The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.

How to pull Laces innumerable out of your mouth, of what colour or length you list, and never any thing seen to be therein.

* 1.1AS for pulling Laces out of the mouth, it is somewhat a stale jest, whereby Jugglers gain money among Maids, selling Lace by the yard, putting into their mouths one round bottom as fast as they pull out another, and at the just end of every yard they tie a knot, so as the same resteth upon their teeth; then cut they off the same, and so the beholders are double and treble deceived, see∣ing as much Lace as will be contained in a Hat, and the same of what colour you list to name, to be drawn by so even yards out of his mouth, and yet the Juggler to talk as though there were nothing at all in his mouth.

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  A common juggling knack of flat cosenage play∣ed among the simple, &c.