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 412
. (dity The tyme of our working would I knowyIn what fpace might be made our Stone,By Come and by Frut [Son) thou maift it welOnce in a ycare it is afore thee done; (know*The Sun in the Zodiack about doth gonne,Through the twelve Signcs onct in a yeare,Soe long it is ete we can make our Stone:… … » The Preface prefixt to Sir (jeo: %plejsMEW LLAV Which he wote Ann. Dom... 14.76. and Dedicated to Geo: Ncvell then ArcfhBifhop #/ Yorke. JGHT noble Lord, andPrelate Deert,Vouchfafe of me thefe Verfes takf> Whch Iprefent unto yon heere,That mention of the Stone doth makg,Of Wife men meetered…
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