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Opera Saturni Page 12<br />
Whereof congealed it was by violence of greate Cold,<br />
Whence Phebus it smiteth with his Heate influent:<br />
Right so to Water mynerall, reduced is our Gold,<br />
(As writeth playnly Albert,Raymond, and Arnold)<br />
With heate and moisture by craft occasionate,<br />
With congelation of the Spyrite, Lo! now have I told<br />
Howe our materialls togeather must be proportionate.<br />
Att the Dyers craft ye may lerne this Science,<br />
Beholding with Water how they decoctions make<br />
Uppon theyr Wood and Maddre easyly and with patience,<br />
Till the Tinctures appeare which the Cloath doth take<br />
Therein so fixed that they wyll never forsake<br />
The Cloth for washing after they joyned be;<br />
Right so our Tinctures with Water of our Lake<br />
We draw by boyling with Ashes of Hermes tree.<br />
Which Tinctures when they be by craft are made parfite,<br />
So dieth Mettalls with Colours evermore permanent,<br />
After the qualitie if the Medycine Red or White;<br />
That never away by eny Fire, will be brente:<br />
To this Example, if you take good tent<br />
Unto your purpose the rather shall ye wynne,<br />
And see your Fire be easy and not fervent;<br />
Where Nature did leave off, what tyme look ye begynn.<br />
First Calcine and after that Putrefye,<br />
Dyssolve,Dystill, Sublyme, Descende, and Fyxe,<br />
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