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.
- 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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- Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- TO THE READER.
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THE BOOK OF
Pretty Conceits, &c.- To make an Herb grow that shall have many savours and many tasts.
- To make Beans grow in the space of an hour.
- How to make yellow Roses grow, and to make trees and other things grow green all the year.
- How to make Apples, Pears, and other fruit of several colours, and to give them a dainty taste of Spices.
- To keep a Tapster from frothing his pots.
- To break a new big Rope with your hands only.
- To make a Bladder skip from place to place.
- How to make people seem headless.
- How to make a glorious Light with a candle in imitation of the Sun-shine.
- How to lay one end of a staff or stick upon a stool or table, and to hang a Pail full of Water at the other end, having nothing to hold on the stick, nor nothing under the Pail.
- How to know the hour of the day or night by a Ring and a Glass.
- To know if a sick person shall dye or not.
- How to make salt water fresh.
- How to make two knives (with a short stick) to hang upon the brim of a glass without falling.
- To kindle a Candle at the sun.
- How one may put his finger, or wash his hands in melted Lead, without danger, or burning.
- How to make a Candle that it cannot be blown out.
- How to keep Sword-blades, Halberts, Pistols, Knives, Edge-tools, and other things free from Rusting, for seven years or more, in a dry house.
- How to heal the biting of a mad Dog.
- How to know if a woman be with Child, whether it be Male or Female.
- To make a flame pass suddenly out of a pot of Water.
- How to harden the white of Eggs into an artificial Gum, fit for many uses.
- To make one see fearful sights in his sleep.
- To make a Sword, Dagger or Knife, cut Iron as easie as Lead.
- How to cleave a Groat in sunder like two Groats.
- A ready way to take Pidgeons or any other Wild Fowle.
- A present Remedy for all inward pains.
- A present Remedy for an Ague.
- How to make Hens lay Eggs apace.
- An approved way to make the face & hands clear from spots and freckles.
- A present Remedy for the Cramp.
- How to stanch bleeding at the Nose.
- To take Warts from he hands or face.
- To take Crows, Magpyes, or other Birds.
- To make a hollow Ring dance by it self.
- How to make a Light, that things shall ap∣pear black or green.
- How to draw many Candles one after ano∣ther being laid at a foot distance.
- A Remedy for the Jaundies in sheep.
- How to keep Goats from straying.
- To take Fish by night.
- To prove if a Maiden be clear.
- To write a Letter with such Ink as cannot be perceived unless you hold it before the Fire.
- Another way to write Letters that cannot be read, but in this sort.
- An easie way to take Eeles.
- How to make flesh cleave to the pot.
- To take Birds alive.
- To see by night as by day.
- A ready and easie way to try if a Maid be a pure Virgin or not.
- To throw a piece of mony into a deep Pond, and to fetch it again when you please.
- How to make Eggs dance upon a staff.
- To cut a Lace asunder in the midst, and to make it whole again.
- To make men seem dead.
- A pleasant Conceit, being a ready and sure way to catch a Pick-pocket.
- How to make a Cup of Glass not to burn being set in a fire.
- How a Man shall not be weary of going.
- To cause a Dog to cease banking.
- How to put one tester in the one hand and the other in the other, and by words to bring them together.
- How to put an Egg into a Vial: Or to draw it through a Ring.
- How to make a glass of water seem to boyl.
- How to thrust a Bodkin through your tongue, or a Knife through your arm.