Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language (1652)
Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692 · London : Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the angel in Cornhill · leaf 378
re,By Earth of himfelfe through his nature,Re&ined by his Milke who canittye,And afterward united with Water of lyfe truly rA Dragon lying in his deepe denne,Rotting in Water to Putrefic then :Leproufe huge and terrible in fight,By bathing and balning the Dragon cometh to light 5Evermor drowned… … Hy art thou fo Poore and I fo Rich,rJP Aboundance of Trcfurc in mc thow maiftIn all the World I am nothing fo iichc5As Man that is fo proginitous to my kyndc,TheRych man on the Poorc hath no pity* In mc therefore have thow affiance, It is oft tymes feene in Townc and Cittic: He is evy 11 at eafe…
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