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12 mouth whereof mut be igned or ealed with a couering of the ame matter, or with lute. And as in the mynes, heat doth not immediatly touch the matter of Sulphur and Argent-uiue, becaue the earth of the mountian comenth euery where between: So this fire mut not immediatly touch the veell, containing the matter of the foreaid things in it, but it mut be put into another veell, hut cloe in the like manner, that o the temperate heate may touch the matter aboue and beneath, and where ere it be, more aptly and fitly: wherevpon Aritotle ayth, in the light of lights, that Mercurie is to be cōcocted in a threefold veell, and that the veell mut bee of mot hard Glae, or (which is better) of earth poeing the nature of Glae.



He matter of the tone thus ended, thou halt knowe the certaine maner of working, by what maner and regiment, the tone is often chaunged in decoction into diuere colours. Whereupon one aith, So many colours, o many names. According to the diuere colours appearing in the worke, the names likewie were varied by the Philoophers: whereon, in the firt operation of our tone, it is called putrifaction, and our tone is made blacke: whereof one aith, When thou findet it blacke, know that in that black-