The compovnd of alchymy Or The ancient hidden Art of Archemie: Conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the Philosophers Stone, Aurum potabile, with other excellent Experiments. Diuided into twelue Gates. First written by ... George Ripley ... & Dedicated to K. Edward the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his Epistle to the King, his Vision, his Wheele & other his Workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe Additions of other notable Writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in Archemicall Artes |
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Of Cibation.
The seuenth Gate.
Now of Cibation I turne my pen to write,
Sith it must here the seuenth place occupie:
But in few words it wilbe expedite,
Take heede therefore, and vnderstand me wittelie,
Cibation is called a feeding of our matter drie,
With milke and meate, which moderately thou doe,
Vntill it be brought the third order vnto.
Sith it must here the seuenth place occupie:
But in few words it wilbe expedite,
Take heede therefore, and vnderstand me wittelie,
Cibation is called a feeding of our matter drie,
With milke and meate, which moderately thou doe,
Vntill it be brought the third order vnto.
But giue it neuer so much, that thou it glut;
Beware of dropsey, and also of Noahs flood:
By little and little therefore thou to it put
Of meate and drinke, as seemes to doo it good,
That watry humours not ouergrow the blood,
To drinke therefore let it be measured so,
That kindly appetite thou neuer quench it fro.
Beware of dropsey, and also of Noahs flood:
By little and little therefore thou to it put
Of meate and drinke, as seemes to doo it good,
That watry humours not ouergrow the blood,
To drinke therefore let it be measured so,
That kindly appetite thou neuer quench it fro.
For if it drinke too much, then must it haue
A vomit or els it wilbe sick too long,
From the dropsie therefore thy wombe thou saue,
And from the flix, or els it wilbe wrong,
But rather let it thirst for drinke among,
Than thou shouldst giue it ouermuch at once.
Which must in youth be dieted for the nonce.
A vomit or els it wilbe sick too long,
From the dropsie therefore thy wombe thou saue,
And from the flix, or els it wilbe wrong,
But rather let it thirst for drinke among,
Than thou shouldst giue it ouermuch at once.
Which must in youth be dieted for the nonce.
And if thou diet it (as nature doth require)
Moderately, till time that it be growen to age,
From colde it keeping, and nourishing with moyst fire,
Then shall it growe, and wexe full of courage,
And doe to thee both pleasure and aduantage:
For he shall make darke bodies whole and bright,
Clensing their leprosies through his might.
Moderately, till time that it be growen to age,
From colde it keeping, and nourishing with moyst fire,
Then shall it growe, and wexe full of courage,
And doe to thee both pleasure and aduantage:
For he shall make darke bodies whole and bright,
Clensing their leprosies through his might.
Three times must thou turne about thy wheele,
Still keeping the rule of the said Cibation,
And then as soone as it the fire doth feele,
Like waxe it wilbe readie vnto liquation:
This chapter needeth no longer protestation,
For I haue tolde thee the dietoric most conuenient,
After thine Elements be made equipolent.
Still keeping the rule of the said Cibation,
And then as soone as it the fire doth feele,
Like waxe it wilbe readie vnto liquation:
This chapter needeth no longer protestation,
For I haue tolde thee the dietoric most conuenient,
After thine Elements be made equipolent.
And also how to whitenes thou shalt bring thy golde,
Most like in figure to leaues of hawthorne tree
Called Magnesia, afore as I haue tolde,
And our white Sulphure without combustibilitie,
Which from the fire away will neuer flie.
And thus the seuenth Gate (as you desired)
In the vprising of the Sunne is conquered.
Most like in figure to leaues of hawthorne tree
Called Magnesia, afore as I haue tolde,
And our white Sulphure without combustibilitie,
Which from the fire away will neuer flie.
And thus the seuenth Gate (as you desired)
In the vprising of the Sunne is conquered.
The end of the seuenth Gate.
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