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when they are united and joined, this is called the marriage of Gabritiuswith Beya.Then shall the Vapours cease, and all Exhalation shall be withheld fromascending or descending during the space of 40 days, or 42 at most, inwhich time though thou see not the former Circulation, rejoice, for now theBody begins to retain his Soul in a black colour.Now the Queen hath conceived the Kingly Seed, which must be nourishedwith gentle convenient Fire, till it wax strong, and becomes a puissanttriumphant Champion, whom no earthly force is able to withstand.Thou must of necessity then let them have this prefixed time for theirsolitude and retirement, in which time the fixt and the volatile, the cold andthe moist, the hot and the dry, do learn to agree each with other, beingreconciled in this Head of the Crow, which is the conversion of natures intoa discontinuous Calx, finer then Atoms of the Sun.This Operation as it is the Wyld and Labyrinth of all who seek this Art invain, so it is the Capo di Bone esperanza to as many as attain to the perfectsight hereof; for now most of the difficulties are passed, which they are liketo meet withal in this their Voyage to the Oriental Indies.This time of Conception with easie heat abide,The blackness appearing shall tell thee when they die,For they together like liquid Pitch that tideShall swell and bubble, settle and putrefie;Shining colours therein thou shalt espy,Like to the Rainbow, marvelous to sight,The Water then beginneth to dry upright.Thou must then be very carefull that thy over-heat do not now hinder theirConjunction, for now is the main fear of burning thy Flowers, which thoumayst easily do, and makes these Natures become a half Red, or Orangecolour, instead of the true Crows Bill.Whereas if thy external heat be so gentle, as not to extinguish motion, thoushalt find that in this period thy Natures shall both of them die together, forone is not killed, nor dieth without the other; which death in its approachthou shalt discover by the appearing blackness.And when once the Crow shall begin to shew itself, know that thou shaltsee a terrile day, for thou must expect to be in the heat of the shore, and inthe storm of the inraged Sea, which now the Winds are abated, after a longand strong blowing of them, doth arise in waves, raging and taking on, and160