And there were Whilofophers which ſaid that al mettals 
ſhould haue bin golde, if it had not bin fo2 the imperfection of 
the ſulphur, and the quckſtiuer. And alother metals beſides 
the gold, they call imperled mineralles, becauſe they hadde 
nat their pureneſſe, and concoction, that the golde had, with 
thut maruclleus kriendchippe, which nature gaue onto it. 
And ofthis it commeth, that the Alcumiſtes for fo make 
golde, doe pꝛetende to make cleane and puriſie theſe twos 
beginninges of the which all toe mettalles are made, and 
boring put into their perefcion the golde is made by ol 
. the metall moſt pure and cleane, of all s⸗ 
er. s f 
Thus they door wooꝛke with their diſtillations and 
limbetks: and hole hard it is to doe, let them reports and 
ſpeake that haue {pent their goods, and alſo their patrimo⸗ 
— 3 and pet in the end haue perfezmed nothing 
Buch as doc wiite again them, making impollible 
their woo2kes andeffectes, do fay that in the bewels of the 
earth, the metals are not ingendꝛed, noꝛ made ofbꝛimſtone, 
and quickefiluer, as they thinke and holde it foꝛ terteine,ſo 
they cannot make ofthem by Arte, fox ifit were fo, that ok 
bꝛümſtone and quickltluer they were inge ndꝛed ther would f 
be lame rafe of them in the mynes of golde, and Giver, and 
ofthe other metals: fo2 it is ſeene that there is no ſigne 2 
Payne of them in anvof thofe mynes, hawe ygepe ſa cet 
they be: but rather they are mynes olthemſelnes, as wee 
les, that nepther in them are founnde metalles-n in the 
mynes ot the metals are founde ſulphur, noꝛ quickſiluerr. 
And ikit were ſo as they Cape that the metalles doobtecde, 
and are newolp ingendꝛed ok the ſe tives be 
bee of fozce, that one metall Were alread) and 
the other thoulne goe a making, for that all cenie na 
dee made alpke: but ratber they take out all metalles 
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