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EGERDEMAIN is an operation one may seem to work wonderful, impossible, and incredible things, by agility, nimbleness, and sleight of hand.

1. He must be one of a bold and resolution, so as to set a good face upon the ter.

2. He must have strange terms, and words to grace and adorn his actions; and more to amaze and astonish the beholders.

3. And lastly, He must use such body, as may take off the spectators' eyes  strict and diligent-beholding his manner of.

Desire any one of the spectators to lend knife, which when you get hold of, so