oil, but white as milk, and could as ice, which will come within the Recipient to resolve into an oil of the colour of an _Hyacinth_, and odoriferous, as that of _Aspic_. Continue the fire till there comes no more out of the _Cornue_, and leave it there to settle, al the night long. So now this secret oil, whereof that which _Raimond Lullius_ never more expresly said was towards the end of his short Epistle, in these very terms. Out of black lead is extracted the Philosophers oil, of a golden color, or as it were: and know that there is nothing in the world more secret then it. That which remains in the _Cornue_, put burning charcoals upon it, and that will take fire as the match of a fusee: whence you may draw a fair secret: for as long as it feels not the air, it will not flame, and it may dissolve againe with vinegar, to doe as before. But salt of lead dissolved in water, and yet better then Turpentine, oil will resolve to a greater quantity of oil; and thereof may see more ample marvailes. Take this oil, which _Raimond Lullius_ calleth his wine, and put it into a small Alembic of glasse; in _Balneo Mariæ_, and distill therein _aqua vitæ_, which will come in vains even as that of wine. Draw all out so long till the drops and tears come to appear in the Chap, which is a signe that there is no more flegm: which being out in the bottome, there will remain a pretious oil that dissolves gold and is admirable against wounds, and great accidents, from within, for it holds the same place with potable gold: Lead having great affinity with gold, as _Geber_ saith, with which it agrees in Surdity, in weight, and in that it cannot rust: And _George Riplay_ the most learned _English_ Philosopher, in his book of the 12. portes. _There is extracted oil of golden colour, Or like it, out of our subtill red lead: When Raimond said, when he was old, Was much more pretious then gold. For when through age he was near death, He thereof made, his potable Gold, Which revived him; as may bee seen. This is that oil and vegetable Menstruum, &c._