Hocus Pocus; or The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection. / By which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher. Together with the Use of all the Instruments belonging thereto.

by Henry Dean

Silver is something dear.

I’ll turn them in gold, if I live, &c.

No equivocation at all:

But if your eyes are not as quick as my hands

I shall deceive you all.

View them within,

View them all round about,

Where there is nothing in,

There’s nothing can come out.

Then take your four balls privately between your fingers, and so sling one of them upon the table, and say thus,