shalt obtaine thy desire, and _Euclide_ his line shall bee verified vnto thee. Afterwarde take his quantity, and know his waight, and giue him as much moysture as he will drink, the weight of which moysture we haue not here determined. Then againe worke them with an operation vnlike the former, first imbibing and subliming it, and this operation is that which they call Albification, and they name it _Yarit_, that is, Siluer, and and white Leade. And when thou hast made this compounde white, adde to him so much of the Spirit, as maketh halfe of the whole, and set it to working, till it waxe redde, and then it shall be of the colour Alsulfir, which is verie red, and the Philosophers haue likened it to golde, the effect hereof, leadeth thee to that which _Aristotle_ saide to his Disciple _Arda_: wee call the claye when it is white, _Yarit_, that is Siluer: and when it is red, wee name it _Temeynch_, that is Golde. Whitenesse is that which tincteth Copper, and maketh it _Yarit_, and that is rednesse, which tincteth _Yarit_, that is siluer, & maketh it _Temeynch_, that is Gold. He therefore that is able to dissolue these bodies, to subtiliate thẽ, to make them white and red, and (as I haue said) to compound them by imbibing, and conuert them to the same, shall without all doubt attaine the masterie, and performe the worke whereof I haue spoken vnto thee. CHAP. II. _Of the things and instruments necessarie and fit for this worke._ It behoueth thee to knowe the vessels in this masterie, to wit _Aludela_, which the Philosophers haue called Church-yards, or Cribbles: because in them the parts are diuided, and cleansed, and in them is the matter of the masterie made compleat, perfect, and depured. And euery one of these must haue a Furnace fit for it, and let either of them haue a similitude and figure agreeable to the worke. _Mezleme_, and many other Philosophers, haue named all these things in their bookes, teaching the maner and forme thereof. And thou must know, that herein the Philosophers agree togither in their wrytings, concealing it by signes, and making many books thereof, & instruments which are necessarie in these foure foresaid things. As for the instruments, they are two in number. One is a _Cucurbit_, with his _Alembick_: the other is _Aludel_, that is well made. There are also foure things necessarie to these: that is to say, _Bodies_, _Soules_, _Spirites_, and _Waters_: of these foure dooth the masterie, and minerall worke consist. These are made plaine in the Philosophers Bookes, I haue therefore omitted them in mine, and onely touched those things, which they passed ouer with silence: which he shall easily discerne, that is but of indifferent iudgement. And this booke I haue not made for the ignorant and vnlearned, but for the wise and prudent. CHAP. III. _Of the nature of things appertaining to this worke._