The Dialogue of Iron 
Phifitions which doo command tocartp to the monphouſe, 
which is v hauſe where the money is made) a pot of water 
Wherin they quench many times a bar of gold, ¢ they do at⸗ 
tribute moze vertues to this water then to roſemarp. at is a 
thing moſt fafpictous of as manꝑ as map be, foꝛ at the time 
they diuide p gold frõ the filuer oz copper, wher with it doth: 
come mingled, they diuide w ſtrög water which is a coꝛſiue 
bend emioztal,ofthe which it cãnot be choſen, but there wil 
remain ſome euil quality therof, bicaufe it is athing fo frog. 
And like wiſe at p time they melt p gold, to make it in bars, 
€ ol the to make monp,o2 any other thing, that it may fine ¢ 
rife of moꝛe killats when it is melt in the furnace, theycaſt 
into it Sablim vũ groũd:iudge pou if it wil let the gold to par 
ticipate, (althaugh it be but litle) ofthat venom fo moꝛtal € 
fo hurtful:t the pooʒe fick perfen truſting vpon the woꝛds ol 
the Phiſitiõ, thinketh that he hath remedy fo2 the hart, ⁊ for 
bis ſoundings ¢ faintnes, ⁊ there cometh to him hurt e pope 
fort, which deſtroyeth ¢ toꝛruptethhim. Beleꝛue you me, and 
ſuffer not ſuch which are ſicke, to ſpend their money to caſt 
gold in medicines which they take, noꝛ let them quẽch gold 
that is hot in wine, noꝛ in water, foꝛ of the one ¢ or the other. 
there remaineth no medicinal vertue that wil remedy their 
euils. Only § gold being made monꝑ, hath great vertues € 
pꝛoperties, foʒ that is it that maketh the hart glad, z taketh 
awap ſadnes r melancholp, and repaireth all the vertues € 
Of man. it giueth ſtrẽgth wheras is none, it is an v⸗ 
niuerſal, remedy of al things, vnles it be of death: foꝛ agaĩſt 
~~ that nothing can pꝛeuail · And ſeing that might is come and 
time giueth not vnta vs any longer libertic, and although 
rere fo2 J feele my felfe 
with pou maiſter Octuno, and like wiſe ts 
ror sen zee ake 
