The book of pretty conceits. Or, The green forest of youthful delights Being merry and pleasant to all such as delight in slights, tricks, stratagems, devises, and fancies. Natural and artifical inventions and conclusions. Experimented as well to profit and delight.

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Title: The book of pretty conceits. Or, The green forest of youthful delights Being merry and pleasant to all such as delight in slights, tricks, stratagems, devises, and fancies. Natural and artifical inventions and conclusions. Experimented as well to profit and delight.
Publication: London :: printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Py-Corner,; 1685.
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Subject terms: Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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To make a Sword, Dagger or Knife, cut Iron as easie as Lead.

If a sword, dagger, or knife, being only I∣ron, and it is fashioned, being red hot, being quenched in the juice of Radish, mixed with the water of fresh worms, distilled according to Art, being before somewhat bruised; such a sword, dagger, or Knife, will have such a strange edge if it be quenched four or five times in this water, so that you may cut things easily in two with it.