You may make Partridges, Duckes, and other birds drunke, so that you may take them with your hand: if you set blacke wine for them to drinke in those places whereunto they resort.
Another.
Take Tormentill, and boile it in good wine: put into it Barley or other graine: Sprinckle this in those places you haue appointed to take Birds in, and the Birds will eate the pieces amongst the graine, which will make them so drunke, that they cannot flye away. This should be done in the winter; and when it is a deepe snow.
Another way to take Birds.
Make a paste of barley meale, onion blades, and Henbane seeds; set the same upon seuerall little boards, or pieces of tiles, or such like, for the birds to eate of it.
How to make Brasse white for ever.
Take Egge shels, and burne them in a melting pot: then powder them, and temper them with the whites of Egges; let it stand so three weekes: heate your brasse red hot, and put this upon it.
How to make Marble.
Take ℥ vj. of quicke Lime, put it into a pot, and poure upon it, one pinte of good wine: let it stand fiue or sixe dayes, stirring it once or twice a day: then poure off the cleare, and therewith temper flint stones calcined, and made into fine powder, then colour it, and make of it what you please, and let them dry.
How to whiten copper.