The Dialogue of Iron 
| beginning, and oꝛiginall. 8 
Trimerift Trimegiſto fapa, that the earth was the mother of the 
1 metals, and the heauen the Father. and Uiime fayth theſe 
dVoꝛdes. The inner parte ofthe earth is a tzing moſte pres 
cious, fo? into it, and thꝛough it doo goe, and pearce al the in⸗ 
fluences of heauen, ingendering therein thinges ol greats 
8 pꝛyce, as ſtones and mettals: and this is doone, as Calci= 
Calidonio. donio Platonico doeth fay , by reafon of the greate heate, 
Caliſt henes. that is inthe inner parte ot it. Caliſthenes vnderſtood that 
| Anaxagorasthe fozmie afmetals wers all one. Anaxagoras and Hermes 
ara Hermes ſapde, that the metalls had ane foʒme in the inner part, aud 
i an ether in the out warde parte, one ſecret, and an other mas 
nifett,ater the manner as the lead hath within it gold, and 
the gold lead, and fo of al the reſt of the metals. See you mx 
maiſters howe many and howe variable opinions there ars 
f LS ate wiſe men. — 
aoe re is another opinion, h is that whiche is com ⸗ 
5 3 man, and which fo2 the malt certepne we do followe, which 
as FECT Auicen wzote in bis boakes of Matheurous, and in the 
bookes hee made of Alcumiſto, which were conũrmed by 
Geber and Raymond Lullio, and Arnolde de Villa no- 
ua, and all the reſt that haue treated of thefe matters, euen 
vnto dur tame, doo fap, that the true matter of all metalis 
is ingendꝛedofbꝛimſtone, and quickeſiluer, the bꝛimſtone 
: — a the quickettluer as the mother : and ts 
mſtone, donth incazpoꝛate, and congele with 
| — in lach unte that otters too thinges are 
made the metals wich are in the bolwelles of earth: and of 
the variation of thefe twao beginninges, they come to byt 
—— from the ether, and ol the pureneſſe of thels 
| , ſome doe come ta be —— 
