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| | "John Baptist Porta" "Natural Magick" - Vol V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Then temper your Quicksilver and metal together for a while and presently after, cast into cold water, so shall it not congeal into any hard lump, but float on the top of the water, and be very quick and lively. |
 | | Arsenic or Oker, that kind of Quicksilver that is sublimated, as the Alchemists call it, the foam or froth of Silver, which is called by the Greeks, Lithargyron. |
 | | Let this therefore be a general rule always to be remembered and observed, that your metals be thoroughly purged and rid from their Dross as much as may possibly be, before ever you entertain any of them into your service for these intendments. |
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