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Ledgerdemain, as to bestow the same ball of thread, and ⟨to⟩ change it from place to place, betwixt your ⟨other⟩ fingers, as may be easily done, then it will ⟨seem⟩ very strange.
How to pull innumerable Ribbons out of your Mouth, of what colour you please.
As for pulling ribbons out of your mouth, it is ⟨somewhat⟩ a stale jest, whereby jugglers get money from maids by selling laces by the yard, ⟨putting⟩ into their mouth one round bottom as fast ⟨as⟩ they pull out another, and at the exact end of ⟨every⟩ yard they tie a knot so as the same rests ⟨upon⟩ their teeth, they then cut off the same, and ⟨to⟩ the beholders are double and treble deceived, ⟨seeing⟩ as much lace as will fill a hat, and the ⟨name⟩ of what colour you list; to be drawn so by ⟨even⟩ yards out of your mouth, and yet the juggler to talk as though there were nothing in his mouth.
Put a piece of lead into one of the neither lids of your eye, as big as a tag of a point, but not so long, which you may do without danger, and with a little juggling stick, one end thereof being hollow, seen to thrust the like piece of lead under the other eyelid, but convey the same, indeed, into the hollowness of the stick, the stepple or peg thereof may be privately kept in your hand until this feat be done: then seem to drive the
