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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Imprinted at London :: by Edward Allde.,
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 drawe many Candles the one after the other being laid a foot distance or more a sunder.

FOR to doo this, take Brimstone, Orpiment, and Oyle, these labour together, and make thereof an Oint∣ment,

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after take so many Candles as may well serue your Table, which laye on the Table a large foote a sunder, and all a roe, the one behinde the other as long as you list to laye them, yea a hundred may you lay down on this wise a length, if you lay them straite, then take a long threed, and annoint the same in this ointment, which after laye a long on the Candles, and af∣ter drawing the formost, all will followe by order.

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