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..

¶ How to cut an Apple into many peeces without harming of the skin or paring.

TO doo this, take a moste fine Néedle with a small thréed, and thrust the same by little and little vnder the paring, & thrust it in againe right against the place, vntill you haue so gone round a∣bout the outside of the Apple. And this also remēber that you thrust y^e néedle through the paring at straite corners one againste the other of the Apple, and this so often doo vntill you come againe vnto the first place where you began.

And if so be you would deuide the same in six or eight péeces, then draw the thréed againe by a like distance, alwaies taking héede to deuide the Apple vnder the skin and when you haue thus doone with the Apple, and the péeces yet couered with the skin, then draw out the ends of the thréed, and you shall after deuide the Apple with∣in, without harming of the paring or skin into so many péeces as you list. And when you haue thus drawne out, and taken the thréed quite away, you may kéepe the ap∣ple so long as you think requisite.