THE FALLACY Of the great WATER-DRINKER DISCOVERED.  
Fully representing what are the Ingredients that provoke him to so wonderful a Vomit, and by what Art one Glass seemeth to be of one colour, and another of another; and what he doth when he taketh the Rose-water and the Angelica-water.  
By Mr Thomas Peedle and Mr Thomas Cozbie, who brought him over into England from Tours in France: and after Wednesday next being the 26 of this present June, will be constantly ready every Afternoon, if desired, in their own persons to make an experimental proof of what is here declared.  
Published for the satisfaction of many of the Nobility and Ladies of this Nation, and many eminent Gentlemen who have offered great sums of money to have the mystery discovered. As also to undeceive many thousands, who having seen the manner of it, have been amazed at the wonder but could not discover the secret.  
Licenced and entered into the Register-book of the Company of Stationers, according to Order.  
Printed by B. Alsop for T. Dunster, and are to be sold at the Red Lion in Grubstreet. Anno Domini 1650.   

 depiction of Floram Marchand 
Floram Marchand, Le grand Boyeur de Tours.  

See here the pourtract of this man of Tours,  
Who from him wine in such abundance powers,  
His Art and Reasons here are published  
What makes this Glass look white and that so red;  
And all the progress of the work's displayed,  
The whole Deceit is here now open laid.     

Floram Marchand Le grand Boyeur de Tours, Or The Fallacy of the great Water-Drinker discovered.  
THe mystery of this so famous Water-Drinker who at his pleasure (as the Spectators have believed) can turn water into Wine, and at his vomit render not only the tincture but the strength and smell of several wines, and several waters is the subject of this discourse: which being to satisfy the people (so often in this Nation and in foreign Kingdoms astonished at the wonder, I shall here study to declare unto you in as plain words as I can, and to contrive it in as few.  
Howsoever I shall be most careful to represent it to you in that manner, that the curtain being drawn open and the vizard taken off, you shall see the whole progress and the face of the Imposture.  
But before I come to close upon it, it will be no ways impertinent, to relate that the Master of this Mastery Bloise an Italian by name, from whom our imposture now in England received his Rudiments, and full Knowledge, was not long since questioned in Francis by the Cardinal Mazarine, who threatened him with all the miseries that a tedious imprisonment could bring upon him, which he would see most severel inflicted, unless he would discover to him by which Art he did it, Bloise startled at the sentence, and fearing the event made a provident discovery, for it was on these terms, that he would communicate it to no man else, by which means having made an experimental proof of what so powerfully was expected, he not only gained his liberty but the connivance of the Cardinal.  
From this Bloise, the imposture in England, Floram Marchand by name, received all his instructions, and finding that Bloise was the more famous in the Artifice, by the advice of two English friends Mr. Tho. Peedle, and Mr. Tho. Cozbie, who brought him over, he abandoned Tours to come into England, where his moist cheat before was never heard off, and where the cause of the wonder being utterly unknown, he promised himself to advance the wonder into all Advantages.  
I shall trouble you with no further circumstance, the manner of the imposture is this,  
To prepare his body for so hardy a task, before he makes his appearance on the Stage, doth take a Pill about the quantity of a hazle nut, confected with the Gall of an Heifer & wheat flower baked. After which he drinketh privately in his Chamber, four or five pints of luke-warm-water, to take all the foulness, and slime from his stomach, & to avoid that loath some spectacle which otherwise would make thick the water, and offend the eye of the observer.  
In the first place he presents you with a pail of lukewarm water, and sixteen glasses in a Basket, but you are to understand that every morning he boileth 2 ounces of Brazile thin sliced in 3 pints of running water, so long till the whole strength and colour of the Brazile is exhausted: of this he drinketh half a pint in his private chamber before he cometh on the Stage: you are also to understand that he neither eateth nor drinketh in the morning on those days wherein he cometh on the Stage, the cleansing Pill and water only excepted; but in the evening will make a very good supper, and eat as much as two or three other men who have not their stomaches so throughly purged.  
Before he presents himself to the Spectators, he washeth all his glasses in the best white-wine vinegar he can procure. Coming on the Stage, he always washeth his first glass, and rinseth it two or three times, to take away the strength of the Vinegar, that it might in no wise discolour the complexion of what is represented to be Wine.  
In his first entrance, he drinketh four and twenty glasses of luke-warm-water; the first vomit he maketh the water seemeth to be a full deep Claret: you are to observe that his Gall-pill in the morning, and so many glasses of luke-warm-water afterwards, will force him into a sudden capacity to vomit, which vomit upon so much warm water, is for the most part so violent on him, that he cannot forbear if he would.  
You are again to understand, that all that comes from him is red of itself, or hath a tincture of it from the first Brazil water; but by degrees, the more water he drinketh, as on every new trial he drinketh so many glasses of water as his Stomach will contain, the water that comes from him will grow paler and paler: having then, as I said before, made his essay on Claret, and proved it to be of the same complexion, he drinketh again four or five glasses of the luke-warm-water, and bringeth forth Claret and Beer at once into two several glasses; now you are to observe, that the glass which appeareth to be Claret, is rinsed as before, but the Beer glass not rinsed at all, but is still moist water from him in three pipes, the distance of four or five yards. This is all clear water, which he doth with so much port, and such a flowing grace as if it were his Masterpiece.  
He hath been invited by divers Gent. and personages of Honour to make the like evacuation in milk, as he made a semblance in wine, you are to understand that then he goeth into another room, and drinketh two or three pints of milk, on his return (which is always speedy) he goeth first to his pail and afterwards to his Vomit. The milk which comes from him looks curdled, and shows like curdled milk and drink. If there be no milk ready to be had he will excuse himself to his Spectators; and make a large promise of what he will perform the next day. At which time being sure to have milk enough to serve his turn he will perform his promise.  
His milk he always drinketh in a withdrawing room, that it may not be discovered, for that will be too apparent, nor hath he any other shift to evade the discerning eye of the observers.  
It is also to be considered, that he never comes on the Stage as he doth sometimes three or four times in a day, but he first drinks the Brazile water, without which he can do nothing at all, for all that comes from him hath a tincture of the red, and it only varieth and altereth according to the abundance of water which he taketh, and the strength of the White-wine-vinegar, in which all the glasses are washed.  
To prove the truth of what here is delivered unto you, you shall have the two Gent. that brought him over with them from Tours viz. Tho. Peedle, and Tho. Cozby, by name, constantly resident at their lodging at the widow Gilmans house in Golden-lane, the next door to the sign of the Peel, where every day after wednesday being the 26 of this instant June, from 12 of the clock until 6 in the evening, they will be present to justify what is here discovered; and with glasses, and other accommodations in this business to show actually in their own persons, what is here declared, and to convince any that shall contradict it.   
FINIS.