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 [Page]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 [Page]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 [Page]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 [...] [Page]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 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 [Page]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 [Page]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 [...] [Page]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 [Page]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 [Page]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 be drunke an noint your priuie members in vineger, and ye shall waxe sober.

To make a good bait for fish at all times of the yeare.

Take wheat flowre and tallow of a new slaine sheepe, and the glaire of an Egge, and beat them all together, and bait your hookes therewith.

To make an Egge goe vp to a Speares end.

Empty the Egge at a little hole, and fill it full of May dew, and stop the hole close with a little waxe & parchment glued, that the dew goe not out, then sticke a speare in the earth in the heat of the Sun, and lay the Egge by the Speare, and it will mount vp to the top thereof by the heat of the Sun.

To make a candle burne in the water.

Take Wine, Oile, Salt, Brimston, quick­ [...]iluer, Wax and hony, and put them toge­ther [Page]and make a Candle thereof, and the same will burne in water.

To make flesh or fish seeme raw.

Take the blood of a Wat or Kid, and dry it, and kéepe it from the ayre, then cast it on fish or flesh that is hot and it will séeme raw.

To make wormes to seeme to be in meat.

Take Harp strings, and cut them in smal péetes, and cast them but on meat, and they will stir like wormes.

To make potage run out of the pot.

Take and cast Sope in the pot, and it will run ouer.

A good Medicine for Poultry that haue the pip.

Take Rue and put it into their troughs of water, where the Prultry doe vse to driuke and the same will helpe them presently:

To kill hens and Ducks.

Cast them the séed of Henbane, and they will fall downe as they were dead.

Make powder of Saint Iohns wort, and when that the coales are wasted, and the strenere out, cast it thereon and it will lie.

That a man shall not be weary of going.

Drinke the iuice of Mugwort, and beare the hearb it selfe about you, with the hearbs Pedelion and Crowsoot.

Another way [...]O [...]n [...]id wearinesse.

Take Mugwort and cary it about you, and you shall not bée weary, neither shall there any wicked spirit come neare you, ha­uing it about you.

A present remedy to asswage both hunger and thirst.

Take the quantity of a massie nut of Roch Allom (that is both fine and pure) and when you séele either hunger or thirst to oppresse you, put it into your mouth, and suck it for a little space, and vse it oftentimes in the day, and it will presently asswage your hunger and thirst: vse this as often as néed shall re­quire, one penny worth of Allom will serue almost a whole wéeke.

To write without Inke.

Take fine white paper, and with the iuice of a red Onion, well mixed and the tempered with the yolke of an Egge, you may write, which being very dry will shew as though it ware onely plaine paper, without any writing at all; but if you hould it against the [...]ire, you may then easily read it, and per­ceiue the letters.

Another way to cause writing not to be perceiued.

Take powder of Allome, and put into [Page]water, & whatsoeuer you write therewith: neither the writing, nor the letters will ap­peare, except you put the same paper in wather, and then you may read it persectly.

To keepe Inke from freezing.

Take a little Aquavitae (some sewe drops) and mixe it with writing inke, and the same will neuer fréeze at all.

A present remedie to destroy a Carbuncle.

Take Coriander séede, and beate it to powder, and mingle it with Honey, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it on the car­buncle or other grieuous biles, and the same will spéedily destroy them.

A ready and easie way to ery whether a Maid be a pure Virgin or not.

Take roots of red Nettles, and stamp them small: and mixe the iuice thereof, with Ale, and let her drinke thereof, and if it doe remaine with her, then she is a Maid, other­wise she is not.

To try if a woman (being with childe) be with child of a man child or a woman-child

Take faire Well-water, and put it into a cleane bason, and let the woman with child milke a drop or two of her milk into the wa­te [...] [Page] [...] if the milke sinke to the bottome, [...] is a man child, and if it float on the top about the water, then it is a woman child.

To make yarne and linnen cloth white.

Take a herring barrell, and fill it nigh full of good Ale-dregs, and stop it fast, but you must haue a good dishfull of parched Beanes, and put them in a linnen bag, and very hot put them to the dregs till they coole, and shut it fast the space of a quarter of an houre, then take two pounds of Allom, grownd to small powder, and cast it thereon, and let it lye foure daies naturall, well closed, and then wash your yarne.

To make that a Horse may not goe through a street.

Take the guts of a Wolfe, and lay them ouerth wart the stréet, and couer them with earth or sand, and he will not go that way as long as the guis couered lie there. Proued.

To take Conies with ones hand.

Take a Coney that is full of young Rab­bets, and kill her, and put her all whole into a pottle of Oyle Oliue, and put thereto some A safetida, and so boile them together from a pottle to a pint, and then make a paire of Gloues of Calue-skins fit for your hands, and boile the Cloues in the suine liquour [Page]with the coney, and let it boyle from a potle to a pinte, and when the gloues be well boy­led, let them bée safe kept vntill you come where store of Conies are, then put on thy gloues, and stand on the wind side of the conie-berries, and the conies will coule forth to thée.

Another.

Take a quantity of Iuy-leaues, and lay them to stéep in Aquavitée for the space of thrée or foure daies, and then cast the same leaues néere to the conie holes.

An easie way to catch Moales.

If you will catch Moales or Wants, take Garlicke, Léekes & Onyons, and put them in the mouth of the holes, or entrance into the groūd where they are, and you shal sée them come leaping out of the ground as if they were amazed.

Another way to catch Moales.

Take the quantity of a Nut of Asafetion and two spoonfulls of cummin-séed, and beat them together into powder, & make dough with flower of it, then worke it well, and make it into bals as big as a pease, and then put them into the Moale-holes, in euery hole. But first scrape away the earth cleane from the holes; and the Moale will come forth of [Page]the earth, thereso. watch them well. Vse this in the moueth of March when they goe a clickerting.

To ripen Nuts.

Take Nuts at Midsommer, & delue them well in the ground, and coner them well, and they will be as ripe as those that you shall gather when they be ripe vpon the frée.

To driue away Rats.

Take the hoofe of a flon'd horse, sliced in pieces, and put it on a chafingdish of coales, and the very sent or smell thereof being well perfumed, will driue away all the Rats from the house.

Ad capiendum pisces.

Recipe luce Mullage, vel scolares tortes, col­lectum circa medium Maii quando Luna sit plena; distemperata comminge sape, serua in olla terrea, & quando vis occupare vnge ma­nus tuas eclaua sita ni aqua, vel loco ubi sunt Pisces.

To take Rats.

Take a quicke Rat, and put her in a pot, and make a soft fire about it and vnder it. and when sh [...] féeleth the heat she will crye, and the Rats that heare her will come to helpe her, and then they may take them. And in like manner you may doe with moles.

To take Moles.

Take a couple of quicke Moles, and put them in a déepke pot, and set the pot in the carth to the brim, and when they cannot get out, they will péepe, and all the other Males will come and fall into the pot to them.

To make a light for euer.

Take the wormes that shine commonly in the night, and gather the liquor of them, and mingle it with a quartren of Quick-siluer, and put it in a Viall, and thē you shall sée all the night long by it.

To put ones hand into any hot seething thing.

Anoint thy hants with hearbe Mercury, and put it in a see thing thing, and it will doe thée no harme at all.

To kill Lice.

Make a good fire, and put Quicke-filuer therein, and hang the cloathes that are trou­bled with Rice ouer the fire in the smoake, and then assure your selfe no vermin will bréed or come in them.

To kill Lice and Neets.

Take the powder or scraping of a Harts horne, and let the party that is troubled with them drinke often thereof, and there will nei­ther Lice nor Néets breed eyther in his head [Page]or body. Also it you strew the same powder other vpon his head, or on his cloathes, all the Lice and Neets will presently dye.

An easie way to kill Fleas.

Take the herbé Coriander and seeth it wēl in water, and then sprinkle the same water in your Chambers and r [...]omes, and it will destroy all the Fleas.

Another way.

Take Worm-wood and Rue, and stampe them together, then mingle them well with good wine, and put them all together in a lin­nen cloth, and rub all thy body well with it before thou goest to bed, and the Fleas will not come neere thee.