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the paines. Another as fabulous and ridiculous as that, 

 is this, which some have set downe, that glasse being 

 boyled in the juice of groundsel and the blood of a ramme 

 or goate, will become as soft as wax, fit to be made into 

 any forme, which being put into cold water will come to 

 be harde againe." Could we only believe in the possi- 

 bility of such a recipe, a fine career of usefulness would 

 be open to both " goates " and groundsel ; in the meantime 

 it is a welcome food to small birds, and a source of end- 

 less vexation to the generality of mankind. 



