To make Walls or Floores, that neither Snaile, Weasle, Cat, Mouse, or Weuill, will come neere, to destroy either Corne, or other thing.

Make your walls or floores of what mat­ter or substance you thinke meete, and [Page] let them be well dryed, then take clay, and in the tempering thereof put in the fome o [...] dregs of Oyk that fleeteth on the top of Oyle and mingle them well together, then take wilde Oliue trees leaues & put there among here with plaister your foresaid walls and fl [...]res quite ouer and let it drye, then take th [...] said some of Oyle, and rub it ouer the walls and out of doubt no vermin will approach it.

To take away the good taste or sauour of Oyle.

HAng Oyle in a chimney where smoak [...] and sut are, and it spoileth the taste o [...] Oyle, for it will not come neere any heat bu [...] his owne naturall heat that it hath in it self [...]

How to order Oxen when they are newly vnyoaked comming from labour.

OF all beasts Oren are most subiect t [...] hide binding, and therefore as soone a [...] they be come from their labour and be vnyoaked, you ought to rub their necks where th [...] yoake touched, with your hand, and to press [...] downe the [...]kinne of their backs, and then t [...] pull it as if you pulled it from the ribbes, fo [...] that is a helpe that they shall not be hid [...] bound.

To glaze pots within.

TAke your vessell which must be well bur­ned, then take red lead as much as you will, and put thereto a tenth part of water, and of Tartar nine parts, then mixe them to­gether, and glaze your pots as the manner is, for this is excellent.

How to know all manner of sores.

IF thou see an Impostume or other sore in what place of the body soeuer it be;

First, take heed to the colour thereof, and if it be red and nesh in feeling, then it is in­gendred of euill blood, and if it be hot and moist withall, the signes where of it par taketh be Gemini, Libra, and Aquary, the Planet Iupiter and Mercury, when the Moone or the Planet be in these signes, or in any of them, vse no medicines to such a sore. If it be red and therewith hard, it is ingendred of heat, and is hot and dry, the signes be dries, Leo, and Sagittarius, the Planets, Sol, & Mars, while the Moone is in these, vse no medicine to the griened place.

If if be white, gray or blackish affirme, saith Hypocrates, that it proceedeth of cold and drinesse, if it be hard and the signes there, [Page] unto belonging to Taurus, Uirgo and Ca­pricorne and Saturne, who is cold and dry is the Planet. Whilst the Moone is abiding in one of these signes, vse no medicine to such a disease: but if the sore haue these last named colours, or any of them, and there withall be not hard in feeling but nesh, say that it commeth of a cold moisture, as ingendred of fleame, the signes agreeing thereunto be Can­cer, Scorpio, and Pisces, the Planets there, of answering, be Venus and the Moone. Thus easily may any one know whereof any swelling or sore doth come, as Hypocias saith.

To make Gun-powder.

TAke what quantity of Salt-peter you will, and halfe so much quantity of quick brimstone, small coules made of sallow or willow, halfe so much as of brimstone, and if you thinke it conuenient, you may put thereto a little quicke siluer, then being them all to powder, and farce them, and put these in some hote place.

Fiue deuices at Cardes.

HOw to draw out the whole decke of Cauds, and to tell what euery Card [...] is before you drawe it out.

[Page] Take the whole decke of Cards and hold them close together, and neere vnto / your eye, and ouer against you hang a looking glasse, and by it you shall see euery carde, to the amazement of the beholders.

Or thus.

Take a péece of a looking-glasse in your left hand, vn [...]eene to the beholders, and so you shall performe the same:

Also if you thinke these two wayes too open or plaine, take the cuppe, and put a little drinke in your mouth, stooping downe with your head, let a little quantity fall vpon the table to the breadth of a shilling, then hold your cards as before is said, clo [...]e to your eye vnder the moisture, and the cards will sha­dowin such sort, that you may know euery card before you drawe it, and it is so hard to be descryed, that in seuen yeeres you may scantly be perceiued.

Againe if you deliuer to your fellow one Card whasoeuer it be at a venture, and take two next following your selfe, see how many those two are aboue ten, and so many you may affirme that you are more then he, and more then will make him ten, as to make it plaine with an example.

[Page] I put the case that I deliuer to my friend standing by, the sixe of Clubs, and I take the two next Cards, which are the Qu [...]ne of Hearts, and the foure of Diamonds, I say therefore vnto my friend, or lay a wager with him, that I haue as many as he, as many as will make him ten, and foure pippes to spare, and so is there.

In like manner I deliuer to a stander by two Cards, and take my selfe double the number, to wit foure: I may say in like sort, that I haue as many as he, and as many as will make him twenty, and so many to spars as I haue pippes in my hand aboue twenty.

So likewise deliuering three Cards and ta­king sixe to your selfe, you may say that you haue as many as he, and as many as will make him thirty, and the odde pippes to spare: and thus you may doe it to many Cards, in doubling the Cards, and respecting ten so­euery Card.

If your familiar friends be in company, you may take three knaues, and lay them with their faces downewards, but let two of them lye together, and the third by himselfe: than say to one with whom you may be bold: Whether had you rather of occasion serued, to make the two Cards which lie together three, [Page] or to take part with this one, and make him two? then will he take the one or the others part, if he take the two, then say to him, here I pray you make them three knaues.

Also if you take the foure knaues, and lay them all together in such sort on the top or bot­tome, that the standers by perceiue you not, and take three of them, and shew them to the beholders saying, see you these three knaues? who will answer, yea: then pricke away one of those three that you shewed, and lay the other two in the place where-from you tooke them, and giue the Cards one cut or two: you may then wager with them, that although you cut away one of the knaues that yet three are together still, which they will deny at the first, hauing not regarded what knaue it was you did pricke.

Also if you lay all the coate Cards toge­ther, and when you haue so done, came your companion to cut them foure, or fiue or sixe times: you may affirme that by his so often cutting of them, all the coate Cards are to­gether, for being once together, the cutting seldome parteth, which if you perceiue by the bottome Card, cause him to giue them one out more, so shall you haue them all together.

How to know if one Carde be missing what Carde it is.

TAke the Carss and face them, and euer as you tell the pipe, and alwayes at euery ten cast it out of your minde, and count to ten till you come to the end, then maike what number is remaining at the end, and see what it wanteth of ten and that is the Card, and if ten be remaining, you may affirme that ten is missing. And by this way may you bid your friend or acquaintance, to take out of the decke any Card what he will, and yhu will tell him what it is presently: As for example, a friend takes the Ace of the Hearts, and I looke or runne ouer the Cards, and passe all the tenne Cards, and the rest I tell casting away ten euer as I tell, and in the end I finde but nine remaining in tale, therefore because nine wanteth but one of ten, I know that it is an Ace, and I run ouer the Cards againe quick­ly to see which of the Aces it is, and then I affirme to my friend that it is the Ace of hearts.

To know what Carde one thicketh.

BID your friend think what Carde he will, and then take the packe, and lay the [Page] Cards, Carde by Carde into three heaps with the faces vpward, and when you haue done, demand in which heape his Carde is, and that heape lay nethermost, and in this sort doe three times, and at the last time the Card which your friend thinketh will be the vpper­most of that heape: marry if you cast them the fourth time also, remembring the Card at the third time, it will not so easily be percei­ued.

Another.

SHuffle the Cards, and shew vnto your friend the bottome Card, bidding him marke the Card that he know it well then put the Cards behind your backe, and turne that bottome backeward, that is to say, the backe of that Card to the backe of the decke, then shew him the next bottome Card, and demand if that do his Card, then he will answer no: and in shewing that Card, the other Card is in your sight, whereby you may know the Card as well as he.

Another.

MArke you the bottome Card priuily, and then opening the Cards, bid one draw what Card him liketh, and when he hath drawne the Card and seene it, lay that Card [Page] close to your knowne Card, and then giue him the Cards to cut or shuffle, whether he will, and ay that you can tell him his Card, or in drawing know when it commeth out, which easily you may doe, for that it will come either the next before or the next after the marked Carde.

How to smell out the foure Aces, or foure knaues being blindfolded.

RUbbe the edges of them with a little bea­ten pepper, and you may easily smell them from the rest.

How to know whether one take vp a King Card, or a Queene, being absent in another roome.

THis tricke requireth the helpe of another, who must be in that roome, and when the Card is taken vp, he must first speake, and aske his fellow what it is, and if he see that the king is taken vp, then must he aske his fel­low short, saying what ist? but if the Queene be taken vp, he must aske his fellow saying, what is it? And [...] by the demand may he that is in another roome tell iustly▪ whether of them a stander by doth take vp, to the wonder of the beholders.

How to keepe Wine from sowring.

VVHen you feare that your wine will be sowre, by reason of thundring or lightning, haue alwayes Looke seeds in store for the same purpose, then pound some of them in a morter, and put into your vessels of wine, and it will preserue it from being sowre.

How to keepe Ale or Beere in Summer from sowring.

TAke a handfull or two (according as the quantity of your vessell is in bignesse) of the hearbe called Mugwort, and being well washed, and after well drained from the wa­ter, put it into your vessels of Beere and Ale, and it will not sowre, a matter of small cost and greatest profit.

To make Oyle de Bay.

TAke gréene Bay leaues, and stampe them with oyle, and cleane swines greace, and being well stamped together put it into an earthen pot, and so let it stand to rot for the space of forty dayes at the least, and stop it ve­ry close, then at the forty dayes end, set it on the fire, and boyle it with a soft fire, and put thereto the iuyce of parsley, then straine it and keepe it very close.

How to make Ginger bread.

TAke two pound of scummed hony, twelue peund of flowre, put thereto ginger beaten in powder, pepper, cloues, and mace, in pow­der, and make into what fashion you will, and bake it as you would dee bread.

How to close or ioyne together a sword, dagger, or knife, being broken a sunder.

TAke an Adamant stone and burne it in the fire till it be red without, then shaue off that red into a dish▪ take also two gads of stéele broken into foure peeces, vineger a scruple, perdegreece an ounce, then put your steele, viueger, and verdegreece into a stillito­ry of glasse, and let them still to water, and then mingle the powder of your burnt Ada­mant with the water and [...]o put it into a violl, and kéepe it for your vse.

Or else thus.

TAke Tinne and melt it, and then put thereto as much Mercury, and mingle them well together so that you may make powder of them both, then take the powder of the Adamant, as much as of either of them, [Page] and mingle all these together, then take salt and Romane Uitrioll, and still a water of them, and keepe it in a glasse well stopped. Now you corrosiue water being made, take your blade that is broken, and lay it vpon a plaine boord, being sure, that both the broken peeces lye as euen together as may be, then lay a threed euen about the same, and ihen put ware about the threed, and when thou hast done, draw away the threed, and lay of your powder in the place where your threed lay, and put a little of your corrosiue water vpon your powder, Factum est.

A water to gild vpon steele or iron.

TAke an ounce of Argoll, two ounces of salt, an ounce of Alome, a quarter of an ounce of verdegreece, and grinde them well together, then put thereto a pinte of vineger, and so let it stand a little season, and with that water maist thou gild on what metall thou wilt.

To make any gilt thing as hie coloured as the Angell Noble.

TAke Sal armoniacke, and Uerdegréece, made in sottle powder, and put in pisse, or [Page] in vineger till it be thicke like pappe, then lay there of vpon thy ring, or other thing what­soeuer that gilt is, and lay it ouer a very small fire till it moke, and then put it in some close thing, and couer it till it be cold, & expertum est.

How to gild with small cost.

TAke a quart ofred wine, and see the it with brazell to a pinte, then take gold-foile the Price of foure pence and put thereto, then heat thy siluer red hot, and quench it therein, and it shall finely gild.

How to couch gold vpon a cloth.

TAke Bole-armoniacke and Close, and so grinde them together, and lay it ouer the cloth some what warme, and ere it be dry, touch there on thy gold, & so let it dry through­ly, and then maist thou begin to burnish it.

Another manner of way.

TAke water and chalke and grinde them well together, then straine it thorow a cloth, and then put it into a horne, and doe thereto some reare of egges, and then stirre it well together, & set it ur some moist place, and the longer it standeth, the better it is, Expertum est.

How to graft a vine vpon a vine.

TAke and cleaue the stocke of a vine, as you doe other trees, and put the graft in the clist, and stop it well with ware and binde it fast.

How to helpe a tree that is long before it beare fruit.

TAke an anger or wimble, and bore a hole so deepe as the pith of the tree at the least, then take a pinne made of some dry hard tim­ber, but see that you make it somewhat grea­ter then the hole at the one end, and then take a hatchet or hammer, or any such like thing, and see you driue in the pinne so forceably, that you cleaue the stocke a little, then take some waxe, and stoppe the cliffe close, and rest as­sured it will beare fruit the yeere following.

How to haue Peaches sooner by two moneths then other.

GRaft your Peach on a Mulbery, or on a Uine.

How to haue Plums all the Summer vnto Alhallontide.

GRaft one in another in the Sorbery tree, and in the Mulbery tree.

How to make Medlers and Cherries to abide vntill the new come.

GRaft in a Mulbery tree as is aforesaid, and wet your grafts in hony, and put thereto powder of cloues.

How to keepe a Rose flesh a moneth and more.

YOu may vse it euery day, and in the night put it into hony, and it will continue long, as hath beene often proued.

To haue fruit without blossomes.

GRaft vpon a Ftigge tree, and the fruit that conuneth thereon will come with­out blossome.

To haue fruit that will indure two yeere.

GRaft on a Warden, or vpon a Quince tree.

To haue fruit without chore.

TAke a graft, and set it into the stocke at both the ends, so that the graft may grow like an halfe hoope.

To haue Cheries at Alhallontide.

GRaft Cherry-trée grafts vpon a Mulbery tree, or vpon a sage stocke, and the cherries that come thereon, will indure vntill the time aforesaid.

To haue Medlers sooner by two moneths, and also greater than others.

TAke your grafts and then wet them in ho­ny, and then graft them either vpon a Mulbery tree, or on a thorne.

To haue ripe Peares very soone.

GRaft your Peares vpon a Hawthorn, and you shall haue early Peares.

To haue Peares very late.

Graft vpon a Warden tree.

To haue Wardens betimes.

GRaft vpon a Mulbery, or vpon the Quince tree.

To haue Mulberies very soone.

Graft vpon the thorne.

To haue them late.

Graft them vpon the Medier tree.

To haue a halfe Peare, and a halfe Apple to grow together.

TAke two grafts, the one of the Apple tree, and another of a Peare tree, and cleaue them in such sort, that you may finely ioyne [Page] the one halfe of the Apple to the other halfe of the Peare, but it must be done so closely, that no water enter into them, and the fruit that commeth of them, will be of tallage both of the apple and the peare.

The principall thing for grafting of any thing, is euer throe or foure dayes before the change of the Moone. And for planting, the day of the change, and the two next dayes fol­lowing are best for any thing.

How to make letters of gold.

TAke gumme of Almonds and grind it to powder, then temper it with Uermillion as finely ground: let your gumme be dissol­ued in the white of an egge, and mingle them all together, and temper them in such sort, that you may write therewith, and when you thinke it conuenient, vse thereof with your pen, and the letters that you make, will soeme to be of gold. Probatum est.

How to make a Serpent flie from a man.

LEt him approch neere to a Serpent na­ked, and he will fly from him, whereas being clothed, he will leape vpon him, and [Page] the fasting spittle of a man killeth him: wherefore when a Serpent is in danger, he wriggleth himselfe to saue his head wherein lyeth his heart.

The nature of the Rauen.

THe property of the Rauen is to haue such a delight in her owne beauty, that shee vouchsafeth not to giue her young ones food, vntill she see wherether they be blacke of co­lour or not.