A Brief and Pleasant Treatise: Difference between revisions

	A Brief and Pleasant Treatise
Author	Thomas Hill
Publication Date	1581
Language	English

Revision as of 16:47, 18 January 2016

Entitled Natural and Artificial Conclusions, one of the first book in English to include magic tricks.

The properties of the Adamant Stone
The secrets properties of the Egge
A proper conclusion of an Hasell Sticke
A proper practise to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens
To make any soule of what condition the same be, to have feathers all white
To make a Candle burne in the water
To make a woman, thta she shall not eate of the meares set upon the Table
A Proper secret of the Philosophers, to make a Stone burne without fyre
To make one to see fearefull fights in his sleepe
Howe to turne water into wine, a proper secrete
To make a lyght or Candle, to endure bruning without going out by any winde, so long as the substance endureth
How to make quarters of wood to hang so fast together, that they can not be shaken a funder without brealing
How to make a colour like to gold in understanding this secrete
To make silver like any mettell, which shall so continue a long tyme
How to sticke an Iron or Steele Bodkin, into the head of either Cocke, Henne, or Chicken
To make a Candle that will not goe oat, untyll the whole substaunce be wasted
How to make Iron soft, a proper secret
To make a Sword, Dagger, or Knife to cut Iron, so easilie as Leade
How to keepe weapons cleane and fayre for a long tyme
How to make Steele so soft as past, a proper secrete
How to make Hennes lay Egges, all the winter through
How to make the Chamber appeare full of Snakes and Adders
How to make letters appeare of the colour of Gold, Copper, or Silver
How to make any peece of Iron to appear lyke golde
Howe to have freshe roses at all tymes of the yeere, sundrie wayes taughe
How to make Beanes and other feeds growe up in foure houres
To make a Candle of Ise, to burnelyke into an other Candle
To make fleshe to seeme to crall full or woormes
How to make a light in the night tyme, that all things round about thy hall or parlour, shall appeare both blacke and greene
Howe to make Rootes to have what proper forme you will on them
How to breake a stone which the fyst, of the thicknesse of ones hand
To make an herbe to growe, which shal have many favours and tastes
How to make sundry devises or Armes, or such lyke, in a Rose, Carnation or Flowers de luce, or Lilly
To write what you lyst on a Steele dagger or Knife
Howe to breake a newe and bigge Rope, wtih the handes only
How to make white Flowers lyke as the Lillie, white Rose and such lyke to be redde
How to make a hollow Ring to daunce by it selfe, a proper secrete
To make Glew to holde together so hard as a stone, a proper secrete
To make an Apple move on the Table, a proper secrete
To make Roses and other flowers that be red, to become white
How to write letters on the Egshel, that the same letters may appeare within on the Egge
How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of Hydrostatic Glass)
How to kyll Fleas divers wayes
How to make a potte of glasse not to sinke in the water, a proper secrete
How to make a thin Glew, verie profitable, a proper secrete
How to drawe a Ring of, being very hard thrust on, and the finger swelled
To make fruites, as Apples, Peares, Quinces, and such lyke, to have what porper form you will on them
How to cut a Glasse, a proper secrete
How to fosten Christall, to imprint what you lyst therein, a proper secrete
How to walke on the water, aproper secrete
To make a Candle to burne, a proper secrete
How to drawe many Candles, the one after the other, being layd a foote distaunce or more a funder
How to cutte an Apple into many peeces, without harming of the skinne or paring
How to make a Cup of Glasse, being set in the fire, not to burne
How to make a Candle to be mervailed at, a proper secrete
How to make Quicksilver, in a manner so hard as Sylver
How to see many and divers stranges sigtes in an Urinall
How to catch Fowles without a Nette
How to make a loafe of bread newe set upon the Table, to leape of
How to make an Egge flie about a merrie conclusion
How to make artificiall fyre divers wayes, and that mervailous
How to know a naturall precious stone, from a counterfeite
How to make a man to appeare on a flame burning, without any harme
How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day
How to make two Dogges fight together, a proper secrete
How to make a Bitch, that she shall not desire to be covered with any Dog
To make a blowne bladder to daunce and skip from place to place
How to cast foorth any woorme or Snake entered within the body
How to make a Hen to run away with great feare
How to finde a person drowned, that have beene sought for
How to deale with Iron many wayes right profitable
To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image, painted on the wall
To take Fishe by night
To make that no Dog barke at you
To make Birdes come to your Culverhouse
To put an Apple in a Viall
To put an Egge in a Viall
To make folke seeme blacke
To proove if a mayden be cleane
To knowe if a sicke person shall die or not
To make salt water freshe
To kindle fyre at the Sunne
To see by night as by day
To make flesh cleane in the pot
To take Byrdes
To make Silke Woormes
To eatte Hennes or Capons
That one shall not be dronke
To make a good baite for Fishe, at all seasons of the yeere
To make an Egge goe up to the Spere ende
To make fishe or flesh seeme rawe
To make Potage to run out of the pot
To kyll Hennes or Duckes
To make Coales to burne a great whyle
That a man shall not be wearie of going
Ad caqiendum Pisees
To make Yearne and lynnen Cloath white
To make that a Horse may not goe through a streete
To knowe if a Woman be with a man childe, or not
To eate thy feete for going
To have fayre white teeth
To take Fleas

References

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL15430806M/Natvrall_and_artificiall_conclvsions.

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 ==CONTENTS==
-* How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of [[Hydrostatic Glass]])
+*The properties of the Adamant Stone
+*The secrets properties of the Egge
+*A proper conclusion of an Hasell Sticke
+*A proper practise to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens
+*To make any soule of what condition the same be, to have feathers all white
+*To make a Candle burne in the water
+*To make a woman, thta she shall not eate of the meares set upon the Table
+*A Proper secret of the Philosophers, to make a Stone burne without fyre
+*To make one to see fearefull fights in his sleepe
+*Howe to turne water into wine, a proper secrete
+*To make a lyght or Candle, to endure bruning without going out by any winde, so long as the substance endureth
+*How to make quarters of wood to hang so fast together, that they can not be shaken a funder without brealing
+*How to make a colour like to gold in understanding this secrete
+*To make silver like any mettell, which shall so continue a long tyme
+*How to sticke an Iron or Steele Bodkin, into the head of either Cocke, Henne, or Chicken
+*To make a Candle that will not goe oat, untyll the whole substaunce be wasted
+*How to make Iron soft, a proper secret
+*To make a Sword, Dagger, or Knife to cut Iron, so easilie as Leade
+*How to keepe weapons cleane and fayre for a long tyme
+*How to make Steele so soft as past, a proper secrete
+*How to make Hennes lay Egges, all the winter through
+*How to make the Chamber appeare full of Snakes and Adders
+*How to make letters appeare of the colour of Gold, Copper, or Silver
+*How to make any peece of Iron to appear lyke golde
+*Howe to have freshe roses at all tymes of the yeere, sundrie wayes taughe
+*How to make Beanes and other feeds growe up in foure houres
+*To make a Candle of Ise, to burnelyke into an other Candle
+*To make fleshe to seeme to crall full or woormes
+*How to make a light in the night tyme, that all things round about thy hall or parlour, shall appeare both blacke and greene
+*Howe to make Rootes to have what proper forme you will on them
+*How to breake a stone which the fyst, of the thicknesse of ones hand
+*To make an herbe to growe, which shal have many favours and tastes
+*How to make sundry devises or Armes, or such lyke, in a Rose, Carnation or Flowers de luce, or Lilly
+*To write what you lyst on a Steele dagger or Knife
+*Howe to breake a newe and bigge Rope, wtih the handes only
+*How to make white Flowers lyke as the Lillie, white Rose and such lyke to be redde
+*How to make a hollow Ring to daunce by it selfe, a proper secrete
+*To make Glew to holde together so hard as a stone, a proper secrete
+*To make an Apple move on the Table, a proper secrete
+*To make Roses and other flowers that be red, to become white
+*How to write letters on the Egshel, that the same letters may appeare within on the Egge
+*How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of [[Hydrostatic Glass]])
+*How to kyll Fleas divers wayes
+*How to make a potte of glasse not to sinke in the water, a proper secrete
+*How to make a thin Glew, verie profitable, a proper secrete
+*How to drawe a Ring of, being very hard thrust on, and the finger swelled
+*To make fruites, as Apples, Peares, Quinces, and such lyke, to have what porper form you will on them
+*How to cut a Glasse, a proper secrete
+*How to fosten Christall, to imprint what you lyst therein, a proper secrete
+*How to walke on the water, aproper secrete
+*To make a Candle to burne, a proper secrete
+*How to drawe many Candles, the one after the other, being layd a foote distaunce or more a funder
+*How to cutte an Apple into many peeces, without harming of the skinne or paring
+*How to make a Cup of Glasse, being set in the fire, not to burne
+*How to make a Candle to be mervailed at, a proper secrete
+*How to make Quicksilver, in a manner so hard as Sylver
+*How to see many and divers stranges sigtes in an Urinall
+*How to catch Fowles without a Nette
+*How to make a loafe of bread newe set upon the Table, to leape of
+*How to make an Egge flie about a merrie conclusion
+*How to make artificiall fyre divers wayes, and that mervailous
+*How to know a naturall precious stone, from a counterfeite
+*How to make a man to appeare on a flame burning, without any harme
+*How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day
+*How to make two Dogges fight together, a proper secrete
+*How to make a Bitch, that she shall not desire to be covered with any Dog
+*To make a blowne bladder to daunce and skip from place to place
+*How to cast foorth any woorme or Snake entered within the body
+*How to make a Hen to run away with great feare
+*How to finde a person drowned, that have beene sought for
+*How to deale with Iron many wayes right profitable
+*To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image, painted on the wall
+*To take Fishe by night
+*To make that no Dog barke at you
+*To make Birdes come to your Culverhouse
+*To put an Apple in a Viall
+*To put an Egge in a Viall
+*To make folke seeme blacke
+*To proove if a mayden be cleane
+*To knowe if a sicke person shall die or not
+*To make salt water freshe
+*To kindle fyre at the Sunne
+*To see by night as by day
+*To make flesh cleane in the pot
+*To take Byrdes
+*To make Silke Woormes
+*To eatte Hennes or Capons
+*That one shall not be dronke
+*To make a good baite for Fishe, at all seasons of the yeere
+*To make an Egge goe up to the Spere ende
+*To make fishe or flesh seeme rawe
+*To make Potage to run out of the pot
+*To kyll Hennes or Duckes
+*To make Coales to burne a great whyle
+*That a man shall not be wearie of going
+*Ad caqiendum Pisees
+*To make Yearne and lynnen Cloath white
+*To make that a Horse may not goe through a streete
+*To knowe if a Woman be with a man childe, or not
+*To eate thy feete for going
+*To have fayre white teeth
+*To take Fleas
 == References ==

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