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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How to make a Light, that things shall ap∣pear black or green.

Take the black juice of a Fish called a Cut∣tle, and the like quantity of Verdigrease, mix them well together, putting the same into a Lamp, and dipping the Wick into the liquor then light the same, putting out all the lights in the Room, and all the things, though never so white, will appear black and green.