weight: it hath too much fixed vncleane Sulphur, and burning earthineſſe. That which hath bene ſpoken, euerie Alchimiſt muſt diligently obſerue.
CHAP. III.
THe generation of mettals, as well perfect, as imperfect, is ſufficiently declared by that which hath bene already ſpoken. Now let vs returne to the imperfect matter that muſt be choſen 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 vncleanneſſe doth corrupt, and that nothing may be mingled with mettalls which hath not beene made or ſprung form them, it remaineth cleane inough, that no ſtrange thing which hath not his originall from theſe two, is able to perfect them, or to make a chaunge and new tranſmutation of them: ſo that it is be wondred at, that any wiſe man ſhould ſet 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 wiſe thinke, that any of the Philoſophers placed by Art in the ſaid remote things, except it were by way of compariſon: but of the aforeſaid 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 ſo of right wee muſt take Argent-uiue
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