these my Eyes, I never in all my
Life saw the Man, who was the
true possessor thereof.


Artist.

Sir, you say true? yet Art will be
Art, whether you can believe it or
no. Even as is seen in the Magnet.
How it by its own insited Sulphureous
Virtue, of Iron, by Contact
presently makes a Magnet. Although
you will not believe, that
such wonderful Operations are latent
in it, yet they are, and will remain
true. So also you should
Judge of the Stone of Philosophers,
in which is all that the Wise seek.
And because the clouded Writings
of them, can be understood, and
explained but by very few, it is to
be desired earnestly by all, and
with the hands it must be endavoured,
that some one General Epitomen
of the whole Art, may so be
made, as in a very short space of
time, and without much labour, all
things necessary may be gathered,
by the help of which, a most easy