Samuel Rid

The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine

Published by Good Press, 2022
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By S.R.
TO THE INGENIOVS GENTLEMAN, and my louing father, Mr. WILLIAM BVBB.
TO HIS LOVING FRIEND AND adopted Sonne Mr. Sa: Rid .
To the curteous Reader.
The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine.
Feates of Legerdemaine vsed with the Balls, with one or more.
To make a little Ball swell in your hand till it be very great.
To consume, (or rather conuay) one or many Balls into nothing.
An other pretty feat with Balls.
A feat, tending chiefly to laughter and mirth.
Of conueyance of mony.
To conuey mony out of one hand into the other, by Legerdemaine.
To conuert or transubstantiat money into Counters, or Counters into money.
To put one Testor into one hand, and another into an other hand, and with words to bring them together.
To put one testor into a strangers hand and an other in your owne hand, and to conuay both into the strangers hand with words.
To throwe a peece of money away and to finde it againe where you please.
To make a testor or a groat, leap out of a potte, or run along vpon a table with words.
A very pretty trick to make a groate or a testor to sinck thorow a table, and to vanish out of a hand kercheife very strangely.
To conuey one shilling being in one hand into an other, holding your armes abroad like to a roode.
Of Cardes and Dice, with good cautions how to auoyde cosenage therein: speciall rules to conuey and handle the cardes, and the manner and order how to accomplish all difficult, & strange things wrought with cardes.
A tricke by confederacy at Cardes.
How to deliuer out foure Aces, and to conuert them into foure Knaues.
How to tell one what Card he seeth in the bottome, when the same Carde is shuffled into the stock.
A strange & excellent tricke to hold foure Kings in the hand, and by words to transform them into foure Aces, and after to make them all blancke Cardes, one after another.
Of publike confederacie and whereof it consisteth.
To tell you how to know whether one caste Crosse or Pile; by the ringing
How to tell where a stolne horse is become.
To make one daunce naked.
To make a pot of any such thing standing fast on a cupbord, to fall downe thence by vertue of words.
Of Boxes to alter one graine into another, or to consume the graine or corne to nothing.
How to conuey (with words and charmes) the corne conteyned in one Box, into another.
How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth; of what colour or length you list, and neuer any thing seene to be therein.
To kill a Hen, chicken or Capon and giue it life againe.
To eate a Knife, and to fetch it forth of another place.
To thrust a bodkin through your head, without any hurt.
To cut halfe your nose in sunder, and to heale it againe presently without any salue.
To put a Ring through your cheeke.
How an Alcumister cousoned a priest.
A merry tale how a cosoning Alcumist deceaued a country Gentleman.
A Charme to be said each morning by a Witch fasting, or at least before she goe abroade.
An olde womans Charme wherewith she did much good in the cuntrie and grew famous thereby.
A slouenly Charme for sore eies.

Wherein is deciphered, all the
conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling,
how they are effected, & wherin
they chiefly consist.

Cautions to beware of cheating
at Cardes and Dice.

The detection of the beggerly Art
of Alcumistry,
&,
The foppery of foolish cousoning Charmes.

All tending to mirth and recreation, especially
for those that desire to haue the insight and
priuate practise thereof.

By S.R.

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Quod noua testa capit, Inueterata sapit.
1612.

TO THE INGENIOVS GENTLEMAN,
and my louing father, Mr.
WILLIAM BVBB.

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This short conceipt, that I haue writ of late,
To you kinde Father BVBB, I dedicate,
Not that I meane heereby (good sir) to teach,
For I confesse, your skills beyond my reach:
But since before with me much time you spent,
Good reason then, first fruits I should present:
That thankefull The nature of this Bird is: that building her nest vnder the couer of houses (as the Swallow doth with vs) leaue euer behinde her for the owner of the house, one young one, in token of her thankfulnesse: and as I may say, for pawne of her rent. Bird that leaues one young behinde,
Ensamples me, to bear a thankefull minde:
Vngratefull he, that thankes can not repay
To him, that hath deseru'd it euery way:
Accept (kinde Sir) my loue, that being doone,
I aske no more, desire no other Boone.

Your Lo: sonne in all loue,
SA: RID.

TO HIS LOVING FRIEND AND
adopted Sonne Mr. Sa: Rid.

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Most worthy sonne,

Your labour and obseruance heerein, with the gift of your first fruits, is both worthy commendations and acceptance: and to cherrish you further in this your discouery, I will giue an addition to your second treatise. So I leaue you to God: and belieue you, not a more louing friend then,

William Bubb.

To the curteous Reader.

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There goeth a prety Fable of the Moone: On a time she earnestly besought her mother to prouide her a garment, comely and fit for her body: how can that bee sweete daughter (quoth the mother) sith that your body neuer keepes it selfe at one staye, nor at one certaine estate, but changeth euery day in the month, nay euery houre? The application heereof needes no interpretation: Fantasie and foolery who can please? and desire who can humour? no Camelion changeth his coulour as affection, nor any thing so variable a Populus Chorus Fluuius.

I would with all my heart, euery Author that had done no better then I haue, had done no worse: and it were to be wished that some caprichious Coxecombes, with their desperate wits, were not so forward to disbowell the entrails of their own ouerweening, singular, infectious, & pestiferous thoughts, as I knowe some.

But I cannot stand all day nosing of Candlestickes; meane time beare with a plaine man: whatsoeuer I haue now done, I hope no exception can be taken, it is for your mirth and recreation (and I pray you so take it.) let such as will needes barke at the Moone, yell till their hearts ake: Gentle and Gentlemens spirits, wil take all kindely that is kindely presented.

Yours in loue
S.R.

The
Art of Iugling or
Legerdemaine.

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Heretofore we haue runne ouer the two pestiferous carbuncles in the commonwealth, the Egyptians and common Canters: the poore Canters we haue canuased meetely well, it now remaines to proceede where I left, ond to goe forward with that before I promised: St. Quintane be my good speede, I know I haue runne thorow the hands of many, censured of diuers, & girded at not of a few: But humanity is euer willinger to loue then hate: curtesie much forwarder to commend then dispraise: clemency infinitely proner to absolue then to cõdemn. Is it not possible to find sauery hearbs amõg netles, roses among prickles, berries among bushes, marrow among bones, grain among stubble, and a little corne among a great deale of chaffe? In the rankest and strongest poysons, pure and sweet balmes may be distilled, and some matter or other worthy to be remembred may be embraced, whosoeuer is Author. There is nothing so exceeding foolish but hath bene defended by some wise man, nor any thing so passing wise, but hath bene confuted by some foole: Tut, St. Barnard saw not all things, and the best cart may eftsoones ouerthrow: That curld pate Rufus that goes about with Zoylus to carpe and finde fault, must bring the Standard of iudgement with him, and make wisedome the moderater of his wit, otherwise they may be like to purchase to themselues the worshipfull names of Dunces and Dottipoles. So much by the way.

These kinde of people about an hundred yeares agoe, about the twentith yeare of King Henry the eight, began to gather an head, at the first heere about the Southerne parts, and this (as I am informed) and as I can gather, was their beginning.