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Opera Saturni Page 44
4.Of two Conjunccions Phylosophers don mentyon make,
Groce when the Body with Mercury ys reincendat,
But let hyt passe, and to the second tent thou take,
Which as I sayd ys after Separacion celebrat:
In whych the partys be left whych left so collygate;
And so promotyd unto most perfyt temperance,
Then never after may be among them Repugnance.
5.Thus causyth Separacion trew Conjunccion to be be had
Of Water, Ayre, Earth and Fyre,
But that every Element may into other be lad,
And so abyde for ever to thy desyre;
Do as done Laborous with Clay and Myer,
Temper them thyke, and make them not to thyn,
For so to up drying thou shalt the rather wyn.
6.But manners there be of thys Connjunccion three,
The fyrst ys callyd by Phylosophers Dyptative,
Betwyxt the Agent and the Patyent which must be
Male and Female, Mercury and Sulphure vive;
Thys lesson wyll helpe thee wythout any dowte,
Our Conjunccion trewly to bryng about.
7.The second manner ys called Tryptative,
Whych ys Cojunccion made of thyngs three,
Of Body, Sowle, and Spyrit tyll they not stryve,
Whych Trynite must be brought to perfyt unyte,
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