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A43811	Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions. Compiled first in Latine, by the worthiest and best authors, both of the famous University of Padua in Italy, and divers other places. Englished since, and set forth by Thomas Hill, Londoner, whose own experiments in this kinde, were held most excellent. And now againe published, with a new addition of rarities, for the practise of sundry artificers; as also to recreate wits withall at vacant times.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2018; ESTC R209384	33,564	110

falling 〈◊〉 that stroke in vaine and breaketh not the same at that time And in like manner may● Life bee eas●ly broken with a small and easie stroke of the hande 〈◊〉 that through the weight of the stone in the falling and helpe of the quick stroke it doth of this so lightly breake even as it were done with the vehement stroke of a 〈◊〉 XXXII To make an hearbe to grow which shall have many savours and tasts TO doe this first take one seed of the Lettice one seede of Endive one of Smalledge one of the Ba●ll one of the Léeke and of the Parsley all these put together in a hole in ●●ich sort that one ●eede may touch another but this remember that you plant these together in the dung of an Horse or an Oxe without any earth at all with them And then after of these seedes shall grow up one proper hearbe which will have so many savours and tasts as there were seeds sowne together XXXIII How to make sundry devices or Armes of such like in a Rose Carnation or Flower-de-luce or Lilly TO doe this take Sal Armoniacke grind● the same on a Marble Stone with fine Vineg●r and a little Sugar-candy and keeepe the same in a narrow-necked Pot or Glasse and after take your Rose and dresse the Leaves fastening them with red wax that they may so lye plaine and even which so done then take a fine Pencill with the licour drawing on the leaves what proper matter 〈◊〉 Armes you list and after let the same drie of it selfe putting upon of the leafe-gold or the leafe silver and after pressing it lightly or gently downe with Bombasse and that which sticketh not then fast falleth of● in the doing and so your work● will remaine ●rim and faire XXXIII To write what you list on a steel Dagger or Knife TO do this take an ounce of Saltpeter and an ounce of gréen Copperas beat these grosly together and after put the same into a strong battle of glass distilling a water of it which water use on this wise First take yellow or red Wax stretching the same upon the Dagger or Knife so far as you will draw or write thereupon unto the thickness of a paper leaf and somewhat more after draw or write therein what you list drawing or writing unto the Stéel and then fill that hollow drawing or holes with the distilled water which within a day and a night will have eaten it sufficiently And the like may you draw and do on any other piece of Stéel XXXV How to break a new and big Rope with the hands onely TO do this take and fasten the one end of the Cord or Rope either ●ith a nail driven fast into it or about ● strong hook of Iron and after winde 〈◊〉 same three or four times or of●ner ●out thy hand and the other end of the ●ord or Rope winde about by the top of 〈◊〉 Palm ●etwéen the fore-finger and he ●umb that the one part of the Cord ●●y reach unto the Nail and the head 〈◊〉 other end unto the bottome of the Palm by which it must be again wind●● about and after that winded again ●nce or twice about And this so done ●hen with a vehement p●uck and force ●●ay in the same part by which it is so ●●der-winded or r●n with the Cord for ●hat the substance of the Cord or Rope which is under both defend that the ●●nd can take no harm by the hastie and ●trong pull and take héed that the utter-●ost fold of the Cord ●●ide not 〈◊〉 thy ●●nd And to conclude this 〈◊〉 that in the n●●hty and hasty pluck together the one fold of the Cord doth to cut the other in sunder and then especially ●hen as that part shall be set soft which is between the hand and the nail and that both the hand be strong and then pluck out-right and quick And now if XXXVI How to make white Flowers like as the Lilly white Rose and such like to be red Tubbe where you minde ●o plante your white Flowers to become re● and after they be so planted in the 〈◊〉 then let them not be watered at any time with any other water then this which is made on this wise Lake water putting therein a certain● quantity of Brasill finely 〈◊〉 and boyle the same unto a third parte which water after take and being through cold● water by little and little the same Earth as both at morning and evening and water it at no time with any other water then this untill you see that the same water first have taken effect XXXVII How to make a hollow Ring to dance by it self a proper secret TO doe this take a Ring round about hollow into which put Quick-silver and stop the same fast that it run●e no● forth After h●●re the Ring somewhere in the fire or let it 〈…〉 the fi●e and be●ng 〈◊〉 lay the 〈◊〉 on a Table or Stoole which by and by after will beginne to dance of it selfe untill it be cold againe XXXVIII To make Glue to hold together so hard as a stone a proper Secret ANd to do this take unstekt Lyme and quench the same with Wine and beat the same into fine powder mixing therewith both Figs and Swines grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny writeth passeth the hardness of a stone Also take Greek Pitch Rozen and the powder of Lyle-stones these mix together and when you will occupie of the same then heat it over the fire and work therewith for when the same is cold it holdeth them together so hard as any nail Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of Lyle-sheards two pound of unstekt Lyme four pound of Oil of Linséed so much as shall suf●ice to prepare and work them together for this Glue is marvellous strong and indéed neither feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fire XXXIX How to make an Apple move on the Table a proper Secret TO doe this take an Aple and cut the same in the middest and in the one halfe make a round hole putting therein a blacke Béetle and so lay the halfe on the Table and it will then move XL To make Roses and other Flowers that be red to become white ANd to doe this take Brimstone beating the same into fine Pouder which pouder burne on a new tyle-stone holding such red flowers or Roses over the smoake of it whiles it so burneth and they will after become white and on this wise you may make your Roses halfe white and halfe red or one leafe white and another red by a cep of paper so cut for the nonce XLI How to write letters on the Egshell that the same Letters may appeare within on the Egge TO doe this take a little quantitie both of Galles and Allome which worke together with Vineger and after write with this liquor what you will on the shell and that dryed laye then the Egge in Vrine else annoint the Egge about with waxe

anointed therewith you may take them at your pleasure LXXIV How to make no Dog shall bark at you TAke an Herb called Serpentine and by vertue thereof no Dog shall bark at you LXXV How to make Birds come to your Culver-house CAst Barley stéeped in Honey where they do féed and they will gather to your Culver-house LXXVI An excellent Conclusion how to put an Apple into a Vial. HAng the Vial on the twig of an Apple-trée and put a young Apple in the mouth of the Vial and it will grow therein And so ye may do with Grapes or other fruit LXXVII How to put an Egge into a Vial. STéep the Egge two days and two nights in Vinegar and then roll it on a Table softly and it will stretch as Wax and then may you put it in the Vial or draw it thorow a Ring LXXVIII To make folk seem black PVt Oil-Olive in a Lamp and put thereto fine powder of ground Glass and light it and all that be above it will séem black as Egyptians LXXIX To prove if a Maiden be clean BVm Mother-wort and let her take the smoke thereof in at her nose and if she be corrupt she shall presently piss or else not Otherwise take gray Neti●es while they be gréen and let her pi●s on them if she ●e no Maiden they will wither forthwith otherwise not LXXX To know if a sick person shall die or not TAke gray Nettles while they be green and put them into the patients Vrine and if they remain green he shall live and if they wither not LXXXI To make Salt water fresh TAke Clay and put it into a bag and strain it thorow until it b● clear and it will be fresh LXXXII To see by night as by day ANoint your eyes with the blood of a Bat and by this means you may effect your desire LXXXIII To kindle fire at the Sun TAke a very bright Bason and put a new Looking-glass therein and set the Bason in the hottest Sun and lay about it very dry Towe small ●hop●ed and the Towe will take fire with the heat of the Sun LXXXIV To make flesh cleave in the Pot. TAke Dwall or Nightshade and stamp it well and put it in the Pot with meat and the meat will cleave together LXXXV An easie way to take Birds PVt Barley in the juyce of Rue and Vinegar and cast it where the Birds do haunt or come and as soon as they have eaten it they cannot flie and then ye may easily take them LXXXVI To make Silk-worms TAke the brain of a Calf and put it in a pit of Mader and let it lie thrée wéeks and they will bréed of the brain and ye may féed them with Mulberries LXXXVII How to take away hairs ANoint the rough place with the blood of a Bat after that it is shaven and hair shall never grow there LXXXVIII To fat Hens or Capons MAke a déep pit in the earth and make therein a b●d of dung and a bed of Nettles and do so till it be full and there kéep your Pullen till the herbs begin to g●ow and then let them out and w●t●in a short while they will be very fat LXXXIX That one shall not be drunk DRink the juyce of Yarrow fasting and ye shall not be drunk for no drink And if ye were drunk it will sober you Or else 〈◊〉 the marrow of 〈◊〉 fasting and by this means ye shall not be drunk XC To make a good bait for Fish at ali seasons of the year TAke Wheat-flower and Tallow of a new-slain Shéep and the glair of an Egge and beat them all together and vait them all therewith XCI How to make an Egge go up to a Spears end EMpty the Egge at a little hole and fill it full of May-dew and stop the hole close with a little Wax and Parchment glued that the dew go not out Then stick a spear in the earth in the heat of the Sun and lay the Egge by the Spear and it will mount to the top thereof by the heat of the Sun XCII To make Pottage run out of the Pot. TAke Sope and cast thereof into the Pot and it will run over XCIII To make Fish or Flesh seem raw TAke the blood of a Wat or of a Kid and dry it and keep 〈◊〉 from the air then cast on Fish or Flesh that is hot and it will séem raw XCIV To kill Hens or Ducks CAst to them the seed of Henbane and having eaten thereof they will fall down as they were dead XCV How to make Coles to burn a great while MAke powder of S. Johns Wort and when the Coles are wasted and the fire néer out cast it thereon and let it lie XCVI Ad capiendum Pisces REcipe luce Mullage vel scolares sortas collectum ci●ca medium Maii. Quando Luna sit plena distemperata cum nigro sale serva in Olla terrea quando vis occupare unge manus tuas lava in aqua vel loco ubi sunt Pisces XCVII That a man shall not be weary of going DRink of the juyce of Mugwort and bear the herb about him with the herb Pedelion and Crowfoot XCVIII To make Yarn and Linen cloth become white TAke a Herring-barrel and fill it nigh full of good Ale-dreggs and stop it fast but ye must have a good dish-ful of parcht beans and put them in a linen bag and very hot put them to the dreggs till they be cool and shut it fast for the space of a quarter of an hour Then take two pound of Allom ground to subtil powder and cast it therein and let it lie four days naturally well closed then wash your Yarn XCIX To make that a horse may not go thorow a street TAke the guts of a Wolf and lay them overthwart the Stréet and cover them with v or sand and he will not go that way as long as the guts do lie there Probatum est C. To know if a Woman be with a Man-childe or not TAke a di●h and put water in it and then let her milk her brest into the water and if it be a Man-childe it will fléet and if it be a Woman-childe it will sink CI. An easie Experiment to ease thy feet for going ANd to do this take the leaves of Plantine and stamp them well and strain them or otherwise preserve the juyce thereof and anoint your feet therewith and it will remove away the grief Also upon the going of any great journey if you put within each of your shooes or boots a leaf of Plantine it will both cool and refresh your feet and likewise make you hold out mainly in travel CII To preserve your Teeth fair white and clean FOr the fair and neat keeping of the Teeth take Barley-meal Honey and Salt and mingle them together and use therewith to rub your Teeth at sundry times especially in the Morning and by this means they shall become very fair and white CIII

Roses at all tim●● of the yeere sundry wayes taught ANd first if you will have fresh Roses at any time so well as in the Moneth of May then gathe● the buds halfe o●●n in a manner in the Evening when as the Sunne is set and touch them not with thy hand in the ga●hering but with a sharpe knife properly ga●her them after lay the Roses upon a Boord letting them to lye abroad in a faire night all the night through and then after have in readinesse a new earthen Pot well glased within and without into which put the former Roses before the Sunne bee un in in the morning and stop close the mouth of that Pot with clay being mixed with Horse dung and flocks all tempered well together before whereb● no air of the Ru●● may pas● or breathe forth After set the same pot into the ground covering it in dry sand and let no moist place be 〈◊〉 about the same And now on this ●ase may you have fresh Roses at any time of the y●r Also take of the Rose-buds in the Spring-time when they begin first to open and put those into a green Cane yet growing cleaving the same by little and little until you may handsomely put in those buds and after 〈◊〉 that place with a thred stopping the same about that no air breathe out and after cover that piece of the Cane or ●ee● so ●●und and stopped about under the earth bowing down the same stalk by little and little that the same break not and cover the same well with the earth letting it there remain so long as you li●t and when you be m●nded to ha●e them forth then cleave the Cane by little and little that you spoil ●ot the buds and after set them in the Sun or in luke-warm water and they shall be open ●nd fair in a s●ort space as in the midst of 〈◊〉 Also if you will have dry Roses to become fresh then take a new glased pot and wet the same within with Rose-water and after shut that pot with the Roses very close letting it so to stand for five days and they shall be fresh XXVI How to make Beans and other seeds to grow up in the space of four hours ANd first to make Beans grow up in an hours space take the Beans and put them in hot oil let them there remain for eleven days and after dry them And when you will make proof of them then set the Beans and go to dinner and by that time you rise again from the table and go look on them you shall finde them grown up well a s●an high And the like you may do with Gourds And now to make the Gourds grow up in the space of four hours both with leaves and flowers take the seeds of the Gourd and let them lie in the blood of a ●anguine young man and let them there remain for Fifteen days in a moist place and in a pot well stopped and after take them forth and let them bee dryed well in the Sunne and when you will sowe or plant them then take a dish-full or two of good earth and drie the same well after wet the same with a little fresh water and after have warme water powring the same upon this earth untill it become sufficient soft and then plant your seeds in it and within three or foure houres after you shall have Gourds growne up together with leaves and with flowers And the like may you doe with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers other green seedes XXVII To make a Candle of Ice to burn like unto another Candle TO doe this make a Candle of Brimstone which with the Powder of a Coale smeared about and after in the Winter time drowne the same in water but cover the head of it with a paper and after hang the same at the mouth of some gutter which droppeth fast whereby it may so bee covered with halfe a finger thicknnesse of Ice in the Morning and after being lighted it will then burne unto the wonder of such as shall see the same Also take pure VVaxe and fine Brimstone purified of Earth alike melt these together making thereof a Candle and after take the powder of a C●ale finely beaten and Brimstone the like in powder these sift through a Serfe or linnen Cloth and after heating the Candle smeare the said Candle about so long untill it have as it were a thick crust round about the same like unto the thicknesse of the backe of a Knife which after cover about the ●ead of it with a Paper and then hang the same at the mouth of a Gutter which droppeth fast untill the Ice cover it about a finger thick then light the same and it will burne like as if it were all ●f waxe XXVIII To make flesh seem to crawl full of Wormes ANd to doe this take Harpe-strings and cut them into very short peeces which straw upon Meate being taken hot out of the Pot and those pieces will then move and stir about like unto living worms XXIX How to make a light in the night-time that all things round about thy Hall or Parlour shall appear both black and green TO do this take the black iuyce or ink of the Fish named Cuttle and the like quantity of Verdigrease these mix well together putting the same into a Lamp and dipping a week in that liquor then light the same putting out the other Lights in that room and then shall all things round about that place and the walls also being white appear both black and green unto the marvel of such as shall see the same XXX How to make Roots to have what proper form you will on them TO do this take such green Roots which ●e big like as be the Briony-roots Radish-roots and Rape or Navew-roots and of any of these Roots carve and ●ut as you li●t and after put the same into the earth letting it there so long remain until the same carving be covered with a skin And on such wise may you make the counterfeit Mandrakes in fashioning in the Briony-root as both Mattheolus and Cardane do write the form of a man with a Pen-knife and setting the same Root again into the earth with the head of the Root turned downward and a little Barley put under it which after will cleave and hang fast into the head of the Root and appear like unto hair growing out of the same XXXI How to break a stone with the fist of the thickness of ones hand ANd to do this first raise the edge of a flat stone upright from a plain boord or rather from a big smoothe stone in su●h sort that it stand of it self without any under-bearing or help and after with thy fist sna●e hastily or quickly that part standing upright w●●th falling together fl●● on the plaine boord or stone doth to breake in so many pieces And if the fist bée fr●●● li●r smi●●en then the end of the stone toucheth the boords in the

and then quench it in the blood which after will become as soft as paste then with a copper Print worke therein what you list and after set the same abroad in the ayre and it will come againe unto the former hardnesse LI. To make a Candle after a strange manner to burne a proper secret FOr to doe this first make a wéeke of Silke and infuse the same in the Oyle of Hempséed and when the wéeke shall be sufficiently soked role the same in Snow untill it be of the bignesse of a great Candle whereby it may so be well wrought together and after light the same setting it in a sticke and it will give the like light as a waxe Candle Also make a Candle of Parpen Stone and waxe together about the which roule Snow and the Snow will burne untill it be all wasted Also take Snow and mixe therewith the pouder of Camphire and of the same make a Candle and it will burne being lighted LII How to draw many Candles the one after the other being laid a foot distance or more asunder FOr this take Brimstone Orpiment and Oyle these labour together and make thereof an Oyntment after take so many Candles as may well serve your Table which lay on the Table a large foot asunder and all a row the one behind the other as long as you lift to lay them yea an hundred may you lay downe on this wise a length if you lay them strait then ●ake a long thréed and annoint the same in this ointment which after lay along on the Candles and after drawing the formost all will follow by order LIII How to cut an Apple into many pieces without harming of the skin or paring TO doe this take a most fine Néedle with a small thréed and thrust the same by little and little under the paring and thrust it in againe right against the place untill you have so gone round about the outside of the Apple And this also remember that you thrust the néedle through the paring at straite corners one against the other of the Apple and this so often do untill you come againe unto the first place where you began And if so be you would divide the same in six or eight pieces then draw the thréed againe by a like distance alwaies taking héede to divide the Apple under the skin and when you have thus done with the Apple and the peeces y●t covered with the skin then draw out the ends of the thréed and you shall after divide the Apple within without harming of the paring or skin into so many péeces as you list And when you have thus drawne out and taken the thréed quite away you may kéepe the Apple so long as you thinke requis●te LIV. How to make a Cup of Glasse being set in the fier not to burne AND to doe this take what Cup or Pot of glasse you list and séethe the same in common Oyle by the space of five houres and after take it forth and it will be then made so strong that the said Cup of glasse or pot will indure the heat of the fire LV How to make Quick-Silver in a manner so hard as Silver ANd to doe this take the strongest Vineger and whites of Egges wel beaten together and thrée ounces of quicksilver unto one of the other these first distill together in a Limbeck wel luted and in that distilled water put the quicksilver and it will be after so hard that you may worke it with the hammer Also take Quick-silver and wash it in the distilled water of mans blood and every time you wash the same let it drie and in the end it will come to be so hard as silver LVI A prety conceit to catch Fowles without a Net TO doe this take Arsenick putting the same in water and in that water boyle wheate or any other grain and cast the same forth unto Fowls and so many as eate thereof will not be able afterward to flye away And take the iuice of Celidone and infuse wheat in the same letting it there remain for thrée daies after give the same to Fowles to eate and such as eate thereof you may after take with the hand Also take wheat putting it in wine Lées and let the same remaine there eight dayes after that put it into the juice of Celandine and horehound to stéepe which so done then give of the same ●nto the Foules to eate and such as ea●e thereof cannot flye away LVII To make a Candle to be marveilud at A proper secret ANd to doe this take foure ounces of salt Niter sixe ounces of fine Frankinsence thrée ounces of brimstone sixe ounces of Oyle and sixe ounces of the Milke of Cataputia all these beat fine and mixe together after take thrée ounces of Waxe and make them a Candle of altogether in the end of which Candlesticke sticke déepe a néedle and after set the same in a narrow mouth'd glasse full of water and you shall sée after what the same will doe LVIII How to see many wondrous strange signes in an Vrinall And to sée these take a new and cleane washed Vrinall into which powre either cleane water or other running water after take the white of a new laid Egge and a little Saffron binding it in a cleane linnen cloth after that powre a little of the water into a dish and put the cloth with the Saffron into it so long untill it have coloured it somewhat and being on this wise then beat the white of the egge with this water seven or eight times with thy finger and then powre the same into the Vrinall and you shall after sée in it Towers Castels Hills and many other strange sightes LIX How to make a Loafe of bread new set upon the Table to leape off TO doe this take a Quill filling the same with Quick-silver and stopping it close thrust the same after into ● hot Loaf new drawn out of the Oven and the Loaf will by and by dance upon the Table LX How to make an Egge flee about a merry Conclusion TO do this take a Goose-Egge and after the opening and cleansing of it take a Bat that flieth in the Evening which put into the shell then glue it fast about on the top and the Bat will flie away with it which perhaps will be thought of some to flie about in the air of it self LXI How to make artificial Fire divers ways which will seem marvellous ANd first to make a flame of fire to pass suddenly out of the mouth of a pot full of water take an Egge making a hole in the head and draw out all the substance of the same which so done then fill the same with the powder of Brimstone and un●●ekt Lime mixed to●ether shutting the mouth with Wax and so let it fall to the bottom of a Qu●●tpot full of water taking quickly your hand away and suddenly will issue forth a flame out of the mouth of the pot And