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23 knot with the left hand, in doing whereof you must suddenly slip out the end or corner, putting up the knot of your handkerchief with your forefinger and thumb, as you would put up the aforesaid knot of your bridle; then deliver the same covered and wrapt within the midst of the handkerchief to one to hold fast, and after pronouncing some words of art, take the handkerchief and shake it, and it will be loose.

This feat is one of the greatest that the jugglers have done, and is inferior to none. To do this, you must go to some tinman, or any body that knows how to make your holes room enough for a die to go in and out, and then let them clap a good halfpenny upon them all, and so make them fast, and nobody can tell them from true ones; then you must get a cap to cover your half-pence, a cap and a die for the company to sling to amuse them; when you are thus provided with half-pence, a cap, and a die, the manner of pcrformanceperformance [sic] is thus; desire any body in the company to lend seven half-pence, telling them that you will soon return them their own again; then say, 'Gentlemen,’ this is made just fit for your money; then clapping your cap on, desircdesire [sic] somebody in the company, to fling that die to see what they can fling, and in so doing take off the cap,