Theatrum chemicum Britannicum· Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The first part.

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Title: Theatrum chemicum Britannicum· Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The first part.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill,; MDCLII. [1652]
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Subject terms: Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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Pag. 303. li. 6.

And if God spare me lyfe I will mend this another day.

THe Breviary of Naturall Philosophy was begun to be written within two or three yeares after he was Master of the Secret, and though he seeme to promise some other VVorke, yet I could never learne that he wrote any thing afterwards, save onely His two Aenigmaes, (the which I have Marshald after his Breviary) and the Fragments incerted, Pag. 424. What time he dyed, is uncertaine, but after the yeare 1577. I meete with nothing under his owne Hand, although severall yeares before that, his Pen lay not still; for in divers spare places of his Bookes he inserted sundry Notes, to the which most com∣monly he affixt a Date; some whereof I have published in this Theatrum.