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The Art of Juggling or Legerdemain

by Samuel Rid

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2To His Loving Friend and Adopted Sonne Mr. Sa: Rid
  3. 3To the Curteous Reader
  4. 4The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine
  5. 5Notes and Obseruations to Be Marked of Such as Desire to Practise L…
  6. 6Feates of Legerdemaine Vsed With the Balls, With One or More
  7. 7To Make a Little Ball Swell in Your Hand Till It Be Very Great
  8. 8To Consume, (or Rather Conuay) One or Many — Balls Into Nothing
  9. 9An Other Pretty Feat With Balls
  10. 10A Feat, Tending Chiefly to Laughter and Mirth
  11. 11Of Conueyance of Mony
  12. 12To Conuey Mony Out of One Hand Into the Other, by Legerdemaine
  13. 13To Conuert or Transubstantiat Money Into Counters, or Counters Into…
  14. 14To Put One Testor Into One Hand, and Another Into an Other Hand, an…
  15. 15To Throwe a Peece of Money Away and to Finde It Againe Where You Pl…
  16. 16To Make a Testor or a Groat, Leap Out of a Potte, or Run Along Vpon…
  17. 17To Conuey One Shilling Being in One Hand Into an Other, Holding You…
  18. 18A Tricke by Confederacy at Cardes
  19. 19How to Deliuer Out Foure Aces, and to Conuert Them Into Foure Knaues
  20. 20How to Tell One What Card He Seeth in the Bottome, When the Same Ca…
  21. 21Of Publike Confederacie and Whereof It Consisteth
  22. 22To Tell You How to Know Whether One Caste Crosse or Pile; by the Ri…
  23. 23How to Tell Where a Stolne Horse Is Become
  24. 24To Make One Daunce Naked
  25. 25Of Boxes to Alter One Graine Into Another, or to Consume the Graine…
  26. 26How to Conuey (With Words and Charmes) the Corne Conteyned in One B…
  27. 27To Kill a Hen, Chicken or Capon and Giue It Life Againe
  28. 28To Eate a Knife, and to Fetch It Forth of Another Place
  29. 29To Thrust a Bodkin Through Your Head, Without Any Hurt
  30. 30To Cut Halfe Your Nose in Sunder, and to Heale It Againe Presently…
  31. 31To Put a Ring Through Your Cheeke
  32. 32How an Alcumister Cousoned a Priest
  33. 33A Merry Tale How a Cosoning Alcumist Deceaued a Country Gentleman
  34. 34A Charme to Be Said Each Morning by a Witch Fasting, or at Least Be…
  35. 35An Olde Womans Charme Wherewith She Did Much Good in the Cuntrie an…
  36. 36A Slouenly Charme for Sore Eies

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