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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

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

Alchimy Yet many called every Houre Learn'd and Unlearned Rich and Poore who 'll neither Tend nor take the Paines And therefore Trudge without the Gaines On whom God doth this Art bestow Her Sons may herein fully know By these foure-lines you may believe Heaven doth all things gratis give This Art in such you only finde As Justice love with spotles-Minde But t is deny'd to guilefull Men For sin protracts the gifts of Heaven These had adorn'd the English-Throne If they had trusted God alone For he that hereby Honor winns Shall change the old for better things And when he comes to rule the Land Reforme it with a vertuous hand Leaving examples of good deedes To every King that him succeedes Then shall the People Jubilize In mutuall love and sacrifise Praises to God O King that shall These Workes implore the God of all For timely helpe in this good thing So to a Just and Glorious King Most goodly Graces shall descend When least look'd for To Crowne his End THE PROHEME TO the honor of God One in Persons three This Boke is made that Lay-men shulde it And Clerks alsoe after my decease Whereby all Lay-men which putteth see To seech by Alkimy great ryches to winn them in prease May finde good Counseller they such warke begin And greate deceipts they may hereby eschewe And by this doctrine know fals men from trewe Nathles Clerks greate seacreats heere may leare But all Lay men shall finde heere cause to feare And to beware of falsillusions Which Multiplyers worke with their Conclusions But for that I desire not worldly fame But your good prayers unknowne shall be my name That no man shulde therafter search ne looke But wisely Consider the flowers of this booke Of every estate that is within Mankind If yee make search much people ye may finde Which to Alkimy their Corage doe address Only for appetite of Lucre and Riches As Popes with Cardinalls of Dignity Archbyshopes with Byshopes of high degree With Abbots and Priors of Religion With Friars Heremites and Preests manie one And Kings with Princes and Lords great of blood For every estate desireth after good And Merchaunts also which dwell in the fiere Of brenning Covetise have thereto desire And Common-workemen will not be out-lafte For as well as Lords they love this noble Crafte As Gouldsmithes whome we shulde lest repreve For sights in their Craft meveth them to beleeve But wonder it is that Wevers deale with such warks Free Masons and Tanners with poore Parish Clerks Tailors and Glasters woll not thereof cease And eke sely Tinkers will put them in the prease With greate presumption but yet some collour there was For all such Men as give Tincture to Glasse But many Artificers have byn over-swifte With hasty Credence to fume away their thrifte And albeit that losses made them to smarte Yet ever in hope continued their hearte Trusting some tyme to speede right well Of many such truly I can tell Which in such hope continued all their lyfe Whereby they were pore and made to unthrife It had byne good for them to have left off In season for noughte they founde but a scoffe For trewly he that is not a greate Clerke Is nice and lewde to medle with this warke Ye may trust me well it is no small inginn To know all secreats pertaining to the Myne For it is most profound Philosophie The subtill science of holy Alkimy Of which Science here I intend to write Howbeit I may not curiously indite For he that shulde all a common people teache He must for them use plaine and common speache Though that I write in plaine and hoemely wise No good Man then shulde such writenge dispise All Masters that write of this Soleme werke They made their Bokes to many Men full derke In Poyses Parables and in Metaphors alsoe Which to Shollers causeth peine and woe For in their practise whan they would it assay They leese their Costs as men see aldaye Hermes Rasis Geber and Avicen Merlin Hortolan Democrit and Morien Bacon and Raimond with others many moe Wrote under covert and Aristotle alsoe For what hereof they wrote with their penn Their Cloudy Clauses dulled many Men Fro Lay-men Fro Clearks and so fro every Man They hid this Art that no Man finde it cann By their bokes do they shew Reasons faire Whereby much people are brought into dispaire Yet Anaxagoras wrote plainest of them all In his boke of Conversions naturall Of the old Fathers that ever I founde He most disclosed of this Science the grownde Whereof Aristotle had greate envy And him rebuked unrightfully In many places as I can well report Intending that men to him shulde not resort For he was large of his cunning and love God have his soule in blisse with him above And suche as sowed envious seede God forgive them their misdeede As the Mounke which a Boke did write Of a thousand receipts in mallice for despight Which be coppied in many a place Whereby hath beene made pale many a Face And many Gownds have byne made bare of hewe And men made fals which before tyme were trewe Wherefore my Pitty doth me constreyne To shew the trewth in fewe words and plaine Soe that you may fro false doctrine flee If ye give Credence to this boke and mee Avoide your Bokes written of Receipts For all such Receipts are full of Deceipts Trust not such Receipts and lerne well this Clause Nothing is wrought but by his proper Cause Wherefore that Practise falleth farr behinde Wher Knowledge of the cause is not in minde Therefore remember ever more wisely That you woorke nothing but you knowe howe and whie Alsoe he that would in this Arte proceede To eschewe falshood he hath greate need For trewth is good which this Arte must guide Wherefore to falshood ye may never slide But stedfastly your minde must be set Fals Colloured Metall never to Counterfett As thei that seeke Blanchers or Citrinacions Which woll not abide all Examinacions Wherewith fals Plate they make as they cann Or Money to beguile some good trew Mann But God hath made that of this blessed Arte All that be fals shall have thereof noe parte He must have Grace that would for this Arte sue Therefore of right him needeth to be trew Also he may not be trobled in his Minde With outward charges which this Arte would finde And he that would have his intent He must have Riches sufficient In many wayes he maie not looke But only pursue the order of this Boke Named of Alkimy the Ordinall The Crede mihi the Standard perpetuall For like as the Ordinall to Preesti sotteth out The service of the dayes as they goe aboute Soe of all the Bokes unordered in Alkimy The effect is here set out Orderly Therefore this Boke to an Alchimister wise Is a Boke of incomparable price Whose trewth shall never be defiled Though it appeare in homely wise compiled And as I had this Arte

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

as Waters be made Some with Brenning as Colophonie And some with Water as Women make Lye Some be otherwise brought about And by naturall working fet out As Urin Sweat Milk and also Blood And Renniet which for Cheese is good By as manie manners and moe by one We seek Liquors for our Stone Every of the forenamed woll cleave To that thei touch and some deale leave But Quicksilver albeit it is fleeting Yet he woll never cleave to any thinge But to a Mettall of one kinde or other For there he findeth Sister or Brother Medling with suttill Erth doth him let To cleave to things such as he meet All the said Liquors which rehearsed be Conteyne fower Elements as well as he As Milke conteyneth Whey Butter and Cheese So done trewly every-each of all these Which fower maie be departed a twinn And after conjoynd to make ye winn But much more craftily they be heere sought Then Cheese and Butter and Whey be wrought And drawe neerer to simplicitie Then Cheese Butter or Whey maie be Of all Liquors which be in our Stone None is called simple but Water alone Of every Liquor which to our Stone shall goe Ye must know complexion and degree allso And than with Liquor ye maie abate The principall Agent from his Estate If he permanent and abiding be In any point of superfluitye As if the reigning qualitie be Driness Ye maie amend it with humour of Moistnes Now more now lesse as ye see need And so in all qualities proceede And in such wise order at your will The principall Agent your purpose to fulfill With knowledge of diversity contrarietie and accord Ye maie chuse which quality shall be Lord. Your Liquors be ordained to add and subtray To make equalitie by wisdome of assay But trust not that any thing maie be Hot and Moist both in one Degree For all that trust two qualities to be soe Shall be deceived where ever thei goe Common Schooles so teaching be not true Leave that Opinion and lerne this of new All Old men in that were oversecne To set in one degree anie qualities twaine Else thei said so that Schollers shulde not finde The secret mixtures of Elementall kind Therefore who cannot his graduations Maie not be perfect in our operations For in true Number God made every thing Without true Number no Man trulie maie sing Who faileth of his Number faileth of his Song Who faileth with us must doe Nature wrong COnsider also the nature of the meane When it is in the Third degree made cleane The purer that your meanes be The more perfection thereof ye shall see The meanes reteyne a great part Of the vertues of this Arte For the Principle maie not give influence To the Finall end neither the refluence Unto his Principall without succour and aid Of meanes conteyning the extremities aforesaid For like as by meanes of a treble Spirit The Soule of Man is to his Body knit Of which three Spirits one is called Vitall The second is called the Spirit Naturall The third Spirit is Spirit Animall And where they dwell now lerne ye shall The Spirit Vitall in the Hert doth dwell The Spirit Naturall as old Auctors tell To dwell in the Liver is thereof faine But Spirit Animall dwelleth in the Braine And as long as these Spirits three Continue in Man in there prosperitie So long the Soule without all strife Woll dwell with the Body in prosperous life But when theis Spirits in Man maie not abide The Soule forthwith departeth at that tide For the suttill Soule pure and immortall With the grosse Body maie never dwell withall He is so heavie and She so light and cleane Were not the suttilnesse of this Spirit meane Therefore in our worke as Auctors teach us There must be Corpus Anima Spiritus Also in our worke ye shall so finde That our meanes must accord in every kinde Of both extremities with wisdome sought Els all our worke shall turne cleere to nought For prudent Nature maie not by workinge Make Complement of appetite of a thing And so passe betweene extremities But if she first passe by all degrees Of everie meane this is truth unfained Wherefore Nature manie meanes ordained NOw after all this to lerne ye had need Of seven Circulations of Elements for your speede According to number of the Planets seaven Which no man knoweth but he have grace from heaven Old Philosophers men of great engine Said how of Circulations there shulde be Nine It is the ●urer to doe by their advice Nethles Seaven maie your worke suffice By inventions late found of new Of later Philosophers whos workes be trewe But for Circulations of Elements Some Clerks ween to have their intents When they fro Fier ordaine to descend To Aire thei ween not to offend If thei to Water doe then proceed And thens to Erth when thei see need And in such wise by order fall From the highest to the lowest of all Upon these words they tooke their ground That Aer est cibus ignis found But trust me that such Circulation Is but only a rectification Better serving for separation And for correction than for transmutation But the truth is that appetite of the Fier Hath to worke in Erth his cheefe desire As upon his cheefe foode materiall For Fier with Erth hath most concord of all Because that siccitie is the lyme of heate But Ayre of her kind is most wet Yet Fire without Ayre worketh not For Faces of Elements be knit with a knot Of Gods hand that they maie not depart By noe engine ne craft of Mans art As in Plomps ye have example faire Where heavie Water ariseth after Ayre Whereof noe cause reasonable ye shall finde But Connexion of faces of Elementall kinde But our Circulation is from Fier on high Which endeth with Water his most contrary Another Circulation beginneth with Ayre Ending with his Contrary cleane Erth and faier Fro Fier to Erth fro thence to Water cleane Fro thence to Ayre then fro thence by a meane Passing to Erth then eftsoones to Fier To such Circulations the Red worke hath desire Other Circulations be better for the White That be rehearsed for her appetite Every Circulation hath her proper season As her lightnesse accordeth with reason For as one Planet is more ponderous Then is another and slower in his course So some Circulations which Clerks seeks Must for her time have full thirtie Weeks Other Circulations shall oft time have lesse As one Planet is lighter then another was But the time of one with another will amount To twenty six Weekes proved by accompt After all grosse workes made before hand And after all Circumstances had I understande Ignorance hereof deceiveth manie a Man Causing them to cease where Wisemen began Common People which for this Science have sought Ween how in forty dayes it mought be wrought They know not how Nature and things of Arte Have a proper time assigned for their part As

Magnus In his Boke De Mineralibus Hereof a Secreate disclosed was By my good Master to more and lesse Saying Si Deus non dedisset nobis vas Nihil dedisset and that is Glasse Instruments needefull there be more As be Furnaces ordeyned therefore Olde Men imagined for this Arte A speciall Furnace for everie parte Everie-each divising after his owne thought But manie Furnaces of them be naught Some were too broade and some too longe Manie of them did Nature wronge Therefore some Furnaces maie be well used But manie of them must be refused For theie were made but by advice Of them which seemed and were not wise The most Commendable Fashion of them all In this Boke portraied finde ye shall One Furnace by me is found of newe Such as Olde Men never knewe Whose secreate Power with study sought And with greate Cost was dearely bought In him wil be at one tyme wrought Threescore Warkes and cost right nought More than it shulde for one Warke or twaine Therefore profitable it is certaine Threescore degrees divers ye maie gett For threescore warkes and everie-ech of divers Heate Within that Furnace to serve your desire And all thei served with one litle Fier Which of a Foote square onlie shal be Yet everie-ech of the threescore as greate space as he Manie purposes ye maie thereby fulfill For here you shall have Heate after your will Of this Instrument all Men maie not be sure Therefore it is not formed in Picture Another Furnace woll serve threescore Glasses trewly and yet farr more Everie-ech of them standing in like Heate As by the Picture Doctrine ye maie gett Another Furnace for this operation By me was found by Imagination Notably serving for Seperation Of dividents and for Altification And for Dis-junction called Division And for Correction called Ablution Yt woll for some things serve Desiccation Yt serveth full well for Preparation Soe for six things it serveth well And yet for all at once as I can tell This is a new thinge which shall not be Set out in Picture for all men to see Another Furnace in Picture be shall More full of perills than other Furnaces all Made for Magnetia whereof bould Men had doubte To tuch with hands a poore lynine Cloute Which in the midle thereof unbrenned stoode For feare of flames brenning fierce and woode Which suttill Furnace I devised alsoe In which I found manie wonders moe Than is convenient at this season to tell Whose graduation is doubtfull and casuell Wherein Magnetia matter of greate coste Must quickly be served or suddainly be loste Of whose graduation if you woll not misse Consider your Stoples and lerne well this The more is the Stople the lesse is the Heate By manifould Stoples Degrees ye maie gett Whoe knoweth the power the working and kinde Of everie Furnace he maie well trewth finde And he which thereof dwelleth in Ignorance All his Warke faleth upon Chaunce Noe man is sure to have his intent Without full concord of Arte with Instrument Manie more Instruments occupied ye shall se Than in this Chapter now rehearsed be Which ye must ordeyne by good or sad advice And prove them before hand oft if ye be wise THe fourth Concord is full notable Betweene this Arte and Places Convenable Some Places must needes be evermore dry Close from Aier no waies Windy Some must be darke and dimme of sight In which Sun-beames none maie light But for some Places the trewth so is Thei cannot have too much brightnes Some Places must needes be Moist and Cold For some workes as Auctors toulde But in our Warkes in everie place Winde will hurt in everie Case Therefore for everie Warke in season Ye must ordaine Places by reason Philosophers said by their engine How it shulde be wrought within locks Nyne Astrologers said it was a grace To finde a Chosen Working Place For manie things woll wonderous doe In some Places and elsewhere not soe But contrarie wonders be of one thinge In contrarie Countries wrought without leasing Whereof none other cause maie appeare But only contrarie places of the Sphere Whereto Places contrarie of the grounde To them Concordaunt and Obedient be found Hereof great Evidence and wittnes full cleere In the Magnets Stone openly doth appeare Whose North pointe draweth toward his Countrie Which under the Southe starr driveth Needles awaye Wherefore wise Men which for this Arte sought Found some Places concordant some Places nought Trewly such Places where Lechery is used Must for this Arte be utterly refused THe fift Concord is knowne well of Clerks Betweene the Sphere of Heaven and our Suttill Werks Nothing in Erth hath more Simplicitie Than th' elements of our Stone woll be Wherefore thei being in warke of Generation Have most Obedience to Constellation Whereof Concord most kindly and convenient Is a direct and firie Ascendent Being signe common for this Operation For the multitude of their Iteration Fortune your Ascendent with his Lord also Keeping th' aspect of Shrewes them fro And if thei must let or needely infect Cause them to looke with a Trine aspect For the White warke make fortunate the Moone For the Lord of the Fourth house likewise be it done For that is Thesaurum absconditum of olde Cle●ks Soe of the Sixt house for Servants of the Werks Save all them well from greate impediments As it is in Picture or like the same intents Unlesse then your Nativity pretend infection In contrariety to this Election The vertue of the Mover of the Orbe is formall The vertue of the Eight Sphere is here Instrumentall With her Signes and Figures and parts aspectuall The Planets vertue is proper and speciall The vertue of the Elements is here materiall The vertue infused resulteth of them all The first is like to a workmans Minde The second like his Hand ye shall finde The third is like a good Instrument The remnant like a Thing wrought to your intent Make all the Premises with other well accord Then shall your merrits make you a greate Lord. In this wise the Elixir of whom ye make mention Is ingendered a thing of a second intention Trust not in Geomantie that superstitious Arte For God made Reason which there is set aparte Trust not to all Astrologers I saie whie For that Arte is as secreat as Alkimy That other is disproved and plainely forbod By holy Saincts of the Church of God Trust not ne love not Negromancy For it is a property of the Devill to lye Trust to this Doctrine set herein your desires And now lerne the Regiment of your Fiers CHAP. VII Aparfet Master ye maie him call trowe Which knoweth his Heates high and lowe Nothing maie let more your desires Than ignorance of Heates of your Fiers Of manie Auctors written ye maie see Totum consistit in ignis regimine Wherefore in all Chapters you must so proceed That Heate worke not more ne lesse than it need Wherein manie of Gebars Cookes Deceived were though thei be wise