HOCUS POCUS JUNIOR. The Anatomy of LEGERDEMAIN. OR, The Art of Juggling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly; so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice. Unto each Trick is added the Figure, where it is needful for Instruction. The third Edition, with many Additions. Praestat nihili quam nihil facere. Hiccius Doctius LONDON, Printed by I.D. for R. M. and are to be sold by Francis Grove at his Shop upon Snow-hill, near the Sarazens-head. 1638. To the Reader. COurteous Reader, do you not wonder? if you do not, well you may, to see so slight a Pamphlet so quickly spent; but lightly come, and lightly go; it is a Juggler's term and it well befits the subject. Would you know whence it first came? why, from Bartholomew Fair: would you know whither it's bend? for the Fair again; it's a straggler, a wanderer, & as I said, as it lightly comes, so it lightly goes; for it means to see not only Bartholomew Fair, but all the Fairs in the Kingdom also, and therefore in the front, Hiccius Doccius is the Postmaster, and what he wants there, i'll give him here, a word or two of command, a term of art, not so much substantial, as circumstantial, Celeriter, vade, over hedges and ditches, thorough thick and thin, to come to your Fairs. Room for a Juggler: all in post, yet with a desire to give you full satisfaction. If you like it, then buy it & read it, if otherwise, leave it for them that list. Farewell. The Art of LEGERDEMAIN Discovered. The original of Legerdemain, and how it came first into this Kingdom. IT came first into the Kingdom by certain Egyptians, that were transported hither, who growing to numerous multitudes, dispersed themselves thorough most parts of the Kingdom: who being most expert in this Art, and in Palmistry, cozened the people in all parts wheresoever they came. Now diverse vagrant English joining with them in time learned both their language, and cozening delusions, whereby at length they were discovered, and thereupon the next ensuing Parliament, there was a statute enacted: that whosoever should transport an Egyptian, should have a fine imposed upon him; Moreover, that whosoever should assume unto themselves the names of Egyptians, it should be imputed unto them as felony, in so high a degree that they might not have their Book granted unto them, which statute was put in execution, and since that time our Kingdom hath been well disburdened of those Egyptian Jugglers. The Definition of the Art of Legerdemain, with its principal parts. LEgerdemain is an operation, whereby one may seem to work wonderful, impossible, and incredible things by agility, nimbleness, and sleightness of hand. The parts of this Art are principally two, The first is in the conveyance of Balls, Cards, Dice, Money, etc. The second is in Confederacy. The end of the Art of Legerdemain. THe end of this Art is either good or bad, accordingly as it is used: Good, and lawful when it is used at Festivals, and merry meetings to procure mirth: especially if it be done without desire of estimation above what we are. Bad, and altogether unlawful when it is used on purpose, to cozen, deceive, or for vain glory to be esteemed above what is meet and honest. The Definition, or description of the Operator, FIrst, he must be one of an impudent and audacious spirit, so that he may set a good face upon the matter. Secondly, he must have a nimble and cleanly conveyance. Thirdly, he must have strange terms, and emphatical words, to grace and adorn his actions, and the more to astonish the beholders. Fourthly, and lastly, such gestures of body as may lead away the spectators eyes from a strict and diligent beholding his manner of conveyance. Of the play of the Balls. Some I have seen sit with they Codpiece open, others play standing with a Budget hanging before them▪ but all comes to one end. But whether you seem to cast your Bal in the air, or into your mouth, or into your other hand, yet still retain it in the same hand, still remembering to keep the palm of your hand downward, and out of sight. Now to begin. Set your cups then on a row again, and under one of them, as D, convey your fourth Ball which you retained in your hand, and lay the other three balls by. Then with your right hand take up the first ball, and seem to put it into your left hand, shutting your said left hand in due time, then as if you were at dice, cast your left hand at the cup D, and blow after it, saying, vade pass, and 'tis gone, then take up the cup noted A, and clap it upon the cup D, and in clapping it on, convey the Ball you retained in your right hand upon the top of the cup D. So than you have conveyed under each cup a bal, then take up the third ball, seeming to vanish it as the two former, but retain it, then show them under each cup one, which will be very strange. Then take one cup in your right hand, and clap it upon another, saying, see Gentlemen I will set you one cup upon another, and in clapping it on, convey the ball you retained in your right hand upon the top of the lowermost cup: mark the figure following. Then take up one ball, and seem to cast it in the air, and staring after it, say vade, that's gone, then with your right hand take up the uppermost cup, say, see here he is crept between my cups, and in clapping it down again, convey the ball that you retained under it. And lastly, take the uppermost cup, and set it down first by itself, then with both hands nimbly hoisting the two other cups, shuffle them one upon another, and the balls will not fall out, and so it will be thought that you have pulled the three balls out of the bottoms of the two uppermost cups. I could teach you to vary these feats a hundred ways, but I leave it to those that intent to follow the trade. How to make a great Ball seem to come through a Table into a Cup. SEt one of your cups upon a Table, and take a good big stoolball out of your pocket, and say clapping your hand with the ball in it under the Table, My masters would you not think it a pretty trick that I should make this bal come thorough the table into the cup: Then some one or other will take up the cup to see if it be so; then hold the ball between your two middle fingers of your right hand, stare him in the face, and say, nay but you must not move my cup out of its place, while I have said my words of command: with that set your cup in its former place, and in setting it down nimbly, convey the ball under it, and say, He●●ortuna nunquam credo, vade courageous: Now see (say) if it be there or not, which when they see they will imagine was conjured into it by virtue of your words. Other very pretty tricks with Balls. Retain one small ball in your hand, and lay three other small balls upon the Table: then with your right hand take up one of the three balls, and put into your left hand, saying, There is one, then take up the second, and put that into your left hand also, and therewith likewise put the ball you retained in your right hand, saying, And there is two (yet you know there is three already) and shut your hand in due time: then take up the third ball in your right hand, and clap your right hand unto the upper part of your left arm, retaining the ball firmly, pronounce these words: Iu●eo celerite●, come all into my hand when I bid you. Then withdraw your right hand (holding the palm thereof downward) saying, That's gone Gentlemen: then open your left hand, and say, Here are all three together, and lay them down on the Table. Another. TAke up one of the Balls in your right hand, and put it into your left, holding it firmly between your forefinger and thumb of your said left hand. Then with your forefinger and thumb of your right hand, (but be nimble) seem to pull one ball out of another, which you may do by slipping the ball that you retained in your right hand between the forefinger and thumb of the said hand, saying, Thus by activity have I learned to do, out of one little ball for to make two: and all of a bigness, then lay all four balls upon the table. Another. WIth your right hand take up one of the balls and seem to put it into the left, but retain it, shutting your left hand in due time, and say, There is one: then hold your hand from you. Then with your right hand take up another, saying, Here I take another. Then pronounce these words, Mercus mercurus by the powder of experience, Iu●eo; then open your left hand saying, That's gone, and then open your right hand and show them both together. How to make a stone seem to vanish out of your hand YOu must have a stone of a reasonable bigness, such as you may well hide in your hand, sitting in such manner as I have formerly said, that you may receive any thing into your lap, take this stone out of your pocket, saying, You see, Gentlemen, here is a stone, a miraculous stone: Will you have it vanish, vade, or go away invisible, which being said, withdraw your hand to the side of the table letting the stone slip down into your lap, in which time stare about you, saying, choose you whether. Then reach out your hand and say: Fortuna va●iabilis, lapis in ae●timabilis, Iu●eo, vale, vade, courageous. Open your hand, then tossing it up, and blow a blast, and look up, saying, Do you see it is gone. Your looking up will make them to look up, in which time you may take the stone again in the other hand, and slip it into your pocket. Another TAke your stone again out of your pocket, saying, here it is once again, and I will give it unto any of you to hold, and reach your hand out unto them, and opening your hand, say, Lo here it is. Then when any one is about to take it, By 〈◊〉 and nimbleness of hand you may m●ke a piece of a ha●●s skin to sti● and run about y●u as a li●e creature, and at last to vanish away, which will be imagined to be ●ome Familiar that you deal withal. withdraw your hand to the side of the table, and make your conveyance as before, in which time say, But you must promise me to take it quickly: Then will he say, I will, then reach your hand being shut out unto him again, and while he striveth, thinking to take it quickly, hold fast and say, Vade courageous, cele●ite● vade: in which time you take up the stone in the other hand, and hold it from you. Then open your hand and say, lo, If you can hold a pretty Lass no faster, when you have her, I will not give a pin for your skill. How to make a Card vanish, and find it again in a Nut. TAke what Card you will, pill the printed paper from off it, and roll it hard up, and make a hole in a nut, and take out the kernel, and then thrust in the Card, afterwards stop the hole of the nut neatly with wa●e, this nut you must have in readiness about you, and when you are in your play, call for such a Card as you enclosed in your Nut, or else have one in a readiness, and say, You see Gentlemen, here is such a Card: then wet it, and pill off the printed side, roll it up, and in the usual manner convey it away: Then take your Nut out of your pocket, eand give it unto one, and say crack that Nut, and tell me if you can find the card there, which being found will be thought very strange. Then have another such like N●t, but filled with Ink, and stopped after the same manner that your other Nut was, and give that unto another, and bid him crack it, and see what he can find in that, and so soon as he hath cracked it, all the ink will run about his mouth, which will move more mirth and laughter than the former. How to seem to eat a Knife. DEsire any one of your spectators to accommodate you with a Knife, which when you have gotten, hold it in such manner as that you may cover the whole Knife with both your hands, the end of the haft excepted, and set the point of it unto your eye, and say, some body strike it in with his fist, but no body will, because it is so dangerous a thing: then set your hands upon the Table, and looking about you, say, why, what will no body strike it in, in which time let the knife slip down into your lap. Then nimbly make as if you chopped it hastily into your mouth, or to hold it in one hand, and strike it in with the other (but nimbly) then make two or three sour faces, saying, some drink, some drink: or else you may say, now some one put his finger in my mouth, and pull it out again; some will say haply you will bite me, say, no I will assure you. Then when he hath put his finger into your mouth, he will pull it out and say, here is nothing (this time is sufficient to convey the Knife out of your lap into your pocket) say again, why, you have your finger out again, did you think to pull the knife out? if that should be in my mouth, it would kill me. The knife is here in my pocket, and with that take it out, and deliver it again. How to rap a Wag on the knuckles TAke a ball and lay it on the Table, and holding a knife in one hand by the blade, desire some body to take the bal that is upon the table & lay it upon the haft of the knife, pretending that you will blow it thence invisibly, and when he is laying it on, take him a good rap on the knuckles. How to seem to swallow a long pudding made of Tin. THis pudding must be made of Tin, it consisteth of twelve little hoops made Tape-wise, so that they may almost fall one thorough another, and have a piece of Canvas tied over the biggest end thereof, to the end it may not hurt your teeth by hastily clapping it into your mouth. The figure whereof followeth, and is marked with a letter A. hold this pudding (for so it is called) privately in your left hand with the Canvas end uppermost, and with your right hand take a Bal out of your pocket, and say, If there be any Maid that hath lost her maidenhead, or old woman that is half out of conceit with herself, because her neighbours deem her not so young as she would willingly seem to be, let her come unto me, for this ball is present remedy: Then seem to put the Ball into your left hand, but let it slip into your lap, and clap your pudding into your mouth which will be thought to be the ball you showed them: Then incline your head, and open your mouth, and the pudding will slip down at its full length, which with your right hand you may strike up into your mouth again: do thus three or four times one after another and the last time you may discharge your mouth of it into your hand, and clap it into your lap without any suspicion, so that you make two or three sour faces after it, as if it stuck in your throat, and if you practise to smite easily with your fist on each side of your throat, the pudding will seem to chink as if it were lying in your throat. Then say, thus they swallow Puddings in high Dutch-land, they slip down their throats before their teeth can take possession of them. How to seem to cut one's nose half off. FOr the effecting of this feat, you must have a knife for the nonce, made with a gap in the midst of the blade, as it is demonstrated in the following figure noted with the letter A. You must conceal the notch with your finger, and then wring it over the fleshy part of your nose, Note that in such feats as this, it were necessary to have a piece of sponge with some sheep's blood in it to be retained privately. and your nose will seem as it were half cut off with the knife. How to seem to pull a rope thorough your nose. YOu must have likewise for the effecting of this delusion, an Implement on purpose. The figure whereof followeth. It may be made of two elder sticks, thrusting out the pith, and afterward glued together, the ends whereof must have a piece of cork cut hollow, and glued over them: then must there be a little whipcord put thorough them, the ends whereof must come out at two holes made on the outward side of each elder stick. Put this Trinket over the fleshy part of your nose, then pull one end of the rope, and afterwards the other and it will be thought that the rope cometh quite thorough your nose. How to make a pile of Counters seem to vanish thorough a Table. YOu must have for the performing of this feat, diverse counters having holes cut out of the midst of them, than they must be glued together so many of them as they may make a case sufficient to contain a Die: then glue one whole counter upon the top of them, and have a box made of white Tin to fit them, but let it be deeper than the glued pile of Counters, and make a cover for this box. First, put into the box three loose Counters, then put in the glued pile of Counters with the hole uppermost, then put into the hole a Die, and lastly three other loose whole Counters and cover it. Draw this box of Counters, and say, gentlemans here is a box of Barbary gold, it was left me as a Legacy by a deceased friend, upon condition I should employ it well and honestly. Now sirs it was my fortune as I was travelling, to be benighted, and so forced to seek for lodging, and as it happened, I took into an house of entertainment, where calling for my Ostesse, I drew my stock, and said, what must I give you mine Ostesse for my meat, drink, and lodging this night? My friend, quoth she, you must give me three French Crowns; with that I uncovered my box, and set it upon the Table (it must be done with the mouth of the box downward) took my box from off the Counters, and delivered her three from the top, saying, there they are; and casting my eye aside, I spied a pretty lass coming down the stairs; Sweetheart, said I to her, what shall I give thee to lie with thee this night? she replied, sir, for three French Crowns you shall: then I thrust my box forward, If you lift the Box a little from the Table bearing it f●om you, the three loose counters will come forth and deliver her three from the bottom, saying there they are. But now said I to my Ostesse, Ostesse, what will you say if with a trick I have, I make these six Crowns to fetch all the rest thorough the Table? Sir, quoth my Ostesse, you shall have your meat, drink, and lodging for nothing, and said the Lass, thou shalt lie with me for nothing. Then I uncovered them, saying, but first let us see whether they be here or no, and show them, covering them again. Then (taking to those six Counters in my hand, other loose Counters I have ready in my lap) I knock my hand under the Table, saying, Virtute lapidis, miraculosi lapidis, jubeo vade, celeritate vade. Then I mingle my Counters as if they came tumbling thorough the Table into my hand, afterward throw them on the Table, saying, there be the Counters, than I take the box up, pressing the sides of it with my forefinger and thumb (which will keep the glued pile of Counters from slipping out) and let slip the glued Counters into my lap, and say, there is none but a Die, casting the empty box unto them, who shall have all now, my Ostesse or I? A, the figure of the Box, BB the lid of the Box, C the pile of Counters glued together, E the hole for the Die, D the Die. How to seem to put a ring thorough ones cheek. YOu must have two rings made of bra●se, silver, or what you will, of one bigness, colour, and likeness saving that one must have a notch cut through it as it is represented by the figure following noted with X. The other must be whole without a notch; show the whole ring, and conceal that which hath the notch, and say, now I will put this ring thorough my cheek, and privily slip the notch one over one side of your mouth, and nimbly convey the whole Ring into your sleeve, or conceal it in your right hand: then take a small stick which you may have in readiness, and slip the whole Ring over it, holding your hand over it about the middle thereof, and bid some body hold both the ends of the stick fast, and say, see this Ring here in my cheek, it turns round, and indeed it will seem to turn round if you stroke it nimbly with your fingers: and while you perceive them to fasten their eyes intentively upon that Ring, upon a sudden whip it out, and smite upon the stick therewith instantly, concealing it, and whirling the other Ring, you hold your hand over round about the stick, and it will be thought that you have brought that Ring upon the stick which was before upon your cheek. How to seem ●o thrust a Bodkin into your forehead. YOu must have two bodkins, the one made like unto the other to outward appearance, but let the blade of the one be made to slip up into the haft: let the other be a true Bodkin: Conceal the false one & show the true, after that you have showed it, convey it into your lap. Then take up the false one, and reclining your head, make as if you thrust it very stiffly, making an ill-favoured face all the while. If you hold a p●ece of sponge in your hand filled with some sheep's blood pressing it out, the bodkin being in your forehead, as it were up to the hilt, it will cause the more astonishment and admiration among the beholders. Instantly put up your Bodkin, and take your handkerchief, and wipe off the blood, and say, jubeo vade vulnus a front. How to put a Lock upon ones mouth. YOu must have a Lock made for the nonce, the figure whereof followeth, the one side of its bow must be immovable as that marked with A: the other side is noted with B, and must be pinned to the body of the Lock, as may appear at E, I say it must be so pinned, that it may play to and again with ease. This side of the bow must have a leg as C, and then turn into the Lock; this binding must have two notches filled on the inner side, which must be so ordered that the one may lock or hold the two sides of the bow as close together at the top as may be, the other notch to hold the said parts of the bows a proportionable distance asunder, that being locked upon the cheek, it may neither pinch too hard, nor yet hold it so slightly that it may be drawn off; let there be then a key fitted unto it to unlock it, as may appear at D. And lastly, let the bows have diverse notches filled in them, so the place of the partition when the lock is shut home will be least of all suspected. By this figure and directions you may fit yourself of such a Lock, if so be you are desirous of it. The use of it. YOu may cause some one to hold one tester edge-long between his teeth: Take also another Tester and with your left hand proffer to set it edgelong between a second man's teeth, pretending that your intent is to turn both into whether of their mouths they shall desire, and that by virtue of your words and circumstances which he shall no sooner essay to do, but you holding your lock privately in your right hand with your forefinger over the leg C, may presently slip it over the left side his cheek, and single lock it, which you may do by pressing your said finger a little down after some store o● entreaties: the Lock having hung on a while, produce your key by some device (as by a confederate or some careless person) and unlock it, but immediately double lock it, for it will seem to be a true lock, nor after sight be suspected for other. How to make it frieze by the fire side. THis feat cannot be performed at every time, but only in Winter, and at such times as snow may be had, and he that will show it, must have in readiness an handful of salt. The time serving, and the party provided, let him call for a joint-stool, a quart pot, a handful of snow, a little water; and a short staff or stick, first let him pour a little water upon the top of the stool, and upon it let him set the quart pot, and put the snow into the pot, the salt also, but privately, then let him hold the pot fast with his left hand, and take the short stick in his right, and therewith churn the snow and salt in the pot, as if one should churn for butter, and in half a quarter of an hour the pot will freeze so hard to the stool, that you can scarcely with both hands pull it off from the stool: there's a natural reason may be given for this, which he that is a Scholar need not be told, and for a common Juggler I would not have so wise as to know, therefore I omit it. How to breath fire out of your mouth THe performance of this trick consisteth in the rolling of the tow. After you have made a roll in readiness, call for a pi●e of Tobacco, light it, and take a whist or two, you may stop it down with the end of your roll of tow, retaining it privately in your hand: then deliver the Pipe to some body else, and convey the tow into your mouth: then blow gently, and smoke and fire will come forth of your mouth, which you may continue as long as you please, by putting in more tow as it consumeth. How to d●aw ●ilius of any colour out of your m●u●h, and to deliver it by the ●a●d. YOu must provide you diverse sorts of Ribbin●, some black, some blue, some green, some yellow measure it, and at the end of every yard make a slip knot, than ●owle each coloured ribben into a ball by itself, and dis●ose them about you, that you may know readily which to take in an instant. When you are called upon for so many yards of such a colour, convey a ball of the same into your mouth, and draw it out, remembering how many knots have slipped at your teeth, then cut it off and deliver it. How to make two bells come into one hand, ●aving put into each hand one. THis feat must be performed with three bel●, you must put one bell into your left sleeve, than put one bell into one hand, and another bell into the other hand (they must be little morris bells) withdraw your hands, and privily convey the bell in your left hand into your right hand: Then stretch both your hands abroad, and bid two folks hold your hands fast, but first shake your hands and say, do you hear them. The bell that is in your sleeve will not be known by the racling, but that it is in your hand: Then say, he now that is the arrantest Whoremaster or Cuckold of you both, shall have both the bells, and the other shall have none at all: open your hands then, and show them, and it will be thought that you dea●e by art magic. How to make a juggling book, or a ●ook of Waggery. YOu must provide a paper-book in octavo, of what thickness you please; first turn over seven leaves of it, and then upon both the open sides, draw or paint the pictures of flowers, then turn over seven leaves more, and paint the very same; do this until you have turned the book once quite over: Then unto the farther painted leaves, passed a little stay of paper or parchment one directly over an other: Then turn over the book again: and having turned every sixth leaf, draw the picture of flower-de-lu●es, and then paste stays of parchment upon them as you did upon the first; but these stays must all of them be a little lower than the former. Then turn over the book again, and after the fifth leaf, throughout the book is turned, paint horns, do thus until you have painted the book full of pictures, only let there be one part of the leaves fair paper: having thus finished the book, when you use it, hold it in your left hand, and with your right hand, your thumb set upon the parchment stays, show them orderly and nimbly, but with a bold and audacious countenance, for that must be the grace of all your tricks: say, this book is not painted thus as some of you may suppose, but it is o● such a property, that whosoever bloweth on it, it will give the representation of whatsoever he is naturally addicted unto, and then turn the book, and say, see its all ●aire paper. Bonus Genius, or Nuntius invisibilis, or Hiccius Doccius as my senior calls it. YOu must have the figure of a man made of wood, about the bigness of your little finger, as may appear by the figure noted C D, the head whereof noted with A, must be made to take off and put on at pleasure, by means of a wire that is in the neck, marked with B: also you must have a cloth cap with a little bag within to convey the head into. The bag must be neatly made, that it may not easily be perceived; show your man unto the company, saying, see you here gentlemen, this I call my Bonus Genius, then show his cap, saying, and this is his coat, say moreover, look now as steadfastly on him as you can, nevertheless I will cozen you, for therefore am I come. Then hold your cap above your face, and take your man in your right hand, and put his head thorough the hole of the cap, as you may see at F, saying, now he is ready to go of any message I ha●e to ●end him; to Spain, Italy, or whither I will: but he must have some thing to bear his charges, with that pull out your right hand from under the cap, and therewith the body, (but privately) ●utting your right hand into your pocket, as if you felt for money, where you must leave the body, and take out your hand, & say, there is three crowns: Now be gone, then turn the head about▪ and say, but he will look about him before he goes. Then say (setting your forefinger upon his crown) just as I thrust my finger down, so he shall vanish, and therewith by the assistance of your left hand that is under the cap, convey his head into the little bag within the cap: then turn your cap about, and say, see here he is gone: then take up your cap, and hold it up again, drawing the head out of the little bag, and say, hei genius meus velocissimu●, ubi, and whistle. Then thrust the head up thorough the hole of the cap, and holding the head by the wire, turn it about; then presently put head and cap into your pocket. Boxes to change Grain. MAke one box of Wood, Tin, or Brass: let the bottom fall a quarter of an inch into the box, and glue thereon a laying of Barley or such like grain: draw the box with the bottom downwards, and say Gentlemen, I met a Countryman going to buy Barley, and I told him I would sell him a pennyworth, also I would multiply one grain into so many bushels as he should need, then cast a Barly-corne into your box, and cover it with a hat, and in the covering it, turn the bottom upside down: then cause some body to blow on the hat, then uncover it, and they will think strangely of it. You may make another ●o● of wood like unto a bell to hold so much just as your former box w●ll, and make a bottom unto this box of shoe sole leather, to thrust into the bottom of the bell: then fill it with barley, and thrust up the l●ath●r-bottome, for it will keep t●e barley from fa●ling out, take this box out of your pocket, an● set it down gently upon the table, and say, I w●ll not cau●e a●l the ●●rly to go out of my measure into my bell, then with a hat cover the box that hath the barley glued unto it, and in cov●ring it, turn it with the barley down●war●: then say, first let us see whether th●re be nothing under the bell, and clap it hard down upon the table, so the weight of the barley will thrust the bottom dow●; then bid some one blow hard on the hat, then take it up, where they will see nothing but an empty measure, then take up the bell, and all the barley will pour out. Sweep it then presently into your hat or lap, lest their busy prying may chance to discover your leather bottom. How to vanish a glass of Beer. TAke a low glass, fill it reasonable full of B●●r, and take a sixpence and lay it down upon the table and set the glass of Beer upon it, Your fin●er ●op● mu●t be ru●d a l●ttle with some green soft w●x and so you may do it cleanly and dipping your finger into the Beer, say, whether is the sixpence in, or under the glass. Some will say perhaps it is under: then say, let'● see, and take up at once both sixpence and glass (hold the glass so that both your hands may quite hide it) and let the glass slip plum-downe into your lap, then make as if you threw it away, looking up after it. Then seem to blow your nose, and let ●all the sixpence upon the table, saying, I am glad I have got my money aga●ne: but now (say) what is become of the glass? then seem to take it out of your pocket, saying, I am a good fellow, and would not willingly lose my liquor, then drink in up, This is an excellent trick if it be swiftly and neatly performed. Though you spill a part of the B●ere, it is no matter, neither is it any disgrace unto it; besides you may put it off very well. How to seem to cut off a man's head, it is called the decollation o● John Baptist. YOu must have a table with two good wide holes towards one end, also a cloth on purpose to cover the table with, so that the said covering may hang to the ground round about the table; also this covering must have two holes made in it, even with the holes of the table; you must also have a platter of wood for the purpose, having a hole in the bottom to fit also unto the holes of the table, and it must, as also the table, be made to take in two p●eces: having these in readiness, you must have two boys; the one must lie along upon the table with his back upward, and he must put his head thorough the one hole of the table, cloth and all; the other must sit under the table, and put his head thorough the other hole of the table, than put the platter about his neck, to make the sight more dreadful to behold, you may form some loom about the necks of them, making small holes in them as it were veins, and besmear it over with sheep's blood, putting some blood also and little bits of liver into the platter, and set a chafing-dish of coals before the head, strewing some brimstone upon the coals; for this will make the head seem so pale and wan, as if in very deed it were separated from the body. The head may fetch a gasp or two, and it will be better. Let no body be present while you do this, neither when you have given entrance, permit any to be meddling, nor let them tarry long. How to make the face of a child to appear in a pot of water. YOu must get a ball made of wood, and upon one half or side of it, there must the face of a child be artificially carved: on the backside of this face there must be made a hole, but not very deep; this hole must be filled with lead, to the end that it may (the ball being cast into the water) sway t●e face uppermost: then paint it lively with oil colours, and it is done. Note that it ought not to be full so big as a tennis bal. Call ●or a wine quart-pot filled with fair water up to the neck, having your face in a readiness, concealed in your right hand, take the pot in your left hand, and set it on the table, and say, see you Gentlemen, here is nothing in the pot but water, with that clap down the potlid w●th your right hand, and in clapping it down, sl●p the fa●e into the pot, this you may do without any the least suspicion. Then cause them all to stand off, and if they please, to mark you as narrowly as they cap: with that put your hand into your pocket, and seem to take out a handful of powder, and to strew it over the pot, saying Sarge celeriter, by the powder of ex●erien●e, sarge, then bid them look what is there. A●ter ●he same manner may you make a Toad● to appear, which will cause no small admiration. A device whereby you may drink a tunnel ●ull of drink, and afterwards sleme to pour the same all out of your sleeve again. YOu must get a double tunnel, that is, two Tunnels ●o●●red one within the other, so that you may at the little end pour● a quantity of wine, water, or any liquour. This Tun●ell you must ●ave r●ady filled before hand w●th whatsoever liquor you ●lease call for some of the ●ame kind: then dr●w your Tunnel, and setting your middle finger unto the bottom of it, bid some ●ody▪ or else do you your ●elfe pour it full, and drink it up ●efore them, and turn the ●road end of the tunnel downward, saying, Gentlemen, all is g●ne, and in a trice turn yourself about, and in turning, pronounce some terms of art, withdraw your finger from the narrow end, and let all the liquor out that was between the Tunnels, and it will be thought to be that which you drunk out of the tunnel, and so you may persuade them that it is the very same. How to seem to make a tooth drop out with a touch. You must have some great tooth in a readiness, as the tooth of a Hog, a Calf, or of an Horse; this you must retain privately in your right hand, and with the same hand take out of your pocket a small cork bal, and having used some Rhetoric to persuade them that it is of some excellent property, incline your head and therewith touch some one of your farther teeth, and immediately let the tooth that you held in your hand drop down, saying, and this is the fashion of Mountebanks, Touch and take. Another conceit to procure laughter. TAke your ball in one hand, and the tooth in the other, and stretch your hands as far as you can one from the other, and if any will, lay a quart of wine with him, that you will not withdraw your hands, and yet will make both of them come into either hand which they please: It is no more to do, than to lay one down upon the Table, and turn yourself round, and take it up with the other hand, and your wager is won, and it will move no small laughter to see a fool so lose his money. How to make two or three eggs dance upon a staff. PRovide a good thick staff about two yards long, three parts whereof ought to be made scoope-wise, or half hollow, like a basting-Ladle, the fourth part must serve for the handle. At the end of the scoop must be made a hole, and therein put a broad pin about the length of an egg, and it is done. Rest the handle of this staff against your right thigh, and hold it with your right hand near to the beginning of the scoop; lay an egg then into the scoop of the staff, and turn yourself round, bearing the staff now up, and anon down, with the scoop side of it always upward, so the egg will tumble from one end of the scoop unto the other, and not fall out. After the same manner may you make two or three eggs by a little practice to wamble one after another. A merry conceit. DEliver one piece of money with your left hand unto one, and to a second person another, and offer a third to another, for he seeing the other receive money will not lightly refuse: when he offereth to take it, you may rap him on the fingers with a knife, or somewhat else held in your right hand, saying that you knew by virtue of your bonus genius, that he meant to have kept it from you. How to knit an hard knot upon a handkerchief, and to seem to undo the same with words. MAke one plain loose knot, with the two corner ends of a handkerchief, and seeming to draw the same very hard, hold fast the body of the said handkerchief (near to the knot) with your right hand, pulling the contrary end with the left hand, which is the corner of that which you hold. Then close up handsomely the knot, which will be yet somewhat loose, and pull the handkerchief so with your right hand, as the left hand end may be near to the knot: then will it seem to be a true and firm knot. And to make it appear more assuredly to be so indeed, let a stranger pull at the end which you hold in your left hand, whilst you hold fast the other in your right hand; and then holding the knot with your forefinger and thumb and the neither part of your handkerchief with your other fingers, as you hold a Bridle when you would with one hand slip up the knot and lengthen your reins. This done, turn your handkerchief over the knot with the left hand, in doing whereof, you must suddenly slip out the end or corner, putting up the knot of your handkerchief with your fore finger and thumb, as you would put up the foresaid knot of your bridle. Then deliver the same (covered and wrapped within the midst of your handkerchief) to one to hold fast, and after the pronunciation of some words of Art, and wagers laid, take the handkerchief and shake it, and it will be loose. A notable feat of Fast and Loose; namely, to pull three beadstones from off a Cord, while you hold fast the ends thereof, without removing of your hands. TAke two little whipcords of two foot long a piece double them equally, so as there may appear, four ends. Then take three great beadstones, the hole of the one of them being bigger than the rest; and put one beadstone upon the eye or bout of the one cord, and another on the other cord: then take the stone with the greatest hole, and let both the bowts be hidden therein: which may be the better done, if you put the eye of the one into the eye of the other. Then pull the middle bead upon the same, being doubled, over his fellow, and so will the beads seem to be put over the two cords without partition, for holding fast in each hand the two ends of the two cords, you may toss them as you list, and make it seem manifest to the beholders, which may not see how you have done it, that the beadstones are put upon the cord without fraud: Then must you seem to add more effectual binding or those beadstones to the string, and make one half of a knot with one of the ends of each side, which is for no other purpose, but that when the Beadstones be taken away, the cords may be seen in the case which the beholders supposed them to be in before. For when you have made your half knot (which in any wise you may not double to make a perfect knot) you must deliver into the hands of some slander by, those two cords, namely, two ends evenly set in one hand, and two in the other, and then with a wager and terms of, Art begin to pull off your Beadstones, which if you handle nimbly, and in the end cause him to pull his two ends, the two cords will show to be placed plainly, and the Beadstones to have come thorough the cords. To burn a thread, and to make it whole again with the ashes thereof. TAke two T●ree●s or small Laces, o● one ●oot in length a piece: row●● up one o● them round, which will be then of the quantity of a ●eas●▪ be●●●w the same between your forefinger and your thum●e. Then take the other thread and hold it forth at length betwixt the forefinger and thumb of each hand, holding all your fingers daintily, as young Gentlewom●n are taught to take up a morsel of meat. Then let one out asunder the same thread in the middle; when that is done, put the tops of your two thumbs together, and so shall you with less suspicion receive the piece of thread which you hold in your right hand unto your left, without opening your left finger and thumb, then holding these two pieces as you did the same before it was cut, let these two be cut also asunder in the midst, and they conveyed as before, until they be cut very short, and then roll all those ends together, and keep that ball of short threads before the other in your le●t hand, and with a knife thrust out the same into a candle, where you may hold it until the said ball of short threads be burnt to ashes. Then pull ba●ke the knife with your right hand, and leave the ashes with the other ball betwixt the forefinger and thumb of your left hand, and with the two thumbs and two fore-fingers together, seeming to take pains to rub the ashes, until your thread be renewed, and draw out that thread at length, which you kept all this while betwixt your forefinger and thumb. If you have Legerdemain to bestow the same ball of thread, and to change it from place to place betwixt your two fingers (as may be easily done) then will it seem very strange. To cut a Lace asunder in the midst, and to make it whole again. PRovide a piece of the Lace which you mean to cut, or at the least a pattern like the same, one inch and a half long, and keeping it double privily in your left hand, betwixt some of your fingers near to the tops thereof, take the other Lace which you mean to cut, which you may hang about ones neck, and draw down your said left hand to the bout thereof: and putting your own piece a little before the other (the end, or rather the middle whereof, you must hide betwixt your forefinger and thumb) making the eye or bout which shall be seen, of your pattern, let some slander by cut the same asunder, and it will be surely thought that the other Lace is cut; which with words and rubbing and chafing it, you shall seem to renew and make whole again. This, if it be well handled, will seem miraculous. How to seem suddenly to melt a piece of Coin with words. YOu must have a box made of brass or Crooked-Lane plate, a double box, and not above five quarters of an inch deep: in the midst must be the bottom, and both ends must have covers to come over them. This box might be so neatly made, that each lid might have a small bolt artificially contrived (which though I could make myself, neither by words nor figures I can describe) whereby the lids of the box might be locked fast on, that none but master Juggler himself knows readily to open. In one end of this box have always in readiness a resemblance of molten silver, which you may easily make by mixing an equal quantity of linfoyl and quicksilver together, which you shall thus do: First, put your linfoyl in a crucible or Goldsmith's melting-pot, melt it, and then take it from the fire, and put in your quicksilver, and stir both well together, and it is done. Now the one end of your box being ready furnished herewith, borrow a piece of coin of some one in the company, willing him to give it some private mark whereby he may know it again to be his own, than put it into the other end of the box, in the bottom whereof you may have a little wax to keep it from rattling. Thus you may seem by virtue of words to melt his money, and afterwards to give it again to the party whole as you received it from him. A device whereby you may draw sundry liquors out of one seeming vessel, all which shall be put in at one hole, and all drawn out of another. YOu must cause a vessel of indifferent bigness to be made in form of a Tun, having two partitions, so there will be three several parts: A B signifieth the first, C D ●he second, and E F the third, upon the top of this Tun must be fast nailed a piece of wood turned round as G H, in the centre whereof must be erected a style, whose top must be made into a screw, in this wood must also be made three holes towards the circumference, each hole having a pipe inserted into it, which may extend themselves one of either into each vessel, as you may see by the figure. I K signifieth the first pipe, which reacheth into the first part A B, L. M, the second pipe that extendeth itself into the second part noted C D, N O the third pipe that extendeth itself into the third part of E F, each part also must have his vent, else you can neither fill nor empty it, these are marked with the letter P Q R, upon the top of the foresaid wood must be fastened a piece of liquored leather having three holes in it answerable unto the holes of the wood, then upon the wood must be served another snout whereby to fill each vessel with a several liquor, V the snouts, S T a brass plate whereunto the snout is sodered, W the ser●e that serveth this snout upon the style in the turned wood G H. Lastly, each vessel must have its pipe whereout you may draw the contained liquor, which you may see in the figure, and then must there be served over them another plate with a taper vessel, so by turning it about from one hole to another, you may deliver each liquor apart whither of them you please. A very strange trick whereby you may seem to cut a piece of Tape into four parts, and make it whole again with words. TAke a piece of narrow white Tape about two or three yards long; first present it to view to any that may desire it, then tie both the ends of it together, and take one side of it in one hand, and the other in the other hand, so that the knot may be about the midst of one side, and using some circumstantial words to beguile your spectators, turn one hand about towards yourself, and the other from you, so shall you twist the Tape once, then clap the ends together, and then if you slip your forefinger and thumb of every hand between the Tape, almost as one would hold a skein of thread to be wound, this will make one fold or twist as may appear in the first figure, where A signifieth the twist or fold. B the knot, then in like manner make a second fold about the line D C, as you may see by the second figure, where B signifieth the knot, C the first fold, A the second fold. Hold then your forefinger and thumb of your left hand upon the second twist, and upon the knot also, and the forefinger and thumb of your right hand upon the first fold C, and desire some one of your spectators to cut all asunder with a sharp knife at the cross line E D. When it is cut, hold still your left hand, and let all your ends fall you hold in your right hand, for there will be a show of eight ends, four above, and four below, and so the string will be thought to be cut into four parts, as may be seen by the third figure, then gather up the ends that you let fall into your left hand, and deliver two of the ends (seeming to take them at random) unto two several persons, bidding them to hold them fast, still keeping your left hand-fingers upon the twists or folds: th● 〈◊〉 your right and left hand seem to tumble, and 〈◊〉 a●l the ends together that you had in your left hand, twist out all the ●lips or pieces which are three, as you may see at A and B in the third figure; twist them all, I say, into a little ball, and conceal it between some of your fingers of your left hand, and crumble thereof on another confused heap: and after some words said, with your right hand deliver this confused heap unto one of the company, bidding him to hold it fast, saying, Hulla passa quick courageous, fiat conjunctio: Then bid them look on it, who while they are greedily looking after the event, you may with ease convey the ball or roll of ends into your pocket, so will it be thought that you have made it whole by virtue of your words. An excellent trick if it be gracefully handled, and a trick that cost me more trouble to find then all the rest; this I have gone purposely to observe, but returned as wise as I went. A device how to multiply one face, and make it seem to be an hundred or a thousand. THis fear must be performed by a Lookingglass made for the nonce, the figure whereof I have fully described, with the manner of making it, which is thus: First, make an hoop or philet of wood, horn, or such like, about the wideness of an Half-crown piece, in the circumference, the thickness of this hoop or philet let be about a quarter of an inch. In the middle of this hoop fasten a bottom of wood or brass, and bore in a decent order diverse small holes about the bigness of small peafe, or phitches, then upon the one side of this bottom set in a piece of Crystal glass, and fasten it in the hoop close to the bottom; then take a quantity of quickesilver, and prepare it after this manner: Take, I say, a quantity as an ounce or two of quicksilver, and put to it a little salt, and stir them well together, then put to them some white wine vinegar, and wash and stir all together with a wooden slice, then pour away the vinegar, and wash away the salt with fair water made warm, then pour away the water, and put the quicksilver into a piece of white leather, and bind it up hard, and so twist or strain it out into an earthen pan, and it will be very bright and pure, then put so much of this prepared quickesilver into the philet or foresaid hoop as will cover the bottom; then let into the hoop another piece of crystal glass fitted thereto, and cement the sides, that the quicksilver may not run out, and it is done. The figure whereof I have here under-set; A representeth the one side that giveth the form of one face to the beholders. B the other side that multiplieth the beholder's face, so oft as there are holes in the middle bottom, the use whereof I shall not insist upon, ●ince he that is versed in the former feats will better conceive of himself to use it, than my words can either direct or assist him. Of diverse pretty juggling knacks. THere are many feats able to beguile the simple, as to deliver meal, pepper, ginger, or any powder out of your mouth after the eating of bread, which is done by retaining any of these things stuffed in a little paper or bladder, conveyed into your mouth, and grinding the same with your teeth. Item, a rush thorough a piece of trencher, having three holes, and at the other side in the third hole, by reason of an hollow place made betwixt them both, so as the sleight consisteth in the turning of the piece of trencher. Feats by conveyance of money. THe best place to dispose of a piece of money, is in the palm of the hand, and the best piece for conveyance is a Tester, but with practice all will be alike. A notable trick to transform a Counter into a Groat. TAke a Groat, or some less piece of money, and grind it very thin at the one side, and take two Counters and grind them, the one on the one side, the other on the other side; glue the smooth side of the Groat to the smooth side of one of the Counters, joining them to close together as may be, especially at the edges, which may be so filled, as they shall seem to be but one piece; to wit, one side a Counter, the other side a Groat. Then take a little green wax, and lay it upon the smooth side of the one Counter, as it do not much discolour the Groat; and so will that Counter with the Groat cleave together, as though they were glued, and being filled even with the groat and the other counter, will seem so like a perfect entire counter, that though a stranger handle it, he shall not bewray it; then having a little touched your forefinger and the thumb of your right hand with ●oft wax, take therewith this counterfeit counter, and lay it down openly upon the palm of your left hand, in such sort as an Auditor layeth down his counters, wring the same hard, so as you may leave the glued counter with the groat apparently in the palm of your left hand, and the smooth side or the waxed counter will stick fast upon your thumb, by reason of the wax wherewith it is smeared, and so you may hide it at your pleasure, provided always that you lay the waxed side downward, and the glued side upward: then close your hand, and in or after the closing thereof turn the piece, and so instead of a counter (which they suppose to be in your hand) you shall seem to hav● a groat, to the admiration of the beholders, if it be well handled. An excellent feat to make a twopenny piece lie plain in your hand, and to be passed from thence when you list. PUt a little red wax (but not too thin) upon the nail of your longest finger, and let a stranger put a twopeny piece into the palm of your hand, and shut your fist suddenly, and convey the two penny piece upon the wax, which with use you may so accomplish as no man shall perceive it. Then say, Aili●●, cafil, zaze, hit, mell, and suddenly open your hand, holding the tips of your fingers rather lower then higher than the palm of your hand, and the beholders will wonder where it is become. Then shut your hand suddenly again, and lay a wager whether it be there or no; and you may either leave it there, or take it away with you at your pleasure. How to transform any one small thing into another form by folding of paper. TAke a sheet of paper and fold, or double the same, so as one side be a little longer than the other: Then put a Counter between the two leaves of the paper up to the middle of the top of the fold, holding the same so as it be not perceived, and lay a groat on the outside thereof, right against the Counter, and fold it down to the end of the longer side: and when you unfold it again, the Groat will be where the Counter was, and the Counter where the Groat was, so as some will suppose that you have changed the money into a Counter, and with this many feats may be done. How to convey money out of one of your hands into the other by Legerdemain. FIrst, you must hold open your right hand, and lay therein a Tester, or some big piece of money, then lay thereupon the top of your long left finger, and use some words of Art, and upon the sudden, slip your right hand from your finger, wherewith you held down the Tester, and bending your hand a very little, you shall retain the Tester still therein, and suddenly drawing your right hand thorough your left, you shall seem to have left the Tester there, especially when you shut in due time your left hand. Which that it may more plainly appear to be truly done, you may take a knife, and seem to knock against it, so as it shall make a great sound: but instead of knocking the piece in the left hand (where none is) you shall hold the point of the knife fast with the left hand, and knock against the Tester held in the other hand, and it will be thought to hit against the money in your left hand. Then after some words of Art pronounced, open your hand, and when nothing is seen, it will be wondered at, how the Tester came removed. How to make a sixpence seem to fall thorough a Table. YOu must have an Handkerchief about you, having a Counter neatly sewed in one of the corners of it: take it out of your pocket, and desire some body to lend you a Tester, and seem to wrap it up in the midst of the Handkerchief, but retain it in your hand, and instead of so doing, wrap the corner in the midst that hath the Counter sewed in it, and then bid them feel if it be not there, which they will imagine to be no other than the Tester that they lent you, then bid them lay it under a hat upon the Table, and call for a Basin of water hold it under the Table, and knock, saying, Vade, come quick, and then let the sixpence fall out of your hand into the water. Then take up the hat, and take the Handkerchief and shake it, saying, that is gone, then show them the money in the Basin of water. How to seem to blow a sixpence out of another man's hand. TAke a sixpence blow on it, and clap it presently into one of your spectators hands, bidding them to hold it fast: Then ask of him if he be sure he have it, then to be certain, he will open his hand and look. Then say to him nay, but if you let my breath go off, I cannot do it. Then take it out of his hand again, and blow on it, and staring him in the face, clap a piece of horn in his hand, and retain the sixpence, shutting his hand yourself. Bid him hold his hand down, and slip the Tester between one of his cuffs. Then take the stone that you show fears with, and hold it unto his hand, saying, By virtue hereof, I will and command the money to vanish you hold in your hand, vade, now see: when they have looked, than they will think that it is changed by the virtue of your stone. Then take the horn again, and seem to cast it from you, retaining it, and say, vade, and anon say you have your money again: He then will begin to marvel, and say I have not, say then to him again, you have, and I am sure you have it: Is't not in your hand? if it be not there, turn down one of your sleeves, for it is in one I am sure, where when he findeth it, he will not a little wonder. How to deliver to one man six pence, and to another, another six pence, and to make both the testers come into one man's hand. DEliver into one man's hand two testers even set instead of one, shutting his hand immediately: Your finger must be rubbed wi●h wax, so you may delude him without any suspicion. then take another tester, and have in readiness a piece of horn cut even with it. Clap the said tester into his right hand with the horn under it, The hard pressing of the money in the hand, wil● seem that the money is in the hand when it is n●t, f●r a moment, ●●erefore be qu●ck. staying the tops of your two middlemost fingers stiff upon the tester; so bending his hand a little downward, draw your fingers toward you, and they will slip the tester out of his hand, and shut his hand presently, who feeling the piece of horn, will imagine it is the testers: then say, he that kissed a pretty wench last in a corner, shall have both Testers in his hand, and the other shall have none. This may also be performed without a piece of horn, wring one tester in the palm of the hand, and taking it away with your thumb being waxed; for the hard wring the money in the hand will make the party believe he hath it, when he ha●h it not. Conveyance of Cards and Dice. THere are multitude of delightful feats which may be performed by an orderly placing, facing, shuffling, and cutting of cards usually played withal. Also a number of other strange feats may be showed by cards and dice, such as may be purposely made. The cards may be made half of one print, and half of another; so by holding them diverse ways, sundry things may be presented each contrary to other. For example, with four of the ●ame Cards purposely made, and holding them accordingly, you shall present eight several things. Now for the Dice the cunning is in forging them, and a ready retaining or throwing two among three, or one with two: they must, I say, be forged bigger towards one side than ●he other, so that the weight of one side may draw up the other. Other some may be made flatter being furnished with such like. And having learned to retain them handsomely and readily, you may have the game at command, and know before hand what will be your cast, and so vi● upon it too. Moreover, for the Cards there are diverse other tricks, of which those that are cheaters make continual practice, as nipping them, turning up one corner, marking them with little spots, placing glasses behind those that are gamesters, and in rings for the purpose dumb shows of some standers by. But I will not stand on discovering these, for in this our cozening age there are too many so expert herein, that they maintain themselves better than many an honest man with a lawful trade and calling. Only take this by the way, Those that have money in their purses, let them beware of Carding and Dicing, lest they wish they had, when it is too late. As for my own part, I'll never play for that I am sure of already: if any will play with me upon other terms I am sure I shall lose nothing by the bargain. Of Confederacy. SOme there are that have said I writ n●t sufficiently of this part in the former Edition; I rather think the cause was they thought they had too little for their money. Nevertheless I will to give every one their desired content, and deliver my mind more fully herein, and it may be, which I most desire, they may learn to avoid the company of roving gamesters, cheaters. I mean that frequent the highways, and principal Towns and places of resort thereabouts; for they are of the same manner, though for a worse end. First therefore by this word Confederacy is meant, a kind of Combination, or making an agreement or covenanting among sundry persons for the accomplishment of one and the selfsame business: understand me aright; All these being very well known each to other (at least the design as may appear by their agreement thereabout) do so estrange themselves as if they had never seen each other before. And to the end that they might perform their design, not giving any the least suspicion to any of the beholders, I will give you an instance or two, whereby I shall give you sufficient information for the more ready conceiving of every particular in this nature when and wheresoever you see them performed. How to cast a piece of money away, and to find it in another man's mouth, pocket, or pu●se. THe Juggler calls for some one piece of coin, as a tester or a shilling of any one in the company, he willeth him to mark it with what mark he will, than he taketh it, and casteth it away, and cometh to his confederate (who is funished beforehand with the like piece of coin marked with the very same mark) and bids him deliver the money out of his pocket, purse, or if he say the word, his mouth; for this is concluded of beforehand. Now this confederate to make the matter seem more strange, will fume and fret, ask how he should come by it, till having found the mark, he will confess it be none of his, wondering at his skill how he should send it thither: and all the rest be taken with a real administration of his extraordinary cunning. How by the sound of a Counter philliped to tell what side is uppermost, whether cross or pile. THe Juggler draws a Counter out of his pocket, and saith to the company, See here is a Counter, take it who please, and let him philip it up and I will by my cunning tell you whither cross or pile be uppermost by the very found, for you shall hoodwink me. Now there are three or four or more confederates in the place, who seeming strangers as well as the rest, will be very importunate to have the philliping it, and before one of these shall have it, who by some sign of the fingers or countenance (foreknown to the Juggler) do give him information after he is demanded. Of the same nature is that trick formerly mentioned in the book, and called, The decollation of john Baptist. To make one dance naked is a trick of the same nature, for the party before hand is agreed to do it, and also the manner and circumstances: So that the Juggler to blind the people, pronounceth sundry words to such a person, he than begins to rave like a mad man, and put his clothes off with a kind of violent carelessness, though, God knows, the party knows as well what he doth, as yourself that reads it. After the same manner shall you know what money another hath in his purse, and casting money into a pond, and finding it under a stone or threshold in another place. Also to make a piece of money to leap out of a cup and run to another, by means of a small hair fastened to the money, which hair the Confederate guideth, with a multitude of such like strange feats, which may seem impossible to the judgement of the common people to be effected without the assistance of the devil, or some familiar, which to nominate is neither needful, nor will my occasions permit so much leisure as to do it. How to make a bellowing noise like an Ox, of a Dog and Cat fight together, or of two Mastiffs fight together. THis I saw once or twice performed, and to my knowledge not above. It was a lusty young fellow that did it with a cloth cast over his head which reached down to his feet, all was to beguile the people, for he pretended that this sound came out of his belly; he had a full and strong voice, and had practised a good while, and another man of the like making may easily do as much. For his nostrils he stopped with his forefinger and thumb, and closed the other part of his hand over his mouth as I saw him once uncased. Another man I saw at the same time, eat half a dozen quick charcoal, but this is not to be attempted by every one: For some cannot eat their meat very hot; others there are that cannot away with meat except it be boiling hot, and they are of that disposition, I should have said rather constitution, that they will not stick to take meat as it is boiling out of a pot with their bare hands, and yet feel no extraordinary heat. I ●ave here set down kind Reader, not only all usual feats that either myself have seen or heard of, but diverse others also which I am sure were never in print, nor as yet performed by any I could ever hear of except myself, and all to give thee thy full content: and take thus much from me, If thou rightly understand this, there is not a trick that any juggler in the world can show thee, but thou shalt be able to conceive after what manner it is performed, if he do it by a slight of hand, and not by an unlawful and detested means. That there are such it is not to be doubted of, that do work by unlawful means, and have beside their own natural endowments the assistance of some familiar, whereby they many times effect such miraculous things as may well be admired by whomsoever shall either behold or hear tell of them. I could give an instance in one whose father while he lived was the greatest juggler in England, and used the assistance of a familiar; he lived a Tinker by trade, and used his fears as a trade by the by; he lived, as I was informed, always betattered, and died for aught I could hear in the same estate. I could here, as I have instanced in this man, so give you his name, and where he liveth, but because he hath left the bad way, and chose the better, because he hath amended his life, and betook himself to an honest calling, I will rather rejoice at his good, then do him any the least disgrace by naming him to be such a one. If here be any ask my name, let them know I am not bound to tell them. If they ask why I have writ this Pamphlet, it is to delight them: let them excuse me for the one, and thank me for the other; and it may be if time will give so much leisure, I shall hereafter spend my wits upon some better Subject. FINIS.