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    How to Prevent Drunkenness, 1653

    How to prevent drunkenness. Drink first a good large draught of Sallet Oyl…

    How to Feed Your Child, 1692

    How to Remove a Tattoo, c. 500

    They call stigmata things inscribed on the face or some other part of the body…

    How to Survive Your Studies, 1576

    We see many great and painfull Studentes, still sitting at their Bookes…

    How to Stockpile Lobsters, 1660

    Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Lobster (1781)

    How to Invite a Man Home, 1642

    To invite one home. Sir, I have often desired your company at home…

    How to Make a Cooked Bird Sing, c. 1450

    To make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter…

    How to Serve a Live Bird at a Feast, c. 1450

    Get a chicken or any other bird you want, and pluck it alive cleanly in hot water…

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