How to take smoake of Tobacco through a glasse of water.
First fill a pinte glasse with a wide mouth, almost full of faire water: fill also a pipe of Tobacco, and put the pipe upright into the glasse of water, so that the end of the pipe may almost touch the bottome of the glasse: then take another crooked pipe, and put it into the glasse, but let the end thereof not touch the water: waxe then the mouth of the glasse, that no ayre may come in nor out, but at the pipes: then put fire unto the Tobacco, and sucke with your mouth, at the end of the crooked pipe, and you shall see the smoake of the Tobacco penetrate the water, and breake out of a bubble, and so come into your mouth.
To colour Ivory or any other bones, of an excellent greene colour.
Take aqua fortis, wherein dissolue as much Copper, as the said water is able, then let the bones that you would have coloured, lye in the same all night, and they will be like a Smaragdin colour: Mizaldus.
How to make birds drunke, so that you may take them with your hands.
Take such meate as they loue, as Wheate, Barley, and lay the same to steepe in the lees of Wine, or else in the juyce of Hemlockes, and sprinckle the same in places where Birds use to haunt.
A way to catch Crowes.
Take the Liuer of a Beast, and cut it in diuers pieces, put then into each piece, some of the powder of nux vomica, and lay these pieces of Liuer in places where Crowes and Rauens haunt. Anon after they haue eaten them, you may take them with your hands, for they cannot flye away.
How to take Crowes or Pigeons.
Take white Pease, and steepe them eight or nine daies in the Gall of an Oxe: then cast the same where they use to haunt.