Book 3 . Tbe Rofie Crucian Crown. i

The third Book.
of Sfiturne or Lead the frfl DireBion^
C H A P. I. Of the Ellxary Putref^Bion into Sulphur^ the OyloftheSulphur^ of the ConjunBion of the Salt and Oyl of the Spirity or Salt ofSaturne^ vphich conta'meth the 0)l or foul of the Men- ftruum of white Mercury and r^d water ofPa^ radicej Refolmon, Solution^ di^illation^Hyly Purgation y refolution of Sericon^ of the Gum ofSericonyof thefolution of the Minium or Adropyo\ Calcination of Minium into Adrojf and red Leady of Calcination of Lead with Aqua Fortis.
VEry many havcwrk of Satfirneov Lead, but none that I know of have writ ful- ly thereof in any particular Treatife ; therefore I do not here onely fet down what I have gathered from them moft briefly and truely, but alfothofe things which I have found and proved by my own experience^ which I have annexed to them>that the work may be abfoluce and compleat,
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2 The Rope CructanCrowxi, Book 3.
" Of whichj as they fay, Mary the Prophecefs, and tb€ Silver of CMofes in her Books of the ^ work oi Satf4r»€ is thus faid to write. Make your W«er running like the water of the two Zaibech, • and fix it upon ih^htzito^ Satur^e : And in ano- ther placej Marry the Gum with the true Matri- monial Guriij and you (hall make it like running water. Of which procefs of Mary? George Rlf- lej our Country man hath thefe verfes*
MarlamlrafonAt QiiA nobis talla do»at Gumm'ts cum hints FugitivHmfiigk initnls Uoris In trim Trla vlnelat fortla finis Flu Pltitonls Confortia junglt Aworis*
Or thus>
MariA mtrafonat} hrevlter tjul talla donat Gumml ctim yinlsftigitlvtimfHgii In mis iioris pi trim trla vlnelat f or ti a finis, tji€arta lux rorls ilgam llgat in trlhm horis^ Fill a PImo?7 Is confortia jungit Amor is Gaudet InaJfaUfala fer t rla foci at a.
The heart of Saturne, faith %lfley/s his white and dear body y out of whofedo6trine the work doth briefly thus proceed? that is to fay, that a- water he made out of the body of Suurne, like- the water Zaibeth, and that water fixed upon the- heart of Saturne 1 but becaufe the pra^ice of ., • . draw-