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The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine

by Samuel Rid

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THE Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine.7
TO THE INGENIOVS GENTLEMAN, and my louing father, Mr. WILLIAM BVBB.9
TO HIS LOVING FRIEND AND adopted Sonne Mr. Sa: Rid.10
To the curteous Reader.11
The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine.12
Notes and obseruations to be marked of such as desire to practise Legerdemaine.16
Feates of Legerdemaine vsed with the Balls, with one or more.18
To make a little Ball swell in your hand till it be very great.20
To consume, (or rather conuay) one or many Balls into nothing.21
An other pretty feat with Balls.22
A feat, tending chiefly to laughter and mirth.23
Of conueyance of mony.24
To conuey mony out of one hand into the other, by Legerdemaine.25
To conuert or transubstantiat money into Counters, or Counters into money.26
To put one Testor into one hand, and another into an other hand, and with words to bring them together.27
To throwe a peece of money away and to finde it againe where you please.29
To make a testor or a groat, leap out of a potte, or run along vpon a table with words.30
To conuey one shilling being in one hand into an other, holding your armes abroad like to a roode.32
A tricke by confederacy at Cardes.36
How to deliuer out foure Aces, and to conuert them into foure Knaues.39
How to tell one what Card he seeth in the bottome, when the same Carde is shuffled into the stock.41
Of publike confederacie and whereof it consisteth.45
To tell you how to know whether one caste Crosse or Pile; by the ringing46
How to tell where a stolne horse is become.47
To make one daunce naked.48
To make a pot of any such thing standing fast on a cupbord, to fall downe thence by vertue of words.49
Of Boxes to alter one graine into another, or to consume the graine or corne to nothing.50
How to conuey (with words and charmes) the corne conteyned in one Box, into another.51
To kill a Hen, chicken or Capon and giue it life againe.53
To eate a Knife, and to fetch it forth of another place.54
To thrust a bodkin through your head, without any hurt.55
To cut halfe your nose in sunder, and to heale it againe presently without any salue.56
To put a Ring through your cheeke.57
How an Alcumister cousoned a priest.60
A merry tale how a cosoning Alcumist deceaued a country Gentleman.62
A Charme to be said each morning by a Witch fasting, or at least before she goe abroade.66
An olde womans Charme wherewith she did much good in the cuntrie and grew famous thereby.67
A slouenly Charme for sore eies.68
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE74