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that ia your right hand, and cut it asunder with your lest; bind it to the place dislo-cated or broken, and it will be whole. See how so worthy a learned man brakeforth into such madness; nor did he know by his great learning, that without theforce of Words,green Reeds cut long-ways, will turn round of themselves and mecr,if they be pendulous, as the wands of Willows, and brambles will do. 7 heophra-flue gives the reason why they emu round, in his Books De Causis PUntarum. More-over we reade in Diofcorides , that a Reed with Vinegar applied to the huckleboneswill cure the Luxation of the loins, without words or superstition.

Chap. IX.

Offomt Experiments of a Lump,

I Much rejoyced when I found amongst the Ancients, that Anaxilaut the Philoso-pher, was wont to make sport with the Snuff of a Candle and the Wick, and bysuch delusions would make mens heads (hevy like Monsters, if we may believe Plinj :By taking the venomous matter comes from Mares newly having taken Horse, andburning in new Lamps, for ir will make mens heads seem likeHorsheads, and suchlike: but because I gave no credit te these things, I never cared ro try them. Burtake these for truth.

To make men seem like to BlackmoreSy

Take Ink, but the best comes from Cutles: mingle this with your Lamps, and theflame will be black. Anaxilatu is reported to have done this, for oft-times by min-gling Cutles Ink, he made the slanders by as black as Ethiopians. Simeon Sethiiaith, That if any man shall dip a Wick in (*utles Ink, and Verdtgrcafe, those thatsland by will seem partly Brass-colour, partly Black, by reason of the mixture. Andwe may imitate this in all colours; for setting aside all other lights that might bin-der it, for else the other lights will spoil the .port, and if you do it by day, shut thewindows lest the light come in there and destroy the delusion. If the Lamp be greenGlass and transparent, that the rays coming through may be dyed by the colour ofthe medium (which is cf great consequence id this ) and green Coppras be mingledwith the Oyl, or whatmoyslure it burns with , and they be well ground together,that the liquor mav be green; make your Cotten of some linnen of the same colour,cr bombast; this being fmeered with it, must burn in that Lamp: the light that isopposite against you,will (hew all faces of the beholders and other things to be green.

To make the face seem extream pale and lean ,

This is easie; pour into a large Glass very old Wine, or Greek Wine, and cast a hand-ful of Salt into it: set the Glass upon burning coles without flame, lest the Glassshould break, it will presently boil; put a Candle to it, and light it; then put cutall other lights, and it will make the faces of the slanders by to be such, that theywill be one afraid of another. The fame falls out in strops, where Bells and Metalsare melted, for they seem so strangely coloured in the datk, that you would wonderat it, their lips look pale, wan, and black, and blew: Also let Brimstone, when icburns, be set in the middle of the company , and it will do the same more powerfully.Amxilaw the Philosopher was wont to work by such delusions. For Brimstone putinto a new cup, and set on tire, and carried about, by the repercussion of it when itburns, makes the company look pale and terrible. That oft-times happened to mewhen at Naples I walked in the night in the Lcucogean Mountains; for the Brimstoneburning of it self, made me look so.

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