true Tincture of Philosophers, as
also those five Pendants, nevertheless
I am still left ignorant, and in
doubt, whether it be true or no.
Therefore, I earnestly again and
again request of you, to confer on
me only so small a part of that
matter, as will suffice to transmute
only four grains of Lead into Gold,
that you may this way remove
from me all Scruple or Doubt,
and render me so much the more
certain of the verity of the Matter.
Give me but the magnitude of one
grain only, or of a Coriander-seed,
that thence a Specimen, or
Probation, may be exhibited, either
in some desperate Disease, or in
a Metallick Transmutation.

Artist.

I do confess, that a certain Man
of good Condition, to me wholly
unknown, by demonstrating taught
me; First, the possibility of transmutation;
secondly the way of
preparing also. And this is that
Infallible Art, touching which
you have no reason to doubt. But