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. 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._