“ To thrust a piece of Lead into your Eye, and to drive it about with a Stick between the Skin and Flesh and Forehead, untill it be brought to the other Eye, and there thrust out. Put a piece of lead into one of the neither lids of your eye, as big as a tag of a point, but not so long which you may do without danger, and with a little juggling stick one end thereof being hollow, seem to thurst the like piece of lead under the other eyelid, but convey the same, indeed, into the hollownes of the stick, the steeple or peg thereof may be privately kept in your hand untill this feat be done ”

“ Stick a little wax upon your thumb, and take a stander by, by the fingers, showing him the tester, and telling him you will put the same into his hand, then wring it down hard with your waxed thumb, and using many words, look him in the face, and as soon as you perceive him to look in your face, or on your hand, suddenly take away your thumb and close his hand, and it will seem to him that the tester remaineth; even as it you ring a tester upon one's forehead, it will seem to stick when it is taken away especially if it be wet ”

“ How to make a Card jump out of an Egg.
To do this wonderful feat, you must have two sticks made, both of one bigness and both of a likeness: so that none can know the one from the other; one of the sticks must be made so artificially as to conceal a card in the middle, as thus; you must have one of your sticks turned hollow quite through, and then an artificial spring to throw the card in the egg at your pleasure. ”

“ How to let a Gentleman hold ten pieces of Money in his hand, and to command them into what number he can think on. You must fling your money on a table, and desire any body to tell ten pieces out on the table, when they have done they will say, there is ten. ”

“ How to tell what Card any man thinketh on, and how to convey the same into a kernel of a nut or cherry stone, and the same again into one's pocket, and how to make him draw the same, or any card you please, and all under one device. ”

“ It is not one of the worst tricks to burn a thread handsomely, and make it whole again, the manner whereof is this; take two threads, or small laces, of one foot length a-piece, roll up one of them round which will be about the bigness of a pea, put the same between your left fore-finger and your thumb, then take the other thread, and hold it forth at length betwixt your fore finger and thumb of each hand, holding all your fingers daintily, as young gentlewomen are taught to hold up a morsel of meat ”

“ Note, you must have in readiness, privately concealed in your right hand five pieces, then you must tell the company that you always tell your money after every person, so telling down the money with your left hand, and taking it up with your right, convey the five pieces to the ten, then ask if any body is desirous to hold them, and there will be enough to hold them, and be sure to hold them fast ”

“ When you are in company, and intend to make mirth, have a pot full of water standing on a table, then take a pieee of whale-bone about three inches long, let it be pretty stiff, it will spring the better; take also a new stiff card, and fold it down the middle long-ways, cut a hole through both folds at each end, half an inch or more from the ends ”

“ Take sal ammoniack half an ounce, camphire one ounce, aquavita two ounces, put them in an earthen pot, in the fashion of a chamber pot, but something narrow upon the top, then set fire to it, and the room will seem to them that are in to be all on fire: nay, themselves will flap their hair and cloaths, thinking they are all on fire, when there is nobody hurt unless it be with fright. ”

“ 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 hear to the knot with your right hand, pulling the contrary end with your left hand, which is the corner of that whieh you hold ”

“ Beware also of the betters and lookers on, and particularly of them that bet on your side, whilst they look on your game, without suspicion, they diseover it by signs to your adversaries, with whom they bet, and yet are their confederates. ”

“ This is not inferior to any juggler's trick, if it be well handled, for if you be so perfect in Legerdemain, as to bestow the same ball of thread and to change it from place to place, betwixt your other fingers, as may be easily done, then it will seem very strange. ”

“ I dare not as I could, show the lewd juggling that eheats praetice, least it minister some offence to the weel-disposed, to the simple, hurt and losses, and to the wicked, oeeasions of evil-doing: but I eould wish all gamesters to beware, not only of eards, but also of what diee they play withal; but espeeially with whom, and where they exereeise gaming, and to let diee pass as a thing whereby a man must be inevitably eozened. ”

“ This feat is one of the greatest that the jugglers have done, and is inferior to none. To do this, you must go to some tinman, or any body that knows how to make your holes room enough for a die to go in and out. ”

“ How to walk on a Hot Iron Bar, without Danger of Scalding or Burning.
Take half an ounce of camphor, disolve it in two ounces of aequavit, add to it one ounee of quiek-silver, one ounee of liquid storax, which is the dropings of myrrh, and hinders the eamphire from firing; take also two ounees of hamitatis, a red stone to be had at the druggists, and when you buy it, beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard, that it eannot be done in a small one ”

“ Take little figures of glass that are made hollow of an inch an a half high representing little boys, which may be had at the glass-blowers.—These little images have a small hole in one of their legs, and are lighter than water. ”

“ If you play among strangers beware of him that seems simple or drunken, for under their habit the most spaeious eozeners are presented, and while you think by their simplicity and imperfeetions to beguile them, and thereby perehanee are persuaded by their eonfederates, which you take to be your friends, you will then be most of all deeeived. ”

“ One that is skilful in making bum-cards, may undo hundreds of wealthy men, that are given to gaming, for if he hath a eonfederate present, either of the players or slanders by, the misehief cannot be avoided. ”