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 Legerdemain, as to bestow the same ball of thread and to change it from place to place, betwixt your other fingers, as may be easily done, then it will seem very strange.

How to pull innumerable Ribbons out of your Mouth, of what colour you please.

As for pulling ribbons out of your mouth, it is somewhat a stale jest, whereby jugglers get money from maids by selling laces by the yard putting into their mouth one round bottom as fast as they pull out another, and at the exact end of every yard they tie a knot so as the same rests upon their teeth, they then cut off the same, and so the beholders are double and treble decived, seeing as much lace as will fill a hat, and the same of what colour you list; to be drawn so by even yards out of your mouth, and yet the juggler to talk as though there were nothing in his mouth.

Put a piece of lead into one of the neither lids of your eye, as big as a tag of a point, but not so long which you may do without danger, and with a little juggling stick one end thereof being hollow, seem to thurstthrust [sic] the like piece of lead under the other eyelid, but convey the same, indeed, into the hollownes of the stick, the steeple or peg thereof may be privately kept in your hand untill this feat be done; then seem to drive the