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6 little blood be sprinkled on his face the sight will be stranger. This is commonly with a boy instructed for that purpose, who being familiar and conversant with eompanycompany [sic], may be known as well by his face as by his apparel. In the other end of the table, where the like hole is made, another boy of the bigness of the known boy must be placed, having on his usual apparel: he must lean or lie upon the board, and must put his head under the board, through the side hole, so as the body shall seem to lie on the end of the board, and his head lie in a plate on the other end. There are other things which might be performed in this action, the more to astonish the beholders, whiehwhich [sic], because they require long desecriptionsdescriptions [sic], I omit; as to put about his neekneck [sic] a little dough kneaded with bulloek'sbullock’s [sic] blood, which, being cold, will appear like dead flesh, and being pricked with a sharp round hollow quill will bleed and seem very strange; and many rules are to be observed herein, as to have the table-cloth so long and so wide as it may almost reach the ground.—Note, suffer not the company to stay too long in the place.

Three eggs are brought out, two of them are put on a table, and the third in a hat: a little cane is borrowed from one of the company, and it is shown about to convineeconvince [sic] the spectators that