Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...

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Title: Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...
Author: Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Ratcliff and Nat. Thompson, for William Cooper ...,; 1678.
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Subject terms: Ripley, George, d. 1490?; Alchemy.
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For Fowls and Fishes to us do it bring, eve∣ry Man it hath: And it is in every place, in thee, in me, &c.

ANd in very deed the Antient Wise Men have so written, and do still write the same; as to wit, That it is found in a Dunghil, according to Morien▪ and for the easiness of the charge, they all write plentifully; so that in respect of time and cost, Artephius and Flammel say it is but the play of Children and work of Women; and therefore one Excel∣lent Philosopher, writing of this Maste∣ry, titles his Treatise, Ludus Puerorum; that is, Childrens Play.