¶ A brief and pleasant treatise, entitled, Natural and Artificial conclusions: Written first by sundry scholars of the University of Padua in Italy, at the instant request of one Barthelmewe a Tuscan: And now Englished by Thomas Hill Londoned, as well for the commodity of sundry Artificers, as for the matters of pleasure, to recreate wits at vacant times.  
Imprinted at London by John Kyngston, for Abraham Kitson. 1581.   

The Preface to the Reader.  
WHere of late (gentle Reader) in my Preface of that treatise, of the Interpretation of sundry dreams, both of josephes' and salomon's together I did there promise to set forth a little treatise of Natural & Artificial Conclusions, which now I have performed, wishing the Reader to give his favourable reading & report of them not set forth for any necessity of them, but rather for the recreation of wits at vacant times. And yet I must confess that some of them be necessary for sundry Artificers to know, and the rest for matters of pleasure, as in the reading of them shall appear. Which (gentle Reader) taking in good part, and construing my meaning unto the best, then promise to further you shortly with my treatise of Problems, and then natural answers annexed, and that aptly answered.  
And a brief Herbal very rare, for the marvelous matters, & that natural, taught in the same. And a treatise of the rare and strange wonders seen in the air, for these many years passed in sundry Realms and Countries right pleasant to read. All whi● he gentle Reader, look for at the Printers hands so shortly as may be. In the mean time buy, and give the reading of these unto the better hope of the rest.   
Natural and Artificial Conclusions.  

The property of the Adamant Stone.  
FIrst, if any hold the Adamant Stone in his hand, under a goblet or silver bowl, or under a table, and that the same be moved to and fro in the hand, then in the like manner will the Iron or Needle sting in the goblet, or on the table, move to and fro, and round about. Also the Adamant sometimes with the one corner, will draw Iron unto it, and with the other corner put the Iron from it. Also if any anointeth this Stone with Garlic, it doth then hinder the Stone from drawing any Iron or Needle unto it, although the Needle should be laid on the Stone. And some writ that this Stone will draw Glass unto it, in like manner as it doth the Iron.   

The secret properties of the Egg.  
ANd first the round Egg set under the Hen bringeth forth a Hen chicken, and the long Egg set under the Hen, bringeth forth a Cock chicken. Also the Egg with the shell laid to steep in Vinegar for three days space, doth after so soften it, that any may work the same at length like unto Wax. And the same Egg afterward laid in water, doth come again unto the former state. Also if an Egg be painted with sundry colours, and the same set under a Hen to bring forth, she shall hatch a chicken having the like feathers, unto the colours painted on the Egg. Also the Egg laid for three days to steep in strong Vinegar, and after for one whole month laid to dry again in the Sun, will after come unto the hardness of a stone.   

¶ A proper conclusion of an Hasellsticke.  
FIrst take an Haselsticke of a yard long, being new cut of, and the same cleave just in the middle, giving the one end so cleaved unto thy companion to hold in both his hands, and th'other end hold yourself in both your hands after such sort, that both the inner parts of the stick may look one right against the other, in the laying down on the ground, and must also be laid a sunder unto the breadth of two fingers, in such sort that they may touch together, by an overthwart manner at some one place, & within a while after, you shall see them draw and join together again of themselves. And this understand, that the stick must be new cleaved, soon after the cutting up of it, for otherwise this stick worketh not the proper effect.   

¶ A proper practice to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens.  
FIrst to do this, take a Capon and pull the belly bare of feathers, and after rub the naked place with Nettles, setting young Chickens under him, and he will then marvelously cherish them, and bring them kindly up. And the rather if you so accustom to use the Capon the like for a time: For by that means he is moved the willynger to cherish, bring up and feed, yea and to love them so well as the Hen naturally would do. And the reason of this is, in that thorough the pricking of the Nettles, he is thereby the rather desirous to touch the soft down, and feathers of the young Chickens sitting under him.   

¶ To make any foul of what condition the same be, to have feathers all white.  
TO do this, take the Eggs and roll them in the juice of the herb called Mouseare, or in the herb called Houselike, or otherwise in oil (after the mind of Cardanus) and after put the Eggs again in the Nest, for after the hatching, their feathers shall grow white.   

¶ To make a Candle burn in the water.  
AND to do this, take Wax, Brimstone, and Vinegar, of each a like, boil these altogether over the Fire, until the vinegar appear all consumed, and then after of that Wax remaining, make a Candle and you shall see the proper effect, as above is written.   

¶ To make a woman that she shall not eat of the meats set upon the Table.  
TO do this, take a little of the green basil, and when one bringeth any dishes of meat unto the table, than put the same herb secretly under one of the platters or dishes, that she espy it not, and as long as the herb so lieth on the table, the woman shall eat nothing of that meat in the platter or dish, which covereth the herb.   

¶ A proper secret of the Philosophers, to make a Stone to burn without fire.  
AND to do this, take calamity, Brimstone, unslaked lime, pitch, Ceruse, of each of these three drams, of Camphora one dram, Asphaltum three drams, all these make in powder, and put the same into a strong pot well stopped, and after make a fire under the pot, increasing the same by little and little until the powder in the pot become so hard as a stone, and when you will have it burn, then rub the same well with a cloth, and it will burn suddenly: and when you will put the same out, then spit upon it, and after set the same in a moist place, and it will go out.   

¶ To make one to see fearful sights in his sleep.  
ANd to do this, take the blood of a ●●●apwyng, and therewith anoint the pulses of thy forehead, be●ore thy going to rest, and then after in thy sleep thou shalt see both marvelous and fearful sights, as Vitalis Medicus writeth. Also he writeth, that if a man eateth in the Evening before his going to bed, of the herb named Nightshade, or Mandrake, or Henbane, shall after see in his sleep pleasant sights.   

How to turn water into wine, a proper secret.  
IF thou wilt convert or turn water into wine, then fill a brass pot with the best wine, setting upon the head of the pot a Lim●●ecke, and distill the wine out, and the Lees remaining after the distillation dry them, and bring them into fine powder, which equally mixed with the water, doth so cause the water to have both the colour, and taste of the same wine. And the like unto this mate be wrought & done in a Rose Limbeck. Also a loaf of Barley bread hot drawn out of the oven, and broken into great pieces hot, and laid so to soak in good wine, which pieces when they shall be well soaked in the wine, let them dry in the Sun, and after soak of that bread in fair Water, and it will after receive both the colour and taste of that wine.   

To make a light or Candle to endure burning without going out by any wind so long as the substance endureth.  
TO do this, make a week after thy discretion, which infuse in the oil o● hempseed, and after into molten Tallow, as you would properly make a week or cotton Candle, letting the same to hang somewhat until it be cold, which through cold, then light it in the like sort as you do a common Candle, and it will not after go. out wi●h●na Wind, so long as the substance endureth, and in like sort may light be made to serve in the night time, if so be that fine linen rags be first soaked in the Oil of hempseed, and after dipped into molten Tallow, which so bound or wrought on a staffs end to carry about, or otherwise on a staffs end, lying in an Iron plate.   

How to make quarters of wood i● hang so fast together, that they cannot be shaken asunder without breaking.  
 
TO make quarters hold, and hang together thus without tying, must be done on this wise: First, lay one of the quarters down, as these it. letters A. and B. do instruct, on the which lay the other quarter, even as these two letters C. and D. do here represent, and on that C. and D. lay the third quarter, as the letters E. and F. do here express, and in such sort that E. and F. must lie under A.B. And being then thrust hard together they cannot after fall away without breaking, in that A. and B. is stayed and held of E. and F. and E. and F. of C. and D. and C. and D. holden of A. and B. so that none of them can fall a sunder the one from the other. Also that place where B.D.E. is holden or stayed together, and doth the like hold together, as by a trial of the same shall more manifestly appear. Also the more and harder they be thrust together, the longer they so continued hanging together. And some suppose that a like trial unto this, may be assayed and proved, either with three sticks made flat for the nonce, or with three knives being a like, if they be orderly used.   

How to make a colour like to gold, in understanding this secret.  
ANd to do this, take of Aloes Hepaticke, and of salt Niter of each six ounces, these grind, and perfectly mix together on a smooth Marble, or other hard stone: that being so laboured together, they can after be separated by no means, and after distill the same in a Limbeck of glass well luted about, that you may so draw out all the moist substance that will come. And with this may you gild what you lis●e, understanding how to draw this liquor. Also by a shorter way and lesser pain may you do the like, although not so perfect as the other above said, which indeed is right marvellous. And ●ow this is on this wise: First, take of Aloes Hepaticke three ounces, of Rosen six ounces, and of oil of linseed well boiled a pint and a half, these set over the fire in a pot, and mingle them well together, after strain the same liquor through a Linen clothe, putting it into a pot, which you must s●op close, and so keep the same until you have need to gild any thing therewith.   

To make Silver like any metal, which shall so continue a long tyme.  
FOR to do this, take half an ounce of Aquafortis, and a scruple of Quicksilver, and a little of the Tartarus made of the white wine, and a little Salt: These put altogether in a pot or earthen pan, working and labouring the same together over hot embers, which so done, you may after with this composition make silver like any metal you list, and to continue so a long tyme.   

How to stick an Iron or Steel Bodkin into the head of either Cock Hen, or Chicken.  
ANd to do this, writ first these words following, that is to say, gibel, God, Gabell, in a scroll, and bind the same about the bill of the Cock, Hen, or Chicken, to colour this secret withal, which so done, then pierce the head of the Bird, just in the middle as you can guess, with a very sharp pointed Bodkin, and after se●t the Bird down, and you shall see the Bird so lustily run away from you, as if nothing were striking into the head, if the Pullet be big, unto the wonder of such as shall see the same. And now the reason of this is, in that the head and brain of the Pullet, is divided into two parts in the bone, and the bone also doubled in the midst, so that the Bodkin may easily enter without danger, and of this the brain so pierced, the Pullet nevertheless liveth: which if the ignorant see, they will perhaps believe, and think that the words only doth the same, which is nothing less,   

To make a Candle that will not go out, until the whole substance be wasted.  
ANd to do this, take the best wax and the pure Brimstone, of each a like portion, which take and melt together, and after make a Candle thereof, which being lighted, set the same in a Candlestick to burn. And the same candle so lighted, will not go out until the whole sustance be spent, thus Cardanus writeth.   

How to make Iron soft, a proper secret.  
ANd to do this, take the juice of the Hemlock, and quench the Iron in it, being well heated three or four times, letting it there remain every time, until it be throughlie cold. Also Cardane writeth, that if you take oil, putting into it mosten Leave seven times together, and after quench your Iron red hot into that Oil, for four or five times together, and it will so make the same soft to work.   

To make a Sword, Dagger, or Knife to cut Iron so easily as Lead.  
OF this thing Hermes writeth, if a Sword, Dagger, or knife being only Iron and fashioned, and being red hot, ●f the same be afterward quenched into the juice of the Raddishe, mixed with the liquor of the fresh Worms of the ground, or rather the water of Artely distilled, being before some what bruised: such a Sword, dagger, or knife saith he, shall after have such a strange edge, if the same red hot be quenched four or five times in it, that with the same you may cut Iron so easily, as if it were Led. Also he writeth, that if Steel be often melted in the Furnace and so purified until the same be so white as Silver in a manner, and then after of the same fashion, graving Instruments with their edges and points, orderly like as to the art of graving belongeth, which instruments being red hot, quenched a●ter into the juice of radish, and the distilled water of the Worms of the earth mixed together: Or else with that water of the Worms, drau●en through a clean Linen cloth, so that there be so much of this water, as of the juice of the radish, and then those instruments quenched four or five times, in the above said liquor. And after will the edges and poinetes of the instruments be so hard, that you may cut and grave in any stone and Iron, so easily as the same were Led.   

How to keep weapons clean and fair for a long tyme.  
ANd to do this, take Barrowes grease, common Oil, new Wax, Ceruse, of each a like, these temper together very well over a soft fire, vn●ill they be thoroughly incorporated, and after anoint the burnished weapon with this ointment, and it shall so continue in the same brightness in secula secu●orum. And there can not be a greater secret invented, for the keeping bright of weapons than this is, if these words be well understanded.   

How to make Steel so soft as past, a proper secret.  
Do thus: Take the gall of an Ore. Bans urine, ●er●es, and the ●y●e of the Nettle, of each of the●e take a little quantity, and mi●e them very diligently together, then after quench the Steel red hot in this liquor sour or five times together, and it will after become so soft as passed. And this is a ●ight proper and necessary secret to be understanded of all such workmen as do any matters in Steel, as graving and such like, if these words be well marked,   

¶ How to make Hens lay Eggs all the winter through.  
TO do this, take the tops of the Nettles when they begin to come unto seed, and dry them: which so dried, give a little of the same with Bran and hempseed mingled together, to your Hens, and they shall every day after lay you an Egg a piece.   

¶ How to make thy Chamber appear full of Snakes and Adders.  
TO do this, kill a Snake, putting the same into a pan with Wax, and let it so long boil until the same be through dry, and of that wax make a Candle, lighting the same in the Chamber, and then after shall appear as though there were a thousand creeping in thy Chamber.   

¶ How to make letters appear of the colour of Gold, Copper, or Silver.  
AND to do this, take very clear Crystal, and work the same into marvelous fine powder on a Marble stone, and after mix the same powder with the white of an Egg, until this be so prepared to write withal: And after with this confection write what letters you will, letting the same dry, and after rub a gold Ring, or any piece of gold on the same letters, and all the letters shall appear like gold. And in the like sort may you make the letters either appear like silver or copper.   

¶ How to make any piece of Iron to appear like gold.  
AND to do this, take four pints of Raine water, into which put ten drams of Roch Alum, and ten drams of Orpiment, of Roman Vitriol, and Salt Gem, of each one an ounce, and a scruple of Coperas: all these boil together, after put there into a quart of Vinegar, and of Tartarus, and common Salt finely beaten to powder, of each three ounces, all these incorporate again over a soft fire very well, and after occupy the same, which maketh a colour like unto gold.   

¶ How to have fresh Roses at all times of the year, sundry ways taught.  
AND first if you will have fresh Roses at any time, so well as in the month of May, then gather the buds half open in a manner in the Evening, when as the Sun is set, and touch them not with thy hand in the gathering, but with a sharp knife properly gather them, after lay the Roses upon a board, letting them to lie abroad in a fair night, all the night through, and then after have in a readiness a new earthen pot well glazed within and with out, into which put the former Roses before the Sun be up in the morning, and stop close the mouth of that pot with clay mixed with Horsdung, and flocks, all tempered well together before, whereby no air of the Roses may pass or breath forth. After set the same pot into the ground, covering it in dry Sande, and let no moist place be near, or about the same. And now on this wise may you have fresh Roses at any time of the year.  
Also take of the Rose buds in the spring time, when they begin first to open, and put tho●e into a green Cane yet growing, cleaning the same by little and little, until you may handsomely put in those buds, and after tie that place with a thread, stopping the same about that no air breath out, and after cover that niece of the Cane or Reed, so bound and stopped about under the earth, bowing down the same stalk by little and little, that the same break not, and cover the same well with the earth, letting it there remain so long as you lift, and when you be minded to have them forth, then clean the Cane by little and little, that you spoil not the bu●des, and after set them in the Su●ne, or in lukewarm water, a●d they s●a●be open and fair in a short space, as in the midst of May.  
Also if you will make dry Roses to become fresh, then take a new glazed pot, and wet the same with in w●th Rose water, and after shut that pot with the Roses very close letting it so to stand for five days, and they shall be fresh.   

¶ How to make Beans and other seeds grow up in four hours.  
AND first, to make Beans grow up in an hours space, take the Beans and put them in hot Oil, letting them there remain for a xl. days, and after dry them. And when you will make the proof of them, than set the Beans, and go to dinner, and by that time you rise again from the Table and go to look on them, you shall find them grow up well a span high. And the like may you do with the Gourds.  
And now to make the Gourds grow up in the space of four hours, both with leaves and flowers, take the seed of the Gourd, and let them lie in the blood of a sanguine young man, and let them there remain for fifteen days in a moist place, and in a pot well stopped, and after take them forth, and let them be dried well in the Sun: and when you will sow or plant them, then take a dish full or two of good earth, and dry the same well, after wet the same with a little fresh water, and after have warm water pouring the same upon this earth until it become sufficient soft, and then plant your seeds in it, and within three or four hours after you shall have Gourds grown up with leaves, and with flowers.  
And the like may you do with the Melons, Citrons, and other green seeds.   

¶ To make a Candle of Ice to burn like unto an other Candle.  
TO do this, make a candle of Brimstone, which with the powder of a coal smear about, and after in the Winter time drown the same in water, but cover the head of it with a paper, and after hang the same at the mouth of some Gutter which droppeth fast, whereby it may so be covered with half a finger thickness of Ice in the morning, and after being lighted it will then burn unto the wondering of such as shall see the same. Also take pure Wake and fine Brimstone purified, of each a like, melt these together making thereof a Candle, and after take the powder of a coal finely beaten, & brimstone the like in powder, these sift through a Serse or linen cloth, and after heating the Candle, smear the Candle about so long, until it have (as it were) a thick crust round about the same like unto the thickness of the back of a knife, which after cover about the head of it with a paper, & then hang the same at the mouth of a Gutter which droppeth fast, until the I'll cover it about a finger thick, then light the same, and it will burn like as it were all wax.   

¶ To make flesh to seem to crawl full of worms.  
AND to do this, take Harp strings & cut them into very short pieces, which straw upon meat being taken ●ot ou● of the pot, & those pieces will then move and far like unto worms.   

¶ How to make a light in the night time, that all things round about thy hall or parlour shall appear both black and green.  
TO do this, take the black juice or ink of the fish named a Cuttle, and the like quantity of verdigris, these mix well together, putting the same into a Lamp, and dipping a week in that liquor, then light the same, putting out the other lights in the room, and then shall all things round about that place, and the walls also being white, appear both black and green, unto the marvel o● such as shall see the same.   

¶ How to make Roots to have what proper form you will on them.  
TO do this take such green roots which be big, like as be the Briony roots, radish roots, and Rape or navew roots, and of any of these roots carve and cut as you list, and alter put the same into the earth, letting it there so long remain until the same carving be covered with a skin. And on such wise may you make the counterfeit Mandrakes, in fashioning in the Briony root as both Mathealus and Cardane do write form of a man with a Pen knife, and settying the same root again into the earth with the head of the root turned downward, and a little Barley put under it, whi●h after will cleave and hang fast unto the head of the Root, and appear like unto hair growing out of the same.   

¶ How to break a stone with the Fist, of the thickness of ones hand.  
AND to do this, first raise the edge of a flat stone upright from a plain board, or rather from a big smooth stone, in such sort that it stand of itself without any underbearing or help, and after with thy fist sin hastily or quickly that part standing upright, which failing together flat on the plain board or stone, doth so break in so many pieces. And if the fist be swiftlier smitten, than the end of the stone toucheth the board in the falling, then is that stroke in vain, and breaketh not the same at that tyme. And in the like manner may Tiles be easily broken with a small and easy stroke of the hand, for that through the weight of the stone in the falling, and help of the quick stroke, it doth of this so lightly break, even as it were down with the vehement stroke of a hammer.   

¶ To make an herb to grow which shall have many savours and tastes.  
AND to do this, first take one seed of the Lettuce, one seed of Endive, one of Smallage, one of the basil, one of the Leek, and of the Parsley, all these put together in a hole in such sort that one seed may touch an other, but this remember, that you plant these together in the dung of an Horse or an Ox without any earth at all with them. And then after of these seeds shall grow up one proper herb, which will have so many savours and tastes, as there were seeds sown together.   

¶ How to make sundry devices or Arms or such like, in a Rose, Carnation, or Flowers de luse, or lily.  
TO do this, take Salt armoniac, and grind the same on a Marble stone with fine Vinegar, and a little Sugar Candie, and keep the same in a narrow necked pot or glass, and after take your Rose, and dress the leaves in fastening them with red Ware, that they may so lie plain and even, which so done, then take a fine Pencil with the liquor drawing on the leaves what proper matter or Arms you list, and after let the same dry of itself, putting upon of the leaf gold, or the leaf silver, and after pressing it lightly or gently down with Bombasse, and that which sticketh not then fast, falleth of in the doing, and so your work will remain trim and fair.   

¶ To write what you list on a Seel● Dagger or Knife.  
HOW to do this, take an ounce of Salt Peter, and an ounce of green Coperesse, beat ●hese grossly together, and after put the same into a strong Bottle of glass, distilling a water of it, which water use on this wise: First take yellow or red Wax, sletching the same upon your Dagger or Knife, so far as you will draw or write thereupon, unto the thickness of a Paper leaf and somewhat more, after draw or write therein what you list, drawing or writing unto the Steel, and then fill that hollow drawing or holes with the distilled water, which within a day and a night will have eaten it sufficiently, and the like may you draw● and do in any other piece of steel.   

¶ How to break a new and big Rope with the hands only.  
TO do this take and fasten the one end of the Cord or Rope, either with a nail driven fast into it, or about a strong hook of Iron, and after wind the same three or four times, or o●tner about thy hand, and the other end of the Cord or Rope wind about by the top of the Palm between the fore finger and thumb, that the one part of the cord may reach unto the Nail, and the head or other end unto the bottom of the Plame, by which it must again be winded about, and after that winded again once or twice about. And this so done, then with a vehement pluck and force, assay in the same part by which it is so over winded or run with the Cord, for that the substance of the Cord or Rope which is under doth defend that the hand can take no harm by the hasty and strong pull, and take heed that the uttermost fold of the Cord slide not in thy hand. And to conclude, this conceive, that in the mighty and hasty pluck together, the one fold of the Cord doth so cut the other in sunder, and then especially when as that part shall be set soft, which is between the hand and the nail and that both the hand be strong, and then pluck out right and quick. And now if you will conceive this order in the winding of the Cord about both the hands, you may so break the same with the only strength of the hands, yea such strong cords or Ropes as will well hold a Bullock or Cow, unto the admiration or wondering: of the lookers on.   

¶ How to make white Flowers like as the Lily, white Rose and such like to be red.  
AND to do this, fill a pint pot of the best red Wine, unto the middle of it, and within the mouth of the pot hung the white ●lowers so deep in, that they touch not the wine, after that cover the mouth of the pot very close, so that no air of the wine breath out, and then let it so stand for one whole day, and they will after become red of colour. And to make such flowers that be● naturally white to become red, do this, first take gross earth, drying the same very well in the Sun, that you may after bring the same into very fine powder, and after put the same earth into a pot or half Tub, where you mind to plant your white flowers to become red, and after they be so planted in the earth, then let them not be watered at any time with any other water then this, which is made on this wise: Take water putting therein a certain quantity of brasil finely cut, and boil the same unto a third part, which water after take and being through cold, water by little and little the same earth, as both at morning and evening, and water it at no time with any other water then this, until you see that the same water first have taken effect.   

¶ How to make a hollow Ring to dance by itself, a proper secret.  
AND to do this, take a Ring round about hollow, into which put quicksilver, and stop the same fast that it run not forth. After heat the Ring somewhat in the fire, or let it lie near unto the fire, and being hot, lay the same on a Table or Stool, which by and by after will begin to dance of itself, until it be cold again.   

¶ To make Glue to hold together so hard as a stone, a proper secret.  
AND to do this take unfleke Lime, and quench the same with wine, and beat the same into fine powder, mixing therewith both Figs and Swine's grease, and after labour them well together, for this as Pliny writeth passeth the hardness of a Stone. Also take Greek Pitch, Rosin, and the powder of tile stones, these mix together, and when you will occupy of the same, than heat it over the fire, and work therewith: for when the same is cold, it holdeth them together so hard as any Nail. Also take of Spuma ferri one pound, of tile shards tw●● pound, ●f unslekt lime, four pound, of Oil of linseed so much as shall suffice to prepare, and work them together, for this Glue is marvelous strong, which neither feareth nor yieldeth to water nor fire.   

¶ To make an Apple move on the Table, a proper secret.  
HOw to do this, take an Apple and cut the same in the midst, and in the one half make a round hole, putting therein a black ●eetle, and so lay the same half on the Table, and it will then move.   

¶ To make Roses and other flowers that be red, to become white.  
AND to do this, take Brimstone, beating the same into fine powder, which powder burn on a new Tylestone, holding such red flowers or Roses over the smoke of it, whiles it so burneth, and they will after become white, and on this wise you may make your Roses half white and half red, or one leaf white, and an other red, by a cap of paper so cut for the nouce.   

¶ How to write letters on the Eggshell, that the same letters may appear within on the Egg.  
AND to do this, take a little quantity both of Gales and Allome, which work together with Vinegar, & after write with this liquor what you will on the shell, and that dried, lay then the Egge●●triue, or else anoint the Egg about w●th Wax unto the thickness of a Paper or somewhat more, and with a fine bodkin write deep letters that the holes may be open, and the letters apparent, into the which holes pour of this liquor, and when the same is dried on the Egg, then seethe the Egg until it be hard, and after lay the same to soak in sharp Vinegar, through the which soaking, the letters will so pass through the shell, that the letters may be seen on the Egg, after the shell is pulled of.   

How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milk, not to spill or shed forth.  
TO do this, take the Bottle or narrow mouth Pot and fill the same unto the brim, after cover the mouth with a Paper, and then turn the mouth downward on the mouth of an other pot, and nothing shall shed forth▪ as by a trial in filling the one pot with Milk, and the other may be seen.   

How to kill Fleas divers ways.  
AND first to gather all the Fleas of thy Chamber into one place, anoint a Staff with the grease of a Fox▪ or Headghog, and lay the Staff again, where you list in your chamber, and it shall so gather all the Fleas by it. Also fill a dish with goats blood, and set the same by the bed, and all the Fleas will come to it round about. And the like will they do by the blood of the Headghog. Also take the fat of a Goat, and anoint what you list therewith, and set the same under your bed, and all the Fleas will gather unto the same. Also take lupines or flat Beans, & boil them in water with Wormwood, and that water sprinkle well about the Chamber, and all the Fleas shall avoid that Chamber. Also take an Apple of Coliquintida, and infuse the same in water, and in that water boil Wormwood, which cast about the Chamber, killeth all the Fleas. And the like doth the peach leaves, or vervain, or Colyander boiled in water, and so cast about.   

¶ How to make a pot of Glass not to sink in the water, a proper secret.  
TO do this, first fill a glass pot full of Water or Wine unto the brim, for otherwise it sincke●h down & is drowned in the setting of it in the water: the reason of which appeareth by this demonstration. Imagine that the pot be D. whose neck is A.B.C. the vacant part of it A B. in that A.B. doth bear about water, through the air which is contained therein: and the weight of the glass A. B draweth toward the Centere, and A.D.C. cannot descend by strait line down, for that it shall labour in vain. And therefore the signifier D. howeth in that D▪ when as the wine is set in the water, it resisteth not, and therefore A.B. doth descend until it come unto the upper face of the water, but when A.B. shall be in the upper face of the water, the part E. is then drowned, in that it is the neither part, and all the neck of the pot.   

How to make a thin Glue very profitable, a proper secret.  
AND to do this, take the Glue made of Fishes, beating the same strongly on an Anvil until it be thin, which after lay to soak in water, until it become very soft and tender, which will be within five or six hours, and then work it like past to make small rolls thereof, which when it is like unto paste, stretch it or draw it out very thin, and when you will work with it, then put of the same into an earthen pot wi●h a little fair water over hot embers, and skim the same very clean, and let it so seethe a little while, after work with the same, keeping it still over the hot embers until you have do●n with it, for so it fasteneth and bindeth the stronger. And in such sort that it fasteneth pieces of glass together.   

How to draw a Ring of, being very hard thrust on, and the finger swelled.  
AND if either man or woman hath thrust a Ring so hard on their finger, that he or she cannot draw the same of, through the swelling of the finger, than thread a Needle, and draw the same under the Ring, and wind the thread about the finger on the other side, and so often wind the thread about, and diligently consider that the whole joint and part of the finger lying or being between the joint and the Ring, be covered about with the thread, and that no part be seen of the skin through the close covering of the thread, and even draw the Needle again under the Ring, and wind the thread like about on the other side, and that speedily, whereby the Ring drawn and removed on the thread, by little and little may so pass over the joint and come of. But whilst you are in the doing of this, make no tarriance or delay, for that the finger doth so lightly swell, that without great pain the Ring can not be drawn of.   

To make fruits, as Apples, Pears Quinces, and such like, to have what proper form you will on them.  
AND to do this, counterfeit on a piece of wood being in bigness to the fruit which you desire, what form you will: Or else cut Roman or other fashion letters in it, (to express if you list) some proper word, which so done, then make a mould with Water and Chalk unto the thickness of thy little finger, the same part into the just haste. And when this mould is dry which soon drieth, separate then the same from the wood with Oil before. And when you have gotten of the mould from the wood, and parted it in two just halves, then take the same mould, and bind it mos●e close unto the fruit being grown unto his half bigness, and let it so continue until the fruit become unto his full bigness, and then take the mould away, and you shall see the trial of the former taught.   

How to cut a Glass, a proper secret.  
AND to do this, steep a thread in Oil and Brimstone mixed together, and compass the glass with the thread in the place where you would have it parted, and after kindle and light the sam●, and so often do thus, until the place he hot, and after compass the same with a thread wet in cold water, and it will part so clean asunder, as if the same had been cut with a sharp painted Diamond.   

How to soften Crystal, to imprint what you list therein, a proper secret.  
AND to do this, take the blood of a Lamb, and the blood of a Wether, mixing these together, after take thy Crystal stone heating it in the fire burning hot, and then quench it in the blood, which after will become so soft as passed, then with a Copper print work therein what you list, and after set the same abroad in the air, and it will come again unto the former hardness.   

How to walk on the water, a proper secret.  
 
FOR to do this, take two little Timbrels and bind them under the soles of thy feet, and at a staves end fasten an other, and with these you may safely walk on the wate● unto the wonder of all such as shall see the same: if so be you often exercise the same with a certain boldness and lightness of the body.   

¶ To make a Candle to burn, a proper secret.  
FOr to do this, first make a week of Silk, and infuse the same in the Oil of hempseed, and when the week shall be sufficiently soaked, role the same in Snow, until it be of the bigness of a great Candle, whereby it may so be well wrought together, and after light the same, setting it in a stick, and it will give the like light as a Wax Candle. Also make a Candle of Purpen stone & wax together, about the which role Snow, and the Snow will burn until it be all wasted. Also take Snow, and mix therewith the powder of Camphire, and of the same make a Candle, and it will burn being lighted.   

¶ How to draw many Candles the one after the other, being la●ed a foot distance or more asunder.  
FOR to do this, take Brimstone, Orpiment, and Oil, these labour together, and make thereof an ointment, after take so many Candles as may well serve your Table, which lay on the Table a large foot asunder and all a roe, the one behind the other as long as you list to lay them, yea, a hundred may you late down on this wise a length if you lay them straight, then take a long thread, and anoint the same in this ointment, which after lay a long on the Candles, and after drawing the foremost, all will follow by order.   

¶ How to cut an Apple into many pieces, without harming of the skin or paring.  
TO do this, take a most fine Needle with a small thread, and thrust the same by little and little under the paring, and thrust it in again right against the place, until you have so gone round about the outside of the Apple. And this also remember that you thrust the needle through the parting at straight corners one against the other of the Apple, and this so often do, until you come again unto the first place where you began.  
And if so be you would divide the same in six or eight pieces, then draw the thread again by a like distance, always taking heed to divide the Apple under the skin and when you have thus done with the Apple and the pieces yet covered with the skin, them draw ou● the ends of the thread and you shall a●●er divide the Apple within, without ha●●●yng of the paring or skin into so many pieces as you list. And when you have thus drawn ●ut and taken the thread quite away, you man keep the Apple so long as you think requisite.   

How to make a Cup of Gloss being set in the fire not to burn.  
AND to do this, take what Cup or Pot of glass you list, and seethe the same in common Oil, by the space of five hours, and after take it forth, and it will be then made so strong that the said Cup of glass or pot will endure the heat of the fire.   

How to m●ke a Candle to be marveled at a proper secret.  
 
AND to do this, take four ounces of salt Niter, six ounces of fine Frankincense, three ounces of brimstone, six ounces of Oil, and six ounces of the Mi●ke of Cataputia, all these beat fine, & mix together, after take three ounces of Wax, and make then a Candle of altogether, in the end of which Candlestick, stick deep a Needle, and after set the same in a narrow mouth glass full of water, and you shall see after what the same will do.   

¶ How to make quick silver in a ma●er so hard as silver.  
AND to do this, take the strongest Vinegar, and whites of Egge● well beaten together, and three ounces of quicksilver, unto one of the other these first still together in a Limbeck well luted, and in that distilled water put the quicksilver, and it will be after so hard that you may work it with the hammer. Also take quicksilver, and wash it in the distilled water of man's blood, and every time you wash the same let it dry, and in the end it will come to be so hard as silver.   

How to see many and divers strange sights in an Urinal.  
AND to see these, take a new and clean washed Urinal, into which pour either clean water, or other running water, after take the white of an new laid Egg, and a little Saffron, binding it in a clean linen cloth, after that pour a little of the water into a dish, and put the cloth with the Saffron into it so long until it have coloured it somewhat, and being on this wise, them beat the white of the Egg with this water seven or eight times with thy ●inger, and then pour the same into the Urinal, and you shall after see in it Towers, Castles, Hills and many other strange sights.   

How to catch Fowls without a Net.  
TO do this, take Arsenic putting the same in water, and in that water boil Wheat or any other grain, and cast the same forth unto Foules, and so many as eat thereof will not be able afterward to fly away. And take the juice of Celidone, and infuse Wheat in the same, letting it there remain for three days, after give the same unto Fowls to eat and such as eat thereof you may after take with the hand. Also take Wheat, putting it in Wine Lees, and let the same remain there eight days, after that put it into the juice of Celandine and Horehound to steep, which so done, then give of the same unto the fowls to eat, and such as eat thereof, cannot after fly a way.   

How to make a loaf of bread new set upon the Table to leap of.  
TO do this, take a quill filling the same with Quick silver, and stopping it close thrust the same after into a hot loaf new drawn out of the Oven, and the loaf will by and by dance on the Table.   

How to make an Egg fly about, amerry conclusion.  
AND to do this, take a Goose Egg, and after the opening and cleansing of it, take a Back that flieth in the Evening, which put into the shell, than glue it fast about on the top, and the Back will so fly away with it, which perhaps will be thought of some to fly about in the air of itself.   

¶ How to make Artificial fire divers ways, and that marvelous.  
AND first to make a flame of fire to pass suddenly out of the mouth of a pot full of water, take an Egg making an hole in the head, and draw out all the substance of the same, which so done, then fill the same with the powder of Brimstone and vnsl●ckt Lime mixed together, shutting the mouth with Wax, and then let it fall to the bottom of a quart pot full of Water, taking quickly your hand away, and suddenly will issue forth a flame out of the mouth of the pot. And also if thou wilt spit fire out of thy mouth without pain, and to do thee no harm, take the powder of the Willow stick, finely beaten and searced with the which join a little new Silk, making it round up like unto a ball, into which put this powder, wrapping the Silk well about it, and after put it within with the powder a little fine Flax, and then properly stitch it up round about, which so done, then cut it open a little on the one side, putting a quick coal or a light Candle unto it, to set it on fire a little, then put it again into thy mouth, holding the same softly with thy teeth, and turning also the part cut inward in thy mouth, and when thou wilt spit fire out, then hold the hall strongly in thy mouth and blow, and the lookers on shall see then a great flame issue forth of thy mouth, and do there no harm at all. Also to make a fire fly up in the air. Take Tow, and wet the same in Aquavitae, and after put fire to it and blow the same away, which after will fly up in the air and burn.   

¶ How to know a natural precious stone from a counterfeit.  
AND to do this, rub the same on Lead, and if it change the colour, than it is counterfeit, if it change not, than it is a natural Stone. Also if the stone have like unto a Bladder within, than it is counterfeit.   

¶ How to make a man appear on a flame burning without any harm.  
TO do this, take Brimstone, Orpiment, and common Oil, of these make an ointment, with the which anoint thy garment all about, and thy head and hands, and after light the same, and it will burn all at once without harm. Also take juice of ●dders tongue, the juice of March Mallows, or other Mallows, and the white of an Egg, these mix together, anointing therewith all about thy boot, and then cast the fine powder of Brimstone on the same, setting it over a fire, and it will strongly burn, and neither harm hand nor garment anointed therewith.   

¶ How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day.  
AND to do this, take that part which shineth of the night Worms, and bruise them well, which after set in hot Horsdung, in a glass stopped, and let it there so stand for fifteen days, and after distill the same in a Limbeck of glass with a soft fire, the which water so drawn, stop close in a narrow necked pot of Crystal glass, and hang the same in the entry of the house, and it will so give a very bright light.   

How to make two Dogs fight together, a proper secret.  
AND to do this take the Secliffet of the Wolf, & cast the same between two Dogs: and they shall so long fight together, as they lie there between them, and when you will have them to cease fighting, then take them away.   

How to make a Bitch that she shall not desire to be covered with any Dog.  
TO do this, take Bees and prepare them orderly, which after give unto thy Bitch with bread, or with meat, and she will not after suffer any Dog to touch her.   

To make a blown Bladder to dance and skip from place to place.  
TO do this, put Quicksilver in a bladder, and lay the bladder in a hot place, and it will after skipp from place to place, without handling.   

How to cast for the any worm or Snake entered within the body.  
TO do this, hail the herb basil over a soft fire in Vinegar, which so boile●, give unto the patient to drink, and it shall cast the same up forthwith. And if the same be a Snake entered within the body, than you may take writing Ink, and good Wine, mixing them together, which after drink, and it will cast up whatsoever evil be in the body.   

How to make a Hen to run away with great fear.  
AND to do this, take the head of a Kite, and tie the same about a hens neck, and she shall never cease running here and there, until you have taken away the same from her neck, and when you will take the same from her neck, she will then move from you nothing at all.   

How to find a person drowned, that hath been sought for.  
TO do this, take a white loaf, and cast the same into the water near the suspected place, and it will forthwith go directly over the dead body, and there still abide, by which you may well find the dead body.   

How to deal with Iron many ways right profitable.  
FIrst to make Iron as soft as past, take Vitriol and salt Niter, of each a like, heating these to powder, which after distill in a Limbeck of Glass, and in this water lay your ●mall p●●ces of Iron, for a day and a night, which a●ter eu●er us hot horsedung for 15. days, and the same will become very so●te like unto paste, and with the same Iron you may make seals or grave, or otherwise Imprint what you list on I●ō so easily, as i● to earth, and you may also beat and work the same Iron so easily as Lead. Also make a water of roche alum, as is above said, and in the same water quench your Iron seven times, and it will make the Iron so easily break as glass, and to make powder thereof. Also quench the Iron in the dung of an Ox or Cow, tempered with Honey oftentimes, and it will become so soft, that you may work the same like Lead● with the hammer. Also take sa●te Armomacke well beaten, an mix the same wi●h unssecked Lime, and temper the same with cold water, like unto a thick broth, and in ●his water temper the Iron, and it shall a●ter become white, fair, and very strong. Also take the juice of the Herb named Palma Christi, and with the same amount thy hands, and you may after handle Iron fire hot without harm. And the like may you do with the juice of Hemlock.  
Also take red Arsenic, red Alum, of each like, these grind into fine powder, mixing the same with the juice of Sengreve, or Houselike, and the gall of a Bull, and anoint thy hands with the same, and you may after handle burning Iron, and anointing the foot, you may go on hot Grates of Iron or Coals, without any danger.   

To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image painted on a wall.  
Take and put Brimstone to the mouth of the Image, and take a burning Candle and blow it out. And or the week be out, set it to the Images mouth, and it will burn. And so ye may do against a glass.   

To take Fish by night.  
TAke a lantern of glass, and put a burning Candle in it, and set the lantern on the water, and the Fishes will come to light. Or else take Nettles and Houselike, and make juice of them, and put it in a poude, and all the fishes will gather there, and if your hands be anointed therewith, ye may take them.   

To make that no Dog bark at you.  
TAke an herb called Serpentine, and they shall not bark at you.   

To make birds come to your Culuerhouse.  
Cast Barley steeped in Honey where they do feed, and they will gather to your Culuer house.   

To put an Apple in a Viol.  
Hung the Viol on a twig of the Apple Tree, and put a young Apple in the mouth of the Viol, and it will grow therein. And so ye may do with Grapes or other fruit.   

To pu● an Egg in a Viol.  
Steep the Egg two days and two nights in Vinegar, and then roll it on a table softly, and it will streiche as wax, and then may you put it in the Viol, or draw it through a Ring.   

To make folk seem black.  
PUt Oil Olive in a Lamp, and put thereto fine powder of ground Glass, and light it, and all that be about it, will seem black as Egyptians.   

To prove if a maiden be clean.  
Burn Motherwort, and let her take the smoke at her nose, and if she be corrupt she shall piss, or else not. Otherwise take grey Nettles while they be green, and let her piss on them, if she be no maiden they will whither forth, or else not.   

¶ To know if a sick person● shall die or not.  
TAke Grey Nettles while they be green, and put them in the pacientes Urine: and if they remain green he shall live, and if they wither, not.   

To make salt water fresh.  
TAke clay, and put it into a bag, and strain it through till 〈◊〉 be clear, and it will be fresh.   

To kindle Fire at the Sun.  
TAke a very bright Basin, and put a new looking Glass therein, and set the Basin in the hottest of the Sun, and lay about it very dry Tow small chopped, and the Tow will take fire with heat of the Sun.   

To see by night as by day.  
Anoint your eyes with the blood of a Back.   

To make flesh clean in the pot.  
TAke Dwall or Nightshade, and stamp it well, and put it in the pot with meat, and the meat will clean together.   

To take Birds.  
PUt Barley in the juice of Rue, and vinegar, and cast it there as the Birds do haunt or come, and as soon as they have eaten it they can not fly, and then ye may take them.   

To make Silk Worms.  
TAke the brain of a Calf, and put it in a pit of Mader, and let it lie three weeks, and they will breed of the brain, and ye may feed them with Mulberries.   

To take away hairs.  
ANoint the rough place with the blood of a Back, a●ter that it is shaven, and hair shall never grow there.   

To fat Hens or Capons.  
MAke a deep pit in the earth, and make therein a bed of dung, and a bed of Nettles, and do so till it be full, and the●e keep your Pullen, till the herbs begin to grow, and then let them out and within a short while, they will be very fa●te.   

That one shall not be drunk.  
Drink the juice of Yarrowe fasting, and ye shall not be drunk for no drink. And if ye were drunk, it will sober you: or else eat the marrow of Pork fast y●●, and ye shall not be drunk.   

To make a good bat for Fish at all seasons of the year.  
TAke Wheat flower, and Callowe of a new slain Sheep, and the gleire of an Egg, and eat them all together, and have them all therewith.   

¶ To make an Egg go up to the Spear ends.  
Empty the Egg at a little hole, and fill it full of May dew, and stop the hole close with a little Wax and Parchment glued, that the dew go not out. Then stick a spear in the earth in the heat of the Sun, and lay the Egg by the Spear, and it will mount to the top thereof by the heat of the Sun.   

To make fish or flesh seem raw.  
TAke the blood of a Wat or of a Kid, and dry it and keep it from the air, than cast it on fish or flesh that is hot, and it will seem raw.   

To make Pottage to run out of the pot.  
TAke and cast Soap in the Pot and it will run over.   

To kill Hens or Ducks.  
CAst to them the seed of Henbane and they will fall down as they were dead.   

To make Coals to burn a great while.  
MAke powder of S. Ihons' wort, and when the Coals are wasted and the fire near out, cast it thereon and let it lie.   

¶ That a man shall not be● weary of going.  
Drink the juice of Mugwort, and bear the herb about him, with the herb Pedilion and crowfoot.   

Ad capiendum Pisces.  
REcipe luce Mulage vel scolares tortas collectum circa medium Maij. Quamda Luna sit plena, distemperata cum ingro sape & serva in Olla terreo, & quando vis occupare unge manus tuas & lava illa in aqua velloco ubi sunt Pisces.   

To make Yearn and linen. Cloth white.  
TAke a Herring Barrel, & fill it nigh full of good Aledregges, and stop it fast, but ye must have a good dish full of parched Beans, and put them in a linen bag, and very hot put them to the dregs till they be cool, and shut it fast the space of a quarter of an hour. Then take two pound of Alum ground to subtle powder, and cast it therein, and let it lie four days naturally well closed, then wash your Yarn.   

To make that a Horse may not go through a street.  
TAke the guts of a Wolf, and lay them overthwart the Street, and cover them with earth or Sand, and he will not go that way, as long as the guts do lie there. Probatum est.   

To know if a Woman be with a man child or not.  
TAke a dish and put water in it, and then let her milk her Breast into the water, and if it be a man Child, it will fleet, & if it be a woman child it will sink.   

To ease thy Feet for going.  
TAke Plantine and stamp it well, and anoint your feet with the iu●ce thereof, and it will do a way the grief.   

To have fair white teeth.  
TAke Barley Meal, Honey and Salt, and mingle them together, and rub your teeth therewith, and they will be white and clean.   

To take Fleas.  
Anoint a pot with the Grease of a Buck, and set it on your Bed, and all the Fleas will go to it. Or else take the Grease of a Goupill, and anoint a place of the house where ye will have them come and they will go thither. Or else take leaves of Dan, and lay them under your Coverlet or where ye will, and when they be among the leaves they cannot come away.   
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