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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10786	The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.	Ripley, George, d. 1490?; Rabbards, Ralph.	1591 (1591)	STC 21057; ESTC S115988	44,455	116

milke sod with wine nourisheth moysture radicall But a good Phisition who so intendeth to be Our lower Astronomie needeth well to know And after that to learne well vrine in a glasse to see And if it neede to be chafed the fire for to blow Then wittily it by diuers wayes for to throw After the cause to make a medicine bliue Truly telling the infirmities all on a row Who this can doe by his Phisick is like to thriue VVe haue our heauen incorruptible of the quintessence Ornate with signes Elements and starres bright VVhich moysteth our earth by subtill influence And of it a secret sulphure hid from sight It fetcheth by vertue of his actiue might Like as the Bee fetcheth honey out of the flower VVhich thing could doe no other worldly wight Therefore to God be all glory and honour And like as yee to water doth relent VVhere it was congealed by violence of colde VVhen Phoebus it shineth with his heate influent Euen so to water minerall reduced is our golde As witnesseth plainely Albert Raymond and Arnold By heate and moysture and by craft occasionate VVhich congelation of the spirits loe now J haue tolde How our materialls together must be proportionate At the dyers craft you may learne this science Beholding with water how decoction they make Vpon the wad or madder easily and with patience Till tinctures doe appeare which then the cloth doth take Therein so fixed that they will neuer forsake The cloth for washing after they ioyned be Euen so our tinctures with the water of our lake VVe draw by boyling vvith the ashes of Hermes tree Which tinctures when they by craft are made perfite So dyeth mettles with colours aye permanent After the qualitie of the medicine red or white That neuer away with anie fire wilbe brent To this example if you take good tent Vnto your purpose the rather you shall winne And let your fire be easie and not too feruent Where nature did leaue what time you did beginne First calcine and after that putrifie Dissolue distill sublime discend and fixe With Aqua vitae oft times both wash and drie And make a marriage the bodie and spirite betwixt Which thus together naturallie if you can mixe In loosing of the bodie the water congeald shalbe Then shall the bodie die vtterlie of the flixe Bleeding and changing his colours as you shall see The third day againe to life he shall arise And deuoure birds and beasts of the wildernesse Crowes popingaies pies peacocks and mauois The Phoenix with the Eagle and the Griffin of fearfulnesse The greene Lion with the red Dragon he shall distresse With the white Dragon and the Antelop Vnicorne Panther With other beasts and birds both more and lesse The Basiliske also which almost each one doth feare Jn bus and nibus he shall arise and descend Vp to the Moone and sith vp to the Sunne Through the Ocean sea which round is withouten end Onely shippen within a little glassen tunne When he is there come then is the mastrie wonne About which iourney great goods you shall not spend And yet you shall be glad that euer it was begunne Patiently if you list to your worke attend For then both bodie and spirite with oyle and water Soule and tincture one thing both white and red After colours variable it containeth whatsouer men clatter Which also is called after he hath once been dead And is reuiued our Markaside our Magnet and our lead Our Sulphur our Arsinike and our true Calx viue Our Sunne our Moone our ferment and our bread Our toad our Basiliske our vnknowen bodie our man our wife Our bodie thus naturally by craft when he is renouate Of the first order is medicine called in our Philosophie Which oftentimes againe must be propertualicate The round wheele turning of our Astronomie And so to the Elixer of spirits you must come for why Till the sonne of the fixed by the sonne of the fixer be ouergone Elixer of bodies named it is onely And this found secret poynt deceaueth manie one This naturall proces by helpe of craft thus consummate Dissolueth Elixer spirituall in our vnctuous humiditie Then in Balneo Mare together let them be circulate Like new honie or oyle till perfectly they be thickned Then will that medicine heale all infirmitie And turne all mettals to Sunne and Moone perfectly Thus you shall make the great Elixer and Aurum potabile By the grace and will of God to whom be all honour and glorie Amen quod George Ripley FINIS George Ripleys Wheele mentioned in his Worke. In the Sunne he puts his tabernacle Sunne and moone blessed be ye The flouds vvent avvaie in the drith Coelum Sol conuerted into darknes and Lvna into blood ●horm ♉ ♍ ♑ Occidentalis Atte●tiue Autumne VVest 🜃 ♋ ♏ ♓ Aquea flegmatica Australia Expulsiue VVinter North. 🜄 ♊ ♒ ♎ Sanguinea veria Masculina c. Oriēntalis digestiue East 🜁 ♈ ♌ ♐ Ignea Choleria Meridionalis Attractiue Sūmer South 🜂 The altitude of the stone fierie in qualitie shining more than perfect quintessence and end of the practise speculatiue Sol tenet ignem South As Christ the Scripture making mentiō In the holy wombe descended of Marie Frō his high throne for our redemption Working the holy Ghost to be incarnate So here our Stone descends frō his estate Into the womb of our Virgin Mercuriall To helpe his brethren from filth originall The f●rst or West latitude of the Stone and en●ring into the practiue pole and earthly in qualitie occasionate Saturne holdeth the earth West As Christ his godhead hid frō our sight When he our kinde to him did take Euen so our Sun his beames of light As for a time hath him forsake For vnder the wings of his make The Moone he hideth in his glory And dieth in kind that he may multiply The darke profunditie of the Stone in the North Purgatorie all imperfect wa●rie in qualitie variable in colour the eclipse of the Sunne Mercurius tenet aquam North. As Christ our Sauiour was tumulate After his passion and death on tree And after his bodie was glorificate Vprose indued with immortalitie ●o here our Stone buried after penaltie Vpriseth from darknes colors variable Appearing in the East with clearenes incomperable The East latitude of the Stone and entring into the speculatiue aier of the full Moone Iupiter holdeth the aier East As Christ frō earth to heauen did ascend In cloudes of clearnes vp to his throne And raigneth there shining without end Right so our Sunne now made our Stone Vnto his glory againe is gone His fire possessing here in the South With power to heale leapers and renewe youth From paradise they goe to heauen to woon shinining brighter than doth the Sun ✚ Here the red man and his white wi●● Be spoused with the spirite of life Into Paradice here we goe There to be purged of paine and woe Here be they passed their paines all Exceeding in brightnes the christall ♄ ☉ ☉ ♃ ☽ ☽ ♂ ☿ ☿ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ He brought vvater out of the stone oyle out of the most hard rock The Sunne is in the eclipse and the Moone shall not shine by night Our heauen this figure called is our table also of the lower astronomy Which vnderstood thou canst not mis to make our medicine perfectly on it therefore set thou thy studie And vnto God both night day For grace and for the Author pray To the indifferent Reader FOrasmuch Gentle reader as nothing can be performed with what singularity of iudgement exquisite foresight great care and diligence soeuer in any action of importance but that some fault or error must of necessitie be cōmitted it being an vnseperable propertie of nature accident vnto men to erre for that it is impossible for the most curious quickest and piercing eye to see all things I hope therefore thou wilt not finde it strange if any thing haue bin mistaken by me in deciphering of this worke by conference of many olde rude and ill written Copies out of which the same with great trauel and industry hath been gathered as the Rose from among the Briers and Thornes or the sweete Violet out of the Nettles for that euery man carried with a seuerall opinion and sense thinketh best of his iudgement Copie and correction whereupon it was not possible for me to ground any certaintie if I had not happened on a most auncient recorde thereof and vsed the assistance of a most notable and experienced decipherer of olde and vnperfect writing and after conferred with many skilfull persons in this high Arte praying thee if in reading hereof thou shalt note any fault in matter or forme that thou wilt curteously note the same and send it vnto me or the house of Peter Bales in the Olde Bayly to bee corrected vppn the next generall impression there being but a small number of these Bookes imprinted remayning at this time in his handes to be priuately deliuered to the learned desirous thereof Vale.