THE
Art
of
Iugling
or
Legerdemaine
.
HEretofore
we
haue
runne
ouer
the
two
pestiferous
carbuncles
in
the
commonwealth
,
the
Egiptians
and
common
Canters
:
the
poore
Canters
we
haue
canuased
meetly
well
,
it
now
remaines
to
proceed
where
I
left
,
and
to
goe
forward
with
that
before
I
promised
:
St.
Quintane
be
my
good
spéed
,
I
know
I
haue
run
through
the
hands
of
many
,
censured
of
diuers
,
&
girded
at
not
of
a
few
:
But
humanity
is
euer
willinger
to
loue
then
hate
:
curtesie
much
forwarder
to
commend
then
dispraise
:
clemency
infinitely
proner
to
absolue
then
condemne
.
Is
it
not
possible
to
find
sauery
hearbs
among
nettles
,
roses
among
prickles
,
berries
among
bushes
,
marrow
among
bones
,
graine
among
stubble
,
&
a
little
corne
among
a
great
deale
of
chaffe
?
In
the
rankest
&
strongest
poysons
,
pure
and
swéet
balmes
may
be
distilled
,
and
some
matter
or
other
worthy
to
be
remembred
may
be
embraced
,
whosoeuer
is
the
Author
.
There
is
nothing
so
exceeding
foolish
but
hath
beene
defended
by
some
wise
man
,
nor
any
thing
so
passing
wise
,
but
hath
beene
confuted
by
some
foole
:
Tut
St.
Barnard
saw
not
all
thinges
,
and
the
best
cart
may
eftsoones
ouerthrow
:
That
curld
pate
Rufus
that
goes
about
with
Zoylus
to
carpe
and
find
fault
,
must
bring
the
Standard
of
iudgement
with
him
,
and
make
wisedome
the
moderator
of
his
wit
,
otherwise
they
may
be
like
to
purchase
to
themselues
the
worshipfull
names
of
Dunces
and
Dottipoles
.
So
much
by
the
way
.
These
kind
of
people
about
an
hundred
yeares
a
goe
,
about
the
twentith
yeare
of
King
Henry
the
eight
,
began
to
gather
an
head
,
at
the
first
héere
about
the
Southerne
parts
,
and
this
(
as
I
am
informed
)
and
as
I
can
gather
,
was
their
beginning
.
Certaine
Egiptians
,
banished
their
Contry
(
belike
not
for
their
good
conditions
)
ariued
heere
in
England
,
who
being
excellent
in
quaint
trickes
and
deuises
,
not
knowne
héere
at
that
time
among
vs
,
were
estéemed
and
had
in
great
admiration
,
for
what
with
strangenes
of
their
atire
and
garments
,
together
with
their
sleightes
and
legerdemaines
,
they
were
spoke
of
farre
and
néere
,
insomuch
that
many
of
our
English
loyterers
ioyned
with
them
,
and
in
time
learned
their
craft
and
cosening
.
The
speach
which
they
vsed
was
the
right
Egiptian
language
,
with
whom
our
Englishmen
conuersing
,
at
last
learned
their
language
.
These
people
continuing
about
the
countrey
in
this
fashion
,
practising
their
cosoning
art
of
fast
and
loose
and
legerdemaine
,
purchased
to
themselues
great
credit
among
the
country
people
,
and
got
much
by
Palmistry
and
telling
of
fortunes
;
insomuch
they
pittifully
cosened
the
poore
country
Girles
,
both
of
money
,
siluer
spoones
,
and
the
best
of
their
apparrel
,
or
any
good
thing
they
could
make
,
onely
to
heare
their
fortunes
.
This
Giles
Hather
(
for
so
was
his
name
)
together
with
his
whore
Kit
Calot
,
in
short
space
had
following
them
a
pretty
traine
,
hee
tearming
himselfe
the
King
of
the
Egiptians
,
and
she
the
Quéene
,
riding
about
the
cuntry
at
their
pleasures
vncontrouled
:
at
last
about
forty
yeares
after
,
when
their
knauery
began
to
be
espied
,
and
th
t
their
cosonages
were
aparant
to
the
world
(
for
they
had
continued
néere
thirty
yeares
after
this
manner
,
pilling
&
polling
,
&
cosening
the
cuntry
)
it
pleased
the
Councell
to
looke
more
narrowly
into
their
liues
,
and
in
a
Parliament
made
in
the
first
and
second
yeares
of
Phillip
and
Mary
,
there
was
a
strict
Statute
made
,
that
whosoeuer
should
transport
any
Egiptians
into
this
Realme
,
should
forfeit
forty
poundes
:
Moreouer
it
was
then
enacted
,
that
such
fellowes
as
tooke
vpon
them
the
name
of
Egiptians
aboue
the
age
of
fourteene
,
or
that
shal
come
ouer
and
be
transported
into
England
,
or
any
other
persons
,
and
shal
be
séene
in
the
company
of
Vagabonds
calling
themselues
Egiptians
,
or
counterfeiting
,
transforming
,
or
disguising
themselues
by
their
apparrel
,
speach
,
or
other
behauiours
like
vnto
Egiptians
,
and
so
shall
continue
,
either
at
one
,
or
seuerall
times
,
by
the
space
of
a
month
,
they
should
be
adiudged
fellons
,
not
allowed
their
book
or
clergy
.
These
Acts
and
Statutes
now
put
forth
,
and
come
to
their
hearing
,
they
deuide
their
bands
and
companies
,
into
diuers
parts
of
the
realme
:
for
you
must
immagine
&
know
that
they
had
aboue
two
hundred
roagues
and
Vagabonds
in
a
regiment
:
and
although
they
went
not
altogether
,
yet
would
they
not
bee
aboue
two
or
thrée
miles
one
from
the
other
,
and
now
they
dare
no
more
bee
known
by
the
name
of
Egiptians
,
nor
take
any
other
name
vpon
them
then
poore
people
.
But
what
a
number
were
executed
presently
vpon
this
statute
you
would
wonder
:
yet
notwithstanding
all
would
not
preuaile
:
but
stil
they
wandred
,
as
before
vp
and
downe
,
and
méeting
once
in
a
yeare
at
a
place
appointed
:
sometimes
at
the
Deuils
arse
in
peak
in
Darbishire
,
&
otherwhiles
at
Ketbrooke
by
Black-heath
,
or
elsewhere
,
as
they
agréed
stil
at
their
meeting
.
Then
it
pleased
Queene
Elizabeth
to
reuine
the
Statute
before
mentioned
,
in
the
twentith
yeare
of
her
happy
raigne
,
endeauoring
by
all
meanes
possible
to
root
out
this
pestiferous
people
,
but
nothing
could
be
done
you
see
vntil
this
day
they
wander
vp
and
downe
in
the
name
of
Egiptians
coulouring
their
faces
and
fashioning
their
attire
,
and
garment
like
vnto
them
,
yet
if
you
aske
what
they
are
,
they
dare
no
otherwise
then
say
,
they
are
Englishmen
,
and
of
such
a
shire
,
and
so
are
forced
to
say
contrary
to
that
they
pretend
.
But
to
come
a
little
neerer
our
purpose
,
these
fellowes
seeing
that
no
profit
comes
by
wandring
,
but
hazard
of
their
liues
,
do
dayly
decrease
,
and
break
off
their
wonted
society
,
&
betake
themselues
many
of
them
,
some
to
be
Pedlers
,
some
Tinkers
,
some
Iuglers
,
&
some
to
one
kind
of
life
or
other
,
insomuch
that
Iugling
is
now
become
common
,
I
meane
the
professors
who
make
an
occupation
and
profession
of
the
same
:
which
I
must
needs
say
that
some
deserue
commendation
for
the
nimblenes
and
agility
of
their
hands
,
&
might
be
thought
to
performe
as
excellent
things
by
their
Legerdemaine
,
as
any
of
your
wizards
witches
or
magitians
whatsoeuer
.
For
these
kind
of
people
do
performe
that
in
action
,
which
the
other
do
make
shew
of
:
and
no
doubt
many
when
they
heare
of
any
rare
exploit
performed
which
cannot
enter
into
their
capacity
,
and
is
beyond
their
reach
,
straight
they
attribute
it
to
be
done
by
the
diuel
,
and
that
they
work
by
some
familiar
spirit
,
when
indéed
it
is
nothing
els
but
méere
illusion
,
cosoning
,
or
Legerdemaine
.
For
you
haue
many
now
a
daies
,
and
also
héertofore
many
writers
haue
béen
abused
,
aswell
by
vntrue
reports
,
as
by
illusion
and
practises
of
confederacy
,
&
legerdemaine
,
&c.
Somtimes
imputing
to
words
that
which
resteth
in
nature
,
and
somtimes
to
the
nature
of
the
thing
that
which
proceedeth
of
fraud
and
deception
of
sight
.
But
when
these
experiments
grow
to
superstition
and
impiety
they
are
eether
to
be
forsaken
as
vayne
:
or
denyed
as
false
:
howbeit
if
these
thinges
be
done
for
recreation
and
mirth
,
&
not
to
the
hurt
of
our
neighbour
,
nor
to
the
prophaning
&
abusing
of
Gods
holy
name
:
then
sure
they
are
neither
impious
nor
altogether
vnlawfull
,
though
heere
in
or
heeereby
a
naturall
thing
be
made
to
seeme
supernaturall
.
And
Gentlemen
,
if
you
will
giue
me
patience
,
I
wil
lay
open
vnto
you
the
right
art
of
Iugling
&
Legerdemain
,
in
what
poynt
it
doth
chiefly
consist
:
principally
being
sorry
that
it
thus
falls
out
,
to
lay
open
the
secrets
of
this
mistery
to
the
hinderance
of
such
poore
men
as
liue
thereby
,
whose
doings
heerein
are
not
onely
tollerable
,
but
greatly
commendable
,
so
they
abuse
not
the
name
of
God
,
nor
make
the
people
to
attribute
vnto
them
his
power
,
but
alwayes
acknowledge
wherein
the
Art
consisteth
.
The
true
Art
therefore
of
Iuglers
,
consisteth
in
Legerdemaine
:
that
is
,
the
nimble
conueiance
and
right
dexterity
of
the
hand
,
the
which
is
performed
diuers
wayes
,
especially
three
:
The
first
and
principall
consisteth
in
hiding
and
conueying
of
balls
:
The
second
in
alteration
of
money
:
The
third
in
the
shuffling
of
Cardes
:
and
hee
that
is
expert
in
these
,
may
shew
many
feates
,
and
much
pleasure
.
There
are
diuers
and
rare
experiments
to
be
showne
by
confederacy
,
either
priuate
or
publicke
,
al
which
in
place
conuenient
shall
be
spoken
of
.
And
forasmuch
as
I
professe
rather
to
discouer
then
teach
these
misteries
,
it
shal
suffice
to
signifie
vnto
you
,
that
the
endeauour
and
drift
of
Iuglers
,
is
onely
to
abuse
mens
eyes
and
iudgements
:
now
then
my
meaning
is
in
wordes
as
plaine
as
I
can
to
rip
vp
some
proper
tricks
of
that
Art
,
whereof
some
are
pleasant
and
delectable
,
othersome
dreadfull
&
desperate
,
and
all
but
méere
delusions
,
and
counterfeit
actions
,
as
you
shall
soone
see
by
due
obseruation
of
euery
knacke
by
me
héereafter
deciphered
:
And
first
in
order
I
wil
begin
with
the
plaies
and
deuises
of
the
ball
,
which
are
many
:
I
wil
touch
only
but
a
few
,
and
as
in
this
,
so
in
all
the
rest
I
will
run
ouer
slightly
yet
as
plaine
as
I
can
.
Notes
and
obseruations
to
be
marked
of
such
as
desire
to
practise
Legerdemaine
.
REmember
that
a
Iugler
must
set
a
good
face
vppon
that
matter
he
goeth
about
,
for
a
good
grace
and
carriage
is
very
requisite
to
make
the
art
more
authenticall
.
Your
feates
&
tricks
then
must
be
nimbly
cleanly
&
swiftly
done
,
and
conueyed
so
as
the
eyes
of
the
beholders
may
not
discerne
or
perceaue
the
tricke
,
for
if
you
be
a
bungler
,
you
both
shame
your selfe
,
and
make
the
Art
you
go
about
to
bee
perceiued
and
knowne
,
and
soe
bring
it
into
discredit
.
Wherefore
vse
and
excercise
makes
a
man
ready
.
Vsus
promptos
facit
,
and
by
that
meanes
your
feats
being
cunningly
handled
,
you
shall
deceaue
both
the
eye
,
the
hand
,
and
the
eare
:
for
often
times
it
wil
fall
out
in
this
art
,
and
deuises
Deceptio
visus
,
Deceptio
tactus
,
et
Deceptio
auditus
.
Note
also
that
you
must
haue
none
of
your
Trinkets
wanting
,
least
you
be
put
to
a
nonplus
:
besides
it
behooueth
you
to
be
mindful
whereabout
you
go
in
euery
trick
,
least
you
mistake
and
so
discredit
the
art
.
You
must
also
haue
your
words
of
art
,
certaine
strange
wordes
,
that
it
may
not
only
breed
the
more
admiration
to
the
people
,
but
lead
away
the
eye
from
espying
ner
of
your
conueyance
,
while
you
may
induce
the
mind
the
mind
,
to
conceiue
,
and
suppose
that
you
deale
with
Spirits
:
and
such
kind
of
sentences
,
and
od
speeches
,
are
vsed
in
diuers
manners
fitting
and
correspondent
to
the
action
and
feat
that
you
go
about
.
As
Hey
Fortuna
,
furia
,
nunquam
,
Credo
,
passe
passe
,
when
come
you
Sirrah
?
or
this
way
hey
Iack
come
a
loft
for
thy
maisters
aduantage
passe
and
be
gone
,
or
otherwise
:
as
Alif
,
Casil
:
zaze
,
Hit
,
metmeltat
,
Saturnus
,
Iupiter
,
Mars
,
Sol
,
Venus
,
Mercury
,
Luna
?
or
thus
Drocti
,
Micocti
,
et
Senarocti
,
Velu
barocti
,
Asmarocti
,
Ronnsee
,
Farounsee
,
hey
passe
passe
:
many
such
obseruations
to
this
art
are
necessary
,
without
which
all
the
rest
,
are
little
to
the
purpose
.
Feates
of
Legerdemaine
vsed
with
the
Balls
with
one
or
more
.
COncerning
the
Ball
,
the
plaies
and
deuises
thereof
are
infinite
:
insomuch
as
if
you
can
vse
them
wel
,
you
may
shew
an
hundred
feates
,
but
whether
you
seeme
to
throw
the
Ball
into
the
aire
,
or
into
your
mouth
,
or
into
your
left
hand
,
or
as
you
list
,
it
must
be
kept
stil
in
your
right
hand
:
if
you
practise
first
with
the
leaden
bullet
you
shal
the
sooner
,
&
better
do
it
with
balls
of
Corke
:
the
first
place
at
your
first
learning
where
you
are
to
bestow
a
great
bal
is
in
the
palme
of
your
hand
,
with
your
ring
finger
,
but
a
smal
ball
is
to
be
placed
with
your
thumbe
betwixt
your
ring
finger
and
middle
finger
:
then
are
you
to
practise
to
doe
it
betwixt
your
other
fingers
,
then
betwixt
the
forefinger
and
the
thumbe
,
with
the
fore
finger
and
middle
finger
ioyntly
,
and
therein
is
the
greatest
and
the
strangest
conueying
shewed
.
Lastly
the
same
small
ball
is
to
be
practised
in
the
palme
of
your
hand
,
and
so
by
vse
you
shal
not
only
séeme
to
put
any
ball
from
you
,
and
yet
retaine
it
in
your
hand
,
but
you
shall
keepe
fower
or
fiue
as
clenly
and
certaint
as
one
,
this
being
first
learned
,
and
sleight
attained
vnto
,
you
shal
worke
wonderful
feats
,
as
for
example
.
Note
for
this
feaf
you
must
haue
foure
boxes
made
in
the
manner
of
extinguishers
that
are
made
to
put
out
candles
,
but
as
big
againe
:
but
for
want
of
them
you
may
take
smal
candlesticks
,
or
saltseller
couers
,
or
som
such
like
.
Lay
three
or
foure
balls
before
you
,
and
as
many
boxes
or
smal
candlesticks
&c.
then
first
seeme
to
put
one
ball
into
your
left
hrnd
,
and
therewithall
seeme
to
hold
the
same
fast
.
Then
take
one
of
the
boxes
&c.
or
any
other
thing
(
hauing
a
hollow
foote
,
and
being
great
)
and
seeme
to
put
the
Ball
which
is
thought
to
bee
in
your
left
hand
vnderneath
the
same
,
and
so
vnder
the
other
candlesticks
,
Boxes
,
&c.
seeme
to
bestow
the
other
balls
,
and
all
this
while
the
beholders
will
suppose
each
ball
to
bee
vnder
each
box
or
candlesticks
&c.
this
done
vse
some
charme
or
forme
of
wordes
(
before
set
downe
)
hey
Fortuna
furie
nunquam
credo
,
passe
passe
:
then
take
bp
the
candlestick
with
one
hand
and
blow
,
saying
that
s
gone
you
sée
:
and
so
likewise
looke
vnderneath
each
candlesticke
with
like
grace
and
words
(
for
you
must
remember
to
carry
a
good
grace
and
face
on
the
matter
)
and
the
beholders
will
wonder
where
they
are
become
:
But
if
you
in
lifting
vp
the
candlesticke
with
your
right
hand
leaue
all
those
three
or
foure
balls
vnder
one
of
them
(
as
by
vse
you
may
easily
doe
)
hauing
turned
them
all
downe
into
your
hand
and
holding
them
fast
with
your
little
,
and
ring
finger
)
and
take
the
box
or
candlesticke
&c.
with
your
other
fingers
and
cast
the
balls
vp
into
the
hollownesse
thereof
(
for
so
they
wil
not
rowle
so
soone
away
)
the
standers
by
wil
be
much
astonished
,
but
it
wil
séeme
wonderful
strange
,
if
also
in
shewing
how
there
remaineth
nothing
vnder
another
of
the
said
candlestickes
taken
vp
with
your
left
hand
you
leaue
behind
you
a
great
ball
,
or
any
other
thing
,
the
miracle
wil
be
the
greater
.
For
first
,
they
wil
thinke
you
haue
pulled
away
all
the
Balles
by
miracle
,
then
that
you
haue
brought
them
againe
by
like
meanes
,
and
they
neither
thinke
,
or
looke
that
any
other
thing
remaineth
behinde
vnder
any
of
them
,
and
therefore
after
many
other
feates
done
returne
to
your
candlestickes
,
remembring
where
you
left
the
great
ball
,
and
in
no
wise
touch
the
same
,
but
hauing
another
great
ball
about
you
,
séeme
to
bestow
the
same
in
manner
and
forme
aforesaid
vnder
a
candlestick
which
standeth
farthest
from
that
where
the
ball
lyeth
,
and
when
you
shall
with
words
and
●…
armes
séeme
to
conuey
the
same
ball
from
vnder
the
same
boxe
or
candlesticke
,
&c.
(
and
afterwardes
bring
it
vnder
the
boxe
&c.
which
you
touched
not
)
it
wil
(
I
say
)
séeme
wonderfull
strange
.
To
make
a
little
Ball
swel
in
your
hand
til
it
be
very
great
.
TAke
a
very
great
ball
in
your
hand
,
or
three
indifferent
big
balls
,
and
shewing
one
or
three
little
balls
,
séeme
to
put
them
into
your
said
left
hand
,
concealing
(
as
you
may
wel
do
)
the
other
balls
which
were
there
before
:
Then
vse
charmes
and
wordes
and
make
them
seeme
to
swell
,
and
open
your
hand
&c.
This
play
is
to
be
varied
an
hundred
waies
,
for
as
you
find
them
all
vnder
the
boxe
or
candlestick
,
so
may
you
go
to
a
stander
by
and
take
off
his
hatte
or
cappe
and
shew
the
balls
to
be
there
,
by
conueying
them
thereinto
as
you
turne
the
bottome
vpward
,
These
thinges
to
them
that
know
them
are
counted
ridiculous
,
but
to
those
that
are
ignorant
they
are
maruelous
.
To
consume
or
rather
conuey
one
or
many
Balls
into
nothing
.
IF
you
take
a
ball
or
more
,
and
seeme
to
put
it
into
your
other
hand
,
and
whilst
you
vse
charming
wordes
,
you
conuey
them
out
of
your
right
hand
into
your
lapp
,
it
wil
séeme
strange
,
for
when
you
open
your
left
hand
,
immediately
the
sharpest
lookers
on
wil
say
,
it
is
in
your
other
hand
,
which
also
then
you
may
open
,
and
when
they
sée
nothing
there
they
are
greatly
ouertaken
.
Another
pretty
feat
with
balls
.
TAke
fower
Balls
,
one
of
the
which
kéep
betwéene
your
fore-finger
and
your
middle
,
laying
the
other
thrée
vpon
the
table
,
then
take
vp
one
and
put
it
into
your
left
hand
,
and
afterward
take
vp
another
,
and
conueying
it
and
the
other
betweene
your
fingers
into
your
left
hand
,
taking
vp
the
third
&
séeming
to
cast
it
from
you
into
the
ayre
or
into
your
mouth
,
ot
else
where
you
please
vsing
some
words
or
charmes
as
before
:
the
standers
by
when
you
aske
them
how
many
you
haue
in
your
hand
,
will
iudge
there
are
noe
more
then
two
,
which
when
you
open
your
hand
they
shall
sée
how
they
are
deluded
.
But
I
will
leaue
to
speak
of
the
bal
any
more
;
for
héerein
I
might
hold
you
all
day
,
and
yet
shal
I
not
be
able
to
teach
you
the
vse
of
it
,
nor
scarsely
to
vnderstand
what
I
meane
or
write
concerning
it
,
vnlesse
you
haue
had
some
sight
therof
heeretofore
by
demonstration
:
and
alwayes
remember
that
the
right
hand
be
kept
open
and
straight
,
onely
kéepe
the
palme
from
view
:
and
therefore
I
wil
end
with
this
miracle
,
A
feat
,
tending
chiefely
to
laughter
and
mirth
LAy
one
ball
vpon
your
shoulder
and
another
on
your
arme
,
and
the
third
on
the
table
,
which
because
it
is
round
and
wil
not
easily
lye
vpon
the
poynt
of
your
knife
,
you
must
bid
a
stander
by
,
lay
it
thereon
,
saying
,
that
you
meane
to
cast
all
those
three
balls
into
your
mouth
at
once
:
and
holding
a
knife
as
a
penne
in
your
hand
,
when
hee
is
laying
vpon
the
poynt
of
your
knife
,
you
may
easily
with
the
haft
rap
him
on
the
fingers
,
for
the
other
mattter
wil
be
hard
to
doe
.
And
thus
much
of
the
Balls
.
To
come
to
the
second
principall
part
of
Legerdemaine
,
which
is
conueyance
of
mony
,
wherin
by
the
way
obserue
that
the
mony
must
not
be
of
too
small
nor
to
great
a
circumference
,
least
either
,
it
hinder
the
conueyance
.
Of
conueyance
of
money
.
THe
conueying
of
mony
is
not
much
inferiour
to
the
Ball
,
but
much
easier
to
doe
:
The
principall
place
to
keepe
a
peece
of
mony
in
,
is
the
palme
of
your
hand
:
The
best
peece
to
keepe
,
is
a
testor
,
but
with
excercise
all
wil
be
alike
,
except
the
money
be
very
small
,
and
then
it
must
be
kept
betweene
the
fingers
,
and
almost
at
the
fingers
end
,
where
as
the
ball
is
to
be
kept
,
and
below
neere
to
the
palme
.
To
conuey
money
out
of
one
hand
into
the
other
,
by
Legerdemaine
FIrst
you
must
hold
open
your
right
hand
and
lay
therein
a
testor
or
counter
,
and
then
lay
there
vppon
the
top
of
your
long
left
finger
,
and
vse
wordes
&c.
and
vpon
the
sudden
slip
your
right
hand
from
your
finger
,
wherewith
you
held
downe
the
testor
,
and
bending
your
hand
a
very
little
you
shal
retaine
the
testor
therein
,
and
sodainely
(
I
say
)
drawing
your
right
hand
through
your
left
,
you
shall
seeme
to
haue
left
the
testor
there
,
especially
when
you
shut
in
due
time
your
left
hand
,
which
that
it
may
more
plainely
appeare
to
be
truely
done
,
you
may
take
a
knife
and
seeme
to
knock
against
it
,
so
as
it
shall
make
a
great
sound
:
but
in
stead
of
knocking
the
peece
in
the
left
hand
(
where
none
is
)
you
shal
hold
the
point
of
the
knife
fast
with
the
left
hand
,
and
knock
against
the
testor
held
in
the
other
hand
,
and
it
wil
bee
thought
to
hit
against
the
mony
in
the
left
hand
:
then
vse
words
,
and
open
the
hand
,
and
when
nothing
is
séene
it
wil
be
wondred
at
how
the
testor
was
remooued
.
To
conuert
or
transubstantiate
mony
into
Counters
,
or
Counters
into
money
.
AN
other
way
to
deceiue
the
lookers
on
,
is
to
doe
as
before
with
a
testor
,
and
kéeping
a
Counter
in
the
palme
of
your
left
hand
,
secretly
to
séeme
to
put
the
testor
thereinto
,
which
being
retained
stil
in
the
right
hand
,
when
the
left
hand
is
opened
,
the
testor
wil
séeme
to
be
transubstantiated
into
a
counter
.
To
put
one
Testor
into
one
hand
and
another
into
another
hand
,
and
with
words
to
bring
them
together
.
HE
that
hath
once
attained
to
the
facillity
of
retaining
one
peece
of
money
in
his
right
hand
may
shew
an
hundred
pleasant
conceits
by
that
meanes
,
&
may
reserue
two
or
thrée
as
well
as
one
:
and
loe
,
then
may
you
séeme
to
put
one
peece
into
your
left
hand
,
and
retaining
it
stil
in
your
right
hand
you
may
together
therewith
take
vp
another
like
peece
,
and
so
with
wordes
séeme
to
bring
both
péeces
together
.
To
put
one
Testor
into
a
strangers
hand
,
and
another
in
your
owne
hand
,
and
to
conuay
both
into
the
strangers
hand
with
words
.
TAke
two
testors
éeuenly
set
togeather
,
and
put
the
same
instead
of
one
testor
into
a
strangers
hand
:
And
then
making
as
though
you
put
one
testor
into
your
left
hand
,
with
words
you
shal
make
it
séeme
that
you
conuey
the
tstore
in
your
hand
into
the
strangers
hand
,
for
when
you
open
your
said
left
hand
,
there
shal
be
nothing
séene
:
and
he
opening
his
hand
,
shal
finde
two
where
he
thought
was
but
one
.
By
this
deuise
I
say
an
hundred
conceits
may
be
shewed
.
To
throw
a
peece
of
money
away
and
to
find
it
againe
where
you
please
.
YOu
may
with
the
the
midle
and
ring-finger
of
the
right
hand
,
conuey
a
testor
into
the
palme
of
the
same
hand
,
and
séeming
to
cast
it
away
,
keepe
it
still
,
which
with
confederacy
wil
séeme
strange
:
to
wit
,
when
you
find
it
againe
,
where
another
hath
bestowed
the
very
like
péece
But
these
things
without
excercise
cannot
bee
done
,
and
therefore
I
wil
procéede
to
shew
things
to
bee
brought
to
passe
by
mony
,
with
lesse
difficulty
and
yet
as
strange
as
the
rest
,
which
being
vnknowne
,
are
maruelously
commended
,
but
being
knowne
,
are
derided
and
nothing
at
all
regarded
.
To
make
a
testor
or
a
groat
,
leape
out
of
a
pot
,
or
run
along
vppon
a
table
with
wordes
.
YOu
shall
see
a
Iugler
take
a
testor
or
groat
&
throw
it
into
a
pot
,
or
lay
it
on
the
middle
of
the
table
,
and
with
inchanting
wordes
cause
the
same
to
leap
out
of
the
pot
,
or
run
towards
him
or
from
him
wardes
along
the
table
,
which
wil
séeme
miraculous
,
vntil
that
you
know
that
it
is
done
with
a
long
black
haire
of
a
womans
head
,
fastned
to
the
brim
of
a
groat
by
meanes
of
a
little
hole
driuen
through
with
a
spanish
needle
:
in
like
sort
you
may
vse
a
knife
or
any
other
small
thing
.
But
if
you
would
haue
it
to
goe
from
you
you
must
haue
a
confederate
,
by
which
meanes
all
Iugling
is
graced
,
and
amended
.
This
Feate
is
the
stranger
if
it
bee
done
by
night
,
a
candle
placed
betweene
the
lookers
on
and
the
Iugler
:
for
by
that
meanes
the
eye
sight
is
hindred
from
discerning
the
conceit
.
A
very
pretty
trick
to
make
a
groate
or
a
testor
to
sinck
through
a
table
and
to
vanish
out
of
a
handkerchiefe
very
strangely
.
A
Iugler
sometimes
wil
borrow
a
groate
or
a
testor
,
and
marke
it
before
you
,
and
séeme
to
put
the
same
into
a
handkerchiefe
,
and
wind
it
so
that
you
may
the
better
see
and
féele
it
:
then
wil
he
take
you
the
handkerchiefe
and
bid
you
feele
whether
the
groat
be
there
or
no
:
And
he
wil
also
require
you
to
put
the
same
vnder
a
candlestick
or
some
such
thing
:
then
wil
he
send
for
a
bason
,
and
holding
the
same
vnder
the
boord
right
against
the
candlesticke
wil
vse
certaine
words
of
inchauntments
,
and
in
short
space
you
shal
heare
the
groat
fall
into
a
bason
:
this
done
one
takes
vp
the
candlesticke
,
and
the
Iugler
taketh
the
handkerchiefe
by
the
tassell
,
and
shaketh
it
:
but
tho
money
is
gone
,
which
séemeth
as
strange
as
any
feat
whatsoeuer
:
but
being
knowne
,
the
miracle
is
turned
into
a
bable
,
for
it
is
nothing
but
to
sowe
a
counter
into
the
corner
of
a
handkerchiefe
finely
couered
with
a
peece
of
linnen
,
little
bigger
then
the
counter
,
which
corner
you
must
conuey
instéed
of
the
groat
deliuered
vnto
you
into
the
middle
of
your
handkerchiefe
,
leauing
the
other
either
in
your
hand
or
lappe
,
which
afterwards
you
must
séeme
to
pul
through
the
board
,
letting
it
fal
into
the
bason
.
To
conuey
one
shilling
being
in
one
hand
in
into
an
other
,
holding
your
armes
abroad
like
to
a
roode
.
EVermore
it
is
necessary
to
mingle
some
merry
toyes
among
your
graue
miracles
as
in
this
case
of
mony
:
Take
a
shilling
in
each
hand
,
and
holding
your
armes
abroad
to
lay
a
wager
that
you
wil
put
them
both
into
one
hand
without
bringing
them
any
whit
neerer
together
:
the
wager
being
layd
,
hold
your
armes
abroad
like
a
rood
and
turning
about
with
your
body
lay
the
shilling
out
of
one
of
your
hands
vpon
the
table
,
and
turning
the
other
side
,
take
it
vp
with
the
other
hand
,
and
so
you
shal
winne
your
wager
.
Of
Cardes
and
Dice
,
with
good
cautions
how
to
auoyde
cosonage
therein
:
speciall
rules
to
conuey
and
handle
the
cardes
,
and
the
manner
and
order
how
to
accomplish
all
difficult
and
strange
iestings
wrought
with
cardes
.
HAuing
bestowed
some
wast
money
among
you
I
wil
set
you
to
Cardes
and
Dice
.
A
cupple
of
honest
friendes
that
draw
both
in
a
yoake
together
,
which
haue
beene
the
ouerthrow
of
many
a
hundred
in
this
realme
,
and
these
are
not
the
slightest
matters
wherevppon
Iuglers
doe
worke
,
and
shew
their
feates
.
By
which
kinde
of
Iugling
a
great
number
haue
Iugled
away
not
only
their
money
but
also
their
landes
,
their
health
,
their
time
and
their
honesty
:
I
dare
not
(
as
I
could
shew
)
the
lewd
Iugling
that
cheators
practise
,
least
it
minister
some
offence
,
to
the
wel
disposed
,
to
the
simple
hurt
and
losse
,
and
to
the
wicked
occasion
of
euil
doing
.
But
by
the
way
I
wil
a
little
speak
of
Dice
,
and
the
vse
of
them
,
as
caueats
rather
to
let
you
beware
of
their
cosonings
,
then
to
giue
you
light
to
follow
their
doings
:
Non
ad
imitandum
sed
euitandum
.
First
you
must
know
a
Langret
,
which
is
a
die
that
simple
men
haue
seldome
heard
of
,
but
often
seene
to
their
cost
,
and
this
is
a
wel-fauored
die
,
and
seemeth
good
and
square
,
yet
is
it
forged
longer
,
vppon
the
Cater
,
and
Trea
then
any
other
way
:
And
therefore
it
is
called
a
Langret
.
Such
be
also
called
bard
Cater
treas
,
because
commonly
the
longer
end
wil
of
his
owne
sway
drawe
downewardes
,
and
turne
vp
to
the
eye
,
Sice
,
Sincke
,
Deuce
or
Ace
.
The
principal
vse
of
them
is
at
Nouum
,
for
so
long
as
a
paire
of
Bard
cater
treas
be
walking
on
the
bourd
,
so
long
can
ye
not
cast
fiue
nor
nine
vnles
it
be
by
great
chance
,
that
the
roughnes
of
the
table
,
or
some
other
stoppe
force
them
to
stay
,
and
runne
against
their
kind
:
for
without
Cater
or
trey
you
know
that
fiue
or
nine
can
neuer
come
.
But
you
wil
say
by
this
reason
,
he
that
hath
the
first
dice
is
like
alwayes
to
strip
and
rob
all
the
table
about
.
To
helpe
this
,
there
must
be
for
that
purpose
,
an
odde
Die
,
called
a
flat
Catertrea
ready
at
hand
,
and
no
other
number
,
for
graunting
the
trea
and
cater
be
alwaies
vpon
the
one
Die
,
then
is
there
no
chance
vppon
the
other
Die
,
but
may
serue
to
make
fiue
or
nine
,
&
cast
forth
,
&
loose
all
.
But
now
to
show
you
what
shifts
they
haue
to
bring
the
flat
die
in
and
out
which
is
a
iolly
cunning
property
of
Iugling
,
with
them
called
foysting
:
the
which
is
nothing
else
but
a
slight
to
carry
easily
within
the
hand
,
as
often
as
the
foyster
list
:
so
that
either
hee
or
his
partner
shal
cast
the
dice
,
the
flat
comes
not
abroad
til
hee
hath
made
a
great
hand
,
and
won
as
much
as
him
listeth
:
otherwise
the
flat
is
euer
one
,
vnles
some
few
times
vpon
purpose
he
suffer
the
silly
soules
to
cast
in
a
hand
or
two
,
to
giue
them
courage
to
continue
the
play
and
liue
in
hope
of
winning
.
These
things
I
know
séeme
very
strange
to
the
simple
,
and
as
yet
cannot
sinke
into
their
braine
,
how
a
man
may
carry
so
many
dice
in
one
hand
,
and
chop
and
change
them
so
often
,
and
neuer
bee
espied
:
so
as
before
I
tolde
you
,
Iuglers
conueyance
séemeth
to
excéed
the
compasse
of
reason
till
you
knowe
the
feat
:
but
what
is
it
that
vse
and
labour
ouercometh
not
.
To
foyst
finely
and
readily
and
with
the
same
hand
to
tell
mony
to
and
fro
,
is
a
thing
hardly
learned
,
and
asketh
a
bould
spirit
and
long
experience
,
though
it
be
one
of
the
first
the
Cheater
learneth
.
What
should
I
speake
any
more
of
false
dice
,
of
fullomes
,
high-men
,
low-men
,
gourds
,
and
brisled
dice
,
grauiers
,
demies
,
and
contraries
,
all
which
haue
their
sundry
vses
:
but
it
is
not
my
meaning
to
stand
on
this
subiect
:
I
would
rather
vse
my
pen
,
and
spend
my
time
,
to
diswade
and
perswade
all
gamsters
,
to
beware
not
not
onely
with
what
dice
,
but
with
what
company
and
where
they
exercise
gaming
:
and
be
well
assured
Gentlemen
that
all
the
friendly
entertainment
you
shall
finde
amongst
them
is
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
perswade
you
to
play
,
and
therby
to
breed
your
great
losse
,
if
not
altogether
your
vndoing
.
Therefore
vtterly
forbeare
to
hazard
any
thing
at
dice
,
and
liue
in
doubt
and
suspition
of
cheating
,
wheresoeuer
you
play
(
vnles
you
know
your
company
very
well
)
for
the
contagion
of
cheating
is
now
growne
so
vniuersall
,
that
they
swarme
in
euery
quarter
:
and
therefore
yée
cannot
bee
in
safety
vnlesse
you
shunne
the
company
of
such
altogether
.
To
leaue
Dice
and
returne
to
Cardes
,
wherein
is
as
much
falsehood
and
cosoning
as
in
Dice
:
I
wil
therefore
disclose
as
much
in
one
as
in
the
other
,
for
I
would
not
giue
a
poynt
to
choose
which
of
them
is
the
better
,
or
rather
the
worse
,
for
there
is
such
a
slight
in
shufling
and
sorting
of
the
cardes
,
that
play
at
what
game
you
will
,
all
is
lost
before
hand
,
but
if
there
bee
a
confederate
either
of
the
players
or
standers
bye
,
the
mischéefe
cannot
then
bee
auoyded
.
Beware
therefore
,
when
you
play
among
strangers
,
of
him
that
seemes
simple
or
drunken
,
for
vnder
their
habit
the
most
speciall
Cosoners
are
presented
,
and
while
you
thinke
by
their
simplicity
and
imperfections
to
beguile
them
,
(
and
thereof
perchance
are
perswaded
by
their
confederates
(
your
very
friends
as
you
thinke
)
you
your selfe
wil
be
most
of
all
ouertaken
.
Beware
also
of
betters
by
and
lookers
on
:
and
namely
on
them
that
bet
on
your
side
:
for
whilst
they
looke
on
your
game
without
suspition
,
they
discouer
it
by
signes
to
your
aduersaries
,
with
whom
they
bet
,
and
yet
are
they
confederates
,
whereof
me
thinkes
this
one
aboue
the
rest
procéedeth
from
a
fine
inuention
.
A
tricke
by
confederacy
at
Cardes
.
A
Gamester
after
he
had
béene
oftentimes
bitten
with
Cheators
,
and
after
much
losse
,
grew
very
suspitious
in
his
play
,
so
that
he
would
not
suffer
any
of
the
sitters
by
to
be
priuy
to
his
game
:
for
this
the
Cheators
deuised
a
new
shift
that
a
woman
should
sit
close
by
him
:
and
by
the
swift
and
slowe
drawing
of
her
needle
giue
notice
to
the
Cheator
what
was
the
Cosens
game
.
Other
helpes
there
bee
,
as
to
set
the
Cosen
vppon
the
bench
,
with
a
looking-glasse
behind
him
on
the
wal
,
wherein
the
Cheator
may
alwaies
sée
what
Cardes
he
hath
in
his
hand
,
So
that
a
few
ensamples
in
stead
of
many
that
might
be
rehearsed
,
this
one
conclusion
may
be
gathered
,
that
whosoeuer
is
giuen
to
play
,
and
once
sitteth
amongst
them
,
it
is
great
ods
but
that
hee
shal
rise
a
looser
.
But
many
there
be
that
liue
so
continently
,
that
nothing
can
perswad
them
to
put
a
penny
in
aduenture
,
and
some
againe
are
so
vnskilful
that
lack
of
cunning
forceth
them
to
forbeare
play
:
but
yet
hard
it
is
for
any
man
to
fall
into
their
company
,
but
they
will
make
him
stoope
at
one
game
or
other
:
and
for
this
purpose
their
first
drift
and
intent
is
to
seeke
,
by
all
meanes
possible
to
vnderstand
his
nature
and
wherevnto
hee
is
most
inclined
:
if
they
find
that
he
taketh
pleasure
in
the
company
of
women
then
séek
they
to
strike
him
at
the
sacking
law
(
as
they
term
it
)
and
take
this
for
a
rule
,
that
all
the
Baudes
in
the
country
be
of
the
Cheators
familiar
acquaintance
.
Therefore
it
is
not
very
hard
for
them
at
all
times
to
prouide
for
their
amorous
Cosin
,
alewd
letcherous
Lady
to
kéepe
him
louing
company
,
then
fall
they
to
banqueting
,
and
carousing
and
hunting
of
Tauernes
,
and
much
is
the
cost
that
this
silly
cosin
shal
be
at
in
Iewels
and
apparrel
,
otherwise
he
shal
not
once
get
a
graunt
to
haue
a
kisse
at
his
mistris
lippes
:
and
euer
in
the
middle
of
their
conference
,
she
layeth
in
this
reason
,
for
her
sake
to
put
in
twenty
or
thirty
Crownes
in
aduenture
at
Cardes
or
Dice
:
you
know
not
(
quoth
shée
)
what
may
be
a
womans
luck
:
if
he
refuse
it
,
Lord
how
vnkindly
shée
takes
the
matter
,
and
cannot
be
reconciled
with
lesse
then
a
gowne
or
a
kertle
of
silke
.
But
now
if
these
Cheaters
perceiue
that
hee
estéemeth
no
bruised
ware
,
but
is
enamored
with
virginity
,
they
haue
a
fine
cast
within
an
houres
warning
,
to
make
Ione
Siluerpin
as
good
a
maid
as
though
she
had
neuer
come
to
the
stewes
:
but
to
let
these
thinges
passe
for
offending
of
chast
eares
,
whose
displeasure
I
would
not
incurre
,
for
all
the
cheates
these
Gamesters
get
in
a
whole
yeare
,
but
to
our
purpose
.
There
are
two
sorts
of
vsing
the
Cardes
,
the
one
is
in
playing
(
with
one
or
more
)
games
,
as
Primeto
,
Trumpe
,
Saunte
,
Decoye
&c.
The
other
vse
of
Cardes
is
to
shew
feates
of
Legerdemaine
.
Concerning
the
first
,
if
it
be
vsed
for
recreation
,
and
not
to
the
prophaning
of
Gods
holy
name
,
nor
hurt
of
our
brethren
and
neighbours
,
they
are
to
be
tollerated
:
but
now
(
more
is
the
pitty
)
they
are
not
vsed
in
that
fashion
as
they
should
be
,
but
much
hurt
oft
times
ariseth
thereof
.
Primero
now
as
it
is
in
great
vse
,
so
is
there
much
deceit
in
it
,
some
play
vppon
the
pricke
,
some
pinch
the
cards
priuily
with
their
nayles
,
some
turne
vp
the
corners
,
some
mark
them
with
fine
spots
of
Ink
,
some
there
be
that
trauell
into
Spaine
and
into
Italy
to
learne
fine
tricks
and
quaint
conueyances
at
cardes
,
and
returne
home
and
win
much
money
with
them
heare
in
England
,
but
yet
at
the
last
they
are
stil
ouer-reached
by
some
fine
wittes
that
deuise
new
sleights
heere
at
home
.
At
Trumpe
,
Saunte
,
and
such
other
like
games
,
cutting
at
the
nick
is
a
great
aduantage
,
so
is
cutting
by
Bum-card
finely
vnder
or
ouer
:
stealing
the
stock
or
the
discarded
Cardes
.
At
Decoye
they
drawe
twenty
handes
,
together
and
play
all
vpon
assurance
when
to
winne
or
loose
,
other
helps
there
be
,
as
I
haue
before
set
downe
,
with
a
looking
glasse
and
confederacy
:
all
which
and
such
like
,
tend
to
cosening
and
hurt
of
our
brother
:
but
we
wil
proceed
with
the
other
vse
of
Cardes
,
which
tendeth
to
mirth
,
and
recreation
of
mind
,
and
which
in
themselues
simply
is
no
hurt
,
vnlesse
they
are
abused
.
In
shewing
feats
and
iugling
with
cardes
the
principall
poynt
consisteth
in
shufling
them
nimbly
,
and
alwayes
kéeping
one
certen
carde
either
in
the
bottome
,
or
in
some
knowne
place
of
the
stock
,
foure
or
fiue
Cardes
from
it
,
héereby
you
may
séeme
to
worke
wonders
,
for
it
wil
be
easie
for
you
to
see
or
espie
one
,
which
though
you
be
perceiued
to
doe
,
it
wil
not
be
suspected
,
if
you
shufle
them
wel
afterwardes
,
and
this
note
I
must
giue
you
,
That
in
reseruing
the
bottome
Card
,
you
must
alwayes
(
whilst
you
shuffle
)
keepe
him
a
little
before
,
or
a
little
behind
all
the
cardes
lying
vnderneath
him
,
bestowing
him
(
I
say
)
either
a
little
beyond
his
fellowes
before
right
ouer
the
fore
finger
,
or
else
behind
the
rest
,
so
as
the
little
finger
of
the
left
hand
may
meete
with
it
,
which
is
the
easier
and
readier
,
and
the
better
way
:
In
the
beginning
of
your
shuffling
shuffle
as
thick
as
you
can
,
and
in
the
end
throw
vpon
the
stock
the
nether
carde
(
with
soe
many
moe
at
the
least
as
you
would
haue
preserued
for
any
purpose
)
a
little
before
,
or
behind
the
rest
;
prouided
alwayes
that
your
fore-finger
,
if
the
pack
be
laide
before
,
or
the
little
finger
if
the
pack
lye
behind
,
creepe
vp
to
méet
with
the
bottome
carde
,
&
not
lye
betwixt
the
cardes
,
and
when
you
féele
it
,
you
may
there
hold
it
vntil
you
haue
shuffled
ouer
the
cardes
againe
,
stil
leauing
your
kept
card
below
,
being
perfect
héerein
,
you
may
do
almost
what
you
list
with
the
cardes
:
By
this
meanes
what
pack
soeuer
you
make
,
though
it
consist
of
eight
,
twelue
,
or
twenty
cardes
you
may
kéepe
them
stil
together
vn●…
uered
,
next
to
the
nether
carde
,
and
yet
shuffle
them
often
to
satisfie
the
curious
beholders
,
as
for
ensample
and
for
breuities
sake
,
to
shew
you
diuers
feates
vnder
one
.
How
to
deliuer
out
foure
Aces
,
and
to
conuert
them
into
foure
Knaues
.
MAke
a
pack
of
eight
Cardes
,
to
wit
foure
knaues
and
foure
Aces
,
and
although
all
the
eight
Cardes
must
lie
immediatly
together
,
yet
must
each
Knaue
and
Ace
bée
openly
seauered
,
and
the
same
eight
cardes
must
lye
also
in
the
lowest
place
of
the
bunch
,
then
shuffle
them
soe
,
as
alwayes
at
the
second
shuffling
,
or
at
least
wise
at
the
end
of
your
shuffling
the
said
pack
,
and
of
the
pack
one
ace
may
lye
nethermost
,
or
so
as
you
may
know
where
hee
goeth
and
lyeth
,
and
alwaies
I
say
let
your
foresaid
pack
,
with
thrée
or
foure
cardes
more
,
lie
vnseperably
together
immediately
vppon
and
with
that
ace
,
then
vsing
some
speech
or
other
deuise
,
and
putting
your
hand
with
the
cardes
to
the
edge
of
the
table
,
to
hide
the
account
,
let
out
priuily
a
péece
of
the
second
card
,
which
is
one
of
the
knaues
holding
forth
the
stock
in
both
your
handes
,
and
shewing
to
the
standers
by
the
nether
Card
,
(
which
is
the
ace
or
kept
Card
)
couering
also
the
head
or
péece
of
the
knaue
(
which
is
your
next
Card
)
with
your
foure
fingers
:
draw
out
the
same
knaue
laying
it
downe
on
the
table
:
thē
shuffle
againe
,
kéeping
your
pack
whole
,
&
so
haue
you
two
aces
lying
together
in
the
bottome
,
&
therfore
to
reforme
that
disordered
Card
,
as
also
for
a
grace
and
countenance
to
that
action
,
take
off
the
vppermost
Card
of
the
bunch
,
&
thrust
it
into
the
middest
of
the
Cardes
,
and
then
take
away
the
nethermost
Card
which
is
one
of
your
aces
,
and
bestow
him
likewise
:
then
may
you
begin
as
before
,
shewing
an
other
ace
,
and
in
stead
thereof
lay
downe
another
knaue
,
and
so
forth
,
vntil
in
stead
of
your
foure
aces
you
haue
laid
downe
foure
knaues
.
The
beholders
all
this
while
thinking
that
there
lye
foure
aces
on
the
table
,
are
greatly
abused
and
wil
maruaile
at
the
transformation
.
How
to
tell
one
what
Card
hee
seeth
in
the
bottome
,
when
the
same
Card
is
shuffled
into
the
stocke
.
WHen
you
haue
séene
a
Card
priuily
,
or
as
though
you
marked
it
not
,
lay
the
same
vndermost
,
and
shuffle
the
Cardes
as
before
you
were
taught
,
till
your
Card
lye
againe
below
in
the
bottome
:
then
shew
the
same
to
the
be
holders
,
willing
them
to
remember
it
,
then
shuffle
the
Cardes
or
let
any
shuffle
them
,
for
you
know
the
Cardes
already
,
and
therefore
may
at
any
time
tel
them
what
Card
they
saw
,
which
neuerthelesse
would
be
done
with
great
circumstance
,
and
lesse
shew
of
difficulty
.
A
strange
and
excellent
trick
to
hold
foure
Kings
in
the
hand
,
and
by
words
to
transforme
them
into
foure
Aces
,
and
after
to
make
them
all
blank
Cards
,
one
after
another
.
YOu
shall
sée
a
Iugler
take
foure
Kinges
and
no
more
in
his
hand
,
and
apparantly
shew
you
them
,
then
after
some
wordes
and
charmes
,
he
wil
throw
them
downe
before
you
vppon
the
table
,
taking
one
of
the
Kings
away
and
adding
but
one
other
Card
:
then
taking
them
vp
againe
and
blowing
vpon
them
,
wil
shew
you
them
transformed
into
blanck
Cardes
,
white
on
both
sides
:
after
vsing
charmes
againe
,
throwing
them
downe
as
before
,
(
with
the
faces
downeward
)
wil
take
them
vp
againe
and
shew
you
foure
Aces
,
blowing
stil
vpon
them
,
that
it
may
bréed
the
more
wonder
,
which
trick
in
my
mind
is
nothing
inferiour
to
the
rest
:
and
being
not
knowne
wil
séeme
wonderfull
strange
to
the
spectators
,
yet
after
you
know
it
you
cannot
choose
but
say
the
trick
is
pretty
.
Now
therefore
to
accomplish
this
feat
you
must
haue
Cardes
made
for
the
purpose
,
(
halfe
Cardes
you
may
call
them
)
that
is
the
one
halfe
kings
,
the
other
part
aces
,
so
that
laying
the
aces
one
ouer
the
other
,
nothing
but
the
kings
wil
be
seene
,
and
then
turning
the
Kinges
downeward
,
the
foure
aces
wil
be
seene
,
prouided
you
must
haue
two
whole
,
one
whole
king
to
couer
one
of
the
aces
,
or
els
it
wil
be
perceiued
,
and
the
other
an
ace
to
lay
ouer
the
Kings
,
when
you
meane
to
shew
the
aces
:
then
when
you
wil
make
them
all
blanke
,
lay
the
Cards
a
little
lower
,
and
hide
the
aces
and
they
wil
appeare
all
white
.
The
like
you
may
make
of
the
foure
knaues
,
putting
vppon
them
the
foure
fiues
,
and
so
of
the
rest
of
the
Cardes
:
But
this
cannot
bee
wel
shewed
you
without
demonstration
.
Hitherto
I
haue
intreated
of
the
three
principal
kinds
of
Iugling
,
now
it
remaineth
in
order
to
speak
of
Iugling
by
confederacy
,
which
is
either
priuate
or
publike
.
Priuate
confederacy
is
,
when
one
(
by
a
special
plot
laid
by
himselfe
,
without
any
compact
made
with
others
)
perswadeth
the
beholders
,
that
he
wil
suddenly
and
in
their
presence
,
do
some
miraculous
feate
,
which
he
hath
already
accomplished
priuately
:
as
for
ensample
,
hee
wil
shew
you
a
Card
or
any
other
like
thing
,
and
wil
say
further
vnto
you
,
behold
and
see
what
a
mark
it
hath
,
and
then
burneth
it
,
and
neuertheles
fetcheth
another
Carde
,
soe
marked
out
of
some
bodies
pocket
,
or
out
of
some
corner
,
where
he
himselfe
before
had
placed
it
,
to
the
wonder
and
astonishment
of
simple
beholders
,
which
conceaue
not
that
kinde
of
illusion
,
but
expect
miracles
and
strange
workes
.
I
haue
read
of
a
notable
exploit
done
before
a
king
by
a
Iugler
,
who
painted
on
a
wall
the
picture
of
a
done
,
and
séeing
a
pidgion
sitting
vppon
the
top
of
an
house
said
to
the
King
,
loe
now
your
grace
shal
sée
what
a
Iugler
can
doe
if
he
be
his
craftes
master
,
&
then
pricked
the
picture
with
a
knife
,
so
hard
&
so
often
,
&
with
soe
effectual
words
as
the
pidgion
fel
downe
from
the
top
of
the
house
starke
dead
,
you
may
imagine
how
the
matter
was
taken
,
what
wondring
was
thereat
,
how
he
was
prohibited
to
vse
that
feat
any
further
,
least
hee
should
imploy
it
in
any
other
kind
of
murder
,
This
story
is
held
yet
of
diuers
as
canonicall
,
but
when
you
are
taught
the
feat
or
slight
,
you
wil
thinke
it
a
mockery
and
a
simple
illusion
.
To
vnfold
you
the
mistery
héereof
,
so
it
is
that
the
poore
pigeon
was
before
in
the
hands
of
the
Iugler
,
into
whom
he
had
thrust
a
dramme
of
Nux
vomica
,
or
some
other
such
poyson
,
which
to
the
nature
of
the
Bird
was
so
extreame
a
poyson
,
as
after
the
receipt
thereof
it
could
not
liue
aboue
the
space
of
halfe
an
houre
,
and
being
let
loose
after
the
medicine
ministred
,
she
alwayes
resorteth
to
the
top
of
the
next
house
,
which
she
wil
the
rather
doe
,
if
ther
be
any
pigeons
already
sitting
there
,
and
after
a
short
space
falleth
downe
,
either
starke
dead
,
or
greatly
astonished
:
but
in
the
meane
time
,
the
Iugler
vseth
wordes
of
art
,
partly
to
protract
time
,
and
partly
to
gaine
credit
,
and
admiration
of
the
beholders
.
As
with
Cardes
you
may
shew
feates
by
priuate
confederacy
,
so
of
the
other
two
,
that
is
to
wit
,
with
the
balls
and
the
mony
,
as
to
marke
a
shilling
or
any
other
thing
,
and
throw
the
same
into
a
riuer
or
déepe
pond
,
and
hauing
hid
the
shilling
before
,
with
like
markes
in
some
other
secret
place
,
bid
some
go
presently
and
fetch
it
,
making
them
beleeue
that
it
is
the
very
same
you
threw
into
the
riuer
,
the
beholders
will
maruaile
much
at
it
:
and
of
such
feats
there
may
be
many
done
,
but
more
by
publik
confederacy
,
whereby
one
may
tel
another
how
much
money
hee
hath
in
his
purse
,
and
an
hundred
like
toyes
.
Of
publicke
confederacy
,
and
whereof
it
consisteth
.
PVblike
confederacy
is
,
when
there
is
before
hand
a
compact
made
betwixt
diuers
persons
:
the
one
to
bee
principal
,
the
other
to
be
assistant
in
working
of
miracles
or
rather
in
cosoning
and
abusing
the
beholders
,
as
when
I
tel
you
in
the
presence
of
a
multitude
,
what
you
haue
thought
or
done
,
or
shall
do
or
thinke
,
when
you
and
I
were
therevppon
agréed
before
:
and
if
this
bee
cunningly
and
closely
handled
,
it
wil
induce
great
admiration
to
the
beholders
,
especially
when
they
are
before
amased
and
abused
,
by
some
experiment
of
art
Magick
or
Legerdemaine
.
I
wil
in
briefe
set
downe
some
pretty
conclusions
,
and
soe
I
will
procéed
with
other
feates
in
other
kindes
.
To
tel
you
how
to
know
whether
you
cast
Crosse
or
Pile
by
the
ringing
.
LAy
a
wager
with
your
Confederate
(
who
must
séeme
simple
or
obstinate
opposed
against
you
)
that
standing
behind
a
doore
you
wil
(
by
the
sounding
or
ringing
of
the
money
)
tel
him
whether
he
cast
crosse
or
pile
,
soe
as
when
you
are
gone
,
and
hee
hath
phillipped
the
mony
before
the
witnesses
who
are
to
be
cosoned
,
hee
must
say
,
What
is
it
if
it
bee
crosse
,
or
What
i's
t
if
it
be
pile
,
or
some
such
signe
as
you
are
agréed
vppon
,
and
soe
you
néede
not
faile
to
gesse
rightly
.
By
this
meanes
if
you
haue
any
inuention
,
you
may
seeme
to
doe
an
hundred
miracles
,
and
to
discouer
a
mans
thought
or
words
spoken
a
far
off
.
How
to
tel
where
a
stolne
horse
is
become
.
BY
meanes
of
confederacy
Cuthbert
conicatcher
,
and
one
Swart
Rutter
,
two
that
haue
taken
degrees
in
Whittington
Colledge
,
abused
notably
the
countrey
people
:
for
Cuthbert
would
hide
away
his
neighbours
horses
,
kine
,
colts
,
&c.
and
send
them
to
Swart
Rutter
,
(
whom
he
before
had
told
where
they
were
)
promising
to
send
the
parties
vnto
him
,
whom
he
described
and
made
knowne
by
diuers
signes
:
so
as
this
Swart
would
tel
them
at
their
first
entrance
vnto
the
doore
wherefore
they
came
,
and
would
say
that
their
horses
,
kine
&c.
were
stolne
,
but
the
theefe
should
be
forced
to
bring
them
back
againe
within
one
mile
(
south
and
by
west
&c.
)
of
his
house
:
euen
as
the
plot
was
layd
and
the
pack
made
before
by
Cuthbert
and
him
.
This
Cuthbert
is
esteemed
of
some
and
thought
to
be
a
witch
of
others
,
he
is
accounted
a
coniurer
,
but
commonly
called
a
wise
man
,
and
are
able
of
themselues
,
to
tell
you
where
any
thing
that
is
stolne
is
,
as
to
build
Pauls
steeple
vp
againe
.
To
make
one
dance
naked
.
IT
hath
beene
reported
of
such
fellowes
,
and
such
,
that
can
do
rare
feates
,
as
to
make
one
dance
naked
.
To
the
effecting
of
this
,
make
a
poore
boy
confederat
with
you
,
so
as
after
charmes
and
wordes
spoken
by
you
,
he
vncloth
himselfe
and
stand
naked
:
seeming
(
whilst
he
vndresseth
him
)
to
shake
,
stampe
,
and
cry
,
stil
hastening
to
bee
vncloathed
,
til
he
be
stark
naked
:
or
if
you
can
procure
none
to
go
so
farre
,
let
him
onely
begin
to
stamp
and
shake
,
&c.
and
to
vncloth
him
,
and
then
you
may
(
for
reuerence
of
the
company
)
seeme
to
release
him
.
To
make
a
pot
for
any
such
thing
standing
fast
on
a
cupbord
,
to
fall
downe
thence
by
vertue
of
words
.
LEt
your
cupbord
be
so
placed
,
as
your
confederate
may
hould
a
black
Threed
without
in
the
courte
,
behinde
some
window
of
that
roome
,
and
at
a
certaine
lowd
word
spoken
by
you
,
he
may
pull
the
same
threed
,
being
wound
about
the
pot
.
And
this
was
the
feate
of
Eleazer
the
Iewe
,
which
Iosephus
reporteth
to
be
such
a
miracle
.
Now
that
wee
haue
spoken
of
the
three
principall
actes
of
Legerdemaine
and
of
confederacie
,
I
will
goe
forward
,
and
touch
some
fewe
ordinary
feates
which
are
pretty
,
yet
not
altogether
to
be
compared
with
the
rest
;
I
meane
for
conceipt
and
nimblenes
of
the
hand
,
yet
such
as
to
the
ignorant
,
and
those
that
know
not
the
carriage
,
will
seeme
strange
and
wonderfull
.
Of
Boxes
to
alter
one
graine
into
another
,
or
to
consume
the
corne
or
graine
to
nothing
.
THere
be
diuers
iugling
boxes
with
false
bottomes
,
wherein
many
false
feates
are
wrought
.
First
they
haue
a
boxe
couered
or
rather
footed
alike
at
each
end
,
the
bottome
of
the
one
end
being
no
deeper
then
as
it
may
containe
one
lane
of
corne
or
pepper
,
glewed
therevpon
:
Then
vse
they
to
put
into
the
hollow
end
therof
some
other
kinde
of
graine
,
ground
or
vnground
:
then
do
they
couer
it
,
and
put
it
vnder
a
hat
or
candlesticke
,
and
either
in
putting
it
therinto
,
or
pulling
it
thence
,
they
turne
the
boxe
,
and
open
the
contrary
end
,
wherein
is
shewed
a
contrary
graine
,
or
else
they
shew
the
glewed
end
first
,
(
which
end
they
suddenly
thrust
into
a
bag
of
such
graine
as
is
glewed
already
therevpon
)
and
secondly
the
empty
boxe
.
How
to
conuey
(
with
words
and
charmes
)
the
corne
conteined
in
one
Boxe
,
into
another
.
THere
is
another
boxe
fashioned
like
a
bell
,
whereinto
they
put
so
much
and
such
corne
as
the
foresaid
hollowe
boxe
can
conteine
:
then
they
stop
and
couer
the
same
with
a
peece
of
lether
as
broad
as
a
tester
,
which
being
thrust
vp
hard
to
the
middle
part
or
waste
of
the
said
bell
,
will
sticke
fast
and
beare
vp
the
corne
,
and
if
the
edge
of
the
same
lether
be
wet
,
it
will
hold
the
better
:
then
take
they
the
other
boxe
,
dipped
(
as
is
aforesaid
)
in
corne
,
and
set
downe
the
same
vpon
the
Table
,
the
empty
end
vpward
,
saying
,
that
they
wil
conuey
the
graine
therein
,
into
the
other
boxe
or
bell
,
which
beeing
set
downe
somewhat
hard
vpon
the
table
,
the
leather
and
corne
therein
wil
fall
downe
,
so
as
the
said
bell
being
taken
vp
from
the
table
,
you
shall
see
Corne
lying
thereon
,
&
the
stopple
wil
be
hidden
therewith
,
and
couered
:
and
when
you
vncouer
the
other
boxe
nothing
shal
remaine
therein
,
but
presently
the
corne
must
bee
swept
downe
with
one
hand
,
into
the
other
,
or
into
your
lappe
or
hat
:
many
feates
may
be
done
with
this
boxe
,
as
to
put
therein
a
toade
,
affirming
the
same
to
be
so
turned
from
corne
,
and
then
many
beholders
wil
suppose
the
same
to
be
the
Iuglers
diuel
,
whereby
his
feates
and
miracles
are
wrought
.
How
to
pull
Laces
innumerable
out
of
your
mouth
of
what
colour
or
length
you
list
,
and
neuer
any
thing
seene
to
be
therein
.
AS
for
pulling
of
laces
forth
of
the
mouth
it
is
now
somewhat
stale
,
where
by
Iuglers
get
much
money
among
maydes
,
selling
lace
by
the
yard
,
putting
into
their
mouthes
one
round
bottome
as
fast
as
they
pull
out
another
,
and
at
the
iust
end
of
euery
yard
they
tie
a
knott
,
soe
as
the
same
resteth
vppon
their
téeth
,
then
cut
they
off
the
same
,
and
so
the
beholders
are
double
and
treble
deceaued
,
éeing
so
much
lace
as
will
be
contained
in
a
hat
,
and
the
same
of
what
colour
you
list
to
name
,
to
be
drawne
by
so
euen
yardes
out
of
his
mouth
,
and
yet
the
Iugler
to
talke
as
though
there
were
nothing
at
all
in
his
mouth
.
There
are
diuers
Iugling
tricks
,
which
I
am
loth
to
describe
for
some
reasons
before
alleaged
,
whereof
some
are
common
,
some
rarer
,
and
some
desperate
:
I
wil
therefore
shew
a
few
desperate
and
dangerous
iugling
knackes
,
wherein
the
simple
are
made
to
think
that
a
silly
Iugler
with
words
can
hurt
and
help
,
kill
and
reuiue
any
creature
at
his
pleasure
:
and
first
to
kill
any
kind
of
pullen
and
make
them
reuiue
.
To
kill
a
Hen
,
Chicken
,
or
Capon
,
and
giue
it
life
againe
.
TAke
a
hen
&c.
and
thrust
an
aule
,
or
a
fine
sharp
pointed
knife
through
the
midst
of
the
head
thereof
,
the
edge
towards
the
bill
,
The
naturall
cause
why
a
Hen
thrust
through
the
head
with
a
Bodkin
doth
live
notwithstanding
.
so
as
it
may
séeme
impossible
for
her
to
escape
death
,
Then
vse
wordes
or
incantations
,
and
pulling
out
the
knife
,
lay
otes
before
her
,
and
she
wil
eate
and
liue
,
being
nothing
at
all
greeued
or
hurt
with
the
wound
,
because
the
braine
lyeth
soe
far
behind
in
the
head
as
it
is
not
touched
though
you
thrust
your
knife
betwéene
the
combe
and
it
:
And
after
you
haue
done
this
you
may
conuert
your
spéech
and
actions
,
to
the
gréeuous
wounding
&
recouering
of
your
owne
selfe
.
To
eat
a
knife
,
and
to
fetch
it
forth
of
another
place
.
TAke
a
knife
,
and
conuey
the
same
betwéene
your
two
hands
,
so
as
no
parte
be
séene
thereof
,
but
a
little
of
the
poynt
,
which
you
must
so
bite
at
the
first
as
noyse
may
be
made
therewith
:
then
séeme
to
put
a
great
part
thereof
into
your
mouth
,
and
letting
your
hand
slippe
downe
,
there
wil
appeare
to
haue
bin
more
in
your
mouth
,
then
is
possible
to
be
contained
therein
:
then
send
for
drinke
,
or
vse
some
other
delay
vntil
you
haue
let
the
said
knife
slippe
into
your
lappe
,
holding
both
your
fists
close
together
as
before
,
and
then
rais
them
so
from
the
edge
of
the
table
where
you
sit
(
for
from
thence
the
knife
may
most
priuily
slip
downe
into
your
lappe
)
and
in
stead
of
biting
the
knife
knab
a
little
vppon
your
naile
,
and
then
séeme
to
thrust
the
knife
into
your
mouth
,
opening
the
hand
next
vnto
it
,
and
thrust
vp
the
other
,
so
as
it
may
appeare
to
the
standers
by
,
that
you
haue
deliuered
your
hands
thereof
,
and
thrust
it
into
your
mouth
:
then
cal
for
drinke
,
after
countenance
made
of
pricking
,
and
daunger
&c.
lastly
put
your
hand
into
your
lap
,
and
taking
that
knife
into
your
hand
you
may
seeme
to
bring
it
out
from
behind
you
,
or
from
whence
you
list
:
but
if
you
haue
another
like
knife
,
and
a
confederate
,
you
may
do
twenty
notable
wonders
hereby
:
as
to
send
a
stranger
by
into
some
garden
,
or
Orchard
,
describing
to
him
some
tree
or
hearb
vnder
which
it
sticketh
or
else
some
strangers
sheath
or
pocket
&c.
To
thrust
a
bodkin
through
your
head
without
any
hurt
.
TAke
a
bodkin
so
made
,
as
the
haft
being
hollow
,
the
blade
there
of
may
slip
thereinto
:
as
soone
as
you
hold
the
poynt
vpward
,
and
set
the
same
to
your
forehead
:
and
séeme
to
thrust
it
into
your
head
:
and
so
(
with
a
little
spunge
in
your
hand
)
you
may
wring
out
blood
or
wine
,
making
the
beholders
think
the
blood
or
wine
(
whereof
you
may
say
you
haue
drunke
very
much
)
runneth
out
of
your
forehead
:
Then
after
countenance
of
paine
&
greefe
,
pul
away
your
hand
suddenly
,
holding
the
poynt
downeward
,
and
it
wil
fall
so
out
,
as
it
wil
seeme
neuer
to
haue
bin
thrusted
into
the
hafte
:
But
immediately
thrust
that
bodkin
into
your
lappe
or
pocket
,
and
pul
out
another
plaine
bodkin
like
the
same
,
sauing
in
that
conceit
.
To
cut
halfe
your
nose
in
sunder
and
to
heale
it
againe
presently
without
any
salue
.
This
is
easily
done
,
howbeit
beeing
nimbly
done
it
will
deceiue
the
fight
of
the
beholders
.
TAe
a
knife
hauing
a
round
hollow
gappe
in
the
middle
,
and
lay
it
vpon
your
nose
,
and
so
shal
you
seeme
to
haue
cut
your
nose
in
sunder
:
prouided
alwayes
that
in
all
these
,
you
haue
another
like
knife
withou
a
gap
to
be
shewed
vppon
pulling
out
of
the
same
,
and
wordes
of
inchantments
to
speake
:
Blood
also
to
Bewray
the
wound
,
and
nimble
conueyance
.
To
put
a
Ring
through
your
cheeke
.
THere
is
a
pretty
knack
,
which
séemeth
dangerous
to
the
chéeke
:
for
the
accomplishment
whereof
,
you
must
haue
two
rings
of
like
coulour
and
quantity
,
the
one
filed
asunder
,
so
as
you
may
thrust
it
vpon
your
cheeke
:
the
other
must
be
whole
and
conueyed
vppon
a
sticke
,
holding
your
hand
therevppon
in
the
middle
of
the
sticke
,
deliuering
each
end
of
the
same
sticke
to
be
holden
fast
by
a
stander
by
,
then
pulling
the
ring
out
of
your
cheeke
,
cleanely
strike
it
against
some
part
of
the
sticke
,
keeping
it
stil
in
your
hand
,
then
pull
your
other
hand
from
the
sticke
,
and
pulling
it
away
,
whirle
about
the
ring
and
so
it
wil
be
thought
that
you
haue
put
thereon
the
ring
that
was
in
your
chéeke
.
Many
other
pretty
feates
of
this
nature
might
be
heere
set
downe
,
as
to
cut
off
ones
head
and
to
lay
it
in
a
platter
,
which
Iuglers
call
the
decollation
of
S.
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
also
to
thrust
a
dagger
or
bodkin
through
your
guttes
,
very
strangely
,
and
to
recouer
immediately
,
after
another
way
then
with
the
bodkin
before
rehearsed
:
also
to
draw
a
cord
through
your
nose
,
mouth
or
hand
so
sencibly
,
as
is
wonderfull
to
see
,
all
which
with
many
more
I
here
forbeare
for
breuities
sake
.
There
is
a
very
pretty
trick
to
make
wine
or
beere
to
come
out
of
your
brow
or
eare
with
a
funnell
after
you
haue
drunke
the
same
,
the
which
I
am
loth
to
discouer
,
as
not
willing
to
haue
all
the
poore
Iuglers
trickes
made
knowne
at
once
:
there
is
a
way
to
make
fire
to
come
out
of
your
mouth
by
burning
of
towe
,
all
which
,
for
reasons
before
aleadged
,
I
wil
heere
omit
to
discouer
,
But
wil
hie
me
to
another
sort
of
Iuglers
,
or
rather
cosoners
,
calling
themselues
by
the
name
of
Alchimists
,
professing
themselues
learned
men
,
and
to
haue
the
Philosophers
stone
:
these
professors
of
the
misty
or
smoakie
science
,
studie
and
cast
about
how
to
ouer-reach
and
cosin
the
simple
,
and
such
as
are
giuen
to
couetousnes
or
greedy
desire
after
gaine
,
with
such
they
insinuate
themselues
by
little
and
little
,
professing
a
shew
of
honesty
and
plainenes
,
vntil
they
are
acquainted
with
their
desires
,
and
found
the
length
of
their
foote
:
telling
them
that
they
can
do
wonders
,
make
siluer
of
copper
,
and
golde
of
siluer
.
Such
a
one
a
while
a
goe
was
in
Battersey
,
who
comming
poore
to
towne
,
made
some
of
the
towne
beléeue
he
had
the
philosophers
stone
:
wherevppon
one
of
the
rest
beleeuing
him
,
desired
to
bée
better
acquainted
with
him
:
insomuch
that
he
requested
him
to
take
a
poore
bedde
at
his
house
,
and
offered
him
great
kindnesse
,
hoping
in
time
to
get
some
skil
of
him
towards
the
attaining
of
the
Philosophers
stone
:
vppon
a
day
as
this
Smith
(
for
so
imagine
him
to
be
)
and
beggerly
Artist
were
together
,
desired
him
of
all
loues
to
impart
to
him
some
of
his
learning
,
assuring
him
,
if
it
lay
in
his
power
to
doe
him
a
pleasure
he
would
not
faile
,
protesting
that
both
his
purse
and
himselfe
were
both
at
his
command
:
Herevpon
to
be
short
,
my
Gentleman
at
the
first
was
somwhat
scrupulous
,
yet
at
the
earnest
request
of
his
new
friend
did
at
last
condiscend
,
charging
him
to
be
secret
in
what
he
should
disclose
vnto
him
.
The
Smith
swore
to
bee
silent
:
then
my
cosoning
copesmate
instructs
him
as
followeth
.
In
the
month
of
Iuly
,
search
for
the
séede
of
Fearne
,
which
must
bee
first
and
principall
matter
of
working
this
,
and
effecting
this
hidden
secret
,
and
quoth
he
if
you
had
but
an
ounce
of
this
fearneseed
,
thou
shalt
be
made
for
euer
,
for
it
is
very
hard
to
find
:
heerevppon
he
gets
vp
the
next
morning
(
for
it
was
about
the
same
time
of
the
yeare
which
hee
prescribed
him
to
search
for
this
inestimable
seed
)
and
lookes
very
diligently
about
the
heath
,
where
store
of
fearne
growes
:
but
hauing
spent
most
part
of
the
day
in
searching
and
looking
,
his
backe
ready
to
cracke
with
stooping
,
and
his
throate
furd
with
dust
,
for
want
of
small
béere
,
so
that
the
poore
Smith
was
ready
to
faint
for
want
of
foode
:
by
chance
one
of
the
towne
came
by
,
and
séeing
him
search
so
diligently
vp
and
downe
,
and
could
not
guesse
for
what
,
asked
him
what
he
sought
for
so
busily
?
O
quoth
the
Smith
,
for
a
thing
that
if
I
could
find
,
I
should
be
made
for
euer
:
why
quoth
the
fellow
what
I
prethée
is
t
?
O
no
quoth
the
Smith
I
may
not
tell
you
:
not
tell
me
quoth
the
fellow
,
why
what
is
t
?
I
prethee
tell
me
:
at
last
,
at
the
earnest
entreaty
of
the
fellow
,
the
Smith
told
he
looked
for
fearne
séede
:
with
that
the
fellow
laughed
a
good
,
and
asked
him
who
willed
him
to
looke
for
that
?
that
did
M.
Etseb
quoth
the
Smith
,
and
if
I
can
but
finde
one
ounce
of
it
,
it
would
bee
of
much
worth
:
worth
quoth
the
fellow
,
he
that
set
thée
to
look
for
that
was
a
foole
and
thou
art
an
Asse
,
for
there
was
neuer
any
fearne
seed
as
yet
son
:
therefore
get
thee
home
to
thy
forge
,
for
hee
makes
but
a
foole
of
thée
:
at
this
the
Smith
was
blancke
,
and
got
him
home
to
his
anuil
:
but
how
the
Smith
and
the
Alcumister
,
agréed
vpon
the
reckoning
for
his
cosening
him
,
I
meane
not
héere
to
deliuer
:
but
this
I
bring
in
by
the
way
,
to
shew
that
their
art
is
nothing
but
deceipt
,
and
themselues
cosoners
,
which
by
two
pretty
tales
I
will
declare
vnto
you
.
How
an
Alcumister
cousoned
a
Priest
.
CHaucer
in
one
of
his
Canterbury
tales
,
rehearseth
this
iest
of
a
cousoning
Alcumist
:
espying
on
a
day
a
couetous
priest
,
whose
purse
hee
knew
to
bee
well
lined
:
assaulted
him
with
flatterie
and
kinde
speech
,
two
principall
points
belonging
to
this
art
:
at
length
hee
borrowed
money
of
this
priest
,
which
is
the
third
part
of
this
art
,
without
the
which
the
professors
can
doe
no
good
,
nor
endure
in
good
estate
:
then
he
at
his
day
repayed
the
mony
,
which
is
the
most
difficult
point
in
this
art
,
and
a
rare
experiment
:
finally
to
rquite
the
priests
curtesie
,
he
promised
vnto
him
such
instructions
,
as
therby
within
short
time
he
should
become
infinitely
rich
,
and
all
through
this
art
of
multiplication
:
and
this
is
the
most
common
point
in
this
science
,
for
herein
they
must
be
skilfull
before
they
bee
famous
or
attaine
to
any
credit
:
the
Priest
disliked
not
his
proffer
,
especially
because
it
tended
to
his
profit
,
and
embraced
his
curtesie
:
then
the
foole-taker
bad
him
send
forthwith
for
three
ounces
of
quicke-siluer
,
which
he
said
he
would
transubstantiate
(
by
his
art
)
into
perfect
siluer
:
the
Priest
thought
nothing
of
deceit
,
but
with
great
ioy
accomplished
his
request
.
And
now
forsooth
goeth
this
iolly
Alcumist
about
his
busines
,
and
worke
of
multiplication
,
and
causeth
the
Priest
to
make
a
fire
of
coles
,
in
the
bottome
whereof
he
placeth
a
croslet
,
and
pretending
onely
to
help
the
Priest
to
lay
the
coles
handsomely
,
he
foysteth
into
the
middle
ward
or
lane
of
coles
,
a
béechen
cole
,
within
which
was
conueyed
an
ingot
of
perfect
siluer
,
which
when
the
cole
was
consumed
slipt
downe
into
the
croslet
,
that
was
I
say
directly
vnder
it
.
The
Priest
perceiued
not
the
fraud
,
but
receiued
the
ingot
of
siluer
,
and
was
not
a
little
ioyfull
to
see
such
certain
successe
procéed
from
his
own
handy
worke
,
wherin
could
be
no
fraud
(
as
he
surely
conceiued
)
and
therefore
very
diligently
gaue
the
knaue
forty
pounds
,
for
the
receit
of
this
experiment
,
who
for
that
summe
of
money
,
taught
him
a
lesson
in
Alcumistry
,
but
he
neuer
returned
to
heare
repetitions
,
or
to
see
how
he
profited
.
A
merry
tale
how
a
cousoning
Alcumist
deceiued
a
country
Gentleman
.
A
Gentleman
in
Kent
of
good
worth
,
not
long
sithence
was
ouertaken
by
a
cousoning
knaue
,
who
professed
Alcumistry
,
Iugling
,
Witch-craft
,
and
coniuration
,
and
by
meanes
of
his
companions
and
confederates
,
found
the
simplicitie
&
abilitie
of
the
said
Gentleman
,
and
learnt
his
estate
and
humors
to
bee
conuenient
for
his
purpose
,
and
at
last
came
a
wooing
to
his
daughter
,
to
whom
he
made
loue
cunningly
in
words
,
though
his
purpose
tended
to
another
end
:
and
among
other
illusions
and
tales
,
concerning
his
owne
commendations
,
for
wealth
,
parentage
,
inheritance
,
alliance
,
learning
and
cunning
,
he
bosted
of
the
knowledge
and
experience
in
Alcumistry
,
making
the
simple
Gentlema
a
beleeue
that
he
could
multiply
,
and
of
one
Angell
make
two
or
three
,
which
seemed
strange
to
the
Gentleman
:
insomuch
as
he
became
willing
enough
to
see
that
conclusion
:
whereby
the
Alcumister
had
more
hope
and
comfort
to
attaine
his
desire
,
then
if
his
daughter
had
yeelded
to
haue
married
him
:
to
be
short
,
he
in
the
presence
of
the
said
Gentleman
,
did
include
within
a
little
ball
of
virgins
waxe
a
couple
of
Angels
,
and
after
certaine
ceremonies
and
coniuring
words
,
hee
seemed
to
deliuer
the
same
vnto
him
,
but
in
truth
,
through
Legerdemaine
,
he
conueied
into
the
Gentlemans
hand
,
another
ball
of
the
same
scantling
,
wherein
were
inclosed
many
more
Angels
then
were
in
the
ball
which
hee
thought
he
had
receiued
.
Now
(
forsooth
)
the
Alcumister
bad
him
lay
vp
the
same
ball
of
waxe
,
and
also
vse
certaine
ceremonies
,
(
which
I
thought
good
heere
to
omit
)
and
after
certaine
daies
,
houres
,
and
minutes
,
they
returned
together
according
to
the
appointment
,
and
found
great
gaines
by
multiplication
of
the
angels
,
insomuch
that
he
being
a
plaine
man
,
was
hereby
perswaded
that
he
should
not
onely
haue
a
rare
and
notable
good
sonne
in
law
,
but
a
companion
that
might
help
to
adde
vnto
his
wealth
much
treasure
,
and
to
his
estate
great
fortune
and
felicitie
:
and
to
increase
this
opinion
in
him
,
as
also
to
win
his
further
fauour
,
but
especially
to
bring
his
cunning
Alcumistry
,
or
rather
his
leud
purpose
to
passe
,
he
told
him
that
it
were
folly
to
multiply
a
pound
of
gold
,
when
as
easily
they
might
multiply
a
million
,
and
therefore
counselled
him
to
produce
all
the
mony
he
had
,
or
could
borrow
of
his
neighbours
,
and
friends
,
and
did
put
him
out
of
doubt
,
that
he
would
multiply
the
same
,
and
redeuble
it
excéedingly
,
euen
as
he
saw
by
experience
how
he
dealt
with
the
small
summe
before
his
face
:
this
Gent
.
in
hope
of
gaines
and
preferment
,
consented
to
his
swéet
motion
,
and
brought
out
and
laid
before
his
feet
,
not
the
one
halfe
of
his
goods
,
but
all
that
he
had
,
or
could
make
or
borrow
any
maner
of
way
:
then
this
Iuggling
Alchimister
hauing
obtained
his
purpose
,
foulded
the
same
in
a
bail
in
quantity
far
bigger
then
the
other
.
And
conuaying
the
same
vnto
his
bosome
or
pocket
,
deliuered
another
Ball
(
as
before
)
in
the
like
quantitie
,
to
be
reserued
,
and
safely
kept
in
his
chest
,
whereof
(
because
the
matter
was
of
importance
)
either
of
them
must
haue
a
key
,
and
a
seuerall
locke
,
that
no
interruption
might
be
made
to
the
ceremonie
,
or
abuse
by
either
of
them
in
defrauding
each
other
.
Now
forsooth
the
circumstances
,
and
ceremonies
being
ended
,
and
the
Alchimisters
purpose
thereby
performed
,
he
told
the
Gent
.
that
vntill
a
certaine
day
and
houre
limited
to
returne
,
either
of
them
might
imploy
themselues
about
their
busines
,
and
necessarie
affaires
,
the
Gent
.
to
his
businesse
,
and
hee
to
the
Citie
of
London
.
And
in
the
meane
time
the
golde
should
multiply
.
But
the
Alchimister
(
belike
hauing
other
matters
of
more
importance
)
came
not
iust
at
the
hower
appointed
nor
yet
at
the
day
,
nor
within
the
yeere
,
so
as
although
it
were
somewhat
against
the
Gent
.
conscience
to
violate
his
promise
or
breake
the
league
,
yet
partly
by
the
longing
he
had
to
see
,
and
partly
the
desire
hee
had
to
enioy
the
fruit
of
the
excellent
experiment
,
hauing
for
his
owne
security
(
and
the
others
satisfaction
)
some
testimony
at
the
opening
thereof
,
to
witnes
his
sincere
dealing
,
he
brake
vp
the
coffer
,
and
loe
,
he
soone
espied
the
Ball
of
waxe
which
he
himselfe
had
laid
vp
there
with
his
owne
hands
,
so
as
hee
thought
,
if
the
hardest
should
fall
,
he
should
finde
his
principall
,
and
why
not
as
good
increase
now
,
as
of
the
other
before
?
But
alas
,
when
the
waxe
was
broken
and
the
mettall
discouered
,
the
gold
was
much
abased
and
became
perfect
lead
.
Hitherto
haue
I
spoken
somewhat
of
the
knauerie
of
Alcumistry
,
now
I
will
conclude
with
a
pretty
dialogue
that
Petrarke
a
man
of
great
wisedome
and
learning
,
and
of
no
lesse
experience
,
hath
written
:
who
as
in
his
time
,
saw
the
fraudulent
fetches
of
this
compassing
craft
,
so
hath
there
been
no
age
,
since
the
same
hath
been
broached
,
but
that
some
wise
men
haue
smelt
out
the
euill
meaning
of
these
shifting
marchants
,
and
bewrayed
them
to
the
world
.
Francis
Petrarke
,
(
I
say
)
treating
of
the
same
matter
,
in
forme
of
a
dialogue
,
introduceth
a
disciple
of
his
,
who
fancied
the
foresaid
profession
and
practise
,
speaking
on
this
manner
.
Discip
.
I
hope
for
a
prosperous
successe
in
Alcumistry
.
Pet
.
It
is
a
wonder
from
whence
that
hope
should
spring
,
sith
the
fruit
thereof
did
neuer
yet
fall
to
thy
lot
:
nor
yet
at
any
time
chance
to
another
,
as
the
report
commonly
goeth
,
that
many
rich
men
,
by
this
vanity
and
madnes
,
haue
been
brought
to
beggery
,
whilst
they
haue
wearied
themselues
therewith
,
weakned
their
bodies
,
and
wasted
their
wealth
,
in
trying
of
conclusions
:
to
make
gold
ingender
gold
.
Discip
.
I
hope
for
gold
according
to
the
workemans
promise
.
Pet
.
He
that
promised
the
gold
,
will
runne
away
with
thy
gold
,
and
thou
neuer
the
wiser
.
Discip
.
He
promiseth
me
great
good
.
Petr
.
He
will
first
serue
his
owne
turne
,
and
releeue
his
priuate
pouerty
,
for
Alcumisters
are
a
beggerly
kind
of
people
,
who
though
they
confesse
themselues
bare
,
and
needy
:
yet
will
they
make
other
rich
,
and
wealthy
,
as
though
others
pouertie
did
molest
,
and
greeue
them
more
then
their
owne
,
so
farre
the
words
of
Petrarke
.
Albert
in
his
booke
of
mineralls
,
reporteth
that
Auicen
treating
of
Alcumistry
:
saith
,
Let
the
dealers
of
Alcumistry
vnderstand
,
that
the
very
nature
of
things
,
can
not
be
changed
:
but
rather
made
by
Arte
,
to
resemble
the
same
in
shew
,
and
likenes
:
so
that
they
are
not
tho
very
thing
indéede
but
séeme
to
be
in
appearance
:
As
Castles
and
Towers
doe
seeme
to
be
built
in
the
ayre
,
whereas
the
representations
there
are
shewed
,
are
nothing
else
,
but
the
resemblance
of
certaine
obiects
belowe
,
caused
in
some
bright
,
and
cleere
cloud
,
when
the
aire
is
voide
of
thicknes
,
and
grosenes
,
a
sufficient
proofe
hereof
may
be
the
looking
glasse
:
and
we
sée
(
saith
hee
)
the
yellow
orrenge
coulour
laid
vpon
red
,
seemeth
to
be
gold
.
Thus
much
for
the
fond
,
and
vaine
arte
of
Alcumistry
,
I
will
now
draw
to
an
ende
,
leauing
to
speake
of
the
innumerable
charmes
of
coniurours
,
bad
Phisitions
,
lewd
Surgeons
,
melancholy
Witches
,
and
cosoners
,
especially
for
such
as
bad
Phisitions
and
Surgeons
,
know
not
how
to
cure
:
as
against
the
falling
euill
,
the
biting
of
mad
dogs
,
the
stinging
of
a
Scorpion
,
the
tooth-ach
,
for
a
woman
in
trauell
,
for
the
kings
euill
:
to
get
a
thorne
out
of
any
member
,
or
a
bone
out
of
ones
throate
:
for
sore
eies
,
to
open
locks
,
against
spirits
:
for
the
botts
in
a
horse
,
for
sower
wines
,
and
diuers
others
.
There
are
also
diuers
bookes
imprinted
,
as
it
should
appeare
by
the
authoritie
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
wherin
are
contained
many
medicinall
prayers
,
not
onely
against
all
diseases
of
horses
,
but
also
for
euery
impediment
,
and
fault
in
a
horse
,
in
so
much
as
if
a
shooe
fall
in
the
middest
of
his
iourney
;
there
is
a
prayer
to
warrant
your
horses
hoofe
so
as
it
shall
not
breake
,
how
far
soeuer
he
be
from
the
Smithes
forge
:
but
these
of
all
the
rest
are
the
fondest
toyes
,
that
euer
were
deuised
,
therefore
we
will
passe
them
ouer
,
and
yet
how
many
in
these
daies
are
addicted
to
the
beléefe
of
these
charmes
it
is
incredible
,
I
will
giue
you
a
taste
of
two
or
three
,
because
you
shall
see
the
foolery
of
the
rest
.
A
Charme
to
be
said
each
morning
by
a
Witch
fasting
,
or
at
least
before
she
goe
abroad
.
THe
fire
bites
,
the
fire
bites
,
the
fire
bites
:
hogs
turde
ouer
it
,
hogs
turde
ouer
it
,
hogs
turd
ouer
it
.
The
Father
with
thee
,
the
Sonne
with
me
,
the
holy
Ghost
betwéen
vs
both
to
be
,
thrise
,
then
spit
ouer
one
shoulder
,
and
then
ouer
the
other
,
and
then
three
times
right
forward
.
An
olde
womans
Charme
wherewith
she
did
much
good
in
the
country
and
grew
famous
thereby
.
AN
old
woman
that
healed
all
diseases
of
cattell
(
for
the
which
she
neuer
tooke
any
reward
but
a
penny
and
a
loafe
)
being
seriously
examined
,
by
what
words
she
brought
these
things
to
passe
,
confessed
that
after
shee
had
touched
the
sicke
creature
,
shee
alwaies
departed
immediately
saying
.
My
loafe
in
my
lap
,
My
penny
in
my
purse
:
Thou
art
neuer
the
better
,
And
I
am
neuer
the
worse
.
A
slouenly
Charme
for
eies
.
The
Diuell
pull
out
thine
eies
,
And
etish
Spel
this
word
backward
and
you
shall
see
what
aslouenly
charme
this
is
etish
.
in
the
holes
likewise
.
A
Miller
that
had
his
eeles
stolne
by
night
,
made
mone
to
the
priest
of
the
parish
,
who
indeede
was
the
principall
of
the
theeues
that
stole
the
eeles
,
Sir
Iohn
willed
him
to
be
quiet
,
for
said
he
I
will
so
curse
the
theeues
,
and
their
adherents
with
bell
,
booke
,
and
candle
,
that
they
shall
haue
small
ioy
of
their
fish
,
and
therefore
the
next
Sonday
Sir
Iohn
got
him
vp
to
the
pulpit
with
his
surplis
on
his
back
,
and
his
Gole
about
his
necke
,
and
pronounced
these
words
following
,
in
the
audience
of
the
people
.
All
ye
that
haue
stolne
the
Millers
Eeles
Laudate
Dominum
in
coelis
:
And
all
they
that
haue
consented
therevnto
,
Benedicamus
Domino
.
By
this
little
you
may
plainely
perceiue
the
fopperie
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
who
hold
such
toyes
as
authenticall
,
and
also
their
knauerie
,
to
make
the
people
beleeue
lies
for
truth
,
and
falshood
for
honestie
,
Bearing
them
in
hand
,
as
in
this
,
so
in
all
the
rest
,
with
blindnes
,
and
ignorance
:
but
hereof
inough
.
And
now
to
conclude
,
let
vs
backe
againe
with
one
pretty
knack
,
which
is
held
to
be
marueilous
and
wonderfull
.
And
that
is
to
make
a
horse
tell
you
how
much
money
you
haue
in
your
purse
:
and
I
reade
of
a
pretty
storie
of
an
asse
at
Memphis
in
Egypt
,
that
could
doe
rare
feates
,
among
other
Iuggling
knackes
,
there
and
then
vsed
:
there
was
one
that
tooke
paines
with
an
asse
,
that
hee
had
taught
him
all
these
qualities
following
,
and
for
game
hee
caused
a
stage
to
bee
made
,
and
an
assembly
of
people
to
meete
,
which
being
done
in
the
manner
of
a
play
,
he
came
in
with
his
asse
,
and
said
:
The
Sultan
hath
great
neede
of
asses
,
to
helpe
to
carrie
stones
,
and
other
stuffe
towards
his
great
building
which
hee
hath
in
hand
:
the
asse
immediately
fell
down
to
the
ground
,
and
by
all
signes
shewed
himselfe
to
bee
sicke
,
and
at
length
to
giue
vp
the
ghost
,
so
as
the
Iuggler
begged
of
the
assembly
money
towards
his
asse
,
and
hauing
gotten
all
that
hee
could
,
he
said
,
now
my
masters
you
shall
sée
mine
asse
is
yet
aliue
,
and
doth
but
counterfet
,
because
hee
would
haue
some
money
to
buy
him
prouender
,
knowing
that
I
was
poore
and
in
some
néed
of
reliefe
:
herevpon
he
would
needs
lay
a
wager
that
his
asse
was
aliue
,
who
to
euery
mans
seeing
was
starke
dead
:
and
when
one
had
laid
money
with
him
therevpon
,
he
commanded
the
asse
to
arise
,
but
he
lay
still
as
though
he
were
dead
:
then
did
he
beat
him
with
a
cudgell
,
but
that
would
not
serue
the
turne
,
vntill
he
had
addressed
his
spéech
to
the
Asse
,
saying
as
before
in
open
audience
,
the
Sultane
hath
commanded
that
all
the
people
shall
ride
out
to
morrow
,
and
see
the
triumph
,
and
that
the
faire
Ladies
will
ride
vpon
the
fairest
Asses
,
and
will
giue
notable
prouender
to
them
,
and
euery
Asse
shall
drinke
of
the
swéet
water
of
Nylus
:
And
then
,
loe
the
Asse
did
presently
start
vp
,
and
aduance
himselfe
exceedingly
.
Loe
quoth
his
master
,
now
I
haue
wonne
:
but
in
troth
the
Maior
hath
borrowed
my
Asse
for
the
vse
of
the
old
il-fauoured
witch
his
wife
:
and
therevpon
immediatly
he
hung
downe
his
eares
and
halted
downe
right
,
as
though
he
had
beene
starke
lame
:
then
said
his
Master
,
I
perceiue
you
loue
yong
pretty
wenches
:
at
which
the
asse
looked
vp
as
it
were
with
a
ioifull
chéere
;
and
then
his
master
bade
him
choose
out
one
that
should
ride
vpon
him
,
and
he
ran
to
a
very
hansome
woman
,
and
touched
her
with
his
head
.
Such
a
one
is
at
this
day
to
be
seene
in
London
,
his
master
will
say
,
sirra
,
héere
be
diuers
Gentlemen
,
that
haue
lost
diuers
things
,
and
they
heare
say
that
thou
canst
tell
them
tidings
of
them
where
they
are
:
if
thou
canst
,
prethée
shew
thy
cunning
and
tell
them
:
then
hurles
hee
downe
a
handkercher
or
a
gloue
that
he
had
taken
from
the
parties
before
,
and
bids
him
giue
it
the
right
owner
,
which
the
horse
presently
doth
:
and
many
other
pretty
feates
this
horse
doth
,
and
some
of
those
trickes
as
the
Asse
before
mentioned
did
,
which
not
one
among
a
thousand
perceiues
how
they
are
done
,
nor
how
he
is
brought
to
learne
the
same
:
and
note
that
all
the
feates
that
this
horse
doth
,
is
altogether
in
numbering
:
as
for
ensample
,
his
maister
will
aske
him
how
many
people
there
are
in
the
roome
?
the
horse
will
pawe
with
his
foot
so
many
times
as
there
are
people
:
and
marke
the
eye
of
the
horse
is
alwaies
vpon
his
master
,
and
as
his
master
moues
,
so
goes
he
or
stands
still
,
as
he
is
brought
to
it
at
the
first
:
as
for
ensample
,
his
master
will
throw
out
three
dice
,
and
will
bid
his
horse
tell
how
many
you
or
he
haue
throwne
,
then
the
horse
pawes
with
his
foote
whiles
the
master
stands
stone
still
:
then
when
his
master
sées
he
hath
pawed
so
many
as
the
first
dice
shewes
it selfe
,
then
he
lifts
vp
his
sholders
and
stirres
a
little
:
then
hee
bids
him
tell
what
is
on
the
second
die
,
and
then
of
the
third
die
,
which
the
horse
will
doe
accordingly
,
still
pawing
with
his
foote
vntill
his
master
sées
he
hath
pawed
inough
,
and
then
stirres
:
which
the
horse
marking
,
will
stay
and
leaue
pawing
.
And
note
,
that
the
horse
will
pawe
an
hundred
times
together
,
vntill
he
sees
his
master
stirre
:
and
note
also
that
nothing
can
be
done
,
but
his
master
must
first
know
,
and
then
his
master
knowing
,
the
horse
is
ruled
by
him
by
signes
.
This
if
you
marke
at
any
time
you
shall
plainely
perceiue
.
NOw
that
we
are
come
to
our
iourneies
end
,
let
vs
sit
downe
and
looke
about
vs
,
whether
we
are
all
sonnes
of
one
father
,
if
there
be
no
knaues
among
vs
:
St.
Boniface
light
me
the
candle
.
Who
doe
I
sée
?
what
the
lusty
lad
of
the
Myter
,
that
will
binde
beares
,
and
ride
his
golden
Asse
to
death
but
he
will
haue
his
will
?
Birlady
,
birlady
sir
,
you
of
all
the
rest
are
most
welcome
,
what
?
how
doth
your
stomack
after
your
carrowsing
banquet
?
what
gorgs
vpon
gorge
,
egges
vpon
egges
,
and
sack
vpon
sack
,
at
these
yeares
?
by
the
faith
of
my
body
sir
you
must
prouide
for
a
hot
kitchen
against
one
grow
olde
,
if
you
meane
to
liue
my
yeares
:
but
happy
the
father
that
begot
thee
,
and
thrife
happy
the
Nurse
that
fostred
such
a
toward
yonker
as
thy
selfe
:
I
know
thy
vertues
aswell
as
thy selfe
,
thou
hast
a
superficiall
twang
of
a
little
something
:
an
Italian
ribald
cannot
vomit
out
the
infections
of
the
world
,
but
thou
my
pretty
Iuuenall
,
an
English
Horrell-lorrell
,
must
lick
it
vp
for
restoratiue
,
and
putrifie
thy
gentle
brother
ouer
against
thée
,
with
the
vilde
impostumes
of
thy
lewd
corruptions
:
God
blesse
good
mindes
from
the
blacke
enemy
say
I
:
I
know
you
haue
beene
prying
like
the
Diuell
from
East
to
West
,
to
heare
what
newes
:
I
will
acquaint
thee
with
some
,
and
that
a
secret
distillation
before
thou
goest
.
Hee
that
drinketh
oylc
of
prickes
,
shall
haue
much
a
doe
to
auoid
sirrop
of
roses
:
and
he
that
eateth
nettles
for
prouender
,
hath
a
priuiledge
to
piffe
vpon
lillies
for
litter
.
I
prethée
swéet
natures
darling
,
insult
not
ouermuch
vpon
quiet
men
:
a
worme
that
is
troden
vpon
will
turne
againe
,
and
patience
loues
not
to
be
made
a
cart
of
Croyden
.
I
doe
begin
with
thee
now
,
but
if
I
sée
thee
not
mend
thy
conditions
,
I
le
tell
thée
another
tale
shortly
:
thou
shalt
sée
that
I
can
doo
t
:
I
could
bring
in
my
Author
to
tell
thée
to
thy
face
,
that
he
hath
found
a
knaue
in
grosse
,
of
thée
:
but
I
can
say
,
I
haue
found
thée
a
foole
in
retaile
:
thou
séest
simplicitie
can
not
double
,
nor
plaine
dealing
cannot
dissemble
,
I
could
wish
thee
to
amend
thy
life
,
and
take
heed
of
the
Beadle
.
Vale
qui
rediculose
haec
legeris
.
FINIS
.