A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times..

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A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times..
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1586..
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Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800.
Puzzles -- Early works to 1800.
Amusements -- Early works to 1800.
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"A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times.." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B07761.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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How to make Iron softe, a proper secret.

AND to doo this, take the iuice of the Hemlocke, and quenche the Iron in it, béeing well heated thrée or foure times, letting it there remaine euerye

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time, vntill it be throughlye colde. Also Cardane writeth, that if you take oyle put∣ting into it molten Leade seuen times to∣gether, and after quench your Iron redde hote into that Oyle, for foure or fiue times together, and it will so make the same soft to woork.

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