A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions; unlock'd and opened, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant houres Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions. Whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water. Also fire works of service, for sea and shore, very fitting for these warlike times of action. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificiall conclusions.

4. The order and manner how you shall choake a Rocket.

VVHen you are to choake a Rocket, you must have an Iron hooke or a staple droven into some post, to which you must fasten your cord, which must be bigger or lesse according to the bignesse of your Rocket, by reason that a small cord will not choak a great Rocket for want of strength and a great cord will not serve for a small one, in regard that it wil make too great a choaking, so that you must have a bigger and a lesse; and when you have so done, you must tye one end of the cord to the hooke or staple, and at the other end, about a yard off, tye a strong stick, in fashion of a Swing, it must be strong because it beareth the weight of the body, (as you may see in the Figure following mar∣ked with the Letter K.) which when you have provided, put the stick betweene your leggs, and wind the cord about the Rocket-case in the place appointed, which must be betweene the long Rowler and the short; when that is done, girt it by degrees, ever turning the Rowler, to the end it may come together

more close and neate; and when you have sufficiently choaked it, draw forth your short Rowler, and where the choaking is, tye it a∣bout with strong Pack-thread; and then draw forth the Rowler, your Coffin is ready to be filled when occasion serveth, the forme whereof followeth, by this Letter A.

[illustration] a man marked K using a roller pulling on a string attached to a standing board rendered next to a coffin marked A