that flegme muſt be brought to a further maturity (being taken out, and put into an ovall veſſell of a juſt bigneſſe to hold it) by an exact digeſtion, and will ſo become a renewed bird: which ſaith Paracelſus is one of the greateſt wonders in nature, and ſhewes the great vertue of putrefaction,
2. Cut a Serpent into ſmal pieces, which put into a gourd glaſſe which you muſt Hermetically ſeale up, then putrefie them in horſe-dung, and the whole ſerpent will become living again in the glaſſe, in the forme either of wormes, or Spawne of fiſhes; Now if theſe wormes be in a fitting manner brought out of putrefaction, and nouriſhed; many hundred ſerpents will be bred out of one ſerpent, whereof every one will be as big as the firſt. And as it is ſaid of the ſerpent, ſo alſo many other living creatures may be raiſed, and reſtored again.
Firſt take a wine barrell well hooped, and dreſſed, with one end being open, to which a cloſe cover muſt be well fitted, which muſt be to take off and put on at pleaſure. Set it in a warme place winter or ſummer, and fill it full with cleare and pure water, to each three gallons, put fix pound of the beſt Mallago Raiſins, which you muſt bruiſe in a ſtone mortar, and then ſtrow upon the water, upon each twenty gallons of which, you muſt caſt a handful of Calx vive, then cover the veſſel cloſe with the cover, and caſt clothes upon it to keep it warm, & let it ſtand four or five dayes to worke as Wine or Beer do when they be new: then fee if the Raiſins be riſen up to the top of the water, if ſo then put them downe againe, and cover it againe as before, let them thus ſtand three weeks or a moneth together, the Raiſins being every fourth or fifth day put down in cafe they rife up. Then put a tap into the veſſell three or four fingers above the bottome, and try if it be good, and taſt like Wine; if not, let it ſtand a while longer; but if ſo, draw it off into another Wine veſſell, and to every twenty gallons that you have drawn off, put a pint of the beſt Aqua vitæ, two new laid Hens-egges, and a quart of Alligant beaten well to-
