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A16435	The Booke of pretty conceits taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English : very merry, and very pleasant and good to bee read of all such as doe delight in new and merry conceits.		1628 (1628)	STC 3354; ESTC S1511	8,471	24

Calfe and put it in to a pit of Madder and let it lye thrée wéekes and they will bréed of the braine and ye may séed them with Mulberies and Mulbery leaues To take away hayres Annoint the rough place that is shauen with the blood of a blacke Otter and hayre shall neuer grow there To fat Hens and Capons Make a déepe pit in the carth and make sherrin a bed of Dung and a bed of Nettles and do so till it be full and there kéepe your Pullen till the herbes begin to grow and then let them out and within a short while they will be very fat Certaine notes to be obserued in Fishing viz. In the Spring time of the yeare when fish doe giue themselues to the act of generation take some of the little kinde of Fish from ●ome muddy or filthy Poole into a very large ●●w-net whereunto you may draw them by a small and easie Lampe made and wrought in the bottome of a cleane glasse with clay and féed it with Oyle but the glasse must be vented with some deuice of a Trunke of Swans quill and you shall see great ranks of fish gather into the nets make your stilts for sanouring of the same if you can get no strange fish then tye in the middest of your net either some mother of peacle or else some faire Oyster shel or for want of them make a posie ' of diuers colored flowers and smeere them well with Parmasity mixt with the yolke of a new laid Egge and so vse it but when you are disposed to make trial of these things let it be in your owne Pond whereby it may be persormod at pleasure this last receipt will draw a Pickrell into a lowne in the end of Aurill or May. An easie way to take a Pickerell Take a Pickrel immediatly after shee hath spaund then take the white of 3 or 4 Egges and beat them into an oyie and put thereto some Parmasity well bruised incorporate them together as a dow past and then make a flood and for want of Hay take Osters and séeth them in bloud as a foresaid and make your purpose therewith Another way to take Eeles Take a good long wisp of hay and make it hard vp boile the same well in new calues blood and then put it into the middest of a bigger trusse of new hay the same being hard made vp with the curdled blood some of the liuer Make ten or twelue of the bundles and lay them nere to the banke side in the déepest place of the tiuer or pond and put them a quoits cast asūder in the darke night after a drought and if the weather bée somewhat inclined to raine it will bée the better and put to your bundles either some shining night-wormes or the pieces of some rotten wood or the skinnes of Herrings or Sprats or else so much like shining things whereby you may perceine where to take them vp at your pleasure as well in the night as in the day To know if a sicke person shall die or not Take gray Nettles while they bée gréene and put them in the patients vrin and if they remaine gréene hée shall liue and if they wither not To make salt water fresh Take Clay and put it into a bagge and straine it through till it be cléere and it will be fresh To kindle a candle at the Sunne Take a bright Bason and put a new looking glasse therein and set the Bason in the bottest of the Sunne and lay about it very dry Tow chopped small and the Tow will take fire with the heat of the Sunne To make a candle that it cannot be blowne out Take a quill of Hempe stalke and fill it all with Brimstone and make it warme and fire it and it will neuer goe forth with flowing To heale the biting of a mad dog Take white Nettles and the innermost thin skin of a great red angry Onyon with a little running water honey and bathe it To see by night as by day Annoint your eyes with the blood of a bat To make flesh cleaue to the pot Take dwall of Nightshade and stampe it well and put it in the pot with meate and the meat will cleaue together To take Birds quicke Take Pease and kéepe them in wine lées and a paste with as many coloured flowers a● you can get and smeare the poste with the aforesaid dough and hang it in the midst o● a Bow net and put the Pickrell into the ne● also then hang the net in some cléere place in the midst of a Pond or Riuer and so let it remaine there all night and in the morning you shall sée the experience thereof To take a Pickrell in Winter or Summer Take a gréene Hearne in the full of the Moone and take the marrow out of his leg and put it into a Tinne Boxe and when you list to take a Pickrell bait your hooke either with a Roch Dace or Gudgien annoint the bait with the same Oyle and you shall presently spéed An easie way to take fish with ones hands Take Henbane Wormwood and Veruin and stampe them all together and then bang the same in thrée Canuas bags and put them in thrée seuerall places of the Pond and all the fish will gather thereunto Another way Take Housléeke and Nettle roots of each of them a good quantity and stamp straine them and then wash your hands in the iuice thereof and then poure it into the Pond and then the fish will gather to the same place in such sort as you may take then vp at ●our pleasure with your hands Another way Take an ounce of Honey two ounces of Chéese foure and twenty graine of Oculus ●n diae and two-peny-worth of Castor stamp all these together in a morter and make it in ●orme of a paste and make it in small péeces and then cast them where the fish be and you shall quickly spéed Another way Take a Pewter Bason and let it be made as bright as may be and hold it toward the water and the fish will come to the bright nesse of the Bason To take Roches Take Oculus Indiae Henbane séede the yolke of an Egge English Hony and wheated flowre mingle them all together and make a paste thereof To take Tench both in March and Aprill Take small crummes of houshold bread moistned with tar cast the same into the water where you purpose to fish then thrée nights after bait a large bownet with toasts of like bread well tarred and tyed fast in the miost of the net if you can get a bréeder or two out of ranck soils and tie in the net y●● should try a rare conclusion That one shall not be drunke Drinke the iuyce of Yerrow fasting and ye shall not be drunks for no drinke and it you were drunke it will make you sober of else tate the marrow of porke fasting and ye shall not be drunke and if you

THE BOOKE OF Pretty Conceits Taken out of Latine French Dutch and English Very merry and very pleasant and good to bee read of all such as doe delight in new and merry Conceits Newly inlarged corrected and amended LONDON Printed by Miles Flesher 1628. To the Reader VVHo so is bound for another mane debt doth bring himselfe in care And is compeld to pay the same though he be poore and bare In euery degree loue honesty be shamefac'd to doe euill Ill company see that thou fly as members of the Deuill A word once spoke it can returne no more But flies away and oft thy bane doth breed A wiseman sets a hatch before the doore And whilst he may doth frame his words with heed The bird in hand we may at will restraine But being flown we call her back in vaine An easie way to procure Fire speedily TAke a round Glasse and fill it with faire water and set it against the Sun so that it may stand fast then take something that is very dry and hold it néere the Glasse betweene the glasse and the Sun and it will set the thing so holden on fire which is very firange to behold the rather because Fire which is an hot and dry Element is procured out of Water which is a cold and moist Element A speedy remedy for the pricke of a thorne in ones foot or else-where TAke the Gall of a beast chaulk scraped Honey and Aquivite of each of them a reasonable quantity boile them well together then make a plaister thereof a lay it to the place grieued as hot as may be suffered Another way to draw out any Thorne stub or Iron in any place whatsoeuer TAke the gal of an hog beane flowre Lauender and Bacon-grease and mingle these well together and fry them well lay the same to the place grieued luke-warm vse it euery day till it be come forth and whole Another way to draw out a thorne Take barke of Hawthorne trée and stamp it well in a morter with red wine and séeth them well for a long time and then take it and lay it plaister-wise to the place grieued as hot as the patient may suffer it and it will take away the swelling and ranckling of it and then the thorne will come forth To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image painted on the wall Take put some Brimstone to the mouth as an Image then take a burning candle and blow it out and before the wéeke of the candle be clean out set it to the mouth of the Image and it will burne So you may do if you thinke good against Glasse To take fish by night Take a Lanterne of glasse and put a burning candle in it and set the Lantern on the water and the fish will come to the light Or else take Nettles and Housléeke and make suice thereof and put it into a Pond and all the fished will gather thither if your hands be annointed therewith you may at your pleasure take them To make that no Dog shall Barke at you Take an hearbe that is called Serpertine and they shall not barke at you To make Birds come to your Culuer-house Cast Barly stéeped in Honey where they doe vse to féed and they will gather to the Culuer-house To put an Apple into a Viall Hang the viall on the twig of an Appletrée and put a young Apple in the mouth of the Viall and it will grow therein and so you may doe with grapes and other fruit To put an Egge into a Viall Stéepe the Egge two daies and two nights in vineger and roule it on a table softly and it will stretch as wax and then you may put it in the Viall or draw it through a ring To make folke seeme blacke Put Oyle Oliue into a Lampe and put therein fine powder of ground glasse light it and all those that bée about it will séeme blake as Egyptians To proue if a Maiden be cleare Burne Mother-wort and let her take the smoake at her nose and if she be corrupt she shall pisse or else not Other wise take gray Nettles whilst that they be gréene and then let her pisse on them and if she be no Maiden they will wither forthwith or else not To keepe Inke from freezing Take Aquavite and mixe it with writing Inke and the same will neuer fréeze To write a letter with such Inke as cannot be perceiued vnlesse it be holden before the fire Take a shéet of fair white paper and write thereon with the iuice of a red Onion well mixed or temperd with the white of an egge and then dry it well and then it cannot bée perceiued to be any other then plaine white paper without any writing on it but if you hold it betwixt you and the fire you may the more eastly read it and perfectly perceiue the letters or contents thereof Another way to write Letters that cannot be read but in this sort Take Allom and beat it into fine powder and then put it into faire water and whatsoeuer you write therewith neither that writing nor letters will appeare except you put the said paper in water and then you may read it perfectly To cause a dog to cease barking Take a Dogges tongue and lay it vnder your great Toe within your shooe and the dog wil cease barking as long as you weare the same To cause a Pike to follow one Take the iuice of Mugwort and the iuice of red Fennell of each of them a little quantity and the crumes of Rye-bread and mingle them together with a good quantity of Sal armoniake grinde them well together and scrape a good quantity of Asaphetida to them and then rub your line next the hooke very well therewith An easie way to take Eeles Take new Hay that is swéet and make a bottle thereof and as you make it vp shake vpon it some new Calues blood with the liuer shred therein for want of calues blood take the blood of a Bull Oxe or Cow with the liuer as aforesaid and then bind vp your bottle as hard as you can with some ropes of the same Hay cast it into a riuer or pond where Eeles are so tie it to a cord to pull it vp at your owne pleasure againe Note the chiefest time for the taking of Eeles and other running fish is at the dark of the moon in the beginning of May at the shooting of Oats and in the moneth of September and October when all waters turne white after and in the iuice of hearb Ben●e● and Hemlocke and then cast them to the birds and a● many as doe eate thereof will be so amazed that they cannot fly away To take birds Put Barley in the iuies of Rue and Vineger and cast it there as the Birds doe haunt or come and as soone as they haue eaten it they cannot flie and then pe may take them To make silke wormes Take the braine of a