To Cut Halfe Your Nose in Sunder, and to Heale It Againe Presently Without Any Salue
This is easily don, howbeit being nimbly done it will deceaue the sight of the beholders.
Take a knife, hauing a round hollow gappe in the middle, and lay it vppon your nose, and so shall you seeme to haue cut your nose in sunder: prouided alwaies that in all these, you haue another like knife without a gap to be shewed vppon pulling out of the same and words of inchauntments to speake: Blood also to bewraye the wounde, and nimble conueyance.