Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bid_v	card_n	uppermost_a	17	3	16.7204	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04587	Dainty conceits with a number of rare and witty inuentions, neuer before printed. Made and inuented for honest recreation, to passe away idle houres. By Thomas Iohnson.	Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.	1630 (1630)	STC 14708.1; ESTC S109195	7,109	24

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 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 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 i st 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 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