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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420397" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Concerning the Philosophers Stone. ( alchemical verse .)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And also with great diligence,<br>Thei fonde thilke Experience:<br>Which cleped is Alconomie,<br>Whereof the Silver multiplie;<br>Thei made, and eke the Gold also.<br>And for to telle howe itt is so:<br>Of bodies seven in Speciall,<br>With fowre Spirites joynt withall;<br>Stant the substance of this matere,<br>The bodies which I speke of here,<br>Of the Plannets ben begonne,<br>The Gold is titled to the Sonne:<br>The Moone of Silver hath hi part,<br>And Iron that stonde uppon Mart:<br>The Leed after Saturne groweth,<br>And Jupiter the Brasse bestoweth;<br>The Copper sette is to Venus:<br>And to his part Mercurius<br>Hath the Quicksilver, as it falleth,<br>The which after the Boke it calleth,<br>Is first of thilke foure named<br>Of Spirits, which be proclymed,<br>And the Spirite which is seconde,<br>In Sal Armoniake is founde:<br>The third Spirite Sulphur is,<br>The fourth Sewende after this,<br>Arcennium by name is hotte<br>With blowyng, and with fires hote:<br>In these things which I say,<br>Thei worchen by divers waye.<br>For as the Philosopher tolde, <br>Of Gold and Sylver thei ben holde,<br>Two Principall extremitees,<br>To which all other by degrees,<br>Of the mettals ben accordant,<br>And so through kinde resemblant:<br>That what man couth awaie take,<br>The rust, of which they waxen blake,<br>And And the favour of the hardnes;<br>Thei shulden take the likeness;<br>Of Gold or Silver parfectly,<br>Bot for to worche it sykerly;<br>Between the Corps and the Spirite,<br>Er that the Metall be parfite,<br>In seven forms itt is sette<br>Of all, and if one be lette,<br>The remnant may not avayle,<br>But otherwise it maie nought fayle;<br>For thei by whome this Arte was founde,<br>To every poynt a certayne bounde,<br>Ordeinen that a man may finde,<br>This Craft is wrought by wey of kinde;<br>So that there is no fallace in;<br>But what man that this werke begyn;<br>He mote awaite at every tyde,<br>So that nothynge be left asyde.<br> Fyrst of Distillacion,<br>Forth with the Cogelacion,<br>Solucion, Disscencion,<br>And kepe in his entencion,<br>The poynt of Sublimacion,<br>And forthwith Calcinacion,<br>Of very Approbacion,<br>So that there be Fixacion,<br>With temperate hetes of fyer,<br>Tyll he the perfite Elixer,<br>Of thilke Philosophers Stone,<br>Maie gette, of which that many one<br>Of Philosophers, whilome write,<br>Of thilke Stone with other two,<br>Which as the Clerkes maden tho;<br>So as the Bokes itt recorden,<br>The kinde of hem I shall recorden.<br> These old Philosophers wise,<br>By wey of kynde in sondry wise;<br>Thre Stones made through Clergie,<br>The fyrst I shall specifie,<br>Was cleped Vegetabilis;<br>Of which the proper vertue is,<br>To mans heale to serve,<br>As for to keepe, and to preserve,<br>The body fro sickness all,<br>Till death of kinde upon hym fall.<br>The second Stone I the behote,<br>Is Lapis Animalis hote:<br>The whose vertue, is proper and couth,<br>For Eare and Eye, Nose and Mouth;<br>Whereof a man may here, and see,<br>And smell and tast, in his degree,<br>And for to feele and for to goe,<br>Itt helpeth a man of both two:<br>The witts five he undersongeth<br>To keepe, as it to hym belongeth.<br> The third Stone in speciall<br>by name is cleped Minerall,<br>Which the Mettalls of every myne,<br>Attempreth, till that thei ben fyne;<br>And pureth hem by such a wey,<br>That all the vice goth awey,<br>Of Rust, of Stynke, and of Hardnes:<br>And when they ben of such clennes,<br>This minerall so as I fynde,<br>Transformeth all the fyrst kynde,<br>And maketh hem able to conceive,<br>Through his vertue and receive<br>Both in substance and in figure,<br>Of Gold and Silver the nature.<br>For thei two ben the extremitees,<br>To which after the propertees,<br>Hath every mettall his desire,<br>With helpe and comforte of the fyre.<br>Forth with this Stone as it is said,<br>Which to the Sonne and Moone is laide:<br>For to the Red, and to the White, <br>This Stone hath power to profite;<br>It maketh Multiplicacion<br>Of Gold and the fixacion,<br>It causeth and of this babite,<br>He doth the werke to be parfite:<br>Of thilke Elixer which me call<br>Alconomy, as is befalle<br>To hem, that whilome were wise;<br>But now it stant all otherwise:<br>Thei speken fast of thilke Stone,<br>But how to make it now wote none.<br>After the sooth Experience,<br>And nathles greate diligence,<br>Thei setten up thilke dede,<br>And spillen more then thei spede;<br>For alwey thei fynde a lette,<br>Which bringeth in povertee and Dette;<br>To hem that rich were to fore,<br>The Losse is had the Lucre is lore:<br>To gette a pound thei spendeth five,<br>I not how such a Craft shall thrive:<br>In the manner as it is used,<br>It were better be refused,<br>Then for to worchen upon wene,<br>In thinge which stant not ast thei wene:<br>But not for thy who that it knew,<br>The Science of himselfe is trew:<br>Uppon the forme as it was founded,<br>Whereof the names yett be grounded;<br>Of hem, that first it founden out:<br>And thus the fame goth all about,<br>To such as soughten besines,<br>Of vertue and worthines,<br>Of whom if I the names call,<br>Hermes was one the first of all,<br>To whom this Art is most applied,<br>Geber thereof was magnified,<br>And Ortolane and Morien,<br>Among the which is Avicen.<br>Which founde and wrote and greate partie,<br>The practicke of Alconomie,<br>Whose bokes plainlie as thei stonde,<br>Uppon this Craft few understonde.<br>But yet to put hem in assay,<br>There be full manie now a day,<br>That knowen litle that thei mene,<br>It is not one to wite and wene,<br>In forme of words thei it trete;<br>But yet thei failen of beyet.<br>For of to much, or of to lite,<br>There is algate found a wite:<br>So that thei follow not the line,<br>Of the perfect Medicine,<br>Which grounded is upon nature;<br>But thei that written the Scripture;<br>Of Greke, Arabe, and Caldee,<br>Thei were of such Auctoritee,<br>That thei firste founden out the wey,<br>Of all that thou hast herd me sey,<br>Whereof the Cronicke of her Lore,<br>Shall stonde in price for evermore.<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Gower">John Gower</a><div class=q>
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And also with great diligence,
Thei fonde thilke Experience:
Which cleped is Alconomie,
Whereof the Silver multiplie;
Thei made, and eke the Gold also.
And for to telle howe itt is so:
Of bodies seven in Speciall,
With fowre Spirites joynt wi..."></div>
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