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℞. OF pure Silver three grostes, made into thin Pla•••• and make Amalgama with four grostes of Argent vive Vulgar, well washed; and when the Amalgama is made, then let it be put into a little Boults-head, with a neck one foot and a half long. Afterwards ℞. three groste of our Argent vive, formerly extracted and re∣served from the Lunary Body, and
let it be put upon the Amalgama, made of the Body and Argen•• vive Vulgar: let the Vessel be luted very well with the best lute, and let it be dried, when this is done, stirring the Vessel exceeding well, that the Amalgama may be well mingled; and thus the Argent vive may be well mixed with the Body. Afterwards put the Vessel in which the Matter is▪ in a little Furnace, to a little Fire of Coals, and let its heat not exceed the heat of the Sun, when Sol is in the Sign of Leo, for another heat ex∣ceeding that would destroy the Matter, and the one would fly from the other: and let such a Fi•••• be continued, until the Mat∣ter become black as Coals, and thick as Pultis; and let the Fire continue in this degree, until the Matter be changed into a gray brown colour; and when the gray appeareth, increase the Fire in one point or degree, and let this se∣cond degree continue until the Matter begin to become white, to
the most purest whiteness; after∣wards augment the Fire to the third degree, continuing it until the Matter become whiter than Snow, and be converted into pure Powder, whiter than Ashes: and then you have Calx vive, or the quick Slime of the Philosophers, and its Sulphury Mine, which the Philosophers have so much hidden.