How to make fire Drakes

You muſt take a peece of linnen cloth of a yard or more in length; it muſt bee cut after the forme of a pane of glaſſe; faſten two light ſtickes croſſe the ſame, to make it ſtand at

breadth; then ſmeare it over with linſeed oyle, and liquid varniſh tempered together, or else wet it with oyle of peter, and unto the longeſt corner faſten a match prepared with ſalpeter water (as I have taught before) upon which you may faſten divers crackers, or Sauciſſons; betwixt every of which, binde a knot of paper ſhavings, which will make it flye the better; within a quarter of a yard of the cloth, let there bee bound a peece of prepared ſtoupell*, the one end whereof, let touch the cloth, and the other

enter into the end of a Sauciſſon: then tie a ſmall rope of length ſufficient to rayſe it unto what heighth you shall deſire, and to guide it withall: then fire the match, and rayſe it againſt the winde in an open field; and as the match burneth, it will fire the crackers, and ſauciſſons, which will give blowes in the ayre; and when the fire is once come unto the ſtoupell, that will fire the cloth, which will ſhew very ſtrangely and fearefully.