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

As for pulling ribbons out of your mouth, it is a stale jest, whereby jugglers get money from maids by selling laces by the yard,  into their mouth one round bottom as fast  they pull out another, and at the exact end of  yard they tie a knot so as the same rests  their teeth, they then cut off the same, and  the beholders are double and treble deceived,  as much lace as will fill a hat, and the  of what colour you list; to be drawn so by  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, seen to thrust the like piece of lead under the other eyelid, but convey the same, indeed, into the hollowness of the stick, the stepple or peg thereof may be privately kept in your hand until this feat be done: then seem to drive the