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Experiment 
Solitary tou¬ 
ching the 
/{in^ of Gold. 
that where a Waffle, ora Flie, or a Worms hath bitten, inn.Grape or any 
Fruit , if it will fweeten haftily. 
Take an Apple, &c. andpricke it with a Pin full of Holes, notcleepe, 
and fmeare it a little w ith Sacke , or Cinnamon water, or Spirit of win e, eue- 
ry day for ten dayes^to fee if the Firtudl Heat of the wine, or Strong waters, 
will not Mature it. 
In thefe Trialls dfo, as was <vfed in the firjljet another of the fame Fruits 
by, to Compare them , And try them: by their Yellowneffe, and by their 
Sweetnefi^. 
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The World hath beetle much abufed by the Opinion of 
Making of Gold ; The Worke it felfel Judge to bee poffible; 
But the Meanes (hitherto propounded J tocffe&i^are, in the 
Pradbice, full of Eri our andlmpoflure , And in the Theory, 
full of vnfound Imaginations. For to fay, that Nature hath 
an Intention to make all Metals Gold. And that, if (he were de» 
huered from Impediments, fhee would performs her owne 
Worke ; And that, if the Crudities, Impurities, and Leproficies 
of Metalls were cured, they would become Gold $ And chat 
a little Quantity ok the Medicine, in the Worke of Protection, 
will turne a Sea of the Bafer Metall into Gold, by Multiplying: j 
All thefe are bur dreames : And foare many other Grounds 
of Alchymy. And to hclpe the Matter, the Alchymifls call in 
like wife many Vanities, out of Aftrology ' 3 Natural l Magi eke j 
Superfluous Interpretations of Scriptures - 3 Auricular Tradi¬ 
tions ; Faigned Tellimonies of Ancient Authors j And the like. 
It is true, on the other fide, they haue brought to light not a 
few profitable Experiments , and thereby made the world 
fomeamends. But wee, when wee fhalicome to handle the 
Verfion and Tranfmutation of Bodies ; And the Experiments 
concerning Metalls , and Mineralls ; will lay open the true 
Wayesand Paffagcs of Nature, which may leade to this great 
Effedb. And wee commend the wit of the Cbinefes , who de~ 
fpaire of Making of Gold, bucare Mad vpon the Making of 
Siluer: For certaine it is, that itis more difficult to makeGt?/^ 
(which is the mod Ponderous, and Matcriate amongft Me- 
tails) of ocher Metalls, Idle Ponderous, and leffe Materiarc,- 
than (<rjiarverfa) to make Siluer of Lead, or Quick Siluer ; 
Both which are more Ponderous than Siluer , So that they 
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