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 ...

Then have thy Bodies their first form lost, And others been indued immediately, Then hast thou well bestowed thy cost, When others uncunning must go by, Not knowing the secrets of our Philosophy.

THen thou hast a Body, not such a one as thou puttest in, but Herma∣phroditical, which yet hath but one form. Nor is it the same form it had, though an accidental imperfect one in the same kind; which imperfect form is not to be despised, for these Ashes are the Tomb of our King. Honour then the Sepulchre of him and of his Queen, if ever thou expect to see them returning from the East in power and great glory. Never grutch it then that thou hast destroyed thy Gold, for he that thus destroys it, loseth

it not, but soweth good Seed in good Earth, from whence he shall receive it with an hundred-fold increase: when as he that saveth his Gold in this Work, lo∣seth his labour, and is deceived for lack of true understanding, when as he under∣takes this Work without the true know∣ledge of its causes.