The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.

P. Bales Gent. in commendation of the Author, and his twelue gates: Orderly set down in the 12. last verses.

GRaunt to me Muses nine, & thou most sacred Apollo, That in a vaine of a lofty verse, I may be reporter Of the renowmed skil to y^e world by Ripley reuealed: Which in a Book tituled by the name of Alchymie compoūd He to the King Edward of England fourth fro the cōquest, Writt in a verse pithily, with his hād very worthily pēned.

Twelue chapiters did he write, by the first to Calcine he teacheth, And by the next readily priuie Dissolution handleth: To Seperate Eliments very plaine by the third he declareth, And by the fourth (as in mariage) Coniunction ordreth: To Putrifie most kindly the seede by the 5. he pronounceth: And by the sixt chapiter true Congelation vttereth.

Thē followeth by the seauēth, how must be Cibation vsed, But by the next chapiter, duely Sublimation offered, Ninthly the way measured, for Fermentation aptly, And by the tenth rightly, there is Exaltation holden, Infinite in number shewen how to Multiplie leauenthly: Lastly, the work very fitly by cleanly Proiection endeth.

Statuto bono, statuto.