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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	king_n	son_n	3,060	5	5.3359	4	true

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A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

which by a continual fire are adorned with Royal 〈◊〉 which being united and afterwards changed into a quintessence may overcome all Metallick Bodies how hard and solid soever they be IV. These are the Dragons and Serpents which the Ancient AEgyptians depicted in a Circle the Head devouring the Tail thereby signifying that they proceeded from one and the same thing and that it alone was sufficient and that in its revolving and circulation it made it self perfect V. These are the Dragons which the ancient Poets feigned did watch without sleeping the Golden Apples of the Hesperidian Gardens These are they on whom Jason in his adventure for the Golden Fleece cast or poured the liquor prepared by the Inchantress Medea VI. Of the discourse of whom the Books of the Philosophers are so full that not any of them that ever wrote but has declared something concerning the same even from the times of the most faithful Hermes Trismegistus Orpheus Pythagoras Artephius Morienus and others following them even to my self VII These are the two Serpents given and sent by Juno viz. the metallick nature which Hercules viz. the strong and wise man must strangle in his Cradle to wit overcome and kill them and to make them putrifie corrupt and generate at the beginning of his work VIII These are the two Serpents twined and twisted round about the Caduceus or Rod of Mercury by which he exercises his great power and transforms himself into all shapes as he pleases IX He saith Haly who shall kill the one shall also kill the other because the one cannot die without the other X. These two are those which Avicen calls the Armenian Dog and the Corassere Bitch which being put together into the Vessel of the Sepulchre do cruelly bite one another and by their furious rage and mighty poison never cease to contend from the very moment that they seize on one another if the cold hinder not till both of them become all over bloody in every part XI And then killing one another they be decocted and digested in their proper Venom or poison which after their death changes them into a living and permanent or fixed water XII Before which time they by their Corruption and putrefaction lose their first natural forms to assume afterwards another new one better more noble and excellent XIII These are the two Seeds Masculine and Feminine which generate says Rhasis Avicen and Abrabam the Jew within the Bowels or Womb of the four Elements and compleat all their Operations XIV These are the Radical moisture of the Metals to wit Sulphur and Mercury or Argent Vive not the Vulgar which are sold by Merchants and Druggists but Ours which give us these two beautiful Bodies we so much desire XV. These two Seeds saith Democritus are not found upon the pure and uncorrupted Earth But as Avicen saith they are gathered from the Dung Ordure and Putrefaction of Sol and Luna XVI Happy are they who know how to gather this fruit for of it an Antidote may be made which has strength and power to conquer all Infirmities Weaknesses and Diseases and even to contend with Death it self lengthening Life by the permission of God even to the determined or appointed time and withal making him to triumph over the poorness and wretchedness of this Life giving him an Infinity of Treasure and Riches XVII These two Dragons or Metallick Principles will strive each to inflame the other by its heat Then if you be not careful you will see a stinking and poisonous Vapour or Fume to arise exceeding in Poyson the biting of the most Venomous Serpent XVIII 〈◊〉 why I depicted these two Seeds in the forms of Dragons and of those colours is because of their virulent or poysonous smell and the Vapours or Fumes rising up in the Glass or Philosophick Egg being also of the same colours with the Painted Serpents viz. black blue and yellow XIX The power of which and of the Bodies dissolved is so venomous that truly in the whole World there is not a more malignant poyson for it is able by its own strength and foetid odour to mortifie or kill every thing living XX. The Artist is never sensible of this ill smell unless his Vessels break but hejudges when it begins to be by the sight and changing of colours proceeding from the putrefaction of the matter in Digestion XXI These colours as they signifie Corruption and Putrefaction so they also presage to us Generation by the gnawing and dissolving of the perfect Bodies which dissolution proceeds from external heat joyned with the watery fire and the subtil poyson of our Mercury which resolves into a meer Cloud viz. into impalpable powder whatever resists it XXII Thus the heat working upon and against the Radical Metallick Viscous or Oleaginous Moisture of Metals causes the subject matter to generate blackness XXIII For at the same time the matter is dissolved it grows black and generates for all Curruption is Generation therefore blackness is much to be desired XXIV This is the black Sail with which Thesus's Ship came back with triumph from Crete which was the cause of his Fathers Death And so must this Father also die that from the Ashes of this Phoenix another may spring or arise which Son must be King XXV This is certain that if this blackness be not at the beginning of your operation during the days of the Stone let what other colour soever arise you will wholly fail of the Magistery nor from that Chaos will you ever produce any thing XXVI You cannot work well unless you putrefie your Matter first nor can you generate unless you first meet with Corruption and by consequence with out a fit Womb warmth heat and nourishment the Stone cannot take a Vegetative Life so as to encrease and multiply XXVII And truly I must tell you that though you work upon the true matter yet if at the begining after you have put your Confection Prima materia or first Agents into the Philosophers Egg if I say sometime after the fire has stirred them up you see not the black head of the Crow this black of the blackest black you must begin again for your fault is irreparable and not to be amended XXVIII But especially the Orange colour or half red is much to be feared For if at the beginning you see that appearance within your Egg without doubt you have burnt the Matter and so will lose the verdure and life of the Stone XXIX The colour which you ought to have must intirely be perfected in blackness like to that of these Dragons in the space of forty days XXX If therefore you have not these essential marks retire your self in good time from your work that you may rescue yourself from assured and certain loss XXXI And note this also in particular that it is even next to nothing to attain this blackness there is nothing more easie to come by for from almost all things in the World mixed