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Author: Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.
Title: Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
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Print source: Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.
London: Printed for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed ..., 1658.
Alternate titles: Magiæ natvralis libri viginti. English. 1658
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The Preface to the READER.
The FIRST BOOK OF Natural Magick: Wherein are searched out the Causes of things which pro∣duce wonderful Effects.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
THE SECOND BOOK OF Natural Magick: Shewing how living Creatures of divers kinds, may be mingled and coupled together, that from them, new, and yet profitable kinds of living Creatures may be generated.
The PROEME.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
Mice are generated of putrefaction.
Frogs are wonderfully generated of rotten dust and rain;
Red Toads are generated of dirt, and of womens flowers.
Serpents may be generated of mans marrow, of the hairs of a menstruous woman, and of a horse-tail, or mane.
How a Scorpion may be generated of Basil.
Creature that lives but one day, bred in vineger;
Pyrignes be generated in the fire;
Salamander is gendred of the water;
Bees are generated of an Ox.
That Waspes are generated of an Horse;
Drones come of Mules,
The Beetle is generated of the Ass,
CHAP. III.
Birds are generated of putrified wood.
CHAP. IV.
Eeles are generated.
Groundlings out of some and froth,
A Carpe is generated of putrefaction,
Earthly fishes generated of putrefaction.
Shel-fish are generated of the forthy mud,
CHAP. V.
Make them eager in lust.
CHAP. VI.
A strong Indian-dog may be generated of a Tygre.
Generated of a Lion.
A strong and swift Dog, gendred of a kind of Wolf called Thos,
Dog called Crocuta, gendred of a Dog and a Wolf.
Gender swift Dogs, called Lacedamonian Dogs.
Swift Dogs, and strong withal,
CHAP. VII.
Of little Dogs.
Dog that will do tricks and feats,
CHAP. VIII.
to make Dogs strong and swift:
an Ass become couragious,
CHAP. IX.
A Mule cometh of a Mare and an Ass.
of a Horse and a She-ass.
of a wilde Ass, and of a She-ass,
Strong Mules gendred of a Bull and an Ass,
CHAP. X.
Musinus, gendred of a Goat and a Ram.
Cinirus, generated of a He-goat, and an Ewe,
A wilde and a tame Goat.
Of a wild and a tame Swine, the beast called Hybrides:
CHAP. XI.
A Leopard is gendred of a Libard and a Lioness.
Hyaena and the Lionesse gender the beast Crocuta;
Hycopanther, or beast called Thoes, is gendred;
Thoes gendred of a Wolf and a female Hyaena.
The Bactrian Camel is gendred of a Camel and a Swine;
CHAP. XII.
A Babe gendred of a Man and a Mare,
A maiden that was generated of a Man and an Ass;
A half-beast of a Man and a Goat.
Women lie with He-goats, and with the Cynocephali;
Man couples with divers kinds of beasts:
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
How to couple a Partridge with a Hen.
A Hen and a Pheasant may gender together;
A Chick gendred of a Pigeon and a Hen:
A Cock, and a Pea, gender the Gallo-Pavus;
CHAP. XV.
The bird Theocronus is gendred of a Hawk and an Eagle.
with a Faulcon, and with a Buzzard, and the Eagle Nisus;
The Osprey, the fowl called Ossifragus, and Ravens also.
CHAP. XVI.
The Skate and the Ray, which engender the Rhinobatos;
CHAP. XVII.
Monsters in Man.
Monsters be generated in Beasts.
Monsters in Birds may be more easily produced;
A chicken with four wings and four feet,
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
To bring forth party-coloured Sheep,
Generating party-coloured Horses;
How to procure white Pea-cocks.
Procure Pigeons of party colours,
How to procure a shag-hair'd Dog.
How to procure Swine, and other beasts to be white.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
How to make Horses have white spots on them.
The hairs of a wounded or galled place, to grow up of the same colour, as the other hair is of,
Procure in Oxen a counterfeit shew of fatnesse.
Cause the fleeces and hides of cattel to be of divers colours,
What colour their young ones will be of.
Know by the egge, whether the chick when it is hatcht, will be a Cock or a Hen,
How to make a bird sociable and familiar with thee.
THE THIRD BOOK OF Natural Magick: Which delivereth certain precepts of Husbandry; and sheweth how to intermingle sundry kinds of Plants, and how to produce new kinds.
The PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How Toad-stools may be generated.
How Sperage may be generated.
That Ivy doth grow out of the Harts horn;
Polypody, and the herb Hyphear generated;
CHAP. II.
A white Vine into a black, or a black into a white;
A white Fig-tree may degenerate into a black.
The red Myrtle and the red Bay-tree into black,
Sweet Almonds and sweet Pomegranates changed into sowre ones.
Coleworts are changed into Rape, and Rape into Coleworts.
The Corn Typha, and Spelt, are changed into Wheat, and Wheat into them;
The herb Ballamint will turn into a Mint.
Basil-royal degenerates into-wilde Betony,
Cloves, Roses, Violets, and Gilli-flowers, of purple, will become white,
An Oak may be changed into a Vine.
CHAP. III.
The Graffe and the stock to close more easily together;
An Apple compounded of a Peach-apple, and a Nut-peach;
Of a Figge halfe white and half black;
Pomegranates may be brought forth, which will be sweet on the one side, and sowre on the other;
Orenges compounded of divers kinds, and such as are half Limons; as also Limons half sweet, and half sowre, may be produced,
A Peach of the white and the red Peach,
A grape that hath a kernel or stone half black, and diversly coloured.
Roses that are half white and half red;
To produce some that are half red,
CHAP. IV.
Pomegranates compounded of divers kinds,
How one and the same Vine-branch may bring forth a black and a white grape both toge∣ther; and how in the same grape may be found a white and black stone hanging together.
A Fig, that is half white, and half red;
All fruits may be made to be party-coloured;
How a Vine may bring forth clusters of grapes that are white, but the stones of the grapes black.
How Citron-trees may bear divers kinds;
An Orenge-tree to bring forth an Apple half sweet and half sowre.
CHAP. V.
Berries that are party-coloured may be produced.
A Fig that is partly white and partly red.
An Orenge or Citron-tree bear divers Apples of divers relishes;
A Damosin, and an Orenge or Limon to be mixt together.
A Lettice should grow, having in it Parsley, and Rotchet, and Basil-gentle,
Party-coloured flowers to grow;
CHAP. VI.
How to make an Olive-grape.
That a Grape should have Myrtle in it.
Damosins that shall be of the colour of Nuts;
Damosins that have sweet Almonds within them.
Damosin that hath in it the substance of an Apple,
Mixa, which hath in it a sweet Almond.
How to produce an Almond peach, which outwardly is a Peach, but within hath an Al∣mond-kernel.
A Citron that hath a Limon in the inner parts:
A double Orenge may be produced;
CHAP. VII.
How to produce a Chest-nut of the best.
The Barbery-Tree into the Tree called Tuber:
A Peach-nut, mixed of a Nut and a Peach.
Citron-apples compounded of an Apple and a Citron.
Melimela, of an Apple and a Quince mixt together;
Produce a fruit called Milviana.
Fruits may be made worse.
CHAP. VIII.
Produce Grapes in the Spring-time.
A Rose to shew forth her buds before her time.
How Cucumbers may hasten their fruits.
Cucumbers shall be ripe very timely.
Roses may bud forth, even before Winter be past,
How to make Figs that were of last years growth, to be ripe very soon the next year after;
A Cherry ripe before his time,
Of a Rose before his time;
A Vine to bring forth before her time,
Into the Sea-onion:
The Fig-tree to bring forth hasty Figs,
How to make Coleworts branch before their time;
Parsley to come up before his time.
Parsley exceeding timely.
Lentiles be hastened in their growth,
Melons may be hastened in their fruit;
Cucumbers to hasten their fruit.
Of hastening Cucumbers,
Pease or Vitches to be timely ripe;
How the Rape-root may be hastened in growth.
A Quince may be hastened in ripening,
Roses growing in the moneth of January,
Gourds shall bring forth very timely,
The forward Fig-tree to hasten her fruit,
The timely ripening of all kind of fruit.
CHAP. IX.
How we may have Cucumbers all the year long,
Citron trees bear fruit all the year;
To have Apples all the year,
Artichockes grow continually,
Sperage alwayes growing fresh,
Roses growing all the year long,
Lillies all the year long;
Violets alwayes growing,
The Herbe Oenanthe shall flourish all the year;
CHAP. X.
To produce later Cherries.
A Pear shall grow exceeding later,
Roses grow later;
Figs that are very backward,
Latter Grapes,
Roses to open or blow very latter,
Clove-gilliflowers blow later;
Produce later Cucumbers,
A Rose blow in the Winter;
Straw berries in the Winter or Spring,
Lettice for a Winter sallet.
Endive may be kept till Winter,
CHAP. XI.
That Apples or other like fruit shall grow bigger then they are wont.
Pears that should be greater then ordinary,
The Medlar-tree to bear huge Medlars,
The small Apricock may be made greater,
augment the fruit of the Myrtle-tree.
Mulberries greater then ordinary,
Citrons greater then their kinde,
How to make Apples greater then ordinary,
Citrons may be made greater:
Quince-pears may be augmented,
Peaches may be augmented much,
Bring forth very great ones,
The Pomegranate-tree to bear a mighty fruit;
Beans to bring forth great cods,
Leeks and roots of Radish may be made greater;
A Rape grow bigger and rounder,
Pease of a bigger growth.
Vitches may be made bigger,
Onions may be thickned,
Artichocks to bear a fuller fruit,
Pomegranates to grow greater then ordinary:
A great Citron.
Cucumbers and Gourds greater then ordinary,
Alisander or Parsley may be made greater.
A Radish-root grow bigger,
Make great Lettise.
Beet may be made greater,
Leeks greater,
Garlick greater,
Radishes greater;
Rape-roots greater.
The herb Wake-robbin to grow greater.
Onions to grow bigger,
Garlick-heads greater then common,
How to make Leeks grow greater.
A Gourd of a greater or larger growth,
CHAP. XII.
A Peach-apple without a stone.
A Citron shall grow without any seed in it:
A Medlar without any stones,
A Grape without any stone in it,
Pomegranates and Cherries without any stones;
A Cherry-tree may bring forth fruit without any stone within;
A Peach without any stone.
How a Vine may bring forth grapes without a harsh and stony kernel.
A Myrtle without a kernel,
CHAP. XIII.
A Nut without a shell,
Almonds and Chest-nuts with a soft shell,
That kinde of Nut which is called Nux Tarentina,
An Almond without a shell,
A Filberd to become a Tarentine Nut.
Gourds may bring forth fruit without any seeds within them:
CHAP. XIIII.
Red Apples,
Rhodacen shall grow red,
Citrons of a red scarlet-colour,
Citrons to be blood-red,
Red Pears,
A white Fig to become red,
Apples may be of a blood-red colour,
White Mulberries,
White Mulberries,
A white Vine may be made red Wine,
Apples grow red,
To procure red Pomegranates,
Apples to grow red,
Red Apples,
Red Rhodacens,
Peaches,
Peaches may be of a sanguine-colour,
White kernels growing in a Pomegranate,
Mellons of a Sanguine colour,
A Peach may grow with any writing upon it.
A Lettice may be made white,
Artichocks are made white,
Beets to become whiter then ordinary,
Endive to grow white,
White Sperage,
CHAP. XV.
Gilliflowers that are of themselves purple, or else white, may become azure blue,
A Rose, as also the flower Jasmine to be of a yellow-colour,
Lillies to be red,
Lilly-flowers of a purple colour.
To produce white Ivy:
Roses, Clove-gilliflowers, and Violets will wax of a whiterish colour,
CHAP. XVI.
Limons to become very odoriferous.
Very odoriferous Pears,
Apples may be made more odoriferous,
The Centifole Rose to be more odoriferous.
Vines to smell of sweet ointments,
Limons to be as odoriferous as Cinnamon,
Odoriferous Artichocks,
Mellons of the fragrant smell of Roses,
Odoriferous Lettice,
Flowers grow that shall smell of Cloves;
How to make Garlick grow that shall not smell rankly and unsavourily.
How we may procure Roses to yield a more odoriferous smell,
CHAP. XVII.
Cherries that shall have in them the relish of Bayes,
Sweeter Apples by engraffing them into a Quince
How to procure the Almond-tree to yield fruit without any bitterness.
Sweet Citrons;
How to make sweet Almonds of bitter ones,
Sweet Cucumbers
Sweet Artichocks growing.
Sweet Fennel growing,
Sweet Melons,
Sweet Lettice;
A sweet Radish may be procured,
A bitter Almond to become sweet,
Sharp and sowre Pomgranate-trees may be made to bring forth a sweet Pomegranate:
How to make an Apple-tree become sweeter;
Sweet Endive.
Sweet Coleworts.
Sweet Betony,
Sweet Rochet,
Basil will grow the sweeter,
Lettice will be the sweeter
Leeks may be made sweeter;
Garlick may be made sweeter,
Onions may be made sweeter;
CHAP. XVIII.
A Citron may be made to grow in the likenesse of a mans head, or the head of an horse, or any other living Creature.
Pomegranates, Pears, or any kind of Apples, making them to receive any kinde of form,
A Quince grow in the shape of living Creatures,
Cucumbers grow to any form;
An Almond should grow with an inscription in it.
A Peach to grow with an inscription in it,
A Fig will grow with an inscription in it,
Fashion Mandrakes,
CHAP. XIX.
How an Apple-tree and a Myrtle-tree may be bettered,
Goodlier Figs then ordinary,
Mulberry-tree will bear more and better fruit,
The Palm, or Date-tree, and the Damosin tree will grow to be of a larger and good-lier assize,
The Myrtle-tree will have a goodlier leaf,
Rue will grow tenderer, and more flourishing,
Artichocks grow without sharp prickles,
Lettice to grow tenderer and more spreading,
Endive to be tenderer and broader.
Coleworts to be more tender,
Cucumbers will be tenderer,
Leeks to grow Cloven,
How to produce the herb Dragon.
How to produce cloven Onions,
Parsley to grow frizled or curled.
Basil growing with a kind of brush like hairs upon it.
Ivy to bear very sightly berries,
Cumin grow flourishingly,
Cucumbers, and such as are not waterish,
A Tree, which of it self may yield you the fruit of all Trees.
CHAP. XX.
How a Vine may be made to bring forth grapes that shall be medicinal against the biting of venemous beasts.
How to make that kind of wine which is called Phthorium, and kills children in their mo∣thers wombes.
Figs that shall be purgative,
Purgative Cucumbers.
Purgative Gourds,
Purgative Damosins that be good also to cause sleep.
A Vine to be purgative.
The same by another means;
CHAP. XXI.
THE FOURTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Which teacheth things belonging to House-keeping; how to prepare domestical necessaries with a small cost; and how to keep them when they are procured.
The PROEME.
CHAP. I.
Pomegranates hang long upon their Trees;
Citrons may be preserved upon the Tree;
Grapes hang upon the Vine, fresh and good, even till the Spring of the year,
Grapes upon the Vine till new come again, so that upon one and the same Vine-branch, may be seen old and new grapes both together,
By another means.
CHAP. II.
How Roses may be preserved upon their own stalks.
To preserve Lillies upon their stalks for a long time.
CHAP. III.
What places are fittest to lay up Quinces in.
preserve Apples well,
Pomegranates may be preserved,
Preserve the fruit called Ziziphum,
Figs to last a great whole,
Damosins may be long preserved,
Chest-nuts may be long preserved,
Almonds preserved sound a great while,
Wheat long preserved;
Preserve Beans.
Pease may be long preserved,
Pulse called Lupines, may be long preserved,
How to preserve flesh and fish,
CHAP. IV.
The time, wherein Citrons are to be gathered,
An appointed time wherein Quince-pears are to be gathered.
A time wherein Apples are to be gathered that they may last the longer,
What time Pears are to be gathered in, that they may last long.
A certain time wherein to gather Cherries, that they may last long,
A certain time wherein to gather Medlars, that they may last long.
The time wherein you gather Pomegranates to be laid up and preserved,
A certain time wherein Grapes are to be gathered, that they may last long.
A certain time wherein Corn is to be gathered and laid up.
What time Beans are to be gathered, and layed up to be long preserved,
Garden Pease may be preserved for a whole year;
CHAP. V.
How we must gather Apples, and how we must dress their stalks.
Citrons to last long,
How Pears must be gathered that they may endure long;
Cervices, that they may last.
Figs are to be laid up as they are upon their boughs,
Peaches well kept,
Damosins a great while together,
Ziziphum may be preserved,
Medlars may be kept long,
How Pomegranates are to be gathered and laid up to last.
Myrtle twigs with their berries upon them.
Grapes that they may last long.
CHAP. VI.
In what ground there grow the best Dates or Palms to be preserved for store.
In what ground there grow the best Beans to be preserved for store.
CHAP. VII.
How to keep Apples close without putrifying.
How to preserve Citrons close without putrifying.
How to keep Apples shut up close.
Quinces are to be shut up, that they may last.
All things close exceeding well,
Figs may be shut up to be preserved long,
Cervises may be shut up in barrels,
Ziziphum may be shut up in earthen vessels
Medlars, and the fruit Tuber may be shut up in pitchers, so to be preserved.
Myrtle-berries may be very well kept
Nuts may be long preserved,
Chest-nuts may be long preserved,
Roses may be shut up to be preserved,
Lillies, to make them last a whole year.
Grapes may be shut up to last long,
Wheat may be laid up close to be preserved,
Beans and Pulse have been laid up in vessels, and so preserved for a long time:
Lintels, have been preserved long,
CHAP. VIII.
How Quince-pears being shut up close, may be drowned for their better preservation.
Apples being shut up close, and then put into Cisterns, will last long,
Figs being shut up close, may be drowned for their better preservation,
Peaches being shut up in wooden Cisterns, have been well preserved by drowning.
Pomegranates may be preserved in a Pipe or But that is half full of water,
Cervises being shut up close, and so laid under ground, will thereby last the longer.
Pears being shut up in vessels, and so laid under the ground, will last the longer.
Apples being shut up close, may be hidden within the ground for their better preser∣vation,
Pomegranates are preserved in small Buts which have sand in them.
Filberds may be preserved within the ground,
Chestnuts may be preserved,
Roses being shut up, may be buried in the ground for their better preservation,
How all things that are shut up, may be preserved for many years.
Things that are shut up, even for ever,
CHAP. IX.
That Quinces may be preserved in honey without putrefaction;
Other kind of Apples may be so preserved,
Pears may be preserved in Honey,
Figgs may be long preserved in Honey,
Cherries may be preserved in Honey,
Medlars may be preserved in Honey,
Nuts may be preserved in Honey,
Peaches may be preserved in Honey,
Grapes may be preserued in Honey,
What kinds of fruits are best preserved in Honey.
CHAP. X.
Quinces may be preserved in wine.
Apples may be preserved floating in wine,
Figgs may be long preserved in wine,
Mulberries may be preserved in wine:
Damosins may be preserved in wine,
Ziziphum may be preserved in wine.
How Grapes may be preserved in wine,
Pears may be long preserved in sodden wine,
Peaches, which hath the hardest stone, may be preserved long in sodden wine,
Cervises may be long preserved in new wine,
That Grapes may be preserved in new wine,
Damosins may be long kept in new Wine.
Cucumbers in the Lees of Wine,
Olives and Grapes may be kept together.
Corneile, or Hamberry may be kept in Lees;
Grapes may be preserved fresh and green in the Lees of wine.
Cucumbers may be preserved in vineger;
All things with distilled wine:
CHAP. XI.
Pomegranates are preserved in salt-waters.
Damosins may be preserved in salt-waters.
Pears will last long in salt-water:
Modlars may be preserved in salt-water:
Grapes may be preserved long in salt-water.
To put salt to Wine, to make it last the longer,
The fruits of those Palm-trees which grow in salt places, are fittest to be preserved;
Cicer, is preserved by its own saltness,
Beans will last long in salt-water:
Garlick may be preserved in salt-water;
Cucumbers are preserved in brine,
Apples and Myrtles may be preserved,
Olives in brine, to have them good a year after▪
CHAP. XII.
He may preserve his Grain in his Garner,
Moths may not eat his clothes,
Seed, Corn, lying in the fields may be kept from erosion by Animals,
That Myrtle branches may be preserued with their Berries on, in Lees of Oyl.
That roses may be kept in Oyl-lees
If you would preserve Figtree-branches with their fruits in Oyl-lees,
Olives may be preserved in Oyl,
CHAP. XIII.
Orenges may be kept in Cedar-dust.
Quinces may be long kept in dust,
The fruits of the Fir-tree may be long kept in dust.
Pomegranates may be kept from putrefaction in Oak-dust.
Grapes may be kept in dust.
Orenges may be kept in Chaff,
Quinces may be preserved in Chaff.
Apples may be kept in Chaff,
Pears will keep long in Chaff, and Medlars also,
Pomegranates may be kept in Chaff,
Grapes may be kept in Chaff.
Nuts will keep in straw,
Onyons may be kept from putrefaction in Barley-straw.
Chesnuts may be preserved
Quinces in Fig-leaves.
That Orenges may be preserved,
That Apples may be kept long in nut-leaves,
That pears may be kept well in wallnut-leaves.
Figs may be kept in the leaves of Vervine without putretude.
Preserve Cherries in the leaves of Winter-savory,
May Jujubees be kept in their own leaves,
May the Myrtle and its Berries be preserved,
Quince-pears be long kept in their own leaves, and Nuts in their leaves, but the leaves must be dry, Wheat may be kept in herbs.
Barley may be kept safe in dry Bay-leaves,
CHAP. XIV.
Orenges in Barley putrefie not,
That Quinces laid in Millet-seed, endure long,
Apples may be also kept in the same seed,
Pears will keep amongst corn,
Mushrooms may be kept in Millet-seed.
Pomegranates may be kept lay in Wheat,
That Grapes may be kept well and long,
How Corn may be long preserved,
Pulse will keep long,
CHAP. XV.
Quick-silver will preserve all things from putretude.
Flesh hanged on a Brasen-nail will keep long,
How a dead Carcase may be preserved.
Things may be also preserved by Balsom.
CHAP. XVI.
To make Bread of Wall-nuts,
To make Bread of the Lote tree.
To make bread of Dates,
Bread of the Mulberry-figtree.
How we may make bread without leaven,
CHAP. XVII.
How to make bread of the Roots of Cuckow-pint,
Bread of Asphodils is eaten.
Bread is made of Rape-roots, Turneps, and Skirworts.
Excellent bread of Gourds,
CHAP. XVIII.
Bread is made of Lupins,
Bread of Herbs,
CHAP. XIX.
Chalk make their bread more weighty and white.
Rice makes bread weigh.
You may increase the weight of bread with Millet.
Bread weigh more by adding milk to it.
Wheat to increase the weight of Wheat.
Wheat may increase out of it self.
CHAP. XX.
To endure hunger and thirst.
The Epimenidian composition, to endure hunger and thirst.
CHAP. XXI.
Wine of Dates.
Of Figs.
Wine of Pears,
Wine of Pomegranates.
Wine of the Lote-tree fruit.
Wine of Myrtles berries and Cornels,
Wine of Corn.
Wine of Honey.
Wine of Raisins.
Wine of Quinces.
Wine called Metheglin.
CHAP. XXII.
Vineger may be made of the Fig-tree.
Vineger of Dates.
Vineger of honey.
Vineger of Pears.
Vineger of Peaches.
Vineger without wine.
Turn wine into vineger, and contrarily vineger into wine,
To make the same.
Sharp vineger of new wine.
To double the quantity of vineger.
Vineger of clusters of grapes pressed forth.
Ill wine is turned to vineger.
CHAP. XXIII.
To mend weak wine.
That wine may not grow hot.
That wine may not exhale
To clear wines,
That wines may not corrupt.
CHAP. XXIV.
Oyl may be made of Ricinus, call'd Cicinum.
Oyl of Mastick is made,
Oyl of Turpentine,
Oyl of Bays,
Oyl of Sesamon.
Oyl of the Plane-Tree.
Oyl of Ches-nuts,
Oyl of Acorns of the Oak
Oyl of Wallnuts,
Oyl of sweet Almonds.
Oyl of small Nuts.
Oyl of Pistaches
Pine kirnels Oyl is made
Oyl of Beech,
Oyl from the bastard Sycomore,
Oyl out of the Sanguine-Tree
Oyl out of the Grapes or Raisins,
Oyl of Radish-seed
Oyl is made of the seed of Cameline.
CHAP. XXV.
Yarn of Flax:
Thread of Hemp,
To make Thread of Broom,
Thread of Nettles,
Thread of Aloes in America,
CHAP. XXVI.
If a Hen do not sit, how she may have many Chickens,
Hatch Eggs in a hot Oven.
A Cock foster Chickens as the Hen doth,
THE FIFTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Which treateth of Alchymy; shewing how Metals may be altered and transformed, one into another.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How to remedy the softness of Tin, and the creaking noise that it makes.
How to bring Tin into Powder,
How to alter and transform Tin, that it may become Silver,
Tinne into Lead,
CHAP. II.
To change Lead into Tinne.
Antimony into Lead:
How to procure Lead to become heavier, then of it self it is:
To extract Quick-silver out of Lead.
Lead converted into quick-silver:
CHAP. III.
Brass to counterfeit Silver;
Brass to counterfeit Silver;
Brass should resemble silver,
To make brass shew it self of a silver colour, by rubbing it betwixt your hands,
CHAP. IV.
Change Iron into Brass,
Make Iron to become white,
CHAP. V.
How Quick-silver may be congealed and curdled as it were with Iron.
Congeailng of Quick-silver with balls of Brass,
To draw water out of Quick-silver.
To make quick-silver grow to be a Tree.
CHAP. VI.
To give Silver a Gold-colour,
To tincture Silver into gold,
Otherwise.
Gold out of Silver,
Fix Cinnaber.
From fixt Cinnaber to draw out a silver beard.
CHAP. VII.
To draw forth the life of Tinne.
From Stibium
To the out-side,
CHAP. VIII.
The weight of a Golden vessel may increase,
Another that is excellent.
Do this business otherwise:
Gold and Silver may be diminished:
To separate gold from silver Cups that are gilded:
Another way
Part Gold from a vessel of Brass,
CHAP. IX.
To part Gold from Silver.
Another way.
To part silver from brass
Part gold from brass:
CHAP. X.
THE SIXTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of counterfeiting Precious Sones.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How to make Sal Soda.
How to make Salt of Tartar.
CHAP. II.
How Pastils are boiled.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
How to make Crocus of Iron:
How to reduce Zaphara into Powder.
How to burn Copper.
CHAP. V.
How to dye a Saphire.
Colour Cyanus,
How to counterfeit the colour of the Amethist:
To counterfeit the Topaze.
The Chrysolite.
To counterfeit an Emerald.
CHAP. VI.
How to counterfeit a Topaze.
To counterfeit a Chrysolite,
To make an Emarald.
To make a Jacinth,
CHAP. VII.
To stain Crystal with the colour of a Jacinth, or a Ruby, without breaking, or wearing it.
To turn a Saphire into a Diamond.
How to make a stone white on one side, and red or blew on the other.
How to stain glass of divers colours.
How to make a Jacinth
To counterfeit an Emerald.
To counterfeit Carbuncles.
CHAP. VIII.
To make white Enammel,
To make black Smalt.
To make Smalt of a deep yellow.
To make Smalt of a paler yellow,
To make green Smalt,
To make red Smalt,
Smalt dark on one side, and transparent on the other,
To make Smalt of the colour of an Amethist.
To make Smalt of skie-colour.
To make speckled Smalt,
To make Smalt of two colours,
To make the best kind of Smalt,
CHAP. IX.
To make Glass of Tin.
Another way to make it.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
How to colour plates with a purple colour.
How to make them of a Saphire colour.
How to make them of a silver colour.
How to make them of the colour of an Emerald.
How to make them red, like a Ruby.
How to make them of the colour of the Amethist.
CHAP. XIII.
To make them of the colour of a Ruby.
To make them of the colour of a Saphire or Emerald.
THE SEVENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of the wonders of the Load-stone.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
To know which Loadstone is the more perfect.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
That the Pole sends its force to the Circumference.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
How it should be that Loadstone Iron draws:
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
CHAP. XXIV.
CHAP. XXV.
CHAP. XXVI.
CHAP. XXVII.
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
A paper go up a wall, and come down of it self.
CHAP. XXX.
CHAP. XXXI.
CHAP. XXXII.
CHAP. XXXIII.
CHAP. XXXIV.
CHAP. XXXV.
CHAP. XXXVI.
CHAP. XXXVII.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
CHAP. XXXIX.
CHAP. XL.
CHAP. XLI.
CHAP. XLII.
CHAP. XLIII.
CHAP. XLIV.
CHAP. XLV.
CHAP. XLVI.
CHAP. XLVII.
CHAP. XLVIII.
CHAP. XLIX.
CHAP. L.
CHAP. LI.
CHAP. LII.
CHAP. LIII.
CHAP. LIV.
CHAP. LV.
CHAP. LVI.
The Loadstone Venus oft-times represents.
THE EIGHTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of Physical Experiments.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
To cause Sleep with Mandrake.
For the same, with Nightshade.
Of Poppy
A Sleeping Apple.
A wonderful way to make one take a sleeping Medicine in his sleep.
CHAP. II.
How to make men mad with Mandrake.
With Stramonium, or Solanum Manicum:
Bella Donna.
To make a man believe he was changed
CHAP. III.
A way to cause merry dreams.
To make dark and troublesome dreams,
CHAP. IV.
In Inflammations, Blood-shots and Fistula's,
A Pearl in the Eye.
CHAP. V.
To fasten the Teeth.
For the swelling of the Gums,
CHAP. VI.
For the Head-ach,
Against the chopping of the Lips
Against the clefts of the Fingers.
For a Pleurisie.
Against the Colick
Against Crab lice.
To bring away the Stone,
To strengthen the Stomach.
CHAP. VII.
A remedy to procure conception.
CHAP. VIII.
A preservation against the Pox,
CHAP. IX.
A most perfect oyl against poyson,
CHAP. X.
A confection of Gillyflowers against the plague, of wonderful operation.
Against the Plague.
CHAP. XI.
The oyl of Hispanus for wounds and other things.
For cold aches.
For old Sores.
The vertues of Tobacco.
CHAP. XII.
Vulnerary Potions.
The Weapon-Salve
CHAP. XIII.
How to counterfeit a bloody Flux.
To make any one look pale.
To cause Sores to arise.
CHAP. XIV.
Who burnt with Love of her he never saw:
Some Preservatives against Love.
A Preservative against Envy.
THE NINTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: How to adorn Women, and make them Beautiful.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
Preparing of the Hair
A Lye to dye the Hair
Another.
An Oyntment
To make their Hair yellow
To make the Hairs yellow:
CHAP. II.
Dye the Hair Red
CHAP. III.
How Gray Hairs and dyed Black.
Long and Black Hair,
Another.
CHAP. IV.
A common Depilatory,
To make Hair grow slowly,
That Hair should never grow again,
CHAP. V.
Hair falling off before old age, may be held fast.
That Hair shall grow quickly,
To make the Hairs grow softer.
That Hair may grow longer and quickly,
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
To Curl the Hair,
CHAP. VIII.
To dye the Eye-brows
Change the colour of childrens Eyes,
CHAP. IX.
Your Face white,
CHAP. X.
Preparation of the Face.
One that is stronger.
CHAP. XI.
Tour Face made soft and white,
For the same purpose.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
Another way
Another way:
CHAP. XIV.
Water of quick-silver.
CHAP. XV.
Another way,
Another way
CHAP. XVI.
The Face white, clear, ruddy and soft.
Another way.
Another way,
Another for the same.
CHAP. XVII.
To make a pale Face purple-coloured.
Another,
Another.
A Fucus that cannot be detected:
To colour the Body.
CHAP. XVIII.
To wash away the too-much redness of the Face,
Another.
CHAP. XIX.
Experiment.
Another.
Another way:
CHAP. XX.
To take off spots from the Face,
Another.
Another.
Another.
rub off the wan colour of your cheeks,
Black and blew marks
For spots and beauty.
CHAP. XXI.
Pimples,
For the same.
Another.
Another to polish the Face.
CHAP. XXII.
Against Tetters.
Another,
Another.
CHAP. XXIII.
Against Warts.
Another.
CHAP. XXIV.
For a wrinckled Forehead,
For a wrinkled Face.
Another.
Another.
Water to whiten, plain, and beautifie the Face.
The wrinkles of the Belly after child-birth.
CHAP. XXV.
Dentifrices
Another
CHAP. XXVI.
Hinder the augmenting of the Brests,
Curb soft and loose Brests,
CHAP. XXVII.
To make the Hands as white as Milk.
For the same,
Your hands white,
Another.
For the same.
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
A woman deflowred made a virgin again,
CHAP. XXX.
To make a painted Face look pale.
Whether she be painted with red.
To make a woman full of red pimples.
To make the Face green.
To make the Hair fall off the Head and Beard.
THE TENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of Distillation.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
Roses, Orange-flowers, Myrtle and Lavender, and such-like,
To extract sweet Water out of Gillflowers, Musk, Roses, Violets, and Jasmine, and Lillies.
How to correct the stink of burning.
How to draw a great quantity of Water by Distillation.
CHAP. III.
To do the same a more compendious way.
How to make Aqua Vitae of new Wine.
CHAP IV.
CHAP. V.
To draw Oyl out of Nutmegs.
To extract Oyl out of Citron-seed
Oyl of Poppy-Seed
Oyl of Coloquintida-Seeds.
Oyl of Nattle-Seed.
Oyl of Eggs
CHAP. VI.
How to draw Oyl out of Cinnamon.
How to draw a greater quantity of Oyl out of Cinnamon.
Oyl of Cloves
Liquid Oyl of Nutmegs.
Oyl of Mace and Pepper
Oyl of Aniseed
Oyl of Fennel
Oyl of Coriander
Oyl of Rosemary and Lavender-flowers, and
Oyl of Juniper and Cypress-Wood
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
How to extract Oyl out of Rosemary Flowers.
Oyl of Citron-Pill
Oyl of Roses, and Citron-Flowers
Sweet Oyl of Berjamin
Oyl of Musk, Amber, and Civet
CHAP. X.
How to extract Oyl out of Benjamin.
Oyl of Storax
Oyl of Ladanum.
Oyl of Turpentine
Oyl of Olives, and Linseed Oyl.
CHAP. XI.
Oyl out of Honey
Oyl of Camphire.
Oyl of Paper and Rags.
Oyl of Wheat.
CHAP. XII.
Oyl out of Lignum Guaiacum,
CHAP. XIII.
How to extract the Essence out of Civet, Musk, Ambar, and other Spices.
To extract Essence out of Flesh.
To extract Essences out of Salts.
To extract Essences out of Herbs.
The Essence of Aqua Vitae.
CHAP. XIV.
How to extract a Magistery of Gems, Coral and Pearl.
Of Charabes.
The Magistery of Guaiacum
The Magistery of Lignum Aloes.
The Magistery of Wine, commonly called the Spirit of Wine.
CHAP. XV.
How to draw out the Tincture of Gold.
Tincture of Roses.
Tinctures of Marigolds, Violets, Bugloss, and Succory-Flowers.
Tincture of Orange-Flowers of an excellent sent.
Tincture of Coral.
CHAP. XVI.
Salt of Lemmons.
Salt of Pellitory of Spain.
Salt of Cumine.
Of Saxifrage.
CHAP. XVII.
To make Elixir of Pimpernel.
An Elixir of many things.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
How to extract Oyl of Tartar.
Oyl of Sal Sodae.
The famous Oyl of Talk
Red Oyl of Sulphur.
Oyl of Myrrh.
CHAP. XX.
How to draw Aqua Fortis, or Oyl, out of Salt.
A Water for the Separation of Silver.
A Water for Separation of Gold.
How to purge the phlegm from these Waters,
Oyl of Vitriol.
Oyl of Sulphur.
CHAP. XXI.
How to separate the Elements of Metals.
How to separate the Elements in Herbs.
How to finde out the Vertues of Plants.
How to extract Gum out of Plants.
How to extract Gum out of Opoponax.
How to extract Gum out of Fennel.
THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of Perfuming.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
To make a most sweet perfumed Water.
Another.
Aqua Nanfa.
Aqua Nansa clarified,
CHAP. II.
Musk Water.
Water of Jasmine, Musk-Roses, Gilliflowers, Violets and Lillies,
A sweet compounded Water.
CHAP. III.
How to make Oyl of Ben,
A way to make odoriferous Oyl of Flowers:
CHAP. IV.
A sweet Water of Storax, Benjamin, and Labdanum,
To extract Oyl of Benjamin, Storax, and other things.
CHAP. V.
How to wash Skins,
How to perfume Skins with Flowers.
How to perfume Skins.
How to take the sent out of Gloves.
CHAP. VI.
How to make Cyprian Powder.
CHAP. VII.
How to make sweet Balls
How to make them another way.
Another Compound,
Of washing Balls or Musk-Balls.
How to make Soap, and multiply it.
CHAP. VIII.
How to make Perfumes of Waters.
Another way.
Another way.
Excellent Pomanders for perfuming.
Another way.
Another Perfume.
CHAP. IX.
Another way, and
To adulterate Civet
To make Musk recover its sent,
THE TWELFTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of Artificial Fires.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
Wood that by rubbing together will take Fire.
A stone that will raise Fire with any moysture.
CHAP. II.
The Fire-Darts the Ancients used.
A Fire, called the Greek Fire.
CHAP. III.
Gun-powder that shall make a great noise, and do much service,
Gun-powder that will shoot a Bullet without noise,
CHAP. IV.
Rockets that cast Fire a great way.
How to make a Rocket armed.
A Brass-Gun once fired, may discharge ten times.
CHAP. V.
Fire-balls flying in the Air,
Another way.
Another way.
CHAP. VI.
A Ball that will burn under Water.
Otherwise.
The same,
Balls and Pots to be cast forth of Ships.
CHAP. VII.
Balls that will cast pieces of Iron a great way off.
Troops of Horsemen may be put into confusion.
CHAP. VIII.
To make Mines in plain grounds where the Armies are to meet.
Mines under the Water,
CHAP. IX.
He may handle fire without hurt.
CHAP. X.
To make a fiery composition, that the Sun may kindle.
A most scalding Oyl.
Fire that is quenched with oyl, is kindled with water.
Torches that will not be put out by the winds.
A cord that set on fire, shall neither smoke nor smell.
CHAP. XI.
That when a man comes into his Chamber, the whole Air way take fire.
Exceeding burning water:
To cast flame a great way,
Many Candles shall be lighted presently,
Eating in the dark, cast sparkles out of his mouth.
CHAP. XII.
That Bullets from Brass Guns, may enter deeper,
Shoot a man through with a Bullet, and no place shall be seen where it went in, or came forth.
A Gun discharge often, and yet no more powder was put in.
Blind your eyes with the smoke.
CHAP. XIII.
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Of tempering Steel.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
And the naked Calybes Iron.
CHAP. II.
That Iron may grow soft,
CHAP. III.
The temper of a Knife to cut Bread.
The temper of Iron for Wood.
The temper for Instruments to let blood.
The temper of Iron for a Sythe.
CHAP. IV.
The temper of Iron for Files.
Another way.
Temper Knives to be most hard.
How an Habergeon or Coat of Arms is to be tempered.
CHAP. V.
A Saw tempered to saw Iron,
Fish-hooks to become extream hard.
Culters extream hard.
To temper a Graver to cut Marble.
A Tool made to cut Iron.
Tempers for Swords.
CHAP. VI.
The hardest tempers of Iron.
To temper Iron to cut Porphyr Marble.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
Renew the waved marks of Damask Knives that are worn out,
Make marks with Damask Knives,
To draw forth Damask Steel for work,
CHAP. X.
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: I shall shew some choice things in the Art of Cookery.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How to make Sheeps flesh tender.
How Geese, Ducks, Pheasants, Quails, and other Birds become most tender.
That Ox-flesh may grow tender,
To make Hens tender,
How a Cock may grow tender,
CHAP. II.
Cocks flesh grows tender,
Ox flesh may be made tender,
Pulse grow tender,
To make meats boil the sooner,
CHAP. III.
Peacocks, Partridge, Pheasants to be made tender.
That Birds may grow tender.
CHAP. IV.
Crab-fish tender shel'd.
Squils grow tender.
CHAP. V.
How Hens and other Birds must be crammed.
Four-footed Beasts are fatted.
CHAP. VI.
How to fat the Livers of Geese.
Fat Figs do make the Goose white, Liver great.
A Sows Liver fatted.
That Cattle may be more excellent to eat.
How Pullets are made most white, tender, and delicate,
CHAP. VII.
Deers flesh become venemous,
Partridge are nought,
Quails, and Stares, are rejected,
Birds are not to be eaten,
The Eggs of the Barbel, or Spawn, not to be eaten
Snails to be rejected,
Milk must not be eaten,
Honey that is venemous,
Eggs laid that stink.
CHAP. VIII.
How a Hog may be rosted, and boiled, all at once.
A Capon may be boil'd, and rosted.
A Lamprey fried, boild, and rosted all at once.
CHAP. IX.
A boiled Peacock may seem to be alive.
A Goose rosted alive.
A yong Pigeon, with his bones pulled out,
The Trojan Hog.
That an Egge may grow bigger than a mans head.
CHAP. X.
How to fry fish on a paper.
Rost a Chickin without a fire;
A Bird to rost himself,
Eggs are rosted without fire.
Want Salt
Keep flesh without Salt,
That Salt-flesh should be made fresh.
To wash spots from linnen clothes,
Groundlings, how to make them.
CHAP. XI.
That you Wine shall smell of Musk,
Hippocras Wine,
Wine may freeze in Glasses.
CHAP. XII.
Make men drunk.
Take away drunkenness.
That love Wine, to refrain it,
CHAP. XIII.
That his hands may grow black when he wipes of the Napkin,
That he may not swallow the meat the chews.
Drive Parasites from great mens Tables,
That all thing the smell-feast eats, may taste bitter,
That when he drinks, the cup shall stick to his mouth, that he can hardly pull it off.
That flesh may look bloody and full of worms, and so be rejected
THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Shews to catch living Creatures with your hands, and to destroy them.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
The bait for a Sturgeon, or Whale-fish.
A bait for a Sargus.
A bait for Thymalus.
The bait for an Aulopius.
A Bait for Summer-whitings.
Bait for an Eel.
A Bait for Mullets.
A Bait for all Fish.
CHAP. II.
Take Cuttles with the bait of love;
To catch a Pollard or Cupito.
To catch a Scarus or Gilthead.
To catch Elephants.
To catch a Nightingale.
CHAP. III.
To catch a Sargus;
How to catch Partridge.
Catching of Bustards.
The Polypi or Pourcontrels taken.
CHAP. IV.
The Dolphin loves the Harp.
A Wolf is charmed by a Minstrel or Flute.
Horses delight in the Musick of the Flute.
Stags and Bores are taken with a Pipe.
The Pastinaca is taken by dancing and Musick.
Grampels by Musick are enticed on land.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
The Cuttle is taken with a Glass.
A Jackdaw is taken with a Looking-Glass.
How Quails are taken with a Locking-Glass.
CHAP. VII.
The Unicorn is allured by sent.
To make Wheezles come together.
To make Mice come together.
To make Fleas come together.
To bring Frogs together.
CHAP. VIII.
How Dogs are made drunk.
Asses are made drunk.
Horses are made stupid
Libards are made drunk.
Apes are taken, being drunk;
Sows run mad,
Elephants are made drunk.
Birds may be catch'd with hands;
Hunt Partridge that are drunk,
How to take Ducks with your hand.
Ducks and other Birds being drunk are soon taken
To catch Rooks with your hands.
Make Fish drunk,
CHAP. IX.
The venoms that kill Dogs.
Of Wolfs bane.
Herbs that kill Mice.
Wolfs banes,
Lious bane
Ox bane.
Goats bane.
Harts bane.
Horse banes,
Wheezles bane, are
Sheeps bane.
Pigeons bane.
Hens bane.
Bats bane.
Vultures.
Scorions bane.
CHAP. X.
Fishes
CHAP. XI.
To change a Dogs colour.
That a Dog may not go from you.
Your Dog to bark.
That a Dog may not run.
To make a Hawke
To make Partridge more bold to fight.
That dung-hill fight the better.
a Bird may not the high.
That a Bird shall not flie,
THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Wherein are handled secret and undiscovered Notes.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
If you desire that letters not are may be hi,
That ding line water may appear.
White
A stone dipped in vinegar will shew the letters.
CHAP. II.
To make letters visible by fire.
Letters th cannot be read unless the paper be burnt.
Write letters of fire.
CHAP. III.
That Letters rubbed with mill-dust may be read.
Otherwise,
That letter of fine dus▪
That letters on the paper may be read, not by fire, nor water, or any other thing, but in the dust only.
That upon black paper, white letters may appear.
CHAP. IV.
That letters may be written the Egg-she▪
the white▪
How letters writ with water, maybe seen in an Egg,
How letters may become visible upon an Egg by the fire.
That letters may be seen on the Egg shell by dust.
How to put a letter into an Egg.
CHAP. V.
How to write
How to write on Parchment, that the Letters may not be seen.
How in the Sections of Books the Characters shall be hid.
The same with Cards to play with.
To hide Letters upon wood.
CHAP. VI.
How to hide Letters in wood.
To conceal Letters in Junkets.
To shut up Letters in living creatures.
Letters may be hid in Garments.
To hide Letters in your belt.
To hide letters in the Bowels of living creatures.
To shut up letters in stones.
CHAP. VII.
To counterfeit the shape of a Dog,
Arrows for Messengers:
How to make Pigeons your Messengers.
CHAP. VIII.
How Hestiaus could make the Letters on his head indelible.
Letters may be made between the skin, that are indelible, upon any part.
How a man may carry letters that are indelible and invisible, and unknown to him; and how to make them visible when need is.
CHAP. IX.
How letters are made, that eat the paper.
How letters may be made, that will soon vanish;
Another way:
That invisible letters after some time, shall become visible
CHAP. X.
Take letters off the paper,
To renew letters decayed,
CHAP. XI.
To counterfeit the Seal.
To make a great Seal less,
Imitate the form of a writing,
Open letters, and shut them without suspition.
CHAP. XII.
With open voyce shew some things to those that are confederate with us.
To signifie to friends all things by a Trunk,
CHAP. XIII.
THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Wherein are propounded Burning-glass, and the wonderful sights to be seen by them.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How apparitions may seem to him that looks upon them, to be pale, yellow, or of divers colours.
That the face of him that looks on the Glass may seem to be divided in the middle,
That he that looks in the Glass, shall seem like an Ass, Dog, or Sow;
That the whole face may seem various and deformed.
How to make a Glass to represent many Images.
How letters may be cast out and read, on a wall that is far distant;
CHAP. II.
How by plain Looking-glasses, the head may appear to be downwards, and the heels upwards.
Make a plain Glass that shall represent the Image manifold.
Make a Glass of plain Glasses, wherein one Image coming, is seen going back in another.
In plain Glasses those things that are done afar off, and in other places.
How to make a Glass that shall shew nothing but what you will.
How a Glass may be made of plain Glasses, whereby you may see an Image flying in the Air.
CHAP. III.
To make an Antient fashioned Looking-glass of plain Glasses, wherein more Pictures will be represented of the something.
How to make an Amphitheatrical-Glass.
CHAP. IV.
Know the point of Inversion of Images in a Concave-glass,
That all things shall seem greater.
To kindle fire with a Concave-Glass.
To make an Image seem to hang in the Air, by a Concave-Glass.
That the Image of a Concave-Glass should go out far from the Centre;
Reflect heat, cold, and the voice too, by a Concave-Glass.
By a Concave-Glass to see in the night what is done afar off.
With a few small lights give light to a great Hall.
To read letters in a dark night.
At any hour of the day with a Concave-Glass, to set a House or Fort on fire.
CHAP. V.
Kindle fire afar off with a plain and a Concave-Glass.
That by a plain and Concave-Glass the smallest letter shall appear very great,
With a plain and Concave-Glass, make an Image be seen hanging altogether in the Air.
By a plain Glass see your face turned the wrong way.
CHAP. VI.
To see all things in the dark, that are outwardly done in the Sun, with the colours of them.
See all things greater and clearer,
If you cannot draw a Picture of a man or any things else, draw it by this means;
That all shall appear right,
How in a Chamber you may see Hunting, Battles of Enemies, and other delusions.
How you may see the Sun Eclipsed,
CHAP. VII.
That by night an Image may seem to hang in a Chamber.
CHAP. VIII.
That neither the Object nor Glass may be seen, yet the Image shall seem to hang alone, pen∣dulous in the middle of the Chamber;
CHAP. IX.
Make a Glass that shall represent much diversity of Images.
Make a Glass out of all,
The operations of a Convex Cylindrical Glass.
The operations of Cylindrical Concave-glasses.
The operations of a Pyramidal Glass turned,
CHAP. X.
How with a Convex Crystal Lenticular to kindle fire.
By night give light afar off with a Lenticular Crystal,
In a dark night read a letter by a Lenticular Crystal:
By a Lenticular Crystal to see things that are far off, as if they were close by.
To read an Epistle a great way off with a Lenticular Crystal.
Do the same more perfectly with a Lenticular Crystal.
By a Convex Lenticular Crystal see an Image hanging in the Air.
By a Concave Lenticular to describe compendiously how long and broad things are.
How a thing may appear multiplied.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
To kindle fire with a Crystal Pillar,
With a Crystal Pillar, make an Image hang in the Aire.
In a Crystal Pillar see many Rain-bows.
CHAP. XIV.
A Concave-Glass that shall kindle fire behind it:
With a Concave Pillar or Pyramidal, kindle fire:
CHAP. XV.
To make a Glass out of a Parabolical Section.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
By a Cylindre of Crystal to kindle fire.
To burn with a Pyramidal Crystal Glass.
A Crystal Sphaere, or portion of it.
A Crystal parabolick-Glass will kindle fire most vehemently of all,
By refraction, kindle fire afar off,
CHAP. XX.
To see in a plain Glass that which appears no where.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
How Glass Looking-glasses are made,
Polish plain Glasses.
To terminate plain Glass Looking-glasses.
How a foil is put upon a Concave Glass.
To terminate Convex-Glasses.
CHAP. XXIII.
THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Treating of things heavy and light.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
How to part water from wine,
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
Whether water be mingled with wine.
If new wine have any water mingled with it,
When new wine is mingled with water, to know which part is the best, the upper or lower part.
CHAP. VII.
The manner to part water from wine,
CHAP. VIII.
To know any part of Silver mingled with Gold.
THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF Natural Magick: Concerning VVind-Instruments.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
That a vessel turned downwards shall draw in the water,
A vessel to cast forth wind.
A vessel that shall cast forth water,
How to make water ascend conveniently.
By heat alone make the water rise,
CHAP. IV.
A Water-Dial.
Another Water-Dial,
CHAP. V.
A Fountain that casts forth water by compression of the Air,
An Artifice whereby a hand-Gun may shoot a bullet without fire,
A Vessel, wherewith as you drink, the liquor shall be sprinkled about your face.
CHAP. VI.
How wind may be made in a chamber, that guests may almost freeze,
How Air may serve for Bellows,
THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF Natural Magick: The Chaos, wherein the Experiments are set down without any Classical Order.
THE PROEME.
CHAP. I.
How to get a greater quantity of fresh water, when we distil salt water.
Distil salt water otherwise,
Salt water may be made fresh another way.
Another way,
Another way,
How sweet waters may be mended.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
How to dye the Flesh.
Change the Hair,
To adde or take off Hair,
Make his face swelled, pressed down, or full of scars,
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
To augment the weight of Oyl,
Silk is made to weigh more,
Increase the quantity of Honey,
Increase the weight of Wax:
Augment Sope.
Counterfeit Pepper,
Increase the weight of Wheat,
CHAP. VII.
Fright Sheep,
Drive away Horses,
Drive away Bears,
Make Horses gentle,
Women will miscarry,
To cure many of the Sciatica
For mad men
Against the Plague,
Against the bitings of Vipers,
Against Druenness
To draw his sluggish and yielding thoughts from Battle to Banquets,
For sleep and waking;
A Harp that is play'd on, will move another Harpstrung to the same height.
That a deaf person may hear the sound of the Harp,
To make a Harp or other Instrument be play'd on by winde,
CHAP. VIII.
By what means they fain, that they can discover Treasures,
Another merry conceit remains, that three Schroles of Paper not touched, shall change their places.
Money to turn about upon a point,
Discover theft,
Flowers to fall from a Tree:
Women are made to cast off their clothes and go naked:
Who bore through the head of a Pullet with an Aule, and yet maintain that she is alive.
A remedy for the Sciatica,
CHAP. IX.
To make men seem like to Blackmores,
To make the face seem extream pale and lean,
CHAP. X.
The flying Dragon,
A TABLE containing the General Heads of NATURAL MAGICK.
The first Book; Treating of wonderful things.
The second Book; Of the generation of Animals.
The third Book; Of the production of new Plants.
The fourth Book; The increasing of Houshold Stuffe.
The fifth Book; Of changing Metals.
The sixth Book; Of counterfeiting precious Stones
The seventh Book; Of the Wonders of the Load-stone.
The eighth Book; Of Physical Experiments.
The ninth Book; Of Beautifying Women.
The tenth Book; Of Distillation.
The eleventh Book; Of Perfuming
The twelfth Book; Of Artificial Fires.
The thirteenth Book; Of tempering Steel.
The fourteenth Book; Of Cookery.
The fifteenth Book; Of Fishing, Fowling, Hunt∣ing, &c.
Tee sixteenth Book; Of invisible Writing.
The seventeenth Book; Of Burning-glasses, and the wonderful sights by them.
The eighteenth Book; Of Things heavy and light.
The ninteenth Book; Of Wind-Instruments.
The twentieth Book; Of the Chaos.