ashes in an Urinall well luted distill the Spirits and flegme from it so that a dry matter be left in the bottom of the Vessel take out that and set it into a moyst place which in a short time will wholly be dissolved leaving some earthliness of no value take this Liquor set it in Sand so that the humidity being dissolved into fumes may have a dry matter behind Take it out of the Vessel add a triple quantity of Spirit of Wine to it or Aqua-vitae which is thrice rectifyed Set it on circulating in a gentle heat for a moneth either into a balny or at the Sun and it will yield some Sediment separate the clear by inclination and in a balny separate the Spirit and Phlegme and in the bottom of the Vessel remaineth the Magisterie in the form of a mucilaginious Oyl and this is the true Prima Materia and thus you have the Magisterie of Coralls which looketh very white but the Magisterie of Pearls cometh near to the colour of Gold Thus you may proceed with all precious Stones which our Menstruum dissolveth into a clear water The Vertues of these Magisteriums cannot so easily be described Their Dose is from three grains to five and the use of it may be continued as long as there is need of and that without danger It is ministred in Wine Broth or distilled water Electuary or Confections even as the Physitian shall see it convenient The great Magistery of Vitriol This Magistery is made by meanes of the four Principall Operations which are distillation dissolution Sublimation and Circulation The first operation produceth this Liquor Take of Roman Vitriol or any other which is good as much as you please distill it in a retort extracting onely the spirit and water and increase your fire as much as you can so that at last nothing appear more in the neck of the Retort then let the Receiver grow could take out the Liquor and keep it take out the feces also or the Colchotar for the following separation The second operation produceth the Salt Take the foresaid Colchotar pulverise it very subtilly dissolve it in common water and extract according to Art all its Salt so that all the sharpness be gotten out of the Colchotar Calcine this Salt dissolve and coagulate it five times so that it be very well rectified still adding the Colchotar left to the other but keep the Salt The third operation produceth Sulpher Take the foresaid Colchotar burn it in a great Crucible then pulverise it very subtilly and add a third part of that quantity of Salt Armonick incorporate these two very well then sublime it very well luted in an Urinall observing the degrees of fire and there will appear in the Alembick a yellowish matter continue the fire when no more fumes come forth out of the Urinall then let it cool take out the sublimed matter put it into common water warmed that the Salt Armonick be extracted separate the clear water from the Sediment iterate this as often till all the Salt Armonick be extracted and in the bottom will remain the Sulphur of Vitriol of a green colour which being dryed keep it The fourth Operation affordeth the Magisterium Take all the former Liquor the Salt and Sulphur joyn these three in a Circulatory very well luted circulate it in a Balny for a Sennite then separate the cleare and distill it in an Alembick in a Balny so that all the water come over in the bottom there will remain a green Liquor which containeth Salt Sulpher and Mercury of Vitrioll which keep for it is the true Magisterie of Vitriol The Compound water of Vitriol Take the separated water in the Balny from the said Magisterie and to each pound of it add the following Ingredients viz. take of rectâ—fied Aqua-vitae two ounces of the Root of Peonie half an ounce of red Roses of Palm Marjoram of each one Pugill put all into a Balny into a Circulatory for 24. houres then strain the Liquor which will be very red then add to each pound of these the following things of Cranium humanum one ounce of Spodium half an ounce of Camphore half a dram of Saffron half a scruple of Ambergrease two grains put all these into a Glasse and circulate it for six weeks continually then separate by inclination the subtile from the thick which keep in a Glasse well luted And this is the most pretious Liquor which worketh marvellously in all the Spices of Convulsions and is administred in the following way The use of the Magistery of Vitriol and its Compound Water If you intend to administer such noble Medicaments which are of such an admirable efficacy in the Falling-sickness then this Order ought to be observed Before you begin you must expect the new Moon because this Disease is then in its vigour and then you must proceed in the following manner First the sick party must be kept from all such meats and Sents which occasion and cause such a Disease However Wine must not altogether be prohibited Secondly you must make an Aromatick and vitriolized water to be his Diet-drink when ever he is thirsty between meales in the mornings fasting you are to give three or five drops according to the constitution of the party if our green Magisterie with half a dram of the compound water in Marjoram Wine then the strife will begin against the Disease and will cause a Vomit to the party of clear water refresh him after four houres are past Thirdly the fit must be observed and alwayes when the fit is past you must minister unto him one scruple of the Compound vitriolised water with Marjoram Wine and if the fit cometh often then you ought to minister but half a dose continuing it till the Disease be diminished which will be about the new Moon At last when you see it needfull minister the Magisterie once more in brief he that will undertake to cure such a Disease must be a Physitian and not a Woman The Compound Liquor of the vitriolised Tartar This Lemmon Liquor by reason of its temperature may very well be used to severall infirmities and to all such persons where there is need of opening subtiliating mundifying and consolidating and it worketh by sweat and Urine Take of white crude Tartar of Viscous Vitriol of each two drams beat these two together distill them in a Retort as much as possible you can then let the stilling-Vessels grow cold and take the Liquor out of the Receiver which is muddy and stinking poure it on again to the Caput mort in a new Retort well luted apply a Receiver and distill again iterate this work a third time so that the Liquor be as clear as water weigh the Liquor add half its quantity of rectified Aqua-vitae to it then take of albified Vitriol and calcined Tartar of each 20. ounces put all these into a Retort adding to it all the Liquor distill as long as any water and Spirits run over then let the Vessels grow cold and keep that Liquor in a well stopt glass to which add the following matters Therefore take the said Liquor and add to each pound three drachms of Sassafras of white Ginger two drachms of Galanga of Treacle of Andromachus one dram and half of Orientall Suffraca six grains of Ambergreece and Musk of each 3. grains Put all these into a glass circulate for six weeks in a warm place or in the Sun then separate the subtile from the thick by inclination or decauting and keep it as a Jewel The Vegitable Salt Take the Caput mort of the said Tartar and Vitriol extract its Salt with distill'd common water coagulate away one moity and let it grow cold to the bottomward you see the transparent salt like Cristal then coagulate the water more and let it grow cold continue it so long till all the salt be gotten out which keep for a Medicinal use The use of the Compound Liquor of Tartar This Liquor may be used safely against all manner of obstructions of the body and it is a Specificum against the Pox. But its particular operations are against the Sciatica Gout in the hands Chollick Illiac Passion and against the torments and gripings in the Belly The manner of the using of it is this You must take mornings an hour before day in the best Wine then the party must abide in the bed for half an hour then let him take warm broth and the party will begin to sweat all the body over which cometh very easily After two or three hours sweating let him shift himself and rise out of the bed and eat some restorative And this may be used twenty or thirty times more or less as you shall see occasion using every fifth day a moderate purgative in this manner many Chronical Infirmities are cured It s dose is from two drams to 3. drams in Wine and the oftner the party maketh use of the better it will be for him for it removeth all peccant matter and reneweth the blood of the whole body The use of the Vegitable Salt This Salt may be ministred with such things which work and operate against the gravel in the Reins and the Stone in the bladder because it is very proper for such diseases It s dose is half a dram at once A Specificum against the Cholick Take of the spirit of Juniper and spirit of Turpentine pour it on St. Johns-wort press it out add more of the fresh Flowers to it till it be very red one scruple of it taken in broth is an approved Medicament against the Cholick If St. Johns-wort be digested in spirit of Wine for a moneth then its pretious oyl will swim at the top The green oyl of Vitriol Take of Vitriol 2. pound put it in an Urinal in a balny for a month let it be dissolved into a transparant green Liquor its combustible Sulphur remaineth in the bottom decaut the Liquor from the phlegme rectifie it in a balny then you have the purging green oyl wherewith you may cure the Falling-sickness FINIS
its own specifical and natural form therefore it is called the secret Fire of nature stirring up the compound and perfecting it in our Glasse into a Stone in like manner as seed by reason of its own proper naturall heat and radicall moisture if its mother Earth doth putrifie to admirable Generation and Multiplication Whosoever therefore keeps not this our heat our fire our balnium our invisible and most temperate flame and of one regiment and continually burning in one quality and measure within our Glasse I say whosoever understands not this Dunghill horsebelly and moist fire shall labour in vain and shall never attain this Science Thou seest therefore that the radical humidity which is that first vegetable Vertue is the cause of multiplication of every thing in its kind Therefore of the Composition of Sol and Lune take our burning water that Aqua vite which the ignorant do think but falsly to be extracted from Wine Oyl and such like Liquors I say such green Sol and Lune in which the vegetable vertue is not extinguished but is living hot and moist and hath power to reduce all Bodies to their vegetability for by this with Gods permission bodies extinct and not multipliable may more easily get the habit and vertue to germinate which of Phylosophers is called the beginning and tearm from whence the Stone is generated Marie the Prophetesse in an Epistle to Aron writeth That the Body taken from little Mountains is a Body white and clear not suffering putrefaction nor motion and it is that which is generated between Male and Female By those little Mountains is understood Sol and Lune which are naturally separated from us by a great distance by whose influence Gold and Silver are generated both which are in our Mercury By Male and Female we understand Agent and Patient Active and Passive both which are also in our active Mercury and in our Passive Earth Whereby without doubt is inferred that a mineral Earth and Water are the Active and Passive matter as the Philosophers Stone And here hence appears that community between the Poor and Rich seeing that the Stone may be made of one thing without visible Sol and Lune But here by the way I advertise thee that betwixt the Elixer and the Stone there is this difference for the Stone rejoyceth in unity and simplicity but the Elixer in plurality The Stone therefore is one thing our Mercury Sol Lune our Lincture white and red which may be naturally joyned with its own proper Earth or with the Earth taken from the little Mountains and may easily be obtained by mortal men But the Elixer is the same vegetable Mercury which yet by reason of its fixation is said not to be common but consisting of many things for it is absolutely fix'd in the Earth of common Sol and Lune And therefore it alwayes consisteth of many things viz. of Mercury vegetable and of a different Earth which is neither Common nor fit for poor men But of this Earth it is not much to be respected of what substance it is so it be fix'd Alphidius is of the same Opinion saying The Faeces from whence this Earth is taken seeing it is of no value is altogether to be rejected and the Mercury to be planted in another subtil Earth For it s own Earth is seldom natural in the composition of the Elixer Yet my Friend I will name it to thee by its own Name whereby the common People name it and it is the end of the Egg whereby we understand the nature of Mettals viz. Mercury rightly mix'd by Nature with its own sulphur of its own accord inclined by pntrefaction and growing From this Egg three things must be considered namely The Yolk the White and the Shell and this last is only and altogether necessary for Phylosophers which is called the end of the Egg that is the last part rejoycing in perfection having the likeness of a little Mountain and also generated between Male and Female which when it is perfectly calcined it exceeds all Earths whatsoever in whiteness and subtilty enduring the greatest fire embracing Tincture and desiring a metal in Nature which is hardly believed of Workers in the Art unless they being overcome by experience the Mistress of things that they be compelled to confess and admire it But another Earth wherein there is any Mercurial humidity will not drink up our Mercury with so much greediness and therefore it is not so commodious the reason is because it aboundeth with its proper and natural humidity but this hath non such for its humidity was naturally transferred to the generation and union of the White and the Yolk Yet we deny not that this vertue is necessary yet profitable for the preservation of man's Body which is derived from the outward parts to the inward yet so as it be mixed with the Elixer of life this Earth is wholly contemned when the matter included is corrupted and is cast out on the Dunghill and every where troden under foot and accounted unprofitable Sometimes I desiring to try whether it would joyn with our unctious humidity I put it thereto which it drunk up with so great appetite as that it seemed spongious a most fat congealation rather then an Earth naturally naked from which when I had gently evoparated Mercury it remained very Citron Here I will end and shew what matter and what way of practice is necessary for this Work and Art Of the Practick and Operative Part. In the Name of God take a Drop of the Green Lyon which I have mentioned before and dissolve him in distill'd Vinegar very well for ten dayes stirring the Compound strongly three times every day that it may be well mixed then separate the Foeces three times by filter afterward evaporate the Vineger with a gentle fire untill it be thick as Pitch then pour it out and keep it safe Having 12 pounds of the Green Lyon thus brought into Gum thou may'st believe that thou hast seen Earth of Earth and the Brother of Earth whereof Phylosophers have so often spoken put thereof three pound into a Glass whose third part may contain at least four Sextaries of Wine put it into a Furnace with Sand so as the Sand may be two fingers thick under the Glass and about and above the Matter then the matter being a little dryed with a gentle heat put a Receiver not yet luted thereto after a few hours having received a certain light Water when thou seest a certain white Fume begin to ascend put thereto another most long most large Receiver which lay close least the Spirits break forth which are most necessary in this Work Note also that from the first appearing of the White Fume the fire must be discreetly increased by little and little This same tingeth the Receiver with a certain thick and milky humidity which is our Lune and therewith shal also ascend a most red oyl called the Philosophers acreal Gold
a stinking Menstruum the Philosophers Sol our Tincture Burning water the Blood of Green Lyon our unctious humidity which is the last comfort of Man's Body in this Life the Philosophers Mercury the Solutive Water which dissolveth Sol under conservation of its Species it hath also many other Names Continue this Distillation from the first appearance of the white Fume 12 hours following then remove the Receiver and stop it close lest the Spirits be lost which are very volatile and penetrative And thus thou hast the Bloud of the Green Lyon called The Secret Water and most sharp Vinegar by which all Bodies may be reduced to their first Matter and purgeth Man's Body from all Infirmities This is our Fire alwayes equally burning in one measure within the Glass and not without This is our Dung-hill our Aqua-vitae our Balmy our Horse-belly working and producing many Wonders in the most secret Work of Nature It is also the Examiner of all Bodies dissolved and not dissolved a Fire hot and moist most sharp a Water-carrying Fire in its Belly otherwise it could not have power to dissolve Bodies into their first Matter This is our Mercury our Sol our Lune which we use in our Secret Work Take the Foeces left in the bottom as soon as they are cold for they are our Cross-Bill far blacker then Pitch which thou may'st set on fire by putting a kindled Cole into it so as they shall be calcined of their own accord into a most Yellow Earth But this Calcination sufficeth not for its perfect cleansing put it therefore into a Reverberatory with a moderate heat for eight dayes and so many Nights following increasing the heat and flame till it be white as Snow they may also be calcined in a Potters Furnace being meanly hot Having this white Earth thou may'st putrifie and alter it or the Calxes of other Metals prepared as I will teach you in that which followeth at thy pleasure into a new Whiteness or Redness by meanes of our Lune or Mercury which putrifieth with them by Generation and Vegetation which Properties they wanted before for the Phylosophers say first calcine then putrifie and dissolve distill sublime descent and fix often with our Aquavitae wash and dry and make a Marriage between the Body and the Spirit and if the Water be congealed by a natural commixture with the Body then the Body shall dye of the Flux shedding its bloud and putting on many Colours after the third Day he shall ascend and descend first to the Moon then to the Sun through the round Ocean Sea and without end sitting in a very little Ship and when his Journey is ended he shall immediately obtain the Victory for doing whereof there shall not need any great expence And thus thou may'st wait again patiently the Harvest and thou should be fill'd with Joy and Riches And now we will speak of Putrefaction Take an ounce of this Calx hidden before in the Philosophers eg and thereon put of the red tincture to cover it two fingers then seal it and set it to putrifie eight daies in a most cold place which being ended it will drink up the humidity again pour on as much of the tincture and let it stand as before for other eight daies continuing again the said imbibitions and times let it stand till it cease to drink any more tincture remove it not from its place untill it be blacker then any pitch which being seen set it into a natural balmy that the moisture with the black Earth may be digested and fixed into a white Mineral then divide it into two equal parts and work the one for the white and the other for the red stone which thou shalt thus easily perform Ferment the one part with the oyl of Lune that is with white water and the other part with the oyl of Sol that is with the red water and so by greater heat and digestion it shall be converted into a most red powder like Dragons blood This powder being joyned with a part of our Mercury and circulated is called Aurum Potabile Elixer of life and of Mettalls which transmuteth Mercury and all imperfect mettals into most perfect Sol. But here learn a general Rule If thou ordain the Elixer only for the white then keep one part of the red work distill the other part with a gentle fire taking the white water which we call our white tincture our Eagle our white Mercury and Virgins milk and having these two Mercuries thou mayst practise with them either upon their own Earths or upon the calxes of Mettals prepared For it is said The Earth is not much to be respected so that it be fix'd Therefore take which thou wilt being first altered into whiteness and for the white work you may ferment thus Take the Calx of Lune and Earth altered equall parts grind them together and temper them with white Mercury named Virgins milk which keep safe sublime the rest not fixed and that which ariseth to the sides of the glass like Mercury sublimed reiterate upon his proper calxes grinding and tempering with our Virgins milk distilling and subliming as before untill no fire will raise it This our Mercury sublimed and fixed made of the white Earth of bodies altered arising at first admirably by the vertue and help of water This is that Mercury instead of which the unlearned take the compounded of common Mercury Vitriol and Sol sublimed wherein they are deceived when this is thus fixed into white earth it is afterward calcined whereof is made an Elixer or stone as followeth Put it into a circulatorie and pour thereon Virgins milk to cover it then circulate it to the thickness of oyl by drying and calcining it as often as thou wilt for by this means it may be augmented infinitely But before thou make projection congeal it into an oily powder one part thereof converts thousand nay ten thousand parts of Argent vive and the other Mettals into pure Lune enduring all trialls In like manner thou shalt work with the Red Water upon the calx of Metals by fermenting and subliming upon the calx of Sol altered And note That thou canst have no perfect ferment untill it be altered with Mercurie from their first qualities into a new whitenesse and rednesse by means of Putrifaction and alteration which before it wanted But when after putrifaction it shall be reduced into Whiteness then it becomes spiritual and is more apt to joyn better with our Mercurie sublimed naturally and by the least parts and also to be fixed together inseparably which would not be so naturall if one part were fixed and the other part to be separated Moreover when spirits have not vertue to penetrate bodies nor bodies appetite to imbrace spirits it is impossible that they should be joyned by their least parts But contrarily when ferments are made spirituall then spirits will joyn with spirits and the body which was most perfectly fix'd is naturally disposed
and inclined to return to his former fixation which without doubt cannot possibly be in bodies which were never perfectly fix'd but the body before fixation desiring a solid habit and fixation draweth with him and into his disposition all spirits whatsoever which are joyned with him and not degenerating as Sulphur vive Arsnick sublimed Bole-Armonick and such like Common Mercury sublimed may very well be joyned with spiritual ferments which with calx of ferment not altered wiâ—l never be perfectly joyned Therefore this part of natural Phylosophie excludeth all citrinations and dealbations which were not produced by a perfect alteration before the tincture were joyned to their bodies and spirits For nothing can be made an Elixer untill it hath pass'd the Philosophical Wheel which being unknown all labour comes to nothing Of the abbreviation of the Work Wherein almost all Elixers are contained and the wayes to make them The First Abbreviation TAke Vitriol calcine it into ashes then beat them into most subtile powder put them in an Urinal and pour thereto Virgins Milk to cover them stop the Urinal with a Linnen cloth and let it stand eight dayes then adde thereto as much of the aforesaid Milk reiterating this from eight dayes to eight dayes and when it will drink no more let it stand in a cold place close stopt untill a certain Cristalline earth like Fishes eyes appear in the upper part thereof which separate from the gross part remaining in the bottom which put into the Philosophers Egg to digest discreetly untill it be perfectly fixed Then increase the fire till it be perfect yellow and then again increase the fire until it be red as Dragons blood Then add to this a part of red Mercury to cover it and congeal it by circulation into Oyl and afterward into Powder and do thus three times Project one part of this Powder upon forty of most pure Lune melted with one part of most fine Sol and it shall be converted into most pure Sol or if you project it upon Amalgum of Mercury and Sol or of Mercury and Lune it shall be more certain and more plentifull But if thou wilt have Gold most perfect and most high take the Elixer out of the Egg put it in an Urinal and poure upon of the foresaid red Mercury equally compounded and mixed with a strong Corrasive made of Vitriol and Sulphur which evaporate from the Elixer with a most gentle fire and by this means the tincture of the one water and of the other shall be fixed with the Elixer by augmenting its quantity and colour which being often repeated the Elixer shall be converted into the form of Oyl in which if you quench Lamins of Lune nealed they shall be throughout ting'd into most perfect Sol which being melted with a part of most pure Gold it shall be purer then any common Gold But if you take as much of the white Earth of Mars altered as before of Vi Vitriol fixing it upon the calx of Sol altered and afterward rubified and then convert it into Oyl as before with the said compounded water thou shalt have a great Elixer converting every Metall into most pure Gold This work may be done in twelve weeks but it is not good for the health of Mans body In the same manner with the ferment of Lune altered thou mayst fix the white Earth of Vitriol and of Mars altered which are reduced into Oyl with the foresaid Virgins Milk being equally mixed with water of common Mercury sublimed fixed and calcined so hast thou the best Elixer to convert all Bodies into most pure Lune The Second Abbreviation IF thou canst artificially prepare the aforesaid white or red water thou mayst farr sooner attain the end of the work First therefore fix Mercury sublimed and calcine it and then dissolve it in the other Mercury white or red untill they be made one water purifie this water three weeks and it will alter the calxes of any Metall for in this work is joyned a twofold Water namely natural and against nature The way to fix Mercury sublimed is thus First sublime Mercury if there be half a pound of it joyn hereto half a pound of Saltpeter and as much of Vitriol grinding and tempering the mixture with distilled Acetum till all become like white Paste when they are thus incorporated sublime seven times that of his own accord he may be clear then fix it in this manner put two or three pound in a long receiver stop the mouth place it in ashes so as the Globe may be wholly covered the first week give it a gentle fire the second week stronger and the third most strong this done it shall be very well fixed Again dissolve it in Virgins Milk after the foresaid way and order if thou wantest money thou mayst obtain a branch or particular in farr shorter time Thus take the foresaid white compoundèd Mercury and fix it upon the calx of Lune not altered by circulating it thereon and when one part is fixed add more repeating it often untill the calx it self melt like Butter on a fiery Cole One part thereof projected upon ten of Mercury purged maketh good Lune for Vessels and Houshold-Ornaments This self-same way thou mayst handle our red Mercuries composition being made as before with the said water extracted from Mercury sublimed fixed calcined and dissolved in the said red Water so as it be then calcined upon the calx of Sol not altered and thou hast the best tincture to convert Lune into Sol whereof Rings and other things may be made The Third Abbreviation PUt into a Circulatory an ounce of the calx of the Egg-shells very well reverberated and pour thereon of white or red Mercury to cover it then nip the glass or stop it close with lute made of powder of Iron Vitriol and Honey well boyled together circulating in balnco till it be dryed up into powder This done pour in more observing the same order untill it be made oyl This converts Mercury and the other Metalls into most perfect Sol and Lune according to the nature and disposition of the Elixer After the same manner thou mayst circulate our Mercury upon the Calxes of Metals There can be no way shorter than this for if thou put an ounce of calx of Sol with Mercury before likewise fixed and pour thereto as much red Mercury as may cover the calx two fingers breadth then stop it close with Paste compounded with Hony Bolearmenick and Iron dust mix'd and strongly tempered and boyled till it be stiff and black Then set the circulatory in a Furnace and with gentle heat digest the red Mercury into a red and fixed calx then adde thereto as much more of that Mercury circulate and dry it as before till the Calx have drunk as much Mercury as it can and be converted into a thick blackish oyl and so thou hast an Elixer which converts ten parts of Mercury purged and heated into a most
of that Earth which lyeth waste in the Field found every where in Moorish grounds into which the Astrals ejaculate their operations being adorned with all manner of Colours appearing like a Rainbow extract from it its purest and subtillest This is the Universal Menstruum for all and is all in all V. Take of the Oar of Sol and Mercurie a like quantity grinde each very well pour on it the Spirit of Mercurie that it stand over 3. fingers deep dissolve and digest it in a gentle warmth VI. Take of the best Vitriol or of the Vitriol of Venus drive their Spirits in a Retort white and red with this red Spirit being rectified and sweetned you may ferment and inbibe the subtile Gold Calx and with the white Spirit you may dissolve it after it hath been purified VII Take quick Mercurie purifie and dissolve it so long in alcolisated spirit of Wine till its impurity be separated from it and become into its extream transparent easie fluid essence like unto the white gluten of the Eagle and capable to receive the blood of the Red Lyon VIII Extract the salt of the crude and white calcined Tartar Purifie and Clarifie it as often till it be as bright as the tear of the Eye and can be brought no higher therewith you may sharpen its own spirit of Wine which dissolveth Sol and Lune IX Take of the ranck poisonous matter or stone called Kerg swaden exuviae or husks of the Metals drive its spirit very circumspectly receive it so that it may turn unto water it reduceth all metalls to a potableness X. Take of the ayre or heavenly dew being well purified ten parts and of subtile Gold Calx one part set it in digestion dissolve and coagulate it XI Take the Urine of a wholesome Man that drank meerly Wine make of it according to Art the Salt of Microcosme purifie it very well which doth so much accuate the Spirit of Wine that it dissolveth Sol in a moment XII Take of the best Oar of Gold pulverise it very well seal it with Hermes his Seal set it so long into the vaporous fire till you see it spring up and grow a white and red Rose XIII This last Experiment he calleth the Light Take in the Name of the Lord of Hangarish Gold which hath been cast thrice thorow Antimony and be laminated most thinly as much of it as you will and make with quick Mercury an a Malgame then calcine it most subtilly with flowers of Sulpher and spirit of Wine burnt as often till there remaineth a fair subtile Gold Calx of a purple colour Take one part of it and two parts of the above mentioned red matter grind it very well together for an hour on a warmed Marble then cement and calcine well by degrees for three hours in a circle fire This work must be Iterated three times then pour on it of the best rectified spirit that it stand over it three fingers deep set it in a gentle and warm digestion for six dayes to be extracted then the Spirit of Wine will be ting'd as deep as blood cant of that tincture and pour on another as long as ir will tinge it put all these ting'd Spirits of Wine into a Violl so that the fourth part only be fill'd and seal it hermetically set it on the vaporous fire of the first degree let it be of that heat as hot as the Sun shineth in July let it stand thus for forty dayes then you shall obtain your wish The Author recommendeth this last Experiment very highly affirming upon his experimental practice that this aurum Potabile is the highest Medicine next unto the universal and being taken in appropriated vehicles Cureth all Diseases without causing any pains at all Item With this Aurum Potabile is Antimony prepared so that it purgeth only downwards and carrieth forth all ill humours without molestation and is called the purging Gold hence are his Pills of Gold It is prepared also by the help of Antimony into a diaphoretick gold to expell by sweating all malignant humours and Mercurius vitae is made also with this potable gold if it be kept in a long digestion their dose is according to the Quality of the person Some Principall Preparations OF ANGELO SALA TAke of Sugar one ounce of Rosewater one spoonful boyl these in a Skillet till it afford a small thred at the pouring forth take it off the fire being cold pour to it one scruple of Annis oyl pour it on a a Trencher this serveth against phlegme A Purge of his Take of the best Rhubarb Mechoacan ana one dram of Andromachus his Treacle one scruple infuse these over-night in Wine cant it off and let the party drink it and fast three hours upon it it purgeth downward gently Hidromel or Metheglin Take of the odoriferous crude Honey one part of Fountain water six parts boyl these do not scum it stirring it continually with a woodden Spatule let it not settle to the bottom boyl it way to the third part then take it away from the fire let it grow cold strain it through a cloth barrell it hang into two drams of Ginger and one grain of Musk then stop it very well set it in the Sun or warm place for 6. weeks thus the pure separateth from the impure draw it off into a clean vessel stop it well it will keep long the staler it is the better it is The use of it This Liquor tasteth smelleth like Malmesy is good for such as have a short breath and are troubled with a Ptissick it is of an abstergent and lenifying quality it purgeth the Breast and Reins cutteth phlegme very much preserveth the vigour of the radical moisture A Water for the Tooth-ache Take of the Greek Pyretrum of the root of Masterwort and Angelico ana one ounce of Dragons blood of calcined Lead of each two ounces of simply distill'd Vinegar two pound infuse and extract its substance in a warm place for a sennight then adde to it one ounce of Niter dip into it Cotton Wooll apply and hold it to the place affected it allayeth the Flux and healeth all Infirmities and stayeth the Rheum it mundifieth the gums it carnifieth sicatrizeth and consolidateth and instantly allayeth the pains of the teeth Balsom of Tobacco Take spirit of Turpentine spirit of Juniper of each one pound of Indie Tobacco leaves six ounces infuse and circulate it for a sennight and press it out in the press it cureth all wounds in 24. hours A Stomachical Aqua-vitae Take of cut Galanga four ounces of Ambergreece four grains of rectified Aqua-vitae 20 ounces infuse these for a sennight caut it off dissolve as much Sugar in it as you may it is good for a weak Stomach for the Cholick and griping in the Guts Aqua-Theriacalis Against the Plague Take of Andromachus his Treacle two ounces of the root of Angelica and Masterwort of each one ounce of calcined red Corals which are calcined
is the better it is Electuary of Diacorals Take of our Conserve of Roses 12 ounces of the salt of red Corals 2. rams of pulverised Orras and of pulverised red Santals of each one dram of Rose Julep two ounces make an Electuary without fire in a glass Morter keep it well closed it is good against the Chollick and illiaâ— passion provoketh Urine and corroborates the whole body it mundifieth the reins and panicles of the brains and subtillateth the blood by its mundifying quality and it is a very good astringent after purging and consequently it is admirable good for the superfluous courses of women as well of the white as of the red yet so that the party be first purged It s dose is from one dram to two at once to be used fasting An Electuary for the Stomach Take of our Conserve of Roses of Conserve of Baulm of each 3. ounces of the pulp of Quinces two pound of skim'd honey four ounces of spirit of Vitriol 20 drops of Galanga of Cinamom of each half an ounce It is best to incorporate it in a Glass It serveth to comfort the stomach being weakned by superfluous humours it strengtheneth and exhilerateth the heart if continually used It s dose is half an ounce at a time to be taken mornings fasting Electuary Therebiminated Take of the whitest pulverised Sugar six ounces of most subtilly pulverised Orras and powder of Mastix of each one dram of syrup of Cinamom three ounces Let all these be incorporated in a glass Mortar then add of the spirit of Turpentine one drachm of oyl of Nutmegs 5. drops keep it in a glass This is an excellent Electuary to cut tough and viscous phlegme in the stomach and breast therefore it is good for those that are Rhumatick and short breathed it purgeth the Reins and provoketh urine being obstructed by gross viscous humors it may serve also against many infirmities and corruptions conceived in the womb It is of a digestive evacuating and mundifying quality and consolidateth also its dose is from one dram to two at evening to be taken going to bed A Confection against the Hart-ake Take of the siderial Powder one ounce of white Sugar six ounces a sufficient quantity of Marjoram water Make Lozenges of it they are admirable good for the aking of the heart its dose is as occasion serveth from two scruples to foure scruples more or lesse as the Physitian shall direct and it may be ministred at all times but the party should use it continually then let it be taken mornings fasting An Antidote for the Womb. Take of Pulegium Sylvestre four ounces of Mugwort two ounces of Galanga Ginger of each an ounce Make an extract with these with Aquavitae according to Art to the consistence of Hony and keep it in a Glass adding to each dram half a scruple of vegitable Salt Its dose is six grains in water of Mugwort It provoketh the Courses of Women strongly therefore make use of it circumspectly An Antidote against the suffocation of the womb Take of the Extract of Castorium 2. ounces of the Extract of the Root of Peony 1 ounce of the Magistery of the Mother of Pearls and Corals of each one dram of subtilly pulverised Craine Humany two drams of Saffron orientall half a dram of Rectified Oyl of Amber two scruples incorporate these in a Glass Morter and stopt close keep it It is of an admirable efficacy for the suffocation of the womb its use is fasting and may be continued for eight dayes or as long as there is occasion for it Its dose is half a scruple and are to be made into Pills it may be ministred also in water of Marjoram and Pyony A Powder of Diacorels Take of Red Roses two ounces and a half of the Salt of Coralls half an ounce of the Spirit of Vitriol two drams of Sugar-Candy one dram of Ambergrease and Musk of each four grains Make a Powder according to Art and keep it well stopt in a Glasse This Powder is good against Convulsions and pains of the heart it strengtheneth the brains and subtillateth the blood and maketh the heart glad and causeth a good digestion in the stomach It s dose is half a dram in Wine or other proper Vehicle A Confection of Diacoralls Take of the Powder of Diacoralls two drams of the Spirit of white Vitriol two scruples of white Sugar two ounces and a sufficient quantity of rose-Rose-water Let the Sugar be boyled to the consistence of Manus Christi put in a Glasse in warm Sand then add the Powder to it afterward the spirit of Vitriol then cast it forth into Tablets and keep them in a Box of Wood this confection is a true Conservative of mans body It is of an admirable vertue It s dose is half a dram which is to be taken fasting A pretious Antidote Take of our pretious Magisterium of Extractum le Zourdicum of each two drams of our pretious golden Bezourd of our golden Cordiel Electrum of the Extract of Opium Thebaicum prepared with the juyce of Lemons of each one dram of Ambergrease two scruples and fifteen grains of pure Musk gr b. of the whitest Sugar an ounce the dry Ingrediences must be well grounded on a Marble for two or three hours to an impulpable Powder A Balsum of Treacle Take of the Treacle of Andromachus four ounces of the Root of Masterwort Angelico Pimpinella Tormentilla of each an ounce of Galanga of Ginger of each six drams of the Salt of Rede Coralls and orientall Pearls of the Lemnian Earth of each half an ounce of Orientall Saffron one dram of Camphire one scruple of the best Musk and of Ambergrease of each half a scruple of the spirit of Turpentine and of the spirit of Juniper-berries of each ten ounces of the best Aqua-vitae two pound infuse all according to Art put it in a Glasse lute it let it circulate in a Balny for a month then separate the two Liquors one from another This Balsom looks very red and then this Aqua vitae is deservedly called the Mother of the Balsum both are very good against all Infirmities and are admirable good against the Plague the Balsum is for inward use half a scruple and of the water one dram Both cause sweat Urine A Magisterie of Coralls and Pearls We have an Universall way to make the Magisterium not onely of Pearls and Coralls but of all other Gems And this operation is performed only by the help of our Phylosophick Aqua-vitae we will tell you the manner how you ought to proceed about the Magisterie of Coralls which shall be the Patern to proceed also with the rest Take of the Powder of red Coralls six ounces of our Aqua-vitae twelve ounces Let the Coralls be infused in the Aqua-vitae and let them be dissolved thereinto a clear water Then separate the pure from the impure by inclination taking heed that you do not stir the feces then take this dissolution set it in
Philosophia Maturata AN Exact Piece of Philosophy Containing The Practick and Operative part thereof in gaining the Philosophers Stone With the wayes how to make the Mineral Stone and the Calcination of Mettals Whereunto is added A Work Compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the Philosophers Stone And the experiments of Rumelius and Preparations of Angelo Sala all most famous Chymists in their time Published by Lancelot Colson Dr. in Phys and Chym. London Printed for G. Sawbridge and are to be sold at his house upon Clerken-well-Green 1668. A Preface relating to the life of St. Dunstan the Author HOw reverent an esteem Antiquity hath had of this holy man wil appear in that so many famous Authors have written concerning him to wit the Author of the Brittish Antiquities History of Great Brittain Malmsbury and Mat. Westminster He lived about the year of our Lord 946. having been at first a Monk after that Abbot of Glastonbury then Bishop of Worcester next of London and finally Archbishop of Canterbury As to the Religious part of his life it was so exemplary that after ages even to this time have esteemed it miraculous He flourished in the Reigns of Edred or Eldred Edwin and Edgar three Kings of England In Edwins Reign he was Banished during which time the King by the Rebellion of his Subjects was deprived both of his life and Kingdom whom Edgar succeeding highly favoured and promoted He Crown'd Edw. King at Kingston this Edward was surnamed the Martyr being murthered by the procurement of Queen Elfrida After whose death Etheldred was Crowned King by Dunstan with whom also he was so much in favour that he preferred him before all his Nobles and laid up all his richest royal Housholdstuff Charters and Records with all his Wealth and Treasure in his Monastery so that all things were in his power the King without his advice doing nothing either in the publick affairs of the Kingdom or in his own private negotiations And as he stood thus in his Royal Masters favour with all fidelity to that great esteem he employed his endeavours to enrich religious places either by the Danes wasted or by bimself founded in this manner did our Author by the favour of his Prince attain the highest honors and surely not without great merit his extraordinary acquired parts and learning deserving greater Eulogyes then this narrow scantling of Paper can allow room for At last full of honour and dayes and replete with the grace and affection of his Prince be received his Quietus est from the cares of this world to enjoy the happiness of a better leaving behind him the pattern of his Religion vertue and learning for the world to imitate a tast whereof you have in the ensuing discourses Et sic Vive Vale Lector To the Understanding Reader THou art here presented with an ingenious peice of curious Art which may well be entituled An exact Piece of Philosophy for its subject is of such a nature as none but such as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lovers of Wisdom are able to comprehend and that hath made some even pretenders to Learning cry out That the Philosophers Stone is indeed an invaluable Gemme but such as deserves only to pass among nominal not real Jewels but it would be a toylsom work and to as little purpose as certare de lana caprina to give an answer to such Anomalus Caprichio's The following tract there is no doubt will yeild great satisfaction to all such as knowingly pursue this kind of Philosophy especially when they shall consider the eminency of its Author for it bears in front the Reverend Character of Learned Dunstan of whom the present world at least those therein that have conversed in this Science cannot but know that he was as exact as diligent and so diligent that none before nor hardly any since did ever arrive herein to equal perfections with him But why should we waste time in making Eulogyes of him of whom not only antiquity but even the wickedness of the present age speak both great and honourable things to give them no greater a Title Let the Work it self advance as no doubt it will its own praise for its Author needed not the stilts of a vain-glorious sustentation Farewell AN Exact Piece of PHYLOSOPHY Touching the Stone of Phylosophers IT is chiefly to be understood That the Ancient Phylosophers did often endeavour to compose in a most short time above the Earth those things which by Nature in many years were perfected under the Earth viz. To make most perfect and most pretious Sol and Lune wherein they imitated the foresteps of Nature choosing to themselves most pure Earths white and Red which they named their Sol and Lune joyning them together as Nature doth without repugnance untill at length they were brought to a fixation and subtilty This thing also is needfull for you to perform if you desire to obtain the desired end in this Science For Sol and Lune is nothing else but Red and White Earth to which Nature hath perfectly joyned Argent vive pure subtile white and Red and so of them hath produced Sol and Lune It is therefore needfull for thee seeking this Science That first thou get these Earths White and Red subtile pure and fixed and in these two Earths to fix two Mercuries white in the white and red in the red without division and by their least parts so as they may endure the greatest examen of the fire and may have such fusion that as we see a great quantity of Water coloured with a little Saffron so they may in the least quantity abundantly tinge every mettall and all metalline spirits whatsoever so as they be of the same Kind and Nature and may altogether and fully bring them to their own quality And moreover that in themselves they may be infinitely multiplied and able to free the body of Man from the worst and most deadly Diseases which Properties truly are not found in common Sol and Lune without great Labour and yet but onely in part because that the Vegetative power the Mother of all increase for the most part is long since extinct in them If thou know how to perform this and to imitate the condition of the inferiour nature in making Mettals thou mayst worthily rejoyce in the name of a Phylosopher as being not meanly expert in natural things It is to be noted That the more Antient Phylosophers used not common Sol and Lune in this Work and therefore they said That their work needed not great Cost and Charges but that it might be as well performed by the Poor as the Rich Which were altogether different from the truth if it could not be performed without Common Sol and Lune For they are very pretious and rare and hardly to be gotten of poor men without great labour Indeed many have brought great quantities of Sol and Lune to nothing by this Art and have unprofitably spent and wasted
red powder dry and fixed which if thou also put into a Circulatorie with increase and digest by imbibition and congealation as before it shall be so much increased in quantity And thus thou mayst multiply this Elixer infinitly One ounce thereof will congeale a hundred of crude Mercury into powder of which powder one ounce will convert ten of any metal into most pure Sol. And this way thou mayst work with the Calx of Lune and Mercurie joyned together so as evaporation be made by Circulation and adding our naturall white Mercurie untill it be reduced into oyl proceeding in all points as in the former with the red Mercurie upon the calx of Sol and so thou shalt have a white Elixer converting all bodies into most pure and perfect Lune The Fourth Abbreviation TAke an ounce of the Earth of the quintessence smelling most sweetly and an ounce of the Mercury of Virgins Milk powder the Earth and joyn it with the Mercurie This way shall be made a perfect composition in the first order for the white Elixer which by longer time and greater fire is reduced into a red Elixer put therefore the compound into a blind Urinal as it is call'd very close stopt and gest it in dung equally for 15 dayes then take it out and shut it up in a Philosophers Egge and digest it in a gentle heat till it be black and so unto perfect whiteness This we call a white Elixer within this time the fire being increased will be red of which one ounce cements hundreds of Mercury into Sol. To multiply it take a part thereof and joyn it in the foresaid manner with Virgins milk digest as before unto whiteness and then unto redness In this second repetition the Projection will be upon four hundred By this Projection thou mayst multiply it at thy pleasure The Fifth Abbreviation DIssolve the red Calx of Sol and Mercurie in the first most strong Corrosive composed of Salt-Peter and Vitriol the common way put the solution in a pellican in balneo drawing off the one half then stop it most close dry it up with a gentle heat then add more of the Corrosive observing the foresaid order in dissolving evaporating and congealing ten times untill the Corrosive cease to arise which is then done when by no fire it can be fixed into powder but remaineth like oyl and thick This Elixer converts Mercury and every metall into most perfect Sol This work ought to be done in a Circulatory placed in an Earthen Pot wherein it must stand covered with dung to the middle This Pot must be full of holes in the bottome and must be placed upon the mouth of a Copper Vessell half fill'd with hot water as a Copper Vessell is placed of a Furnace wherein fire must be made to be continued discreetly for necessity of digestion This Experiment is called Rustum Of the Minerall Stone GOD is wonderfull in his Works who is Vertue teaching the Truth Take in this name the Mercury white or red simple or compounded and dissolve therein five stones of the Sea Doing in all things as you did in Vitriol and thou shalt have the great Elixer By the same way of utrifaction all Mineralls may be altered and so of every fixed thing a due matter being added may be made an Elixer for our Mercury white and red must be joyned with fixed things which want Mercury and this way the Metalline Bodies may be brought into a metalline form namely a Vitrified Powder as also Egg-shells which when they are perfectly calcined will endure fire more than Sol and thereof being well and artificially ting'd Philosaphers have made Sol in the space of one day which Nature cannot do under-ground in a thousand years A thing hard and incredible to the unlearned yet true and most certain and confirmed by the Testimony of many men Be thou therefore not solicitous or curious in choosing thine Earth so that it be of a Metalline Nature and induring the Fire Hereby Glass is made malleable and by meanes of this Tincture is converted into transparent and fixed Mettal whereby it appeareth that this Science is possible For there is no Earth which doth more easily embrace the Spirituality of our Mercury than that which is most deprived of Mercury and moisture which Privation thou shalt not find in Bodies of another Nature although yet they be very much calcined Wherefore it appeareth manifestly that seeing Sol and Lune are nothing else but Earth Red and White wherein a most pure Mercury is fixed and joyned by the least parts that Philosophers having the same Elements may artificially imitate Nature in her Composition under the Earth to produce the same effect for it is certain that Earth may be fermented to Water so as it be fixed and Water fermented to Earth if it be perfect and cleansed and this without the help of any common Sol or Lune And therefore Philosophers in their Writings have taught that the Stone is equally common both to the Poor and Rich. These things considered thou shalt understand that our Stone lyeth hidden and fecretly lurketh often in places least suspected and nothing esteemed whose matter and nearness if it should be known would produce most great danger It is to be noted that the Philosophers have found out divers wayes of handling this one thing But I answer for them all and briefly conclude That our Earth doth drink up and fix our Mercury and that this Mercury doth wash and ting our Earth and so doth perfect it into the Stone without any further ferment For the white Mercury giveth a most perfect Tincture of Lune and the Red Mercury of Sol Therefore when they are fixed in convenient Earths they make Sol and Lune without the help of common Gold and Silver Behold thou understandest this Tincture which we draw out from a vile thing of no price yet note that he that hath Salt in his Breast may ferment this Tincture with common Gold whereby he may obtain incomparable Riches yet with Wisdom with most great Cost and not without danger For from Sol alone by means of this Tincture which is our burning Wine is made a most pretious and a most perfect Elixer white and red for it rejoyceth in fulness of white and red Sulpher whereby may be made most perfect Silver Of this Work I have written more fully in my Seventh Book wherein I Treat of the manifold plenty of Gold and of the greatest Elixer of Life But here also I will briefly touch it Understand therefore that it behoveth thee to alter the Calx of Gold with the foresaid Stone equally mix'd with the Water of Mercury sublimed and perfectly fixed into most white and fixed Sulpher Then calcine it well that the strength and poyson of the Fire against Nature put to it do hasten to Putrifaction and alteration may be utterly destroyed Then imbibe it with the foresaid simple Milk untill the Calx it self have drunk up a reasonable
quantity thereof and that it be fixed Dissolve it again with the same Milk and make it volatile afterwards fix and calcine and then bring it into Oyl with a little part of that Virgins Milk by circulation and so it shall be a perfect Elixer converting Mercury and each imperfect Mettal into most perfect Lune and by the same way thou mayst rubifie the other part with our Red Mercury by fixing and calcining and afterward dissolving it with the same Red Menstruum and at last by circulating it into a thick Oyl which we call potable Gold a curing and preserving Exixer of Life and of Metals Know also That if our Red Mercury equally with Mercury sublimed and fixed be circulated with Lutrie Vitriol or Iron before and after Rubification be digested into Oyl it will convert thine Lamins of Lune nealed and injected into pure Sol which if thou afterward taketh out it will serve for all need to live withall It is a general Rule That if thou wilt be a Master of this Art it is needful to make all Medicines gumous and fusible melting like wax of their own accord without Fume upon a Plate nealed For by this means each part will follow the other in Projection and will joyntly dilate themselves through the Pores of the Metal without any disjunction but if any part be ponderous it will separate the parts of the Metal make it brittle Therefore the Medicine must be often subtilated after that it is perfectly fixed that at least it may be an incombustible Oyl and rather may be called a Species then a Genus because it is nothing else but a fixed Tincture of Colour If this thing observed thou canst prepare thy Medicine thus thou shalt make fair Metals and malleable or else not Also here understand two Bodies to be dissolved with the Natural Menstruum is always the second Calx not the first and therefore it behoveth thee to dissolve Calx of Mettals with a compound Mercury as before is taught that they may sooner putrifie and be altered into the second Calx which we call Sulpher of Nature and Foliated Earth which we then dissolve and circulate into Oyl with a Simple Menstruum namely Natural The Calcination of Mettals NOw learn how Mettals are to be calcined Know therefore that Saturn and Jupiter we calcine onely one way which is this Put either of them into a great Iron Vessel and in the Fire so that the Flame may beat upon the Mettal and draw off the Scum with an Iron Rake to the sides of the Vessel stirring it often until it grow white then searse it gather the subtile Powder one Ounce is sufficient for thee Sprinkle Venus and Mars with the best Viniger well distilled that they may gather Rust burn this with most strong Fire in an Iron Dish when it is red-hot cool it in the best Acetum evaporate that Acetum and gather a most red Earth which dry and keep safely Amalgame Sol and Lune and grind it on a Marble with Powder of Salt prepared without any moisture untill no Mercury appear then sublime and evaporate the Mercury with strong fire grind that in the bottome into most subtile Powder and sublime untill no Mercury remain with it wash the Calx with hot Water to take away the Salt dry it and thou shalt have a Calx more subtile then Meal Another way is thus Take thin Lamins of Sol neal and cast them into Mercury heated on hot Ashes so the Mercury will drink up the Sol. Note That every Ounce of Sol requireth four and twenty Ounces of Mercury put this a malgame in a larg Glass bury it in Sand in a great Furnace give it Fire by degrees after the sixth hour make it vehement continue this heat five dayes and nights at each hour putting down the Mercury which ascendeth with a linnen Cloth bound with a little Iron Rod and stopping the Glass with Lute till at last all become a Powder redder then Blood which then we call the first Calx good and perfect with which if you mix Fire of Nature to use his Vertues as it requireth thou canst not erre in this Science The Recapitulation I Have told out of what and how thou shalt make our Mercury white and red and how this Mercury is to be actuated and sharpned how thou shalt prepare Calx how to purifie and alter them into a new Whiteness which we call our Mercury sublimed how to abbreviate the time of Putrifaction and. Alteration how to fix and dissolve again and then how to circulate into a white and red Elixer how by Imbibitions with proper Waters white and red they may be infinitely multiplyed to an incredible profit Learn therefore Patience fear God and love him keep these Secrets and then the Lord will bless thine Endeavours Saint Dunstan lived and was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of King Edgar and Etheldred his Son as appeareth by an Antient Monument yet extant in St. Paul's Church in London containing a Prophecie in these Words HEre lyeth Etheldred King of England Son of King Edgar to whom on the Day of his Consecration after his Coronation it is reported that St. Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury Prophecied openly this Curse Because thou hast aspired to the Kingdom by the Death of thy Brother in whose Blood the English with thy infamous Mother have conspired the Sword shall not depart from thy House but shall be against Thee all the Dayes of thy Life destroying thy Seed untill thy Kingdom be transferred to another Kingdom whose King and Language the Nation over whom thou Reignest knowest not Neither shall thy Sin and the Sin of thy Mother and the Sin of those men who were accessary to that wicked Councel be expiated but by a long Revenge Which Things came to pass as were fore-told by that Holy Man For Etheldred having been in divers Battles miserably vexed and put to flight by King Swans-Dansh and his Son and at last straitly Besieged and shut up in London He there miserably dyed in the Year of our Lord 1017. after he had Reigned 36. Years in great Tribulation DUNSTAN of the Stone of the Philosophers With the Experiments of Rumelius of New-Market I. TAke of the best red transparent oar of gold as much as you can have drive its Spirit from it through a Retort this is the Azoth and the Acetum of Philosophers from its proper minera which openeth radically Sol that is prepared II. Take the Minera of Venus or Saturn drive their spirits in a Retort each of these dissolveth Gold radically after its purification III. Take Pulverised oar of Saturn or vulgar Saturn calcined extract its salt with Acetum or its Antinae purifie it in the best manner that it be transparent as Crystall and sweet as honey and be fluid in heat like Wax and brittle when cold This is the Tree which is cut off of unwholesome Fruits on which must be inoculated the twiggs of Sol. IV. Take