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 ...

Make each the other to hal••e and kiss, And like as Children play them up and down, And when their Shirts are filled with Piss, Then let the Woman to wash be bown, Which oft for faintness will fall in a swo••••, And die at last with her Children all, And go to Purgatory to wash their filth Original.

BUt in thy first Operation, as is said before, first look for blackness, which will appear in the first Regimen by con∣tinual decoction, which blackness shall be an Indicium to you that your two

Natures do begin now to imbrace and kiss one another.

For so soon as they feel the Fire, they flow together within the Vessel, and boyl by continuance of decoction visi∣bly, and the tender Nature not enduring the heat, flyeth aloft, and being inclosed so that it cannot get out, it congeals in drops in the head of the Vessel, and about the sides, and again returns to its Body, which may well be called Chil∣drens play, running round as it were in a Circular motion: This play continues so long, till the Water begins to leave its thicker parts, with the thicker parts of the Body, which in the bottom of the Vessel is called Ʋrina puerorum; and the thinner parts of the Water, mixed with the thinner parts of the Body, which is dissolved in it, flies still and circulates until it have made a more full dissolution of the Body, which here by the odour of its Sulphur doth penetrate the Spirit and Soul, and makes them faint at last, and remain as it were breathless in the bottom of the Glass.

Then shall the Body be destroyed, and

both the Water and it rot into small Atoms, which will lie without motion, growing every day more and more black, until at length Cimmerian darkness cover the whole Sky.

This is called the North Latitude of our Stone, and it is Winter, cold and dirty; here are the Elements brought to rest for a time, until a Generation be made in the bottom of the Glass, when through the will and power of God, a clean thing shall be brought out of this uncleanness and black venenosity.