knif
,
pretending
that
you
will
blow
it
thence
invisibly
,
and
when
he
is
laying
it
on
,
take
him
a
good
rap
on
the
knuckles
.
How
to
seem
to
swallow
a
long
pudding
made
of
Tinne
.
THis
pudding
must
be
made
of
Tin
,
it
consisteth
of
twelve
little
hoops
made
Tape-wise
,
so
that
they
may
almost
fall
one
thorow
another
,
and
have
a
peece
of
Canvas
tyed
over
the
biggest
end
thereof
,
to
the
end
it
may
not
hurt
your
teeth
by
hastily
clapping
it
into
your
mouth
.
The
figure
whereof
followeth
,
and
is
marked
with
a
letter
A.
hold
this
pudding
(
for
so
it
is
called
)
privatly
in
your
left
hand
with
the
Canvas
end
uppermost
,
and
with
your
right
hand
take
a
Bal
out
of
your
pocket
,
and
say
,
If
there
bee
any
Maid
that
hath
lost
her
maidenhead
,
or
old
woman
that
is
halfe
out
of
conceit
with
her selfe
,
because
her
neighbours
deem
her
not
so
young
as
she
would
willingly
seeme
to
be
,
let
her
come
unto
mee
,
for
this
ball
is
present
remedy
:
Then
seeme
to
put
the
Ball
into
your
left
hand
,
but
let
it
slip
into
your
lap
,
and
clap
your
pudding
into
your
mouth
which
will
bee
thought
to
bee
the
ball
you
shewed
them
:
Then
incline
your
head
,
and
open
your
mouth
,
and
the
pudding
will
slip
down
at
its
full
length
,
which
with
your
right
hand
you
may
strike
up
into
your
mouth
againe
:
do
thus
three
or
foure
times
one
after
another
and
the
last
time
you
may
discharge
your
mouth
of
it
into
your
hand
,
and
clap
it
into
your
lap
without
any
suspition
,
so
that
you
make
two
or
three
sowre
faces
after
it
,
as
if
it
stuck
in
your
throat
,
and
if
you
practise
to
smite
easily
with
your
fist
on
each
side
of
your
throat
,
the
pudding
will
seeme
to
chinke
as
if
it
were
lying
in
your
throat
.
Then
say
,
thus
they
swallow
Puddings
in
high
Dutch-land
,
they
slip
down
their
throats
before
their
teeth
can
take
possession
of
them
.
How
to
seeme
to
cut
ones
nose
halfe
off
.
FOr
the
effecting
of
this
feate
,
you
must
have
a
knife
for
the
nonce
,
made
with
a
gap
in
the
midst
of
the
blade
,
as
it
is
demonstrated
in
the
following
figure
noted
with
the
letter
A.
You
must
conceale
the
notch
with
your
finger
,
and
then
wring
it
over
the
fleshy
part
of
your
nose
,
Note
that
in
such
feates
as
this
,
it
were
necessary
to
have
a
peece
of
spunge
with
some
sheepes
blood
in
it
to
be
retained
privately
.
and
your
nose
will
seeme
as
it
were
halfe
cut
off
with
the
knife
.
How
to
seem
to
pull
a
rope
thorow
your
nose
.
YOu
must
have
likewise
for
the
effecting
of
this
delusion
,
an
Implement
on
purpose
.
The
figure
wherof
followeth
.
It
may
be
made
of
two
elder
stickes
,
thrusting
out
the
pith
,
and
afterward
glued
together
,
the
ends
whereof
must
have
a
peece
of
corke
cut
hollow
,
and
glued
over
them
:
then
must
there
be
a
little
whipcord
put
thorow
them
,
the
ends
whereof
must
come
out
at
two
holes
made
on
the
outward
side
of
each
elder
sticke
.
Put
this
Trinket
over
the
fleshy
part
of
your
nose
,
then
pull
one
end
of
the
rope
,
and
afterwards
the
other
and
it
will
bee
thought
that
the
rope
commeth
quite
thorow
your
nose
.
How
to
make
a
pile
of
Counters
seeme
to
vanish
thorow
a
Table
.
YOu
must
have
for
the
performing
of
this
feate
,
divers
counters
having
holes
cut
out
of
the
midst
of
them
,
then
they
must
be
glued
together
so
many
of
them
as
they
may
make
a
case
sufficient
to
contain
a
Die
:
then
glue
one
whole
counter
upon
the
top
of
them
,
and
have
a
boxe
made
of
white
Tinne
to
fit
them
,
but
let
it
be
deeper
than
the
glued
pile
of
Counters
,
and
make
a
cover
for
this
boxe
.
First
,
put
into
the
boxe
three
loose
Counters
,
then
put
in
the
glued
pile
of
Counters
with
the
hole
uppermost
,
then
put
into
the
hole
a
Die
,
and
lastly
three
other
loose
whole
Counters
and
cover
it
.
Draw
this
boxe
of
Counters
,
and
say
,
Gentlemen
here
is
a
boxe
of
Barbary
gold
,
it
was
left
me
as
a
Legacy
by
a
deceased
friend
,
upon
condition
I
should
imploy
it
well
and
honestly
.
Now
sirs
it
was
my
fortune
as
I
was
travelling
,
to
be
benighted
,
and
so
forced
to
seeke
for
lodging
,
and
as
it
happened
,
I
tooke
into
an
house
of
entertainment
,
where
calling
for
my
Ostesse
,
I
drew
my
stocke
,
and
said
,
what
must
I
give
you
mine
Ostesse
for
my
meat
,
drinke
,
and
lodging
this
night
?
My
friend
,
quoth
she
,
you
must
give
me
three
French
Crownes
;
with
that
I
uncovered
my
boxe
,
and
set
it
upon
the
Table
(
it
must
be
done
with
the
mouth
of
the
boxe
downward
)
tooke
my
boxe
from
off
the
Counters
,
and
delivered
her
three
from
the
top
,
saying
,
there
they
are
;
and
casting
my
eye
aside
,
I
spyed
a
pretty
lasse
comming
down
the
staires
;
Sweet-heart
,
said
I
to
her
,
what
shall
I
give
thee
to
lye
with
thee
this
night
?
she
replied
,
sir
,
for
three
French
Crownes
you
shall
:
then
I
thrust
my
boxe
forward
,
If
you
lift
the
Boxe
a
little
from
the
Table
bearing
it
f●om
you
,
the
three
loose
counters
wil
come
forth
and
deliver
her
three
from
the
bottome
,
saying
there
they
are
.
But
now
said
I
to
my
Ostesse
,
Ostesse
,
what
will
you
say
if
with
a
tricke
I
have
,
I
make
these
six
Crowns
to
fetch
al
the
rest
thorow
the
Table
?
Sir
,
quoth
my
Ostesse
,
you
shall
have
your
meat
,
drink
,
and
lodging
for
nothing
,
and
said
the
Lasse
,
thou
shalt
lye
with
me
for
nothing
.
Then
I
uncovered
them
,
saying
,
but
first
let
us
see
whether
they
be
here
or
no
,
and
shew
them
,
covering
them
againe
.
Then
(
taking
to
those
six
Counters
in
my
hand
,
other
loose
Counters
I
have
ready
in
my
lap
)
I
knocke
my
hand
under
the
Table
,
saying
,
Virtute
lapidis
,
miraculosi
lapidis
,
jubeo
vade
,
celeritate
vade
.
Then
I
mingle
my
Counters
as
if
they
came
tumbling
thorow
the
Table
into
my
hand
,
afterward
throw
them
on
the
Table
,
saying
,
there
be
the
Counters
,
then
I
take
the
boxe
up
,
pressing
the
sides
of
it
with
my
fore-finger
and
thumbe
(
which
will
keep
the
glued
pile
of
Counters
from
slipping
out
)
and
let
slip
the
glued
Counters
into
my
lap
,
and
say
,
there
is
none
but
a
Die
,
casting
the
empty
box
unto
them
,
who
shall
have
all
now
,
my
Ostesse
or
I
?
A
,
the
figure
of
the
Box
,
BB
the
lid
of
the
Box
,
C
the
pile
of
Counters
glued
together
,
E
the
hole
for
the
Die
,
D
the
Die
.
How
to
seeme
to
put
a
ring
thorow
ones
cheek
.
YOu
must
have
two
rings
made
of
bra●se
,
silver
,
or
what
you
will
,
of
one
bignesse
,
colour
,
and
likenesse
saving
that
one
must
have
a
notch
cut
through
it
as
it
is
represented
by
the
figure
following
noted
with
X.
The
other
must
bee
whole
without
a
notch
;
shew
the
whole
ring
,
and
conceal
that
which
hath
the
notch
,
and
say
,
now
I
will
put
this
ring
thorow
my
cheeke
,
and
privily
slip
the
notch
one
over
one
side
of
your
mouth
,
and
nimbly
convey
the
whole
Ring
into
your
sleeve
,
or
conceale
it
in
your
right
hand
:
then
take
a
small
sticke
which
you
may
have
in
readinesse
,
and
slip
the
whole
Ring
over
it
,
holding
your
hand
over
it
about
the
middle
thereof
,
and
bid
some
body
hold
both
the
ends
of
the
sticke
fast
,
and
say
,
see
this
Ring
here
in
my
cheeke
,
it
turnes
round
,
and
indeed
it
will
seem
to
turn
round
if
you
stroake
it
nimbly
with
your
fingers
:
and
while
you
perceive
them
to
fasten
their
eies
intentively
upon
that
Ring
,
upon
a
sudden
whip
it
out
,
and
smite
upon
the
sticke
therewith
instantly
,
concealing
it
,
and
whirling
the
other
Ring
,
you
hold
your
hand
over
round
about
the
sticke
,
and
it
will
be
thought
that
you
have
brought
that
Ring
upon
the
stick
which
was
before
upon
your
cheeke
.
How
to
seeme
●o
thrust
a
Bodkin
into
your
forehead
.
YOu
must
have
two
bodkins
,
the
one
made
like
unto
the
other
to
outward
appearance
,
but
let
the
blade
of
the
one
be
made
to
slip
up
into
the
haft
:
let
the
other
be
a
true
Bodkin
:
Conceale
the
false
one
&
shew
the
true
,
after
that
you
have
shewed
it
,
convey
it
into
your
lap
.
Then
take
up
the
false
one
,
and
reclining
your
head
,
make
as
if
you
thrust
it
very
stifly
,
making
an
ill-favoured
face
all
the
while
.
If
you
hold
a
p●ece
of
spunge
in
your
hand
filled
with
some
sheeps
blood
pressing
it
out
,
the
bodkin
being
in
your
forehead
,
as
it
were
up
to
the
hilt
,
it
will
cause
the
more
astonishment
and
admiration
among
the
beholders
.
Instantly
put
up
your
Bodkin
,
and
take
your
handkercher
,
and
wipe
off
the
blood
,
and
say
,
Iubeo
vade
vulnus
a
fronte
.
How
to
put
a
Locke
upon
ones
mouth
.
YOu
must
have
a
Locke
made
for
the
nonce
,
the
figure
wherof
followeth
,
the
one
side
of
its
bow
must
be
immoveable
as
that
marked
with
A
:
the
other
side
is
noted
with
B
,
and
must
be
pinned
to
the
body
of
the
Lock
,
as
may
appear
at
E
,
I
say
it
must
be
so
pinned
,
that
it
may
play
to
and
again
with
ease
.
This
side
of
the
bow
must
have
a
legge
as
C
,
and
then
turn
into
the
Locke
;
this
binding
must
have
two
notches
filed
on
the
inner
side
,
which
must
be
so
ordered
that
the
one
may
locke
or
hold
the
two
sides
of
the
bow
as
close
together
at
the
top
as
may
be
,
the
other
notch
to
hold
the
said
parts
of
the
bows
a
proportionable
distance
asunder
,
that
being
lockt
upon
the
cheeke
,
it
may
neither
pinch
too
hard
,
nor
yet
hold
it
so
sl●ightly
that
it
may
be
drawne
off
;
let
there
be
then
a
key
fitted
unto
it
to
unlock
it
,
as
may
appeare
at
D.
And
lastly
,
let
the
bows
have
divers
notches
filed
in
them
,
so
the
place
of
the
partition
when
the
locke
is
shut
home
will
be
least
of
all
suspected
.
By
this
figure
and
directions
you
may
fit
your selfe
of
such
a
Locke
,
if
so
be
you
are
desirous
of
it
.
The
use
of
it
.
YOu
may
cause
some
one
to
hold
one
tester
edge-long
between
his
teeth
:
Take
also
another
Tester
and
with
your
left
hand
proffer
to
set
it
edgelong
betweene
a
second
mans
teeth
,
pretending
that
your
intent
is
to
turne
both
into
whether
of
their
mouthes
they
shall
desire
,
and
that
by
vertue
of
your
words
and
circumstances
which
hee
shall
no
sooner
essay
to
do
,
but
you
holding
your
lock
privately
in
your
right
hand
with
your
forefinger
over
the
legge
C
,
may
presently
slip
it
over
the
left
side
his
cheeke
,
and
single
locke
it
,
which
you
may
doe
by
pressing
your
said
finger
a
little
down
after
some
store
o●
intreaties
:
the
Locke
having
hung
on
a
while
,
produce
your
key
by
some
device
(
as
by
a
confederate
or
some
carelesse
person
)
and
unlocke
it
,
but
immediately
double
locke
it
,
for
it
will
seem
to
be
a
true
lock
,
nor
after
sight
be
suspected
for
other
.
How
to
make
it
freeze
by
the
fire
side
.
THis
feate
cannot
be
performed
at
every
time
,
but
only
in
Winter
,
and
at
such
times
as
snow
may
be
had
,
and
he
that
will
shew
it
,
must
have
in
readinesse
an
handfull
of
salt
.
The
time
serving
,
and
the
party
provided
,
let
him
call
for
a
joynt-stoole
,
a
quart
pot
,
a
handfull
of
snow
,
a
little
water
;
and
a
short
staffe
or
sticke
,
first
let
him
poure
a
little
water
upon
the
top
of
the
stoole
,
and
upon
it
let
him
set
the
quart
pot
,
and
put
the
snow
into
the
pot
,
the
salt
also
,
but
privately
,
then
let
him
hold
the
pot
fast
with
his
left
hand
,
and
take
the
short
sticke
in
his
right
,
and
therewith
churne
the
snow
and
salt
in
the
pot
,
as
if
one
should
churne
for
butter
,
and
in
halfe
a
quarter
of
an
houre
the
pot
will
freeze
so
hard
to
the
stoole
,
that
you
can
scarcely
with
both
hands
pull
it
off
from
the
stoole
:
there
's
a
naturall
reason
may
be
given
for
this
,
which
he
that
is
a
Scholler
need
not
be
told
,
and
for
a
common
Jugler
I
would
not
have
so
wise
as
to
know
,
therefore
I
omit
it
.
How
to
breath
fire
out
of
your
mouth
THe
performance
of
this
tricke
consisteth
in
the
rowling
of
the
towe
.
After
you
have
made
a
rowle
in
readi●esse
,
call
for
a
pi●e
of
Tobacco
,
light
it
,
and
take
a
whiste
or
two
,
you
may
stop
it
downe
with
the
end
of
your
rowle
of
tow
,
retaining
it
privately
in
your
hand
:
then
deliver
the
Pipe
to
some
body
else
,
and
convey
the
tow
into
your
mouth
:
then
blow
gently
,
and
smoake
and
fire
will
come
forth
of
your
mouth
,
which
you
may
continue
as
long
as
you
please
,
by
putting
in
more
tow
as
it
consumeth
.
How
to
d●aw
●ilius
of
any
colour
out
of
your
m●u●h
,
and
to
deliver
it
by
the
●a●d
.
YOu
must
provide
you
divers
sorts
of
Ribbin●
,
some
blacke
,
some
blew
,
some
green
,
some
yellow
measure
it
,
and
at
the
end
of
every
yard
make
a
slip
knot
,
then
●owle
each
coloured
ribben
into
a
ball
by
it selfe
,
and
dis●ose
them
about
you
,
that
you
may
know
readily
which
to
take
in
an
instant
.
When
you
are
called
upon
for
so
many
yards
of
such
a
colour
,
convey
a
ball
of
the
same
into
your
mouth
,
and
draw
it
out
,
remembring
how
many
knots
have
slipped
at
your
teeth
,
then
cut
it
off
and
deliver
it
.
How
to
make
two
bells
come
into
one
hand
,
●aving
put
into
each
hand
one
.
THis
feate
must
be
performed
with
three
bel●
,
you
must
put
one
bel
into
your
left
sleeve
,
then
put
one
bel
into
one
hand
,
and
another
bel
into
the
other
hand
(
they
must
be
little
morris
bels
)
withdraw
your
hands
,
and
privily
convey
the
bell
in
your
left
hand
into
your
right
hand
:
Then
stretch
both
your
hands
abroad
,
and
bid
two
folkes
hold
your
hands
fast
,
but
first
shake
your
hands
and
say
,
do
you
hear
them
.
The
bell
that
is
in
your
sleeve
will
not
bee
knowne
by
the
racling
,
but
that
it
is
in
your
hand
:
Then
say
,
he
now
that
is
the
arrantest
Whoremaster
or
Cuckold
of
you
both
,
shall
have
both
the
bells
,
and
the
other
shall
have
none
at
all
:
open
your
hands
then
,
and
shew
them
,
and
it
will
be
thought
that
you
dea●e
by
art
magicke
.
How
to
make
a
Iugling
book
,
or
a
●ook
of
Waggery
.
YOu
must
provide
a
paper-book
in
octavo
,
of
what
thicknesse
you
please
;
first
turn
over
seven
leaves
of
it
,
and
then
upon
both
the
open
sides
,
draw
or
paint
the
pictures
of
flowers
,
then
turne
over
seaven
leaves
more
,
and
paint
the
very
same
;
do
this
untill
you
have
turned
the
booke
once
quite
over
:
Then
unto
the
farther
painted
leaves
,
paste
a
little
stay
of
paper
or
parchment
one
directly
over
an
other
:
Then
turn
over
the
booke
againe
:
and
having
turned
every
sixt
leafe
,
draw
the
pic●u●e
of
flower-de-lu●es
,
and
then
paste
stayes
of
parchment
upon
them
as
you
did
upon
the
first
;
but
these
stayes
must
all
of
them
be
a
little
lower
than
the
former
.
Then
turne
over
the
booke
again
,
and
after
the
fift
leafe
,
throughout
the
booke
is
turned
,
paint
hornes
,
do
thus
untill
you
have
painted
the
book
full
of
pictures
,
onely
let
there
be
one
part
of
the
leaves
faire
paper
:
having
thus
finished
the
booke
,
when
you
use
it
,
hold
it
in
your
left
hand
,
and
with
your
right
hand
,
your
thumb
set
upon
the
parchm●nt
stayes
,
shew
them
orderly
and
nimbly
,
but
with
a
bold
and
audacious
countenance
,
for
that
must
bee
the
grace
of
all
your
trickes
:
say
,
this
booke
is
not
painted
thus
as
some
of
you
may
●uppose
,
but
it
is
o●
such
a
property
,
that
whosoever
bloweth
on
it
,
it
will
give
the
representation
of
whatsoever
hee
is
naturally
addicted
unto
,
and
then
turn
the
booke
,
and
say
,
see
its
all
●aire
paper
.
Bonus
Genius
,
or
Nuntius
invisibilis
,
or
Hiccius
Doccius
as
my
senior
calls
it
.
YOu
must
have
the
figure
of
a
man
made
of
wood
,
about
the
bignesse
of
your
little
finger
,
as
may
appeare
by
the
figure
noted
C
D
,
the
head
whereof
noted
with
A
,
must
bee
made
to
take
off
and
put
on
at
pleasure
,
by
meanes
of
a
wyer
that
is
in
the
necke
,
marked
with
B
:
also
you
must
have
a
cloth
cap
with
a
little
bagge
within
to
convey
the
head
into
.
The
bag
must
be
neatly
made
,
that
it
may
not
easily
be
perceived
;
shew
your
man
unto
the
company
,
saying
,
see
you
here
gentlemen
,
this
I
call
my
Bonus
Genius
,
then
shew
his
cap
,
saying
,
and
this
is
his
coat
,
say
moreover
,
looke
now
as
stedfastly
on
him
as
you
can
,
neverthelesse
I
will
cousin
you
,
for
therefore
am
I
come
.
Then
hold
your
cap
above
your
face
,
and
take
your
man
in
your
right
hand
,
and
put
his
head
thorow
the
hole
of
the
cap
,
as
you
may
see
at
F
,
saying
,
now
he
is
ready
to
goe
of
any
message
I
ha●e
to
●end
him
;
to
Spaine
,
Italy
,
or
whither
I
will
:
but
he
must
have
some
thing
to
beare
his
charges
,
with
that
pull
out
your
right
hand
from
under
the
cap
,
and
therewith
the
body
,
(
but
privately
)
●utting
your
right
hand
into
your
pocket
,
as
if
you
felt
for
money
,
where
you
must
leave
the
body
,
and
take
out
your
hand
,
&
say
,
there
is
three
crownes
:
Now
be
gone
,
then
turn
the
head
about
▪
and
say
,
but
he
will
looke
about
him
before
he
goes
.
Then
say
(
sett●ng
your
forefinger
upon
his
crowne
)
just
as
I
thrust
my
finger
downe
,
so
he
shall
vanish
,
and
therewith
by
the
assistance
of
your
left
hand
that
is
under
the
cap
,
convey
his
head
into
the
little
bag
within
the
cap
:
then
turne
your
cap
about
,
and
say
,
see
here
he
is
gone
:
then
take
up
your
cap
,
and
hold
it
up
againe
,
drawing
the
head
out
of
the
little
bag
,
and
say
,
hei
genius
meus
velocissimu●
,
ubi
,
and
whistle
.
Then
thrust
the
head
up
thorow
the
hole
of
the
cap
,
and
holding
the
head
by
the
wyer
,
turn
it
about
;
then
presently
put
head
and
cap
into
your
pocket
.
Boxes
to
change
Grain
.
MAke
one
boxe
of
Wood
,
Tinne
,
or
Brasse
:
let
the
bottome
fall
a
quarter
of
an
inch
into
the
boxe
,
and
glue
thereon
a
laying
of
Barly
or
such
like
graine
:
draw
the
boxe
with
the
bottome
downewards
,
and
say
Gentlemen
,
I
met
a
Country-man
going
to
buy
Barly
,
and
I
told
him
I
would
sell
him
a
pennyworth
,
also
I
would
multiply
one
graine
into
so
many
bushels
as
hee
should
need
,
then
cast
a
Barly-corne
into
your
boxe
,
and
cover
it
with
a
hat
,
and
in
the
cover●ng
it
,
turne
the
bottome
upside
down
:
then
cause
some
body
to
blow
on
the
hat
,
then
uncover
it
,
and
they
will
thinke
strangely
of
it
.
You
may
make
another
●o●
of
wood
like
unto
a
bell
to
hold
so
much
just
as
your
former
boxe
w●ll
,
and
make
a
bottome
unto
this
boxe
of
shooe
sole
leather
,
to
thrust
into
the
bottome
of
the
bell
:
then
fill
it
with
barly
,
and
thru●t
up
the
l●ath●r-bottome
,
for
it
will
keepe
t●e
barley
from
fa●ling
out
,
take
this
box
out
of
your
pocket
,
an●
set
it
down
g●n●ly
upon
the
table
,
and
say
,
I
w●ll
not
cau●e
a●l
the
●●rly
to
goe
out
of
my
measure
into
my
bell
,
then
with
a
hat
cover
the
boxe
that
hath
the
barly
g●ewed
unto
it
,
and
in
cov●ring
it
,
turne
it
with
the
barly
down●war●
:
then
say
,
first
let
us
see
whether
th●re
be
nothing
under
the
bell
,
and
clap
it
hard
downe
upon
the
table
,
so
the
weight
of
the
barley
will
thrust
the
bottome
dow●
;
then
bid
some
one
blow
hard
on
the
hat
,
then
take
it
up
,
where
they
will
see
nothing
but
an
empty
m●asure
,
then
take
up
the
bell
,
and
all
the
barly
will
poure
out
.
Sweep
it
then
presently
into
your
hat
or
lap
,
lest
their
busie
prying
may
chance
to
discover
your
leather
bottome
.
How
to
vanish
a
glasse
of
Beere
.
TAke
a
low
glasse
,
fil
it
reasonable
full
of
B●●r
,
and
take
a
six-pen●e
and
lay
it
downe
upon
the
table
and
set
the
glasse
of
Beere
upon
it
,
Your
fin●er
●op●
mu●t
bee
ru●d
a
l●ttle
with
some
green
soft
w●x
and
so
you
may
do
it
cleanly
and
dipping
your
finger
into
the
Beere
,
say
,
whether
is
the
sixpence
in
,
or
under
the
glasse
.
Some
will
say
perhaps
it
is
under
:
then
say
,
let'●
see
,
and
take
up
at
once
both
six-pence
and
glasse
(
hold
the
glasse
so
that
both
your
hands
may
quite
hide
it
)
and
let
the
glasse
slip
plum-downe
into
your
lap
,
then
make
as
if
you
threw
it
away
,
looking
up
after
it
.
Then
seeme
to
blow
your
nose
,
and
let
●all
the
sixpence
upon
the
table
,
saying
,
I
am
glad
I
have
got
my
mony
aga●ne
:
but
now
(
say
)
what
is
become
of
the
glasse
?
then
seeme
to
take
it
out
of
your
pocket
,
saying
,
I
am
a
good
fellow
,
and
would
not
willingly
lose
my
liquor
,
then
drinke
in
up
,
This
is
an
excellent
tricke
if
it
be
swiftly
and
neatly
performed
.
Though
you
spill
a
part
of
the
B●ere
,
it
is
no
matter
,
neither
is
it
any
disgrace
unto
it
;
besides
you
may
put
it
off
very
well
.
How
to
seem
to
cut
off
a
mans
head
,
it
is
called
the
decolla●ion
o●
John
Baptist.
YOu
must
have
a
table
with
two
good
wide
holes
towards
one
end
,
also
a
cloath
on
pu●po●e
to
cover
the
table
with
,
so
that
the
said
covering
may
hang
to
the
ground
round
about
the
table
;
also
this
covering
must
have
two
holes
made
in
it
,
even
with
the
holes
of
the
table
;
you
must
also
have
a
platter
of
wood
for
the
pur●ose
,
having
a
hole
in
the
bottome
to
fit
also
unto
the
holes
of
the
table
,
and
it
must
,
as
also
the
table
,
bee
made
to
take
in
two
p●eces
:
having
these
in
readines
,
you
must
have
two
boyes
;
the
one
must
lye
along
upon
the
table
with
his
backe
upward
,
and
he
must
put
his
head
thorow
the
one
hole
of
the
table
,
cloth
and
al
;
the
other
must
sit
under
the
table
,
and
put
his
head
thorow
the
other
hole
of
the
table
,
then
put
the
platter
about
his
neck
,
to
make
the
sight
more
dreadfull
to
behold
,
you
may
forme
some
loome
about
the
neckes
of
them
,
making
small
holes
in
them
as
it
were
veins
,
and
besmeare
it
over
with
sheepes
blood
,
putting
some
blood
also
and
little
bits
of
liver
into
the
platter
,
and
set
a
chafing-dish
of
coales
before
the
head
,
strewing
some
brimston
upon
the
coales
;
for
this
will
make
the
head
seeme
so
pale
and
wan
,
as
if
in
very
deed
it
were
separated
from
the
body
.
The
head
may
fetch
a
gaspe
or
two
,
and
it
will
be
better
.
Let
no
body
be
present
while
you
doe
this
,
neither
when
you
have
given
entrance
,
permit
any
to
be
medling
,
nor
let
them
tarry
long
.
How
to
make
the
face
of
a
child
to
appeare
in
a
pot
of
water
.
YOu
must
get
a
ball
made
of
wood
,
and
upon
one
halfe
or
side
of
it
,
there
must
the
face
of
a
child
bee
artificially
carved
:
on
the
back-side
of
this
face
there
must
bee
made
a
hole
,
but
not
very
deepe
;
this
hole
must
be
filled
with
lead
,
to
the
end
that
it
may
(
the
ball
being
cast
into
the
water
)
sway
t●e
face
uppermost
:
then
paint
it
lively
with
oyle
colours
,
and
it
is
done
.
Note
that
it
ought
not
to
be
full
so
big
as
a
tennis
bal.
Call
●or
a
wine
quart-●ot
filled
with
faire
water
up
to
the
necke
,
having
your
face
in
a
readinesse
,
concealed
in
your
right
hand
,
take
the
pot
in
your
left
hand
,
and
set
it
on
the
table
,
and
say
,
see
you
Gentlemen
,
here
is
nothing
in
the
pot
but
water
,
with
that
clap
down
the
po●-lid
w●th
your
right
hand
,
and
in
clapping
it
downe
,
sl●p
the
fa●e
i●to
the
pot
,
this
you
may
doe
without
any
the
least
suspition
.
Then
cause
them
all
to
stand
off
,
and
if
they
please
,
to
marke
you
as
narrowly
as
they
cap
:
with
that
put
your
hand
into
your
pocket
,
and
seeme
to
take
out
a
handfull
of
powder
,
and
to
strew
it
over
the
pot
,
saying
Sarge
celeriter
,
by
the
powder
of
ex●erien●e
,
sarge
,
then
bid
them
look
what
is
there
.
A●ter
●he
same
manner
may
you
make
a
Toad●
to
appeare
,
which
will
cause
no
small
admiration
.
A
device
whereby
you
may
drinke
a
Tunnell
●ull
of
d●inke
,
and
afterwards
s●eme
to
poure
the
same
all
out
of
your
sleeve
againe
.
YOu
must
get
a
double
Tunnell
,
that
is
,
two
Tunnels
●o●●red
one
within
the
other
,
so
that
you
may
at
the
little
end
pour●
a
quantity
of
wine
,
water
,
or
any
liqu●r
.
This
Tun●ell
you
must
●ave
r●ady
filled
before
hand
w●th
whatsoever
liquor
you
●lease
call
for
some
of
the
●ame
kind
:
then
dr●w
your
Tunnel
,
and
setting
y●ur
middle
finger
unto
the
bottome
of
it
,
bid
some
●ody
▪
or
else
do
you
your
●elfe
poure
it
full
,
and
drinke
it
up
●efore
them
,
and
turn
the
●road
end
of
the
Tunnell
downeward
,
saying
,
Gentlemen
,
all
is
g●ne
,
and
in
a
trice
turne
your selfe
about
,
and
in
turning
,
pronounce
some
tearmes
of
art
,
withdraw
your
finger
from
the
narrow
end
,
and
let
all
the
liquor
out
that
was
between
the
Tunnels
,
and
it
will
be
thought
to
be
that
which
you
drunke
out
of
the
Tunnell
,
and
so
you
may
perswade
them
that
it
is
the
very
same
.
How
to
seeme
to
make
a
tooth
drop
out
with
a
touch
.
You
must
have
some
great
tooth
in
a
readinesse
,
as
the
tooth
of
a
Hog
,
a
Calfe
,
or
of
an
Horse
;
this
you
must
retain
privately
in
your
right
hand
,
and
with
the
same
hand
take
out
of
your
pocket
a
small
corke
bal
,
and
having
used
some
Rhetorick
to
perswade
them
that
it
is
of
some
excellent
property
,
incline
your
head
and
therewith
touch
some
one
of
your
farther
teeth
,
and
immediately
let
the
tooth
that
you
held
in
your
hand
drop
downe
,
saying
,
and
this
is
the
fashion
of
Mountebanks
,
Touch
and
take
.
Another
conceit
to
procure
laughter
.
TAke
your
ball
in
one
hand
,
and
the
tooth
in
the
other
,
and
stretch
your
hands
as
far
as
you
can
one
from
the
other
,
and
if
any
will
,
lay
a
quart
of
wine
with
him
,
that
you
will
not
withdraw
your
hands
,
and
yet
will
make
both
of
them
come
into
either
hand
which
they
please
:
It
is
no
more
to
do
,
than
to
lay
one
downe
upon
the
Table
,
and
turne
your selfe
round
,
and
take
it
up
with
the
other
hand
,
and
your
wager
is
wone
,
and
it
will
move
no
small
laughter
to
see
a
foole
so
lose
his
mony
.
How
to
make
two
or
three
egges
dance
upon
a
staffe
.
PRovide
a
good
thicke
staffe
about
two
yards
long
,
three
parts
whereof
ought
to
be
made
scoope-wise
,
or
halfe
hollow
,
like
a
basting-Ladle
,
the
fourth
part
must
serve
for
the
handle
.
At
the
end
of
the
scoope
must
be
made
a
hole
,
and
therein
put
a
broad
pin
about
the
length
of
an
egge
,
and
it
is
done
.
Rest
the
handle
of
this
staffe
against
your
right
thigh
,
and
hold
it
with
your
right
hand
neere
to
the
beginning
of
the
scoope
;
lay
an
egge
then
into
the
scoope
of
the
staffe
,
and
turne
your selfe
round
,
bearing
the
staffe
now
up
,
and
anon
downe
,
with
the
scoope
side
of
it
alwayes
upward
,
so
the
egge
will
tumble
from
one
end
of
the
scoope
unto
the
other
,
and
not
fall
out
.
After
the
same
manner
may
you
make
two
or
three
egges
by
a
little
practise
to
wamble
one
after
another
.
A
merry
conceit
.
DEliver
one
peece
of
mony
with
your
left
hand
unto
one
,
and
to
a
second
person
another
,
and
offer
a
third
to
another
,
for
he
seeing
the
other
receive
mony
will
not
lightly
refuse
:
when
he
offereth
to
take
it
,
you
may
rap
him
on
the
fingers
with
a
knife
,
or
somewhat
else
held
in
your
right
hand
,
saying
that
you
knew
by
vertue
of
your
bonus
genius
,
that
hee
meant
to
have
kept
it
from
you
.
How
to
knit
an
hard
knot
upon
a
handkercher
,
and
to
seeme
to
undoe
the
same
with
words
.
MAke
one
plaine
loose
knot
,
with
the
two
corner
ends
of
a
handkercher
,
and
seeming
to
draw
the
same
very
hard
,
hold
fast
the
body
of
the
said
handkercher
(
neere
to
the
knot
)
with
your
right
hand
,
pulling
the
contrary
end
with
the
left
hand
,
which
is
the
corner
of
that
which
you
hold
.
Then
close
up
handsomely
the
knot
,
which
will
bee
yet
somewhat
loose
,
and
pull
the
handkercher
so
with
your
right
hand
,
as
the
left
hand
end
may
be
neere
to
the
knot
:
then
will
it
seeme
to
be
a
true
and
firme
knot
.
And
to
make
it
appeare
more
assuredly
to
bee
so
indeed
,
let
a
stranger
pull
at
the
end
which
you
hold
in
your
left
hand
,
whilst
you
hold
fast
the
other
in
your
right
hand
;
and
then
holding
the
knot
with
your
fore-finger
and
thumbe
and
the
nether
part
of
your
handkercher
with
your
other
fingers
,
as
you
hold
a
Bridle
when
you
would
with
one
hand
slip
up
the
knot
and
lengthen
your
reins
.
This
done
,
tu●ne
your
handkercher
over
the
knot
with
the
left
hand
,
in
doing
whereof
,
you
must
suddenly
slip
out
the
end
or
corner
,
putting
up
the
knot
of
your
handkercher
with
your
fore
finger
and
thumbe
,
as
you
would
put
up
the
foresaid
knot
of
your
bridle
.
Then
deliver
the
same
(
covered
and
wrapt
within
the
midst
of
your
handkercher
)
to
one
to
hold
fast
,
and
after
the
pronunciation
of
some
words
of
Art
,
and
wagers
laid
,
take
the
handkercher
and
shake
it
,
and
it
will
be
loose
.
A
notable
feat
of
Fast
and
Loose
;
namely
,
to
pull
three
beadstones
from
off
a
Cord
,
while
you
hold
fast
the
ends
thereof
,
without
removing
of
your
hands
.
TAke
two
little
whipcords
of
two
foot
long
a
peece
double
them
equally
,
so
as
there
may
appeare
,
foure
ends
.
Then
take
three
great
beadstones
,
the
hole
of
the
one
of
them
being
bigger
then
the
rest
;
and
put
one
beadstone
upon
the
eye
or
bowte
of
the
one
cord
,
and
another
on
the
other
cord
:
then
take
the
stone
with
the
gr●atest
hole
,
and
let
both
the
bowts
be
hidden
therein
:
which
may
bee
the
better
done
,
if
you
put
the
eye
of
the
one
into
the
eye
of
the
other
.
Then
pull
the
middle
bead
upon
the
same
,
being
doubled
,
over
his
fellow
,
and
so
will
the
beads
seeme
to
be
put
over
the
two
cords
without
partition
,
for
holding
fast
in
each
hand
the
two
ends
of
the
two
cords
,
you
may
tosse
them
as
you
list
,
and
make
it
seeme
manifest
to
the
beholders
,
which
may
not
see
how
you
have
done
it
,
that
the
beadstones
are
put
upon
the
cord
without
fraud
:
Then
must
you
seeme
to
adde
more
effectuall
binding
or
those
beadstones
to
the
string
,
and
make
one
halfe
of
a
knot
with
one
of
the
ends
of
each
side
,
which
is
for
no
other
purpose
,
but
that
when
the
Beadstones
bee
taken
away
,
the
cords
may
bee
seene
in
the
case
which
the
beholders
supposed
them
to
be
in
before
.
For
when
you
have
made
your
halfe
knot
(
which
in
any
wise
you
may
not
double
to
make
a
perfect
knot
)
you
must
deliver
into
the
hands
of
some
stand●r
by
,
those
two
cords
,
namely
,
two
ends
evenly
set
in
one
hand
,
and
two
in
the
other
,
and
then
with
a
wager
and
tearmes
of
,
Art
beginne
to
pull
off
your
Beadstones
,
which
if
you
handle
nimbly
,
and
in
the
end
cause
him
to
pull
his
two
ends
,
the
two
cords
will
shew
to
be
placed
plainly
,
and
the
Bead-stones
to
have
come
thorow
the
cords
.
To
burne
a
threed
,
and
to
make
it
whole
againe
with
the
ashes
the●eof
.
TAke
two
T●ree●s
or
small
Laces
,
o●
one
●oot
in
length
a
peece
:
row●●
up
one
o●
them
round
,
which
will
be
then
of
the
quantity
of
a
●eas●
▪
be●●●w
the
same
between
your
fore-finger
and
your
thum●e
.
Then
take
the
other
threed
and
hold
it
forth
at
length
betwixt
the
fore-finger
and
thumb
of
each
hand
,
holding
al
your
fingers
daintily
,
as
young
Gentlewom●n
are
taught
to
take
up
a
morsell
of
meat
.
Then
let
one
out
asunder
the
same
threed
in
the
middle
;
when
that
is
done
,
put
the
tops
of
your
two
thumbs
together
,
and
so
shall
you
with
lesse
suspition
receive
the
peice
of
threed
which
you
hold
in
your
right
hand
unto
your
left
,
without
opening
your
left
finger
and
thumb
,
then
holding
these
two
peeces
as
you
did
the
same
before
it
was
cut
,
let
these
two
be
cut
also
asunder
in
the
midst
,
and
they
conveyed
as
before
,
untill
they
be
cut
very
short
,
and
then
rowle
all
those
ends
together
,
and
keep
that
ball
of
short
threeds
before
the
other
in
your
le●t
hand
,
and
with
a
knife
thrust
out
the
same
into
a
candle
,
where
you
may
hold
it
untill
the
said
ball
of
short
threeds
be
burnt
to
ashes
.
Then
pull
ba●ke
the
knife
with
your
right
hand
,
and
leave
the
ashes
with
the
other
ball
betwixt
the
fore-finger
and
thumb
of
your
left
hand
,
and
with
the
two
thumbs
and
two
fore-fingers
together
,
seeming
to
take
paines
to
rub
the
ashes
,
until
your
threed
be
renewed
,
and
draw
out
that
threed
at
length
,
which
you
kept
all
this
while
betwixt
your
fore-finger
and
thumb
.
If
you
have
Legerdemain
to
bestow
the
same
ball
of
threed
,
and
to
change
it
from
place
to
place
betwixt
your
two
fingers
(
as
may
be
easily
done
)
then
will
it
seeme
very
strange
.
To
cut
a
Lace
asunder
in
the
midst
,
and
to
make
it
whole
againe
.
PRovide
a
peece
of
the
Lace
which
you
meane
to
cut
,
or
at
the
least
a
patterne
like
the
same
,
one
inch
and
a
halfe
long
,
and
keeping
it
double
privily
in
your
left
hand
,
betwixt
some
of
your
fingers
neere
to
the
tops
thereof
,
take
the
other
Lace
which
you
meane
to
cut
,
which
you
may
hang
about
ones
neck
,
and
draw
downe
your
said
left
hand
to
the
bowte
thereof
:
and
putting
your
owne
peece
a
little
before
the
other
(
the
end
,
or
rather
the
middle
whereof
,
you
must
hide
betwixt
your
fore-finger
and
thumb
)
making
the
eye
or
bowte
which
shall
be
seen
,
of
your
patterne
,
let
some
stander
by
cut
the
same
asunder
,
and
it
will
bee
surely
thought
that
the
other
Lace
is
cut
;
which
with
words
and
rubbing
and
chafing
it
,
you
shall
seeme
to
renew
and
make
whole
againe
.
This
,
if
it
be
well
handled
,
will
seeme
miraculous
.
How
to
seeme
suddenly
to
melt
a
peece
of
Coyne
with
words
.
YOu
must
have
a
boxe
made
of
brasse
or
Crooked-Lane
plate
,
a
double
boxe
,
and
not
above
five
quarters
of
an
inch
deepe
:
in
the
midst
must
bee
the
bottome
,
and
both
ends
must
have
covers
to
come
over
them
.
This
boxe
might
be
so
neatly
made
,
that
each
lid
might
have
a
small
bolt
artificially
contrived
(
which
though
I
could
make
my selfe
,
neither
by
words
nor
figures
I
can
describe
)
whereby
the
lids
of
the
boxe
might
bee
lockt
fast
on
,
that
none
but
master
Jugler
himselfe
knowes
readily
to
open
.
In
one
end
of
this
boxe
have
alwayes
in
readinesse
a
resemblance
of
moulten
silver
,
which
you
may
easily
make
by
mixing
an
equall
quantity
of
linfoyl
and
quicksilver
together
,
which
you
shall
thus
doe
:
First
,
put
your
linfoyl
in
a
crucible
or
Goldsmiths
melting-pot
,
melt
it
,
and
then
take
it
from
the
fire
,
and
put
in
your
quicksilver
,
and
stirre
both
well
together
,
and
it
is
done
.
Now
the
one
end
of
your
box
being
ready
furnished
herewith
,
borrow
a
peece
of
coine
of
some
one
in
the
company
,
willing
him
to
give
it
some
private
marke
whereby
he
may
know
it
againe
to
bee
his
owne
,
then
put
it
into
the
other
end
of
the
box
,
in
the
bottome
whereof
you
may
have
a
little
waxe
to
keep
it
from
ratling
.
Thus
you
may
seeme
by
vertue
of
words
to
melt
his
mony
,
and
afterwards
to
give
it
againe
to
the
party
whole
as
you
received
it
from
him
.
A
device
whereby
you
may
draw
sundry
liquors
out
of
one
seeming
vessell
,
all
which
shall
be
put
in
at
one
hole
,
and
all
drawne
out
of
another
.
YOu
must
cause
a
vessell
of
indifferent
bignesse
to
bee
made
in
forme
of
a
Tunne
,
having
two
partitions
,
so
there
will
be
three
severall
parts
:
A
B
signifieth
the
first
,
C
D
●he
second
,
and
E
F
the
third
,
upon
the
top
of
this
Tunne
must
bee
fast
nailed
a
peece
of
wood
turned
round
as
G
H
,
in
the
center
whereof
must
be
erected
a
stile
,
whose
top
must
be
made
into
a
screw
,
in
this
wood
must
also
be
made
three
holes
towards
the
circumpherence
,
each
hole
having
a
pipe
inserted
into
it
,
which
may
extend
themselves
one
of
either
into
each
vessell
,
as
you
may
see
by
the
figure
.
I
K
signifieth
the
first
pipe
,
which
reacheth
into
the
first
part
A
B
,
L.
M
,
the
second
pipe
that
extendeth
it selfe
into
the
second
part
noted
C
D
,
N
O
the
third
pipe
that
extendeth
it selfe
into
the
third
part
of
E
F
,
each
part
also
must
have
his
vent
,
else
you
can
neither
fill
nor
empty
it
,
these
are
marked
with
the
letter
P
Q
R
,
upon
the
top
of
the
foresaid
wood
must
be
fastened
a
peece
of
liquored
leather
having
three
holes
in
it
answerable
unto
the
holes
of
the
wood
,
then
upon
the
wood
must
bee
serued
another
snout
whereby
to
fill
each
vessell
with
a
severall
liquor
,
V
the
snouts
,
S
T
a
brasse
plate
whereunto
the
snout
is
sodered
,
W
the
ser●e
that
serueth
this
snout
upon
the
stile
in
the
turned
wood
G
H.
Lastly
,
each
vessell
must
have
its
pipe
whereout
you
may
draw
the
conteined
liquor
,
which
you
may
see
in
the
figure
,
and
then
must
there
be
serued
over
them
another
plate
with
a
taper
vessell
,
so
by
turning
it
about
from
one
hole
to
another
,
you
may
deliver
each
liquor
apart
whither
of
them
you
please
.
A
very
strange
tricke
whereby
you
may
seeme
to
cut
a
peece
of
Tape
into
foure
parts
,
and
make
it
whole
againe
with
words
.
TAke
a
peece
of
narrow
white
Tape
about
two
or
three
yards
long
;
first
present
it
to
view
to
any
that
may
desire
it
,
then
tie
both
the
ends
of
it
together
,
and
take
one
side
of
it
in
one
hand
,
and
the
other
in
the
other
hand
,
so
that
the
knot
may
bee
about
the
midst
of
one
side
,
and
using
some
circumstantiall
words
to
beguile
your
spectators
,
turn
one
hand
about
towards
your selfe
,
and
the
other
from
you
,
so
shall
you
twist
the
Tape
once
,
then
clap
the
ends
together
,
and
then
if
you
slippe
your
fore-finger
and
thumbe
of
every
hand
betweene
the
Tape
,
almost
as
one
would
hold
a
skeine
of
threed
to
bee
wound
,
this
will
make
one
fold
or
twist
as
may
appeare
in
the
first
figure
,
where
A
signifieth
the
twist
or
fold
.
B
the
knot
,
then
in
like
manner
make
a
second
fold
about
the
line
D
C
,
as
you
may
see
by
the
second
figure
,
where
B
signifieth
the
knot
,
C
the
first
fold
,
A
the
second
fold
.
Hold
then
your
fore-finger
and
thumbe
of
your
left
hand
upon
the
second
twist
,
and
upon
the
knot
also
,
and
the
fore-finger
and
thumbe
of
your
right
hand
upon
the
first
fold
C
,
and
desire
some
one
of
your
spectators
to
cut
all
asunder
with
a
sharpe
knife
at
the
crosse
line
E
D.
When
it
is
cut
,
hold
still
your
left
hand
,
and
let
all
your
ends
fall
you
hold
in
your
right
hand
,
for
there
will
bee
a
shew
of
eight
ends
,
foure
above
,
and
foure
below
,
and
so
the
string
will
bee
thought
to
bee
cut
into
foure
parts
,
as
may
bee
seene
by
the
third
figure
,
then
gather
up
the
ends
that
you
let
fall
into
your
left
hand
,
and
deliver
two
of
the
ends
(
seeming
to
take
them
at
randome
)
unto
two
severall
persons
,
bidding
them
to
hold
them
fast
,
still
keeping
your
left
hand-fingers
upon
the
twists
or
folds
:
th●
〈◊〉
yo●r
right
and
left
hand
seeme
to
tumble
,
and
〈◊〉
a●l
the
ends
together
that
you
had
in
your
left
hand
,
tw●st
out
all
the
●lips
or
peeces
which
are
three
,
as
you
may
see
at
A
and
B
in
the
third
figure
;
twist
them
all
,
I
say
,
into
a
little
ball
,
and
conceale
it
betweene
some
of
your
fingers
of
your
left
hand
,
and
crumble
thereof
on
another
confused
heape
:
and
after
some
words
said
,
with
your
right
hand
deliver
this
confused
heape
unto
one
of
the
company
,
bidding
him
to
hold
it
fast
,
saying
,
Hulla
passa
quicke
couragious
,
fiat
conjunctio
:
Then
bid
them
looke
on
it
,
who
while
they
are
greedily
looking
after
the
event
,
you
may
with
ease
convey
the
ball
or
roll
of
ends
into
your
pocket
,
so
will
it
be
thought
that
you
have
made
it
whole
by
vertue
of
your
words
.
An
excellent
tricke
if
it
bee
gracefully
handled
,
and
a
tricke
that
cost
me
more
trouble
to
finde
then
all
the
rest
;
this
I
have
gone
purposely
to
observe
,
but
returned
as
wise
as
I
went
.
A
device
how
to
multiply
one
face
,
and
make
it
seem
to
bee
an
hundred
or
a
thousand
.
THis
feare
must
bee
performed
by
a
Looking-Glasse
made
for
the
nonce
,
the
figure
whereof
I
have
fully
described
,
with
the
manner
of
making
it
,
which
is
thus
:
First
,
make
an
hoope
or
phillet
of
wood
,
horne
,
or
such
like
,
about
the
widenesse
of
an
Halfe-Crowne
peece
,
in
the
circumference
,
the
thicknesse
of
this
hoope
or
phillet
let
be
about
a
quarter
of
an
inch
.
In
the
middle
of
this
hoope
fasten
a
bottome
of
wood
or
brasse
,
and
bore
in
a
decent
order
divers
small
holes
about
the
bignesse
of
small
peafe
,
or
phitches
,
then
upon
the
one
side
of
this
bottome
set
in
a
peece
of
Crystall
glasse
,
and
fasten
it
in
the
hoope
close
to
the
bottome
;
then
take
a
quantity
of
quicke-silver
,
and
prepare
it
after
this
manner
:
Take
,
I
say
,
a
quantity
as
an
ounce
or
two
of
quick-silver
,
and
put
to
it
a
little
salt
,
and
stirre
them
well
together
,
then
put
to
them
some
white
wine
vineger
,
and
wash
and
stirre
all
together
with
a
wooden
slice
,
then
poure
away
the
vineger
,
and
wash
away
the
salt
with
faire
water
made
warme
,
then
poure
away
the
water
,
and
put
the
quick-silver
into
a
peece
of
white
leather
,
and
bind
it
up
hard
,
and
so
twist
or
straine
it
out
into
an
earthen
panne
,
and
it
will
be
very
bright
and
pure
,
then
put
so
much
of
this
prepared
quicke-silver
into
the
phillet
or
foresaid
hoope
as
will
cover
the
bottome
;
then
let
into
the
hoope
another
peece
of
christall
glasse
fitted
thereto
,
and
cement
the
sides
,
that
the
quick-silver
may
not
runne
out
,
and
it
is
done
.
The
figure
whereof
I
have
here
under-set
;
A
representeth
the
one
side
that
giveth
the
forme
of
one
face
to
the
beholders
.
B
the
other
side
that
multiplieth
the
beholders
face
,
so
oft
as
there
are
holes
in
the
middle
bottome
,
the
use
whereof
I
shall
not
insist
upon
,
●ince
he
that
is
verst
in
the
former
feats
will
better
conceive
of
himselfe
to
use
it
,
then
my
words
can
either
direct
or
assist
him
.
Of
divers
pretty
Iuggling
knacks
.
THere
are
many
feats
able
to
beguile
the
simple
,
as
to
deliver
meale
,
pepper
,
ginger
,
or
any
powder
out
of
your
mouth
after
the
eating
of
bread
,
which
is
done
by
retaining
any
of
these
things
stuffed
in
a
little
paper
or
bladder
,
conveyed
into
your
mouth
,
and
grinding
the
same
with
your
teeth
.
Item
,
a
rush
thorow
a
peece
of
trencher
,
having
three
holes
,
and
at
the
other
side
in
the
third
hole
,
by
reason
of
an
hollow
place
made
betwixt
them
both
,
so
as
the
sleight
consisteth
in
the
turning
of
the
peece
of
trencher
.
Feats
by
conveyance
of
money
.
THe
best
place
to
dispose
of
a
peece
of
money
,
is
in
the
palme
of
the
hand
,
and
the
best
peece
for
conveyance
is
a
Tester
,
but
with
practice
all
will
be
alike
.
A
notable
tricke
to
transforme
a
Counter
into
a
Groat
.
TAke
a
Groat
,
or
some
lesse
peece
of
money
,
and
grinde
it
very
thinne
at
the
one
side
,
and
take
two
Counters
and
grind
them
,
the
one
on
the
one
side
,
the
other
on
the
other
side
;
glew
the
smooth
side
of
the
Groat
to
the
smooth
side
of
one
of
the
Counters
,
joyning
them
to
close
together
as
may
bee
,
especally
at
the
edges
,
which
may
bee
so
filed
,
as
they
shall
seem
to
bee
but
one
peece
;
to
wit
,
one
side
a
Counter
,
the
other
side
a
Groat
.
Then
take
a
little
greene
wax
,
and
lay
it
upon
the
smooth
side
of
the
one
Counter
,
as
it
doe
not
much
discolour
the
Groat
;
and
so
will
that
Counter
with
the
Groat
cleave
together
,
as
though
they
were
glewed
,
and
being
filed
even
with
the
groat
and
the
other
counter
,
will
seem
so
like
a
p●rfect
entire
counter
,
that
though
a
stranger
handle
it
,
he
shall
not
bewray
it
;
then
having
a
little
touched
your
forefinger
and
the
thumb
of
your
right
hand
with
●oft
waxe
,
take
therewith
this
counterfeit
counter
,
and
lay
it
downe
openly
upon
the
palme
of
your
left
hand
,
in
such
sort
as
an
Auditor
layeth
downe
his
counters
,
wringing
the
same
hard
,
so
as
you
may
leave
the
glewed
counter
with
the
groat
apparently
in
the
palme
of
your
left
hand
,
and
the
smooth
side
or
the
waxed
counter
will
stick
fast
upon
your
thumbe
,
by
reason
of
the
waxe
wherewith
it
is
smeared
,
and
so
you
may
hide
it
at
your
pleasure
,
provided
alwaies
that
you
lay
the
waxed
side
downward
,
and
the
glewed
side
upward
:
then
close
your
hand
,
and
in
or
after
the
closing
thereof
turn
the
piece
,
and
so
instead
of
a
counter
(
which
they
suppose
to
be
in
your
hand
)
you
shall
seeme
to
hav●
a
groat
,
to
the
admiration
of
the
beholders
,
if
it
be
well
handled
.
An
excellent
feat
to
make
a
two-peny
piece
lie
plaine
in
your
hand
,
and
to
be
passed
from
thence
when
you
list
.
PUt
a
little
red
waxe
(
but
not
too
thinne
)
upon
the
naile
of
your
longest
finger
,
and
let
a
stranger
put
a
twopeny
piece
into
the
palme
of
your
hand
,
and
shut
your
fist
suddenly
,
and
convey
the
two
peny
piece
upon
the
wax
,
which
with
use
you
may
so
accomplish
as
no
man
shall
perceive
it
.
Then
say
,
Aili●●
,
cafil
,
zaze
,
hit
,
mel
,
and
suddenly
open
your
hand
,
holding
the
tips
of
your
fingers
rather
lower
then
higher
than
the
palme
of
your
hand
,
and
the
beholders
will
wonder
where
it
is
become
.
Then
shut
your
hand
suddenly
againe
,
and
lay
a
wager
whether
it
be
there
or
no
;
and
you
may
either
leave
it
there
,
or
take
it
away
with
you
at
your
pleasure
.
How
to
transforme
any
one
small
thing
into
another
form
by
folding
of
paper
.
TAke
a
sheet
of
paper
and
fold
,
or
double
the
same
,
so
as
one
side
be
a
little
longer
than
the
other
:
Then
put
a
Counter
between
the
two
leaves
of
the
paper
up
to
the
middle
of
the
top
of
the
fold
,
holding
the
same
so
as
it
bee
not
perceived
,
and
lay
a
groat
on
the
outside
thereof
,
right
against
the
Counter
,
and
fold
it
downe
to
the
end
of
the
longer
side
:
and
when
you
unfold
it
againe
,
the
Groat
will
bee
where
the
Counter
was
,
and
the
Counter
where
the
Groat
was
,
so
as
some
will
suppose
that
you
have
changed
the
money
into
a
Counter
,
and
with
this
many
feats
may
be
done
.
How
to
convey
money
out
of
one
of
your
hands
into
the
other
by
Legerdemaine
.
FIrst
,
you
must
hold
open
your
right
hand
,
and
lay
therein
a
Tester
,
or
some
big
peece
of
money
,
then
lay
thereupon
the
top
of
your
long
left
finger
,
and
use
some
words
of
Art
,
and
upon
the
sudden
,
slip
your
right
hand
from
your
finger
,
wherewith
you
held
downe
the
Tester
,
and
bending
your
hand
a
very
little
,
you
shall
retaine
the
Tester
still
therein
,
and
suddenly
d●awing
your
right
hand
thorow
your
left
,
you
shall
seem
to
have
left
the
Tester
there
,
especially
when
you
shut
in
due
time
your
left
hand
.
Which
that
it
may
more
plainly
appeare
to
be
truly
done
,
you
may
take
a
knife
,
and
seeme
to
knocke
against
it
,
so
as
it
shall
make
a
great
sound
:
but
instead
of
knocking
the
peece
in
the
left
hand
(
where
none
is
)
you
shall
hold
the
point
of
the
knife
fast
with
the
left
hand
,
and
knock
against
the
Tester
held
in
the
other
hand
,
and
it
will
be
thought
to
hit
against
the
money
in
your
left
hand
.
Then
after
some
words
of
Art
pronounced
,
open
your
hand
,
and
when
nothing
is
seen
,
it
will
bee
wondered
at
,
how
the
Tester
came
removed
.
How
to
make
a
six-pence
seeme
to
fall
thorow
a
Table
.
YOu
must
have
an
Handkercher
about
you
,
having
a
Counter
neatly
sewed
in
one
of
the
corners
of
it
:
take
it
out
of
your
pocket
,
and
desire
some
body
to
lend
you
a
Tester
,
and
seeme
to
wrap
it
up
in
the
midst
of
the
Handkercher
,
but
retain
it
in
your
hand
,
and
instead
of
so
doing
,
wrap
the
corner
in
the
middest
that
hath
the
Counter
sewed
in
it
,
and
then
bid
them
feele
if
it
be
not
there
,
which
they
will
imagin
to
be
no
other
than
the
Tester
that
they
lent
you
,
then
bid
them
lay
it
under
a
hat
upon
the
Table
,
and
call
for
a
Basin
of
water
hold
it
under
the
Table
,
and
knock
,
saying
,
Vade
,
come
quicke
,
and
then
let
the
six-pence
fall
out
of
your
hand
into
the
water
.
Then
take
up
the
hat
,
and
take
the
Handkercher
and
shake
it
,
saying
,
that
is
gone
,
then
shew
them
the
money
in
the
Basin
of
water
.
How
to
seeme
to
blow
a
six-pence
out
of
another
mans
hand
.
TAke
a
six-pence
blow
on
it
,
and
clap
it
presently
into
one
of
your
spectators
hands
,
bidding
them
to
hold
it
fast
:
Then
aske
of
him
if
hee
be
sure
he
have
it
,
then
to
be
certaine
,
hee
will
open
his
hand
and
looke
.
Then
say
to
him
nay
,
but
if
you
let
my
breath
go
off
,
I
cannot
doe
it
.
Then
take
it
out
of
his
hand
again
,
and
blow
on
it
,
and
staring
him
in
the
face
,
clap
a
piece
of
horn
in
his
hand
,
and
retain
the
sixpence
,
shutting
his
hand
your selfe
.
Bid
him
hold
his
hand
down
,
and
flip
the
Tester
between
one
of
his
cuffes
.
Then
take
the
stone
that
you
shew
feares
with
,
and
hold
it
unto
his
hand
,
saying
,
By
vertue
hereof
,
I
will
and
command
the
money
to
vanish
you
hold
in
your
hand
,
vade
,
now
see
:
when
they
have
looked
,
then
they
will
think
that
it
is
changed
by
the
vertue
of
your
stone
.
Then
take
the
horne
againe
,
and
seem
to
cast
it
from
you
,
retaining
it
,
and
say
,
vade
,
and
anon
say
you
have
your
money
again
:
He
then
will
begin
to
marvell
,
and
say
I
have
not
,
say
then
to
him
again
,
you
have
,
and
I
am
sure
you
have
it
:
Is
't
not
in
your
hande
?
if
it
be
not
there
,
turn
down
one
of
your
sleeves
,
for
it
is
in
one
I
am
sure
,
where
when
he
findeth
it
,
he
will
not
a
little
wonder
.
How
to
deliver
to
one
man
six
pence
,
and
to
another
,
another
six
pence
,
and
to
make
both
the
testers
come
into
one
mans
hand
.
DEliver
into
one
mans
hand
two
testers
even
set
instead
of
one
,
shutting
his
hand
immediatly
:
Y●ur
finger
must
be
rub'd
wi●h
waxe
,
so
you
may
del●d●
him
without
any
susp●tion
.
then
take
another
tester
,
and
have
in
readinesse
a
peece
of
horn
cut
even
with
it
.
Clap
the
said
tester
into
his
right
hand
with
the
horn
under
it
,
The
hard
p●essing
of
the
monie
in
the
hand
,
wil●
seem
that
the
money
is
in
the
hand
when
it
is
n●t
,
f●r
a
moment
,
●●erefore
be
qu●ck
.
staying
the
tops
of
your
two
middlemost
fingers
stiffe
upon
the
tester
;
so
bending
his
hand
a
little
downward
,
draw
your
fingers
toward
you
,
and
they
will
slip
the
tester
out
of
his
hand
,
and
shut
his
hand
presently
,
who
feeling
the
peece
of
horne
,
wil
imagine
it
is
the
testers
:
then
say
,
he
that
kissed
a
pretty
wench
last
in
a
corner
,
shall
have
both
Testers
in
his
hand
,
and
the
other
shall
have
none
.
This
may
also
be
performed
without
a
piece
of
horne
,
wringing
one
tester
in
the
palme
of
the
hand
,
and
taking
it
away
with
your
thumbe
being
wax●d
;
for
the
hard
wringing
the
money
in
the
hand
will
make
the
partie
beleeve
he
hath
it
,
when
he
ha●h
it
not
.
Conveyance
of
Cards
and
Dice
.
THere
are
multitude
of
delightful
feats
which
may
be
performed
by
an
orderly
placing
,
facing
,
shuffling
,
and
cutting
of
cards
usually
played
withall
.
Also
a
number
of
other
strange
feats
may
be
shewed
by
cards
and
dice
,
such
as
may
be
purposely
made
.
The
cards
may
be
made
halfe
of
one
print
,
and
halfe
of
another
;
so
by
holding
them
divers
waies
,
sundry
things
may
be
presented
each
contrary
to
other
.
For
example
,
with
foure
of
the
●ame
Cards
purposely
made
,
and
holding
them
accordingly
,
you
shall
present
eight
severall
things
.
Now
for
the
Dice
the
cunning
is
in
forging
them
,
and
a
ready
retaining
or
throwing
two
among
three
,
or
one
with
two
:
they
must
,
I
say
,
bee
forged
bigger
towards
one
side
than
●he
other
,
so
that
the
weight
of
one
side
may
draw
up
the
other
.
Othe●
some
may
be
made
flatter
being
furnished
with
such
like
.
And
having
learned
to
retain
them
handsomely
and
readily
,
you
may
have
the
game
at
command
,
and
know
before
hand
what
will
be
your
cast
,
and
so
vi●
upon
it
too
.
Moreover
,
for
the
Cards
there
are
divers
other
tricks
,
of
which
those
that
are
cheaters
make
continuall
practice
,
as
nipping
them
,
turning
up
one
corner
,
marking
them
with
little
spots
,
placing
glasses
behinde
those
that
are
gamesters
,
and
in
rings
for
the
purpose
dumbe
shews
of
some
standers
by
.
But
I
will
not
stand
on
discovering
these
,
for
in
this
our
cousening
age
there
are
too
many
so
expert
herein
,
that
they
maintain
themselves
better
than
many
an
honest
man
with
a
lawfull
trade
and
calling
.
Onely
take
this
by
the
way
,
Those
that
have
money
in
their
purses
,
let
them
beware
of
Carding
and
Dicing
,
lest
they
wish
they
had
,
when
it
is
too
late
.
As
for
my
own
part
,
I
le
never
play
for
that
I
am
sure
of
already
:
if
any
will
play
with
me
upon
other
termes
I
am
sure
I
shall
lose
nothing
by
the
bargain
.
Of
Confederacie
.
SOme
there
are
that
have
said
I
writ
n●t
sufficiently
of
this
part
in
the
former
Edition
;
I
rather
thinke
the
cause
was
they
thought
they
had
too
little
for
their
money
.
Neverthelesse
I
will
to
give
every
one
their
desired
content
,
and
deliver
my
mind
more
fully
herein
,
and
it
may
be
,
which
I
most
desire
,
they
may
learne
to
avoid
the
company
of
roving
gamesters
,
cheaters
.
I
mean
that
frequent
the
high-waies
,
and
principall
Towns
and
places
of
resort
thereabouts
;
for
they
are
of
the
same
manner
,
though
for
a
worser
end
.
First
therefore
by
this
word
Confederacie
is
meant
,
a
kind
of
Combination
,
or
making
an
agreement
or
covenanting
among
sundry
persons
for
the
accomplishment
of
one
and
the
selfe-same
bu●inesse
:
understand
me
aright
;
All
these
being
very
well
knowne
each
to
other
(
at
least
the
design
as
may
appeare
by
their
agreement
thereabout
)
do
so
estrange
themselves
as
if
they
had
never
seen
each
other
before
.
And
to
the
end
that
they
might
performe
their
designe
,
not
giving
any
the
least
suspition
to
any
of
the
beholders
,
I
will
give
you
an
instance
or
two
,
whereby
I
shall
give
you
sufficient
information
for
the
more
ready
conceiving
of
every
particular
in
this
nature
when
and
wheresoever
you
see
them
performed
.
How
to
cast
a
peece
of
mony
away
,
and
to
find
it
in
another
mans
mouth
,
pocket
,
or
pu●se
.
THe
Jugler
calls
for
some
one
peece
of
coine
,
as
a
tester
or
a
shilling
of
any
one
in
the
company
,
he
willeth
him
to
marke
it
with
what
marke
he
will
,
then
he
taketh
it
,
and
casteth
it
away
,
and
commeth
to
his
confederate
(
who
is
funished
before-hand
with
the
like
peece
of
coine
marked
with
the
very
same
marke
)
and
bids
him
deliver
the
money
out
of
his
pocket
,
purse
,
or
if
he
say
the
word
,
his
mouth
;
for
this
is
concluded
of
before-hand
.
Now
this
confederate
to
make
the
matter
seem
more
strange
,
will
fume
and
fret
,
asking
how
hee
should
come
by
it
,
till
having
found
the
marke
,
hee
will
confesse
it
bee
none
of
his
,
wondring
at
his
skill
how
he
should
send
it
thither
:
and
all
the
rest
be
taken
with
a
reall
administration
of
his
extraordinary
cunning
.
How
by
the
sound
of
a
Counter
philliped
to
tell
what
side
is
uppermost
,
whether
crosse
or
pile
.
THe
Jugler
drawes
a
Counter
out
of
his
pocket
,
and
saith
to
the
company
,
See
here
is
a
Counter
,
take
it
who
please
,
and
let
him
phillip
it
up
and
I
will
by
my
cunning
tell
you
whither
crosse
or
pile
be
uppermost
by
the
very
found
,
for
you
shall
hood-winke
me
.
Now
there
are
three
or
four
or
more
confederates
in
the
place
,
who
seeming
strangers
as
well
as
the
rest
,
will
be
very
importunate
to
have
the
philliping
it
,
and
before
one
of
these
shall
have
it
,
who
by
some
signe
of
the
fingers
or
countenance
(
foreknowne
to
the
Jugler
)
do
give
him
information
after
he
is
demanded
.
Of
the
same
nature
is
that
tricke
formerly
mentioned
in
the
booke
,
and
called
,
The
decollation
of
Iohn
Baptist
.
To
make
one
dance
naked
is
a
tricke
of
the
same
nature
,
for
the
party
before
hand
is
agreed
to
doe
it
,
and
also
the
manner
and
circumstances
:
So
that
the
Jugler
to
blind
the
people
,
pronounceth
sundry
words
to
such
a
person
,
he
then
begins
to
rave
like
a
madde
man
,
and
put
his
clothes
off
with
a
kind
of
violent
carelessenesse
,
though
,
God
knowes
,
the
party
knowes
as
well
what
he
doth
,
as
your selfe
that
reades
it
.
After
the
same
manner
shall
you
know
what
money
another
hath
in
his
purse
,
and
casting
money
into
a
pond
,
and
finding
it
under
a
stone
or
threshold
in
another
place
.
Also
to
make
a
peece
of
money
to
leap
out
of
a
cup
and
run
to
another
,
by
means
of
a
small
hair
fastened
to
the
money
,
which
haire
the
Confederate
guideth
,
with
a
multitude
of
such
like
strange
feats
,
which
may
seem
impossible
to
the
judgment
of
the
common
people
to
be
effected
without
the
assistance
of
the
devill
,
or
some
familiar
,
which
to
nominate
is
neither
needfull
,
nor
will
my
occasions
permit
so
much
leisure
as
to
do
it
.
How
to
make
a
bellowing
noyse
like
an
Oxe
,
of
a
Dogge
and
Cat
fighting
together
,
or
of
two
Mastiffes
fighting
together
.
THis
I
saw
once
or
twice
performed
,
and
to
my
knowledge
not
above
.
It
was
a
lusty
young
fellow
that
did
it
with
a
cloth
cast
over
his
head
which
reached
down
to
his
feet
,
all
was
to
beguile
the
people
,
for
he
pretended
that
this
sound
came
out
of
his
belly
;
he
had
a
full
and
strong
voice
,
and
had
practised
a
good
while
,
and
another
man
of
the
like
making
may
easily
doe
as
much
.
For
his
nostrils
he
stopt
with
his
forefinger
and
thumbe
,
and
closed
the
other
part
of
his
hand
over
his
mouth
as
I
saw
him
once
uncased
.
Another
man
I
saw
at
the
same
time
,
eat
halfe
a
dozen
quick
charcoal
,
but
this
is
not
to
be
attempted
by
every
one
:
For
some
cannot
eat
their
meat
very
hot
;
others
there
are
that
cannot
away
with
meat
except
it
be
boyling
hot
,
and
they
are
of
that
disposition
,
I
should
have
said
rather
constitution
,
that
they
will
not
stick
to
take
meat
as
it
is
boyling
out
of
a
pot
with
their
bare
hands
,
and
yet
feel
no
extraordinary
heat
.
I
●ave
here
set
downe
kind
Reader
,
not
onely
all
u●uall
feates
that
either
my self
have
seen
or
heard
of
,
but
divers
others
also
which
I
am
sure
were
never
in
print
,
nor
as
yet
performed
by
any
I
could
ever
heare
of
except
my selfe
,
and
all
to
give
thee
thy
full
content
:
and
take
thus
much
from
me
,
If
thou
rightly
understand
this
,
there
is
not
a
trick
that
any
jugler
in
the
world
can
shew
thee
,
but
thou
shalt
bee
able
to
conceive
after
what
manner
it
is
performed
,
if
he
doe
it
by
a
slight
of
hand
,
and
not
by
an
unlawfull
and
detested
meanes
.
That
there
are
such
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
of
,
that
doe
work
by
unlawfull
means
,
and
have
besides
their
own
naturall
endowments
the
assistance
of
some
familiar
,
whereby
they
many
times
effect
such
miraculous
things
as
may
well
be
admired
by
whomsoever
shall
either
behold
or
hear
tell
of
them
.
I
could
give
an
instance
in
one
whose
father
while
he
lived
was
the
greatest
jugler
in
England
,
and
used
the
assistance
of
a
familiar
;
he
lived
a
Tinker
by
trade
,
and
used
his
fears
as
a
trade
by
the
by
;
he
lived
,
as
I
was
informed
,
alwaies
betattered
,
and
died
for
ought
I
could
heare
in
the
same
estate
.
I
could
here
,
as
I
have
instanced
in
this
man
,
so
give
you
his
name
,
and
where
he
liveth
,
but
because
he
hath
left
the
bad
way
,
and
chose
the
better
,
because
he
hath
amended
his
life
,
and
betook
himself
to
an
honest
calling
,
I
will
rather
rejoyce
at
his
good
,
then
do
him
any
the
least
disgrace
by
naming
him
to
be
such
a
one
.
If
here
be
any
aske
my
name
,
let
them
know
I
am
not
bound
to
tell
them
.
If
they
ask
why
I
have
writ
this
Pamphlet
,
it
is
to
delight
them
:
let
them
excuse
me
for
the
one
,
and
thanke
me
for
the
other
;
and
it
may
be
if
time
will
give
so
much
leisure
,
I
shall
hereafter
spend
my
wits
upon
some
better
Subject
.
FINIS
.