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TAke lbiij. of good Salt of Tartar, Cal∣cine it, so that it be glowing hot for twenty four hours, in a Pot close luted; then dissolve it in flegm of Brandy, filter, and evaporate; Calcine it again as before, dissolve and congeal as before. Repeat all this Work four or five times, or until it leave
no more Feces in the filter: Then Calcine this Salt again for six hours, and then pul∣verize it whilst it is yet hot, and put it in a large Cucurbite, and pour upon it by little and little of good Nants Brandy, so much as may cover it the breadth of four fingers, cover it with a blind head, or with another Cucurbite, that may enter into it, lute well the junctures, and digest in warm Sand for six days; then put on a head with a Lim∣beck and a Recipient, and distill over with a gentle heat all the S. V. then let it cool, and pour on fresh Brandy, digest, and di∣still as before. Repeat this Operation five or six times, or so often till your Salt of Tar∣tar remain in the bottom like a red and trans∣parent Oyl, which will be very fiery and penetrating, reducing all Metals into run∣ning ☿, being first duly prepared; keep this Oyl close stopped.
Then take lbviij. of the Ashes of burned Vines, whereof make a strong Lixivium with lbxx. of fair {water}, then in lbxij. of this Lixivium; dissolve lbj. of Salt of Tartar, filter this dissolution, and digest it in Sand with a strong {fire} for some time; then cast into it lbj. of Regulus of {antimony}, that hath been melted and purified six or seven times with Tartar and Salt-petre, and then reduced to a subtil Powder: Make it boyl for six hours,
until the Lixivium be very red and stinking; then let it settle and cool, and decant the clear, and wash the Powder with fair {water}, then dry it, and grind it upon a stone, im∣bibing it with the red Oyl of Tartar before-mentioned, until it be like a Pap, then dry it, and imbibe it again, and grind as before. Repeat this so often till the Powder hath ta∣ken in double its weight of the said Oyl of Tartar: Then put this Matter in a Body with a blind head, lute well all the junctures, and digest in fimo for twenty days; then take it out, and you will find your Powder converted into running ☿, which wash well with hot {water}, then with Salt and Vine∣gar, and then with fair {water}, then squeeze it through Chambo-leather. Then take &ounce;x. of this ☿ of {antimony}, and &ounce;x. of Common ☿ that hath been distilled over in a Retort with Tar∣tar and Quick-lime, and then washed with Salt and Vinegar; mix these two Mercuries together and squeeze them through a leather, then put them in a Cucurbite, lute another Cucurbite upon it, and digest in fimo for fifteen days, then put a head to it with a Limbeck, and distill in Ashes, and all the Common ☿ will distill over drop by drop as {water}, and the ☿ of {antimony} will remain in the bot∣tom like a clear Oyl, and will be of a fra∣grant scent: Rectifie the {water} in Ashes, and
the Oyl with a stronger {fire} in Sand, and keep them by themselves. Then melt &ounce;ij. of ☉, and &ounce;j. of ☽, then cast in Ingot, and beat it into leaf, or reduce it into fine filings, and make an aaa with ☿, distill this aaa in a Retort until all the ☿ is distilled over; then put this aaa in a Matrass, and pour upon it &ounce;x. of the Mercurial Water before-men∣tioned: Digest it, and in a few hours all will be dissolved. Put this dissolution in a Retort, lute a Recipient to it, and having luted well the junctures, distill in Sand, and all will distill over except a few black Feces; dephlegm it with a gentle heat in B. M. di∣stilling until nothing more come over. Take of that which remaineth in the bottom of the Cucurbite &ounce;iv. put it in a strong Ma∣trass, and put to it &ounce;viij. of your Oyl of ☿ of {antimony}; Seal it well, and digest it with a Lamp {fire} in Ashes, and in fourty days all will be fixed into a red stone; then take out the Ma∣trass, and put it to a strong {fire} in Sand to Sublime it for twenty four hours, and all will melt like an Oyl, which will congeal in a cold place into a red stone.