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Chapter VI - "From where Form comes; and of the chain that Homer feigned, and the rings that Plato mentions." Chapter VII - "Of Sympathy and Antipathy; and that by them we may know and find out the Virtues of things." Chapter VIII - "That things receive their force and power from Heaven, and from the Stars; and that thereby many things are wrought." Chapter IX- "How to attract and draw forth the virtues of superior Bodies." Chapter X - "How the knowledge of secrecies depends upon the survey and viewing of the whole World." Chapter XI - "That the likeness of things shows their secret virtues." Chapter XII - "How to compound and lay things together, by their likeness." Chapter XIII - "That particular creatures have particular gifts, some in their whole body, others have them in their parts." Chapter XIV - "Of those properties and virtues which things have while they live, and of such as remain in things after death." Chapter XV - "That all Simples are to be gotten and used in their certain seasons." Chapter XVI - "That the Countries and places where Simples grow, are chiefly to be considered." Chapter XVII - "Certain properties of Places and Fountains, which are commodious for this work." Chapter XVIII - "That Compounds work more forcibly, and how to compound and mix those simples which we would use in our mixtures." PDFmyURL.com
Chapter XIX - "How to find out the just weight of a mixture." Chapter XX - "How to prepare Simples." Chapter I "What is meant by the name of Magick" orphyry and Apuleius, great Platonicks, in an oration made in the defense of Magick, do witness, that Magick took her name and original form from Persia. Tully, in his book of Divination, says, that in the Persian language, a Magician is nothing else but one that expounds and studies divine things; and it is the general name of wise-men in that country. St. Jerome writing to Paulinus, says, that Apollonius Tyaneus was a Magician , as the people thought; or a Philosopher, as the Pythagoreans esteemed him. Pliny, says, that it is received for certainty among most authors, that Magick was begun in Persia by Zoroastres the son of Orimafius; or, as more curious writers hold, by another Zoroastres, surnamed Proconnefius, who lived a little before. The first author that ever wrote of Magick , Osthanes, who going with Xerxes king of Persia in war which he made against Greece, did scatter by the way, as it were, the seeds and the first beginnings of this wonderful art, infecting the world with it wherever he came; Inasmuch that the Grecians did not only greedily desire this knowledge, but they were even mad after it. So then Magick is taken amongst all men for wisdom, and the perfect knowledge of natural things: and those are called Magicians, whom the Latin's call Wisemen, the Greeks call Philosophers, of Pythagoras only, the first of that name, as Diogenes writes; "the Indians call them Brackmans (Brahmans), in their own tongue; but in Greek they call them Gymnosophists, as much to say as naked Philosophers;" The Babylonians and Assyrians call them Chaldeans, of Chaldea a country in Asia; The Celts in France call them Druids, Bards, and Semnothites; The Egyptians call them priests; and the Cabalists call them prophets. And so in diverse countries Magick has diverse names. But we find that the greatest part of those who were best seen into the nature of things, were excellent Magicians: as, amongst the Persians, Zoroastres the son of Orimafius, whom we spoke of before, amongst the Romans, Numa Pompilius; Thespion, amongst the Gymnosophists; Zamolxis, amongst the Thracians: Abbarais, PDFmyURL.com
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for a Boar is exceeding hot is lust
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which is begotten of a Boars, is st
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where Pan is honored for a god, and
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Cocks are of all other most lechero
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ways of which we spoke of before, n
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they yield two perfect Chickens wit
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females were generated, according a
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Tiberius has taught the way how do
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Dolabelliana, and another is named
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Dydimus, writes, that if any man wo
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seen in Antandrus, for the Myrtle i
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Chapter III "How to make one Fruit
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"An Apple Compounded of a Peach-app
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Chapter IV "Of a second means where
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If white and black Vines grow near
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"A Fig that is partly white and par
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"How a double fruit may be made, wh
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was never heard of in former ages,
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"Melimela, of an Apple and a Quince
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"Cucumbers shall be ripe very timel
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And this is by laying good store of
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"The Forward Fig tree to hasten her
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"Roses growing all the year long,"
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"Figs that are very backward," As C
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It remains now that we set down cer
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them, and water them and lay Muck a
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the tree, then if it were out of th
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When it is most full of leaves, and
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their Pith, by foiling with Dung, o
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Kernels. Palladius borrows this sam
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May be produced, as Damageron teach
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Now we will show how to color fruit
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"To procure red Pomegranates," Wate
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By the very same means which we spe
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"Lilly flowers of a purple color."
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As Paxamus shows. If you would have
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will abide not only a scar, but als
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"Sweet Cucumbers," May be procured,
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ecome better. The like applications
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Many things do fall out by chance,
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open it charily, and when you have
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And also yield a better fruit, if y
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stalks of the Basil, and by often w
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"How a Vine may be made to bring fo
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Chapter XXI "How to plant Fruits an
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you mean to lay up in store for a g
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down the inventions of our ancestor
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clusters, and let the upper part of
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If you hang them up in a dry place,
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Chapter IV "What special time there
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They are to be gathered, says he, i
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Palladius counsels you to gather th
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you gather your Grapes they must be
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We have shown before, that, if we w
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up the Gourd in a dark place where
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"Beans and Pulse have been laid up
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When you have gathered your Cervise
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forever. The Amber does eternize th
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"Medlars may be preserved in Honey,
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"Figs may be long preserved in Wine
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after they were gathered. Then you
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was kept thereby from Putrifying. W
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For, if they are Soused in Seawater
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He sprinkles them with Lees of Oil
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"Oranges may be kept in Chaff ." As
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Tarentinus would have it imposed up
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Chapter XV "How other things may be
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fruit is like a Bean naturally, but
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"Bread of Asphodils is eaten." This
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Meal may be separated with a wooden
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add this for the singular virtue of
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of sweet Almonds Mundified. The Ses
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Out of Sotion, who of the berries o
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"How Vinegar may be made diverse wa
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them and set them aside in a vessel
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"Oil of Walnuts," That they pressed
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Chapter XXVI "To Hatch Eggs without
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heat alike. The place where this ve
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the desire partly of the same lurch
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which things are very necessary pre
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fire, and be first thoroughly boile
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they are full of such experiments a
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with your fingers, they will soon b
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Chapter IV "Of Iron, and how to tra
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Wherein we will first set down cert
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Chapter VI "Of Silver." I shall tea
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melt and run. Take it off, and wash
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Chapter VIII "How to make a metal m
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Gold, take it out and put it into a
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powders, they may come at it on all
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Chapter I "Of certain Salts used in
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Artificers call those pellets which
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again with Vinegar, and this they d
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them, wherein you shall find your c
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"To stain Crystal with the color of
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Chapter VIII "Of making Smalt or En
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Such as Goldsmiths use. To every po
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of a hand square, and the thickness
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Now we will show how to color them.
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I will now show how Rays may be col
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Chapter XLII - "That the force of t
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study and accurate diligence therei
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weight. Moreover, if you put anothe
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Let the Loadstone be AB, and A the
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who think that no other Loadstone h
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"That the force of this stone will
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and weak. It loses its force, that
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Chapter XVI "That the force of draw
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Chapter XIX "How the attractive for
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Loadstone, and be set softly near t
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hand that guides it. When it has go
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Loadstone a little farther off, the
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For I glued a piece of Iron on the
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Chapter XXXII "That the Iron rubbed
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"The virtue received in the Iron, i
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Chapter XXXVII "Of the divers uses
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stone, and shall carry it round abo
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Chapter XLIII "The Needle touched b
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"An Iron plate touched in the middl
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Chapter L "How to augment the Loads
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Loadstone, supposing it will by tha
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Marbodeus of the same. Goats blood
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If one ould know here leads a whori
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Chapter I - "Of Medicines which cau
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of Mandrake with his Wines. The qua
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place for two months. When you woul
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"A way to cause merry dreams." When
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I could find not any thing in all t
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I found out a most powerful remedy
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"That a woman may conceive." There
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It is the common opinion of all Phy
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extract the color of the flowers, a
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ubbed thereon. The leaves cure rott
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Take Perwincle, an herb of an intol
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That's struck and gathers where it
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his head down, sights often, his he
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Chapter IV - "To make Hairs part sm
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their foul and swart complexions, t
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Chapter II "How to dye the hair red
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Wool, for if it be dyed black, as I
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ashes of a land Hedgehog, or of bur
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and does the business completely. T
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ounce of Borax. Turpentine, three o
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full of Vinegar, and cast upon this
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Chapter XVII "How to make the face
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Take purple Violets, Eggshells, Sau
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Take two ounces of Rosin of Turpent
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Take Sowbread roots, three parts. C
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Chapter XXIV "To Take away Wrinkles
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Sublimate, have their teeth black o
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The hands must not be forgotten, bu
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Chapter XXIX "How the Matrix over w
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"To make a woman full of red Pimple
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Chapter II - "Of the Extraction of
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"What Distillation is, and of how m
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same scent, or cast a more fragrant
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again. And the second time Distil o
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"How to draw Oil by Expression." We
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assistance of water. Those kinds of
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draw Oil out of flowers, leaves, sp
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Is to be made by putting Benjamin i
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The nature of things being diverse,
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their goodness is boiled out. Pour
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"Of Charabes." I will deliver to yo
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elements are so proportionally mixe
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Chapter XVI "How to Extract Salts."
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parts, where the spirits reside. Th
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I have declared many ways of Extrac
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double. When it is well dried, set
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and pour it on again, and so again,
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A Table Containing the General Head
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Chapter VII - "How to make sweet co
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Chapter II "To make Sweet Water by
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They must be rubbed over with Oil.
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prayers by, and others to trim thei
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Chapter VI - "Of Compositions with
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as Ivy does. But I do it more conve
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But in compositions for Arrows and
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Hogs were mad at it, and ran furiou
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cast it into the hollow of the Gun,
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it comes to the superficies of the
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There are made some of these sorts
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Vitruvius says, that the Larch tree
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draw the fire to it. And the glass
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Thus: Take old strong black Wine. P
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"Blind your eyes with the smoke." T
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while to know. It must be a Liquor
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Chapter VII - "How to grave a Porph
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"How Iron will wax soft." I shall f
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Chapter IV "How for all mixtures, I
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opened by it, and it grows soft. Bu
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stroke, nor fly asunder. Moreover,
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ent, resist. But when I sought for
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Chapter III - "How Flesh may be mad
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no hot vapors. But I think that the
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eason of the wood. Pliny. I gave yo
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"Squils grow tender." We must do as
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Now shall I show with some meats, a
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put one of good Wine, and wet Wheat
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Chapter VIII "How Animals may be bo
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do it is thus. Take a Duck, or a Go
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have their invention, when they are
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Chapter XII "To make men drunk, and
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of it. Now if you would refrain, an
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Chapter V - "Fish are allured by li
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they love it, and when any one of t
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Chapter III "Also other animals are
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the smell to the wild beast. The hu
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"Elephants are made Drunk." Athenau
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syllables. Let the epistle contain
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Galls in Wine, and steep the Egg th
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ound. They sent a man that seemed t
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Pigeons from the nearest place he c
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head. And when the hair grew out, t
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vanish. The Tincture will fall off,
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it, and mingle Quicksilver with it,
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Chapter XXI - "How Spectacles are m
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cannot discern it. Fit two Looking-
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efore. For thus the glasses will no
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the voice also, and make an echo. F
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And looking in that, you shall see
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"How you may see the sun eclipsed."
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he who can understand it, will rejo
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"How with a Convex Crystal Lenticul
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how that might be done, that we may
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the angle B A D be made equal to A
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all sides. Yet I think it an unwort
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even unto it. Then of moist Gyp sha
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the water being heaviest, will alwa
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Chapter V "A description of Vessels
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that they do them by conjuration."
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Though but little. Discorides shows
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Chapter II "How to make water of Ai
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wherewith we may hear man miles. An
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oppressed with a love of earthly th
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Great Cato, the chief man for all c
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