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4 weight: it hath too much fixed vncleane Sulphur, and burning earthinee. That which hath bene poken, euerie Alchimit mut diligently oberue.



He generation of mettals, as well perfect, as imperfect, is ufficiently declared by that which hath bene already poken. Now let vs returne to the imperfect matter that mut be choen and made perfect. Seeing that by the former Chapters we haue bene taught, that all mettalls are engendred of Argent-uiue and Sulphur, and how that their impuritie and vncleannee doth corrupt, and that nothing may be mingled with mettalls which hath not beene made or prung form them, it remaineth cleane inough, that no trange thing which hath not his originall from thee two, is able to perfect them, or to make a chaunge and new tranmutation of them: o that it is be wondred at, that any wie man hould et his mind vpon liuing creatures, or vegetables which are far off, when there be minerals to bee found nigh enough: neither may we in any wie thinke, that any of the Philoophers placed by Art in the aid remote things, except it were by way of comparion: but of the aforeaid two, all mettals are made, neither doth any thing cleaue vnto them, or is ioyned with them, not yet chaungeth them, but that which is of them, and o of right wee mut take Argent-uiue and