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A75719	Theatrum chemicum Britannicum· Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The first part.	Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3987; Thomason E653_1; ESTC R205904	256,178	516

by Grace from Heaven I give you the same here in Chapters seaven As largely as by my fealty I may By licence of the dreadfull Judge at domes daye The first Chapter shall all Men teache What manner People may this Science reache And whie the trew Science of Alkimy Is of old Fathers called Blessed and Holy In the second Chapter maie be sayne The nice Joyes thereof with the greate paine The third Chapter for the love of One Shall trewly disclose the Matters of our Stone Which the Arabies doon Elixir call Whereof it is there understonde you shall The fowerth Chapter teacheth the grosse Werke A foule laboure not kindly for a Clerke In which is found full greate travaile With many perills and many a faile The fift Chapter is of the subtill Werk Which God ordeyned only for a Clerke Full few Clerks can it comprehend Therefore to few Men is the Science send The sixt Chapter is of Concord and love Between low natures and heavenly spheares above Whereof trew knowledge advanceth greatly Clerks And causeth furtherance in our wonderfull werks The seaventh Chapter trewly teach you shall The doubtfull Regiments of your Fires all NOw Soveraigne Lord God me guide and speede For to my Matters as now I will proceede Praying all men which this Boke shall finde With devoute Prayers to have my soule in minde And that noe Man for better ne for worse Chaunge my writing for drede of Gods curse For where quick sentence shall seame not to be Ther may wise men finde selcouthe previtye And chaunging of some one sillable May make this Boke unprofitable Therefore trust not to one Reading or twaine But twenty tymes it would be over sayne For it conteyneth full ponderous sentence Albeit that it faute forme of Eloquence But the best thing that ye doe shall Is to reade many Bokes and than this withall Ro Vaughan sculp Nortons Ordinall CHAP. I. MAIS tryefull merveylous and Archimastrye Is the tincture of holi Alkimy A wonderfull Science secrete Philosophie A singular grace gifte of th' almightie Which never was founde by labour of Mann But it by Teaching or Revelacion begann It was never for Mony sold ne bought By any Man which for it hath sought But given to an able Man by grace Wrought with greate Cost with long layfir and space It helpeth a Man when he hath neede It voydeth vaine Glory Hope and also dreade It voydeth Ambitiousnesse Extorcion and Excesse It fenceth Adversity that shee doe not oppresse He that thereof hath his full intent Forsaketh Extremities with Measure is content Some people would not have it cauled Holy And in this wise thei doe replye Thei say how Painims maie this Arte have Such as our Lord God woll never save For their wilfull fals infidelitie The cause of goodnes possessours cannot be Alsoe it maketh none other thing But Gold or Silver for Mony Cupp or Ring Whiche of wise men is proved and well founde Least verteous thing that is upon the Ground Wherefore concluding all men of that sect Say how this Science n'is holy in effect To this we say and wittnes as we cann How that this Science was never tought to Man But he were proved perfectly with space Whether he were able to receyve this Grace For his Trewth Vertue and for his stable Witt Which if he faulte he shall never have it Also no man coulde yet this Science reach But if God send a Master him to teach For it is soe wonderfull and soe selcouth That it must needes be tought from mouth to mouth Also he must be he never soe loath Receive it with a most sacred dreadfull Oath That as we refuse greate dignitie and fame Soe he must needly refuse the same And also that he shall not be so wilde To teach this seacret to his owne childe For nighnes of Blood ne Consanguinity May not accepted be to this dignity Soe blood as blood may have hereof noe part But only vertue winneth this holy Arte Therefore straightly you shall search and see All manners and vertues with th'abilitie Of the person which shall this Scyence leere And in likewise make him straightlie swere Soe that noe man shall leave this Arte behinde But he an able and approved Man can finde When Age shall greeve him to ride or goe One he may teach but then never no moe For this Science must ever secret be The Cause whereof is this as ye may see If one evill man had hereof all his will All Christian Pease he might hastilie spill And with his Pride he might pull downe Rightfull Kings and Princes of renowne Wherefore the sentence of perill and jeopardy Upon the Teacher resteth dreadfully So than for doubt of such pride and wreach He must be ware that will this Science teach No Man therefore maie reach this greate present But he that hath vertues excellent Soe though Men weene Possessours not to aide To hallow this Science as before is said Neither seeme not blessed effectually Yet in her Order this Science is holy And forasmuch as noe Man maie her finde But only by grace she is holy of her kinde Also it is a worke and Cure divine Foule Copper to make Gold or Silver fine No man maie finde such chaunge by his thought Of divers kinds which Gods hands have wrought For Gods Conjunctions Man maie not undoe But if his Grace fully consent thereto By helpe of this Science which our Lord above Hath given to such Men as he doth love Wherefore old Fathers conveniently Called this Science Holy Alkimy Therefore noe Man shulde be too swifte To cast away our Lords blessed guift Consideringe how that Almighty God From great Doctours hath this Science forbod And graunted it to few Men of his mercy Such as be faithfull trew and lowly And as there be but Planets seaven Amonge the multitude of starrs in Heaven Soe among millions of millions of Mankinde Scarslie seaven men maie this Science finde Wherefore Lay-men ye may lere and see How many Doctors of great authoritie With many searchers hath this Science sought Yet all their labours hav● turned into nought If thei did cost yet found thei none availe For of their purpose every tyme thei faile And in despaire thei reason and departe And then thei said how there is noe such arte But fained Fables thei name it where thei goe A fals fond thing thei say it is alsoe Such Men presume too much upon their minde They weene their witts sufficient this Arte to finde But of their slaunder and words of outrage We take thereof trewlie little Charge For such be not invited to our feast Which weeneth themselves wise and can doe leaste Albeit such Men list not lenger to persue Yet is this Science of Alkimy full trew And albeit some proude Clerks say nay Yet every wise Clerke well consider may How he whiche hereof might no trewth see Maie not hereof lawfull wittnes be For it were a wonderous thing and queinte A man that

Silver perfect through fine Now am I perfect Goulde excellent better then the prime 6. I was a Pipe of Leade well nigh two hundred yeare And now to all men good Silver I appeare 7. The seventh said I Leade am Gould made for a Maistrie But trewlie my fellowes are nerer thereto then I. This Science beareth her name of a King Called Alchimus without leasing A glorious Prince of most noble minde His noble vertues holpe him this arte to finde He searched Nature he was nobil Clerke He left Extorcion than sought and found this werke King Hermes alsoe he did the same Being a Clerke of Excellent fame In his Quadripartite made of Astrologie Of Physique and of this Arte of Alkimy And also of Magique naturall As of four Sciences in nature passing all And there he said that blessed is hee That knoweth things truly as thei bee And blessed is he that maketh due proofe For that is roote of cunning and roofe For by opinion is many a Man Deceived which hereof litle cann An old Proverbe In a Bushell of weeninge Is not found one handfull of Cunninge With due proofe and with discreet assaye Wise men may leare new things every day By Cunninge Men know themselves and every thinge Man is but a Beast and worse without Cunninge But litle favour hath every Man To Science whereof he litle can And litle Cunning maketh men proud and wilde Sufficient Cunning maketh men full milde Nobil men now in manner have despighte Of them that have to Cunning appetite But noble Kings in auncient dayes Ordained as olde Auctors saies That the seven Sciences to learne and can Shulde none but only a Noble man And at the least he shulde be so free That he mought Studie with libertie Wherefore old Sages did them call The seaven Sciences liberall For he that would leare them perfectly and well In cleere liberty he must dwell From worldly warkes he must withdrawe That would lerne but Mans Lawe Much more the Worlde he must forsake Which many Sciences woulde overtake And for that cause Men may well see Why Cunninge men dispised be Yet nobil Memory shall never cease Of him which Cunninge doth increase Hee which loveth Cunning Justice and Grace Is set aside in many a place But whoe to Courte bringeth in with guile Profit or present he is the Man that while Wherefore this Science and many Graces moe Be lost and be departed all ye fro And furthermore remember what I say Sinn caleth fast for his ending day Covetise and Cunninge have discorde by kinde Who lucre coveteth this Science shall not finde But he that loveth Science for her owne kinde He may purchase both for his blessed minde Of this Chapter more I need not teach For here appeareth what men may it reach That is to remember only the trewe And he that is constant in minde to pursue And is not Ambitious to borrow hath no neede And can be Patient not hasty for to speede And that in God he set fully his trust And that in Cunning be fixed all his lust And with all this he leade a rightfull lyfe Falshoode subduinge support no sinfull strife Such Men be apt this Science to attaine The Chapter following is of Joy and paine CHAP. II. NORmandy nurished a Monke of late Which deceived Men of every state But before that done he in his fantazie Weened he had caught this Art fully Such rejoycing thereof he had That he began to dote and to be madde Of whose Joyes albeit they were smalle For an ensample I write this Tale. This Monke had walked about in Fraunce Raunging Apostata in his plesaunce And after he came into this lond Willing Men should understonde How that of Alkimy he had the grounde By a Boke of Receipts which he had founde In surety thereof he set all his minde Some nobil Acte to leave behinde Whereby his name should be immortall And his greate Fame in laude perpetuall And ofte he mused where to beginne To spend the riches that he shulde winn And ever he thought loe this I cann Where mought I finde some trusty Man Which would accorde now with my will And help my purpose to fulfill Then would I make upon the plaine Of Salisbury glorious to be saine Fifteen Abbies in a little while One Abbie in the end of every mile Hereupon this Monke to me resorted Of trust he said which men of me reported His foresaid mind he did to me tell And prayd me to keep his great Councell I said before an Image of Saint Jame That I would never disclose his name Yet I may write without all vice Of his desires that were so nice When he had discovered his great Cunning He said that he faughted nothing But a good meane for his solace To labour to the Kings good grace To get lycence of his estate And of his Lords mediate To purchase lond for the Abbies aforesaid For which all coste should be well paied But yet he had great doubt and feare How to purchase of whom and where When I had heard of this greate werke I searched to wit what manner of Clerke He was and what he knew of Schoole And therein he was but a Foole. Yet I suffered and held me still More to lerne of his lewd Will Then said I it were a lewd thinge Such matter to shew unto the Kinge But if the proofe were reasonable He would thinke it a foolish Fable The Monke saide how that he had in fire A thing which shulde fulfill his desire Whereof the trewth within forty dayes I shulde well know by trew assaies Then I said I would no more that tyde But forty dayes I said I would abide When forty dayes were gone and past The Monkes Crafte was cleane overcast Then all his Abbies and all his thought Was turned to a thing of nought And as he came he went full lewde Departing in a minde full shrewd For soone after within a little while Many trewe men he did beguile And afterwards went into Fraunce Loe this was a pittifull chance That fifteene Abbies of Religion Shulde in this wise fall to confusion Great wonder was what thing he meant And why he set all his intent Abbies to build then was it wonder Why nould he live Obedient under But be Apostata and range about This blessed Science to finde out But as I wrote above in this Boke Let no Deceiver after this Science looke AN other Ensample is good to tell Of one that trusted to doe as well As Raymond Lully or Bacon the Frier Wherefore he named himselfe saunce peere He was Parson of a little Town Not farr from the Citty of London Which was taken for halfe a Leach But little cunning had he to Preach He weened him sure this Arte to finde His Name he would have ever in minde By meanes of a Bridge imagined in dorage To be made over Thames for light passage Whereof shulde grow a Common ease All the Countrey thereabout to please

be departed a twinn Into foure Elements if ye would to winn Which thing to doe if ye ne can Goe and lerne it of Hortolan Which made his Boke of that Doctrine How ye shulde part the Elements of Wine Moreover ye must for your succour Know th' effects of the quallities fower Called Heate Colde Moisture and Drines Of which fower all things Compounded is And sith in this Arte your cheefe desire Is to have Colour which shulde abide fier Ye must know before you can that see How everie Colour ingendred shall be For every Colour whiche maie be thought Shall heere appeare before that White be wrought Yet more ye would have to this summe Swiftly to melt as Wex or Gumme Els mought it not enter and perce The Center of Mettalls as Auctors reherse Soe ye would have it both fix and flowe With Colour plenty if ye wist howe Such three Contraries joyntly to meete In one accord is a greate Secret Nethles he that is cleere of Minde In this Chapter maie it well finde And first to give you a short Doctrine Of the aforesaid qualities prime Heate and Cold be qualities Active Moisture and Drines be qualityes Passive For they suffren the Actives evermore As Stones to be Lyme and Water to be Froare Hereupon to Judge ye maie be bold Nothing is full wrought but by Heate and Cold Nethles the Passives have some Activity As in Handicrafts men ye maie daily see In Bakinge and Brewinge and other Crafts all Moisture is opperative and soe Drines be shall Aristotle in his Phisicks and other manie moe Said ab actionibus procedit speculatio They said that Practise is roote and beginning Of Speculation and of all Cunning For the properties of every thinge Be perceaved by their working As by Colours of Urins we may be bold To give sentence of Heate and Colde By thes aforesaid foure qualities prime We seeche Colours with length of tyme Of White Colour we be not full sure To seeche it but in a substance pure Greate Doctrine thereof lerne now ye maie When ye know how Colours growe all day COlour is the utmost thinge of a Body cleere Cleere fubstance well termined is his matter heere If Heate hath maistery in matter that is drye White Colour is ever thereof certainely As it appeareth in sight of brent Bones And in making of all Lyme Stones Where Cold worketh in matter moist cleere Yet of such working Whitnes woll appeare As it sheweth in Ice and Frosts hore The cause is set out in Philosophie before I write not here of common Philosophie But by example to teach Alkimy That one maie be perceived by that other As is the Child perceived by the Mother If Heate in moyst matter and grosse withall Warke thereof Black Colour ingender shall Example hereof if ye of me desire Behold when you see greene Wood set on a fire When Cold worketh in matter thick and drye Black Colour shall be this is the cause whie Such matter is compacted and more thick With Cold constreyning enimy to all quick Thicknes made Darknes with privation of Light Soe Collour is private then Black it is to Sight Therefore evermore remember this How cleere matter is matter of Whitenes The cause efficient maie be manyfold For somewhile it is Heate and sometime Cold But Whire and Black as all men maie see Be Colours contrary in most extremitie Wherefore your warke with Black must beginn If the end shulde be with Whitenes to winn The midle Colour as Philosophers write Is Red Colour betweene Black and White Nethlesse trust me certainly Red is last in work of Alkimy Alsoe they say in their Doctrine How theis two Colours Rufe and Citrine Be meane Colours betweene White and Red And how that Greene and Colour wan as Lead Betweene Red and Black be Colours meane And freshest Colour is of matter most Cleane Physitians in Urines have Colours Nynteene Betweene White and Black as thei weene Whereof Colour underwhite Subalbidus is one Like in Colour to Onychyne stone Of such like Colour Magnetia found is But Magnetia glittereth with Cleerenes In our suttill warke of Alkimy Shall be all Colours that hath beene seen with Eye An hundreth Colours more in corteyne Then ever hath been seene in Urine Where in so many Colours mought not be But if our Stone conteyned every degree Of all Compositions found in warke of kinde And of all Compositions imaginable by minde Of as manie Colours as shall therein be saine So manie graduations your wisdome must attaine And if you knowe not such graduations all Lerne them of Raymond in his Atre Generall Gilbert Kymer wrote after his devise Of 17. Proportions but thei maie not suffice In this Science which he coude never finde And yet in Phisick he had a nobil minde Wher the royalty of the nature of Man Advaunceth ofte Medicines of the Phisitian And so honoreth oft times his Crafte When that the Medicines peradventure mought be lafte But it is not so in Phisick of Mines For that Arte exceedeth all other engines And resteth only in the wisdome of Man As by experience wise men witnes can ANd soe of Alkimy the trew foundation Is in Composition by wise graduation Of Heate and Cold of Moist and of Drye Knowing other Qualities ingendered thereby As hard and soft heavy and light Rough and smoothe by ponders right With Number and Measure wisely sought In which three resteth all that God wrought For God made all things and set it sure In Number Ponder and in Measure Which numbers if you doe chaunge and breake Upon Nature you must doe wreake Wherefore Anaxagoras said Take good heede That to Conjunction ye not proceede Till ye know the Ponders full compleate Of all Components which shulde therein meete Bacon said that old Men did nothing hide But only Proportion wherein was noe guide For none old Auctor King Prince ne Lord Writing of this Science with others did accorde In the Proportions which if ye would reach Raymond with Bacon and Albert done it teach With old Anaxagoras of them fowre ye shall Have perfect knowledge but not of one have all And if you would joyne fowre Qualities to intent Then must ye Conjoyne every Element As Water and Erthe after your desire Well compounded with Ayer and Fier Knowing the worthiest in his activitie The second the third every-each in his degree The fourth and the vilest maie not be refused For it is profitable and best to be used And best maie extend his Multiplication In whome is the virtue of our Generation And that is the Erthly Lytharge of our Stone Without him Generation shall be none Neyther of our Tincture fixation For nothing is fixt but Erthe alone All other Elements moveable be Fier Ayer and Water as ye daily see But Fier is cause of extendibility And causeth matters permiscible to be And cleere brightnes in Colours faire Is caused of kinde evermore of Ayer And Ayer also with his Coaction Maketh things

to be of light liquefaction As Wax is and Butter and Gummes all A little heate maketh them to melt and fall Water clenseth with ablution blive And things mortifyed causeth to revive Of multiplying of Fier is no greater wonder Than is of multiplying of Erth set under For Erth beareth Herbes daily new and newe Without number therefore it is trewe That Erth is wonderfull as well as Fier Though one sparke maie soone fill a Sheere If all a Sheere were filled with Flaxe One sparke than would wonderfully waxe Fier and Erth be multipliers alone And thei be causers of multiplying our Stone Of this Erth showeth Albert our great Brother In his Mineralls which Lytharge is better than other For the white Elixir he doth it there rehearse And the booke of Meeter showeth it in a verse NOw to Conjunction let us resorte And some wise Councell thereof reporte Conjoyne your Elements Grammatically With all their Concords conveniently Whiche Concords to healpe a Clerke Be cheefe Instruments of all this werke For nothinge maie be more contrary nowe Than to be fixt and unperfectly flowe All the Grammarians of England and of Fraunce Cannot teach you this Concordance This Ordinall telleth where ye maie it see In Phisick in the Boke de Arbore Joyne them also in Rhetoricall guise With Natures Ornate in purified wise Sithens our Tincture must be most pure and faire Be sure of pure Erth Water Fier and Ayre In Logicall wise be it early or late Joyne trewe kindes not sophisticate Ignorance hereof hath made many Clerks Lewdly to leese their labour and their werkes Joyne them together also Arithmetically By suttill Numbers proportionally Whereof a litle mention made there was When Boetius said tu numeris elementa ligas Joyne your Elements Musically For two causes one is for Melody Which there accords will make to your mind The trewe effect when that ye shall finde And also for like as Diapason With Diapente and with Diatesseran With ypate ypaton and Lecanos muse With other accords which in Musick be With their proporcions causen Harmony Much like proportions be in Alkimy As for the great Numbers Actuall But for the secreate Numbers Intellectuall Ye must seeche them as I said before Out of Raymond and out of Bacons lore Bacon sheweth it darkly in his three letters all And Raymonde better in his Arte Generall Many men weene which doth them reade That theie doe understonde them when theie doe not indeede With Astrologie joyne Elements also To fortune their Workings as theie goe Such simple kindes unformed and unwrought Must craftily be guided till the end be sought All which season theie have more obedience Above formed Natures to Sterrs influence And Science Perspective giveth great evidence To all the Ministers of this Science And so done other Sciences manie moe And specially the Science de Pleno Vacuo But the chiefe Mistris among Sciences all For helpe of this Arte is Magick Naturall WHen the foure Elements wisely joyned be And every-each of them set in his degree Then of divers degrees and of divers digestion Colours will arise towards perfection For then worketh inward heate naturall Which in our substance is but Intellectuall To sight unknowne hand maie it not feele His working is knowne to few Men and seild And when this heate naturall moved be shall By our outward heate artificiall Then Nature excited to labour will not cease Many diversities of degrees to increase Which is one cause by reason you ma●e see Whie in our warke so manie Colours be Therfore it causeth in this Arte great doubt Ignorance of heate within and without To know how theis two heates shulde accord And which of them in working shulde be Lord. DIgestion in this warke hath great likenesse To digestion in things of Quicknes And before other as I witnesse can It is most like to digestion of Man Therefore said Morien our Stone in generation Is most like thing to Mans Creation In whom saith Raymond the fowre degrees all Of the fowre Complexions together finde ye shall And that actually which ye cannot finde Amongst Creatures in none other kinde Wherefore amonge Creatures theis two alone Be called Microcosmus Man and our Stone Now of Digestion the aliment and foode Perfectly to know is needfull and full good It is humor sollid constant with siccitie Mightily medled after some degree In opposite passives mixed duly Ingendered by inward and outward heat trewly Soe nothing else is our Digestion But of humour substantiall a create perfection I pray ye Laymen have me excused Though such Tearmes with you be not used I must use them for all Auctors affirmes How every Science hath his proper Tearmes Digestion sometimes advanced maie be By outward cold as yearly ye maie see How in Winter men eaten more meate Than in Summer when expansed is their heate For colde maketh heate inward then to flye And ligge nigh together then stronger is he Which by his strength his power is more To make Digestion than he mought before But our cheefe Digesture for our intent Is virtuall heate of the matter digerent Nethles heate of the digestible thinge Helpeth digestion and her working Feaverly heate maketh no digestion Baines maie helpe and cause also destruction Wine digested hath more heate naturall Than hath new Muste whose heate is accidentall Coagulation is noe forme substantiall But onlie passion of things materiall MOre ye must know when Colours appeare Who is principall Agent in that matter Cleere For sometimes it is Heate and sometimes Cold it is And sometime Moysture and somewhile Drines The principall Agent to know at every season Requireth great search made by suttill reason Which is not perceived but of Masters fewe For thei mark not how Colours arise by rewe The principall Agent of the qualities fowre Hath power royall as Lord of most honour The remnant of qualities to Converte to his kinde Of which conversion Anaxagoras maketh minde In his Boke of Conversions Naturall Whereof Raymond sheweth causes speciall It is no Jape neither light to lerne Your principall Agent all seasons to discerne Which I teach you to knowne by signes fowre By Colour Odour Sapor and Liquore ANd first by Colour to serve your intente To know thereby your principall Agent Looke in your Vessell which Colour sheweth most He that causeth him is principall of the host As for that season whose pride ye maie swage By this our Doctrine if ye see him rage Which ye maie doe when ye well understonde The cause of all Colours which ye have in honde Which I woll teach you now shortly withall Bycause here and there seeke them ye ne shall Whitnes is caused of manie matters cleere In another thing termined and soe it is heere Blacknes is when parts of a body darke With thicknes oppresseth the cleernes of the Warke Or els it is of a Combust terrestrietie But of such Combustion greate hardnes shall be And by Commixion of Darke Cleere and Cleane Shall be

ingendered all the Colours meane Every cleere thinge perspicuate and fayre Standeth by the matters of Water and Aire Whome a pure Erth doth apprehend Such as shall not their cleerenes offend And if in such cleerenes and perspicuitie Ye can noe speciall Colour see Thereupon to Judge you maie be bold The cause of such things was exceeding Colde As Christall Berill and other things moe Diversitie betweene them lerne ere ye goe Christall hat Water declyning toward Ayer Wherefore it is cleere perspicuous and faire But where it declineth towards Water more It is darke as Berill or Ice hard frore But when matters draweth toward siccitie Darknes with hardnes ingendred shall be As it appeareth in the Adamant Stone And in other things manie one Twinckling and glittering as in Magnetia is Light is cause thereof within matter of Cleerenes Which is superduced upon waterly vapour Beforetyme incenced with Heate be ye sure Now after cleerenes and Colours in extremitie Of meane Colours a litle shew will I. Ruby colour is of a thinn fume succended In a cleere Body which alsoe is amended When in that Body reyneth plenty of light For more or les thereof maketh more or les bright As the Amatist followeth the Ruby in dignity In less Cleerenes and more Obscuritie And a Calcedonie in Slymy substance Followeth the Berill in degrees of variance Greene as a Smaragde is of Water cleere With Erthy substance Combust mixt full neere And the cleerer substance that the Erth be The cleerer greeness thereof ye shall see Tawney is of Cleerenes terminate Infused with thick Fumosity congregate Of Water and alsoe of Erth succended Whereby the cleerenes of Aier is suspended Wann or leady Colour ingendred is Of Waterie and Erthy parts without amisse And where such parts be cold and thick Ever Wann Colour theron shall stick As it appeareth in old layen Lead And in Men that be wellneere dead This Wann Colour called Lividitie In Envious Men useth much to be Naturall heate and blood done resorte To the Hert them to comfort And leaveth Cold and Dry the Face For heate and blood is parted fro that place Likewise when Fevers be in extremitie The Nailes of Hands of this Colour wil be The Saphire Colour that Orient Blewe Like in Colour to the heavenlie hue Is much fairer than Wann Colour to sight For therein is more of Aier Water and Light Than is in Wann Colour and that by manifold Wherefore such Colour is more deerer solde All other Blewes the sadder that they be Thei have lesse of Aier and more of Terrestriety Silver to Azure soone broght will be The cause thereof is perspicuitie Which is in Silver caused of Ayer Wherefore it turneth to hevenly Colour faire And Quicksilver plenty within him is Causeth in Silver all this brightnes Subtiler Erth pure Water with cleerenes of Air Causeth such brightnes to Quicksilver to repaire Citrine Colour Yellowe as ye see in Gould Is Colour most liking for some men to behould Caused of mighty and strong digestion For humor in him have strong decoction Such Colour with Heate ingendred be shall As it in Honey Urine Lye and Gall The shining of Gould is caused as I tell Of pure and subtile Water termined full well Perspicuously condensed for Water pure and fine The more it is Condensed the better it woll shine For of a Mirrour the cause none other is But moisture termined as all Clerks gesse Soe that it be polible withall For Aier Figures receive never shall For Aier maie not be terminate in his kinde So cause of shining in Water ye shall finde With White and Red well medled pure and fine Woll be ingendred faire Colour Citrine Soe divers Comixtions of Elements Maketh divers Colours for divers intents With divers Digestions and divers degrees All Colours be made which your Eyen sees Of Elements ye must the proper Colour lerne Whereby of Colours ye maie better discerne Phisitians saie of good Herbs and soote Some be colde outward and hot within the roote Example hereof if ye list to gett Behold the working of the gentle Violet Common Philosophie the cause doth disclose Whie colde is within and red without the Rose Anaxagoras said in his Coversions naturall Inward and Outward be contrary in things all Which is trewe except such things as be Of little composition and nigh simplicitie As is Scammonye and Lawrell the Laxative Which be not nourishing to vegetative Remember how in every mixt thinge Evermore one Element defireth to be Kinge Which proude appetite of Elements and vicious Moveth men to be Ambitious Wherefore our Lord that best dispose cann Hath made Ordeynance for sinfull Man All proude appetites to equalitie to bringe When Requiem aeternam the Church shall singe Than shall everie ambitious thought Plainely appeare how that it was nought Lords and Beggars and all shall be In the Charnell brought to equalitie Your Principall Agent so rebate shall ye When he usurpeth above equality Therefore Aristotle said Compound ye our Stone Equall that in him repugnance be none Neither division as ye proceede Take heede thereto for it is greate neede And when it falleth that ye shall see All Colours at once that named maie be Than suffer Nature with her operation At her owne leasure to make Generation Soe that amonge so manie Colours all Nature maie shew one principall Such as shall draw towards your intent According to your desired Element This wise by Colours yee maie provide How in your workes yee shall yee guide Manie moe things of Colours I maie write But this is sufficient my promise to acquite As farr forth as Colours maie serve your intent By them to know your principall agent But manie Clerks wonder why you may see Soe manie Colours as in our Stone woll be Before that perfect White and Cleere And unchaungeable woll appeare Considering the fewnes of the ingredients I woll that answer to please their intents And teach them the trewth of that greate doubte By kinde of Magnesia such Colours passe out Whose nature is of such Convertibilitie To everie proportion and to everie degree As Christall to his Subject is founde For of everie thing that is upon the grounde Which that ye woll Christall set under Such Colour hath Christall therefore cease to wonder Wherefore Hermes said not untruly ne Envious Ad perpetranda miracula rei unius God hath so ordeyned saith Hermes the Kinge To fulfill the miracles of one thinge Common Philosophers thereof cannot finde The vertues of our Stone exceeding far their minde SMelling maie helpe forth your intente To know your reigning Elemente And be with Colour a Testimony To know your principall Agent thereby And ye which would by smelling lerne Of your principall Agent trewly to discerne As White and Black be Colours in extremitie Soe of Odors soote and stinking be But like as Fishes know not by sight Noe meane Colours because their Eyne bright Have none Eyelidds for their sight closinge Soe meane Odors shall not by

smellinge Be knowne of you this is the cause whie For Nostrills be open as the fishes Eye Therefore meane Odors be not in certaine Smelled by the Nose as meane Colours be seene Heavie Smell is not as Clerks thinke The midle Odor but only the lesse Stinke Old Fathers wrote by their Doctrine Of their Experience which is maturine That if ye medle sweete Savour and redolente Equally with stinking to prove your intent The soote shall be smelled the stinking not soe The cause ye may lerne now ere ye goe All sweete smelling things have more puritie And are more spirituall than stinking maie be Wherefore it is in Aier more penetrative And is more extendible and is alsoe to life More acceptable as friend to Nature And therefore rather received be ye sure ODor is a smokish vapour resolved with heate Out of substance by an invisible sweate Which in the Aier hath free entringe And chaungeth the Aier and your Smellinge As Sapor of Meates chaungeth your Tastinge And as Sounds chaungeth your Hearinge And as Colour chaungeth your Sight Soe Odor chaungeth Smelling by might The cause of Odours to know if you delight Foure things thereto be requisite First that suttill matter be Obedient To the working of Heate for to present By a fume the liknes of the same thinge From whome that fume had his beginninge Also to beare forth that pure fume and faire There is required a cleere thinn Aier For thick Aier woll not beare it farr But it woll reteyne it much faster And soe thick matter Obedience hath none To the working of Heate as it sheweth in Stone Heate maketh Odours Cold shrinketh by reason Dunghills in Summer stink more than in Winter season Pleasant Odours ingendered be shall Of cleane and Pure substance and fumigale As it appeareth in Amber Narde and Mirrhe Good for a Woman such things pleaseth her But of Pure substance with a Meane heate Be temperate Odours as in the Violet Of a Meane heate with substance Impure Is Odours misliking as Aloes and Sulphure But when Naturall heate beginneth to spill Then thereof ariseth heavie smell As Fish smelleth that is kept too longe Naturall heate rotteth soe the smell is stronge STinch is a Vapour a resolved fumositie Of things which of Evill Complexions be And when Humor onlie is in Corruption Soe that the Substance be not in Destruction Thereof shall onlie heavie smell arise But not verie Stinch come in that wise Of everie Stinch the cause of that Chaunce Is only corruption of the selfe substance And when Evill substance shall putrifie Horrible Odour is gendred thereby As of Dragons and Men that long dead be Their stench maie cause greate Mortalitie It is not wholsome to smell to some Cole For quenching of some Snuffe a Mare woll cast her Foale When the Qualities of a thing according is To your Nature good Odour will not misse But when the substance is contrary to your kinde The Odours thereof odious you shall finde Fishes love Soote smell also it is trewe Thei love not old Kydles as thei doe the new All things that are of good Odour Have naturall Heate for their succour Though Camphire Roses and things colde Have soote Odours yet Auctors tould How Heate virtually inclosed is the skell With Purenes of substance whie they so smell This olde opinion you maie teach your Brother How noe good Odour is contrary to another But it is not soe of stinking smells For stinch of Garlick voydeth stinch of Dunghills Of Odours this Doctrine is sufficiente As in Alkimy to serve your intente Your Warks to understonde thereby When things begin to purrifie Alsoe by Odours this you maie lerne Suttilnes and grosnes of Matters to discerne Alsoe of Meane substance knowledge ye may get With knowledge of Corruption of Naturall heate And knowledge of Diversitie by good attendance When Humour corrupteth and when the Substance But our Substance was made so pure and cleane And is conserved by vertue of the meane That ye no stinke thereof shall finde Albeit that it putrifie fro his owne kinde THe third signe and the third Testimony To understand your principall Agent by Is Sapor called of Mouth the Taste Which evermore is cause of waste Of the substance of the same thinge Whereof ye make proofe by Tastinge Sapor shulde be much better Judge Then Colour or Odour and more refuge Were not Taste a perillous thinge While our Stone is in workinge For it is hurting to health and life It is so greatly penetrative Above all subtill things it hath Victory And peirceth solid things hastily Wherefore it is perill and not good Much or oft to Tast of that foode It Comforteth Mettalls as we well finde But it is Perillous for all Mankinde Till perfect Red thereof be made Such as in Fier woll never fade A lewde Man late that served this Arte Tasted of our white Stone a parte Trusting thereby to find releefe Of all sicknes and of all greefe Whereby the Wretch was sodenly Smitt with a strong Paralisie Whom my Master with great Engine Cured with Bezoars of the Mine Therefore though Tast by Common reason Shulde be best judge at every season Yet for that Tast is abominable Sapor is heere not profitable Yet of some parts seperable A Tast maie well be Convenable Before Conjunctions to make assay Whether they be well wrought or nay Howbeit a Wiseman hath helpe sufficient By Colour and Odour to have his intent For manie Men can chuse good Wine By Colour and Odour when it is fine But for new Wine not fined in generall The trew Tast is most suertie of all For Smelling hath Organalls but one Nothing discerning but fumous things alone But Tast hath six Organalls without doubt To feele qualitie of things within and without Which Nature ordain'd against perill and strife For more suertie of things haveing life An Ape chuseth her Meate by Smelling Men and Popinjayes trusten to Tasting For manie things be of good Smell Which to Tast be found full ill For they maie be abhominable sower Over-sharpe too bitter or of greate horrour Or Venamous stinking or over-stronge The Tast is judge and voideth such wronge Old men wrote in antient time How that of Sapors there be fully Nyne Which ye maie lerne in halfe an hower As Sharpe tast Unctuous and Sower Which three doe suttill matter signifie And other three doe meane matter testifie As Bitinge tast Saltish and Weerish also Other three come thicke substances fro As Bitter tast under Sower and Douce Thes Nyne be found in manie a Noble House Five of these Nyne be ingendred by Heat Unctuons Sharpe Salt Bitter and Doulcet But of the Nyne the remnant all fower Be made with cold as is the Sapor Sower And so is Sowerish tast called Sapor Pontick And lesse Sower allso called Sapor Stiptick Also is Weerish tast called Unsavoury With Cold ingendered effectually Sapor of two things hath his Conception Of divers Substance and of divers Complection OF