An easie way to procure Fire speedily .

TAke a round Glasse , and fill it with faire water , and set it against the Sun , so that it may stand fast : then take something that is very dry and hold it néere the Glasse , ( betweene the glasse and the Sun ) and it will set the thing so holden on fire : which is very firange to behold , the rather , because Fire which is an hot and dry Element , is procured out of Water , which is a cold and moist Element .

A speedy remedy for the pricke of a thorne in ones foot , or else-where .

TAke the Gall of a beast , chaulk scraped , Honey and Aquivite , of each of them a reasonable quantity , & boile them well together , then make a plaister thereof , a lay it to the place grieued as hot as may be suffered .

Another way to draw out any Thorne , stub , or Iron , in any place whatsoeuer .

TAke the gal of an hog , beane flowre , Lauender , and Bacon-grease , and mingle these well together , and fry them well & lay the same to the place grieued luke-warm , vse it euery day till it be come forth and whole .

Another way to draw out a thorne .

Take barke of Hawthorne trée and stamp it well in a morter with red wine , and séeth them well for a long time , and then take it and lay it plaister-wise to the place grieued , as hot as the patient may suffer it , and it will take away the swelling and ranckling of it , and then the thorne will come forth .

To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image painted on the wall .

Take & put some Brimstone to the mouth as an Image , & then take a burning candle and blow it out : and before the wéeke of the candle be clean out , set it to the mouth of the Image and it will burne . So you may do , if you thinke good against Glasse .

To take fish by night .

Take a Lanterne of glasse , and put a burning candle in it , and set the Lantern on the water , and the fish will come to the light . Or else take Nettles and Housléeke , and make suice thereof , and put it into a Pond , and all the fished will gather thither , & if your hands be annointed therewith , you may at your pleasure take them .

To make that no Dog shall Barke at you .

Take an hearbe that is called Serpertine , and they shall not barke at you .

To make Birds come to your Culuer-house .

Cast Barly stéeped in Honey where they doe vse to féed , and they will gather to the Culuer-house .

To put an Apple into a Viall .

Hang the viall on the twig of an Appletrée and put a young Apple in the mouth of the Viall , and it will grow therein , and so you may doe with grapes and other fruit .

To put an Egge into a Viall .

Stéepe the Egge two daies and two nights in vineger , and roule it on a table softly , and it will stretch as wax , and then you may put it in the Viall , or draw it through a ring .

To make folke seeme blacke .

Put Oyle Oliue into a Lampe , and put therein fine powder of ground glasse , & light it , and all those that bée about it will séeme blake as Egyptians .

To proue if a Maiden be cleare .

Burne Mother-wort , and let her take the smoake at her nose , and if she be corrupt she shall pisse , or else not . Other wise take gray Nettles whilst that they be gréene , and then let her pisse on them , and if she be no Maiden they will wither forthwith , or else not .

To keepe Inke from freezing .

Take Aquavite and mixe it with writing Inke , and the same will neuer fréeze ,

To write a letter with such Inke as cannot be perceiued , vnlesse it be holden before the fire .

Take a shéet of fair white paper , and write thereon with the iuice of a red Onion , well mixed or temperd with the white of an egge and then dry it well , and then it cannot bée perceiued to be any other then plaine white paper without any writing on it : but if you hold it betwixt you and the fire , you may the more eastly read it , and perfectly perceiue the letters or contents thereof .

Another way to write Letters that cannot be read but in this sort .

Take Allom and beat it into fine powder , and then put it into faire water , and whatsoeuer you write therewith , neither that writing nor letters will appeare , except you put the said paper in water and then you may read it perfectly .

To cause a dog to cease barking

Take a Dogges tongue and lay it vnder your great Toe ( within your shooe ) and the dog wil cease barking as long as you weare the same .

To cause a Pike to follow one .

Take the iuice of Mugwort , and the iuice of red Fennell , of each of them a little quantity , and the crumes of Rye-bread , and mingle them together with a good quantity of Sal armoniake , & grinde them well together and scrape a good quantity of Asaphetida to them , and then rub your line next the hooke very well therewith .

An easie way to take Eeles .

Take new Hay that is swéet , and make a bottle thereof , and as you make it vp , shake vpon it some new Calues blood , with the liuer shred therein , & for want of calues blood take the blood of a Bull , Oxe or Cow , with the liuer as aforesaid , and then bind vp your bottle as hard as you can with some ropes of the same Hay , & cast it into a riuer or pond where Eeles are , so tie it to a cord to pull it vp at your owne pleasure againe . Note , the chiefest time for the taking of Eeles and other running fish , is at the dark of the moon . in the beginning of May , at the shooting of Oats , and in the moneth of September and October , when all waters turne white after and in the iuice of hearb Ben●e● and Hemlocke , and then cast them to the birds , and a● many as doe eate thereof will be so amazed , that they cannot fly away ,

To take birds

Put Barley in the iuies of Rue and Vineger , and cast it there as the Birds doe haunt or come , and as soone as they haue eaten it they cannot flie , and then pe may take them .

To make silke wormes .

Take the braine of a Calfe , and put it in to a pit of Madder , and let it lye thrée wéekes , and they will bréed of the braine , and ye may séed them with Mulberies , and Mulbery leaues .

To take away hayres

Annoint the rough place that is shauen , with the blood of a blacke Otter , and hayre shall neuer grow there .

To fat Hens and Capons .

Make a déepe pit in the earth , and make sherrin a bed of Dung , and a bed of Nettles , and do so till it be full , and there kéepe your Pullen till the herbes begin to grow , and then let them out , and within a short while they will be very fat .

Certaine notes to be obserued in Fishing . viz.

In the Spring time of the yeare when fish doe giue themselues to the act of generation , take some of the little kinde of Fish from ●ome muddy or filthy Poole , into a very large ●●w-net , whereunto you may draw them by a small and easie Lampe , made and wrought in the bottome of a cleane glasse with clay , and féed it with Oyle , but the glasse must be vented with some deuice of a Trunke of Swans quill , and you shall see great ranks of fish gather into the nets , make your stilts for sanouring of the same , if you can get no strange fish , then tye in the middest of your net either some mother of peacle , or else some faire Oyster shel , or for want of them make a posie ' of diuers colored flowers , and smeere them well with Parmasity , mixt with the yolke of a new laid Egge and so vse it ; but when you are disposed to make trial of these things , let it be in your owne Pond , whereby it may be persormod at pleasure : this last receipt will draw a Pickrell into a lowne , in the end of Aurill or May.

An easie way to take a Pickerell .

Take a Pickrel immediatly after shee hath spaund , then take the white of 3 or 4 Egges , and beat them into an oyie , and put thereto some Parmasity well bruised , & incorporate them together , as a dow past : and then make a flood : and for want of Hay take Osters , and séeth them in bloud as a foresaid , and make your purpose therewith .

Another way to take Eeles .

Take a good long wisp of hay and make it hard vp , & boile the same well in new calues blood , and then put it into the middest of a bigger trusse of new hay , the same being hard made vp with the curdled blood , & some of the liuer . Make ten or twelue of the bundles , and lay them nere to the banke side in the déepest place of the tiuer or pond , and put them a quoits cast asunder , in the darke night after a drought : and if the weather bée somewhat inclined to raine , it will bée the better : and put to your bundles either some shining night-wormes , or the pieces of some rotten wood , or the skinnes , of Herrings or Sprats , or else so much like shining things , whereby you may perceine where to take them vp at your pleasure , as well in the night as in the day .

To know if a sicke person shall die , or not .

Take gray Nettles while they bée gréene and put them in the patients vrin , and if they remaine gréene : hée shall liue : and if they wither , not .

To make salt water fresh .

Take Clay , and put it into a bagge , and straine it through till it be cléere , and it will be fresh .

To kindle a candle at the Sunne .

Take a bright Bason , and put a new looking glasse therein , and set the Bason in the bottest of the Sunne , and lay about it very dry Tow chopped small , and the Tow will take fire with the heat of the Sunne .

To make a candle that it cannot be blowne out .

Take a quill of Hempe stalke , and fill it all with Brimstone , and make it warme , and fire it , and it will neuer goe forth with flowing .

To heale the biting of a mad dog .

Take white Nettles , and the innermost thin skin of a great red angry Onyon , with a little running water & honey , and bathe it .

To see by night as by day .

Annoint your eyes with the blood of a bat .

To make flesh cleaue to the pot .

Take dwall of Nightshade and stampe it well , and put it in the pot with meate , and the meat will cleaue together .

To take Birds quicke .

Take Pease and kéepe them in wine lées , and a paste with as many coloured flowers a● you can get and smeare the poste with the aforesaid dough , and hang it in the midst o● a Bow net , and put the Pickrell into the ne● also , then hang the net in some cléere place in the midst of a Pond or Riuer , and so let it remaine there all night , and in the morning you shall sée the experience thereof .

To take a Pickrell in Winter or Summer ,

Take a gréene Hearne in the full of the Moone , and take the marrow out of his leg , and put it into a Tinne Boxe , and when you list to take a Pickrell , bait your hooke either with a Roch , Dace , or Gudgien , & annoint the bait with the same Oyle , and you shall presently spéed .

An easie way to take fish with ones hands .

Take Henbane , Wormwood and Veruin , and stampe them all together , and then bang the same in thrée Canuas bags , and put them in thrée seuerall places of the Pond , and all the fish will gather thereunto .

Another way .

Take Housléeke and Nettle roots , of each of them a good quantity , and stamp & straine them , and then wash your hands in the iuice thereof , and then poure it into the Pond , and then the fish will gather to the same place in such sort as you may take then vp at ●our pleasure with your hands .

Another way .

Take an ounce of Honey , two ounces of Chéese , foure and twenty graine of Oculus ●n diae and two-peny-worth of Castor , stamp all these together in a morter , and make it in ●orme of a paste , and make it in small péeces , and then cast them where the fish be , and you shall quickly spéed .

Another way .

Take a Pewter Bason , and let it be made as bright as may be , and hold it toward the water , and the fish will come to the bright , nesse of the Bason .

To take Roches .

Take Oculus Indiae , Henbane séede , the yolke of an Egge , English Hony , and wheated flowre , & mingle them all together , and make a paste thereof .

To take Tench both in March and Aprill .

Take small crummes of houshold bread moistned with tar , & cast the same into the water where you purpose to fish : then thrée nights after bait a large bownet with toasts of like bread well tarred and tyed fast in the miost of the net : & if you can get a bréeder or two out of ranck soils , and tie in the net , y●● should try a rare conclusion .

That one shall not be drunke .

Drinke the iuyce of Yerrow fasting , and ye shall not be drunks , for no drinke ; and it you were drunke it will make you sober : of else tate the marrow of porke fasting , and ye shall not be drunke ; and if you be drunke an noint your priuie members in vineger , and ye shall waxe sober .

To make a good bait for fish at all times of the yeare .

Take wheat flowre and tallow of a new slaine sheepe , and the glaire of an Egge , and beat them all together , and bait your hookes therewith .

To make an Egge goe vp to a Speares end .

Empty the Egge at a little hole , and fill it full of May dew , and stop the hole close with a little waxe & parchment glued , that the dew goe not out , then sticke a speare in the earth in the heat of the Sun , and lay the Egge by the Speare , and it will mount vp to the top thereof by the heat of the Sun .

To make a candle burne in the water .

Take Wine , Oile , Salt , Brimston , quick●iluer , Wax and hony , and put them together and make a Candle thereof , and the same will burne in water .

To make flesh or fish seeme raw .

Take the blood of a Wat or Kid , and dry it , and kéepe it from the ayre , then cast it on fish or flesh that is hot and it will séeme raw .

To make wormes to seeme to be in meat .

Take Harp strings , and cut them in smal péetes , and cast them but on meat , and they will stir like wormes .

To make potage run out of the pot .

Take and cast Sope in the pot , and it will run ouer .

A good Medicine for Poultry that haue the pip .

Take Rue and put it into their troughs of water , where the Prultry doe vse to driuke and the same will helpe them presently :

To kill hens and Ducks .

Cast them the séed of Henbane , and they will fall downe as they were dead .

Make powder of Saint Iohns wort , and when that the coales are wasted , and the strenere out , cast it thereon and it will lie .

That a man shall not be weary of going .

Drinke the iuice of Mugwort , and beare the hearb it selfe about you , with the hearbs Pedelion and Crowsoot .

Another way ●O ●n●id wearinesse .

Take Mugwort and cary it about you , and you shall not bée weary , neither shall there any wicked spirit come neare you , hauing it about you .

A present remedy to asswage both hunger and thirst .

Take the quantity of a massie nut of Roch Allom ( that is both fine and pure ) and when you séele either hunger or thirst to oppresse you , put it into your mouth , and suck it for a little space , and vse it oftentimes in the day , and it will presently asswage your hunger and thirst : vse this as often as néed shall require , one penny worth of Allom will serue almost a whole wéeke .

To write without Inke .

Take fine white paper , and with the iuice of a red Onion , well mixed and the tempered with the yolke of an Egge , you may write , which being very dry will shew as though it ware onely plaine paper , without any writing at all ; but if you hould it against the ●ire , you may then easily read it , and perceiue the letters .

Another way to cause writing not to be perceiued .

Take powder of Allome , and put into water , & whatsoeuer you write therewith : neither the writing , nor the letters will appeare , except you put the same paper in wather , and then you may read it persectly .

To keepe Inke from freezing .

Take a little Aquavitae ( some sewe drops ) and mixe it with writing inke , and the same will neuer fréeze at all .

A present remedie to destroy a Carbuncle .

Take Coriander séede , and beate it to powder , and mingle it with Honey , and make a plaister thereof , and lay it on the carbuncle or other grieuous biles , and the same will spéedily destroy them .

A ready and easie way to cry whether a Maid be a pure Virgin or not .

Take roots of red Nettles , and stamp them small : and mixe the iuice thereof , with Ale , and let her drinke thereof , and if it doe remaine with her , then she is a Maid , otherwise she is not .

To try if a woman ( being with childe ) be with child of a man child or a woman-child

Take faire Well-water , and put it into a cleane bason , and let the woman with child milke a drop or two of her milk into the wate● 〈◊〉 if the milke sinke to the bottome , 〈◊〉 is a man child , and if it float on the top about the water , then it is a woman child .

To make yarne and linnen cloth white .

Take a herring barrell , and fill it nigh full of good Ale-dregs , and stop it fast , but you must haue a good dishfull of parched Beanes , and put them in a linnen bag , and very hot put them to the dregs till they coole , and shut it fast the space of a quarter of an houre , then take two pounds of Allom , grownd to small powder , and cast it thereon , and let it lye foure daies naturall , well closed , and then wash your yarne .

To make that a Horse may not goe through a street .

Take the guts of a Wolfe , and lay them ouerth wart the stréet , and couer them with earth or sand , and he will not go that way as long as the guis couered lie there . Proued .

To take Conies with ones hand .

Take a Coney that is full of young Rabbets , and kill her , and put her all whole into a pottle of Oyle Oliue , and put thereto some A safetida , and so boile them together from a pottle to a pint , and then make a paire of Gloues of Calue-skins fit for your hands , and boile the Cloues in the suine liquour with the coney , and let it boyle from a potle to a pinte , and when the gloues be well boyled , let them bée safe kept vntill you come where store of Conies are , then put on thy gloues , and stand on the wind side of the conie-berries , and the conies will coule forth to thée .

Another .

Take a quantity of Iuy-leaues , and lay them to stéep in Aquavitée for the space of thrée or foure daies , and then cast the same leaues néere to the conie holes .

An easie way to catch Moales .

If you will catch Moales or Wants , take Garlicke , Léekes & Onyons , and put them in the mouth of the holes , or entrance into the ground where they are , and you shal sée them come leaping out of the ground as if they were amazed .

Another way to catch Moales .

Take the quantity of a Nut of Asafetion and two spoonfulls of cummin-séed , and beat them together into powder , & make dough with flower of it , then worke it well , and make it into bals as big as a pease , and then put them into the Moale-holes , in euery hole . But first scrape away the earth cleane from the holes ; and the Moale will come forth of the earth , thereso . watch them well . Vse this in the moueth of March when they goe a clickerting .

To ripen Nuts .

Take Nuts at Midsommer , & delue them well in the ground , and coner them well , and they will be as ripe as those that you shall gather when they be ripe vpon the frée .

To driue away Rats .

Take the hoofe of a flon'd horse , sliced in pieces , and put it on a chafingdish of coales , and the very sent or smell thereof being well perfumed , will driue away all the Rats from the house .

Ad capiendum pisces .

Recipe luce Mullage , vel scolares tortes , collectum circa medium Maii quando Luna sit plena ; distemperata comminge sape , serua in olla terrea , & quando vis occupare vnge manus tuas eclaua sita ni aqua , vel loco ubi sunt Pisces .

To take Rats .

Take a quicke Rat , and put her in a pot , and make a soft fire about it and vnder it . and when sh● féeleth the heat she will crye , and the Rats that heare her will come to helpe her , and then they may take them . And in like manner you may doe with moles .

To take Moles .

Take a couple of quicke Moles , and put them in a déepke pot , and set the pot in the earth to the brim , and when they cannot get out , they will péepe , and all the other Males will come and fall into the pot to them .

To make a light for euer .

Take the wormes that shine commonly in the night , and gather the liquor of them , and mingle it with a quartren of Quick-siluer , and put it in a Viall , and then you shall sée all the night long by it .

To put ones hand into any hot seething thing .

Anoint thy hants with hearbe Mercury , and put it in a see thing thing , and it will doe thée no harme at all .

To kill Lice .

Make a good fire , and put Quicke-filuer therein , and hang the cloathes that are troubled with Rice ouer the fire in the smoake , and then assure your selfe no vermin will bréed or come in them .

To kill Lice and Neets .

Take the powder or scraping of a Harts horne , and let the party that is troubled with them drinke often thereof , and there will neither Lice nor Néets breed eyther in his head or body . Also it you strew the same powder other vpon his head , or on his cloathes , all the Lice and Neets will presently dye .

An easie way to kill Fleas .

Take the herbé Coriander and seeth it wēl in water , and then sprinkle the same water in your Chambers and r●omes , and it will destroy all the Fleas .

Another way .

Take Worm-wood and Rue , and stampe them together , then mingle them well with good wine , and put them all together in a linnen cloth , and rub all thy body well with it before thou goest to bed , and the Fleas will not come neere thee .