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This Sulphur is combustible, to getAnother Sulphur Metalline and pure,And mix with the Mercurial part be sure.This Sulphur in the House of Aries seek,There shall you find it, and this is the GreekAlcides, which with Jason Journey tookTo Colchos, this is it which never BookAs yet reveal’d, and yet I will proceed,And greater Mysteries unfold with speed.Our Subject it is no ways malleable,It is Metalline, and its colour sable,With intermixed Argent, which in veinsThe sable Field with glittering Braches stains.The pure parts from the impure, thou shalt neverWith Fire or Water for this work dissever.Nor with the hardest iron dig it thence,For Steel ‘gainst this affordeth no defence.So easily as any little BoyA Giant can suppress, this can destroyAlcides Brest-plate, with his Target stout,And put opposing Armies to the routOf Swords and Spears, O wondrous force, and yetThe Sages this have seen, when they did sitIn Council, how this Fury they might tame,Which (as unparallel’d) they then did nameTheir Lyon Green, they suffered him to preyOn Cadmus Sociates, and when the frayWas over, they with Dian’s Charms him ty’dAnd made him under Waters to abide,And wash’d him clean, and after gave him WingsTo fly, much like a Dragon, whose sharp SpringsOf fiery Water th’ only way was foundTo cause Apollo his harp-strings to sound.This is the true Nymphs bath, which we did try,And prov’d to be the Wise Mens Mercury.In this Song you have the Lyon Green so described, that more I dare not,more I cannot, unless I should pen you down the Receipt verbatim, whichGod and Reason forbids.He is the mean the Sun and Moon between,Of joining Tinctures with perfectness.46