Gold Not Gold

Caligula.
Domitius.
Plin. l. 33. c. 4.

nor indeed do we believe our kings, whether Rupert (who was none) or Edward (who was what?) were enriched by Lullius, who neither here, nor there, nor anywhere else, either accomplished or could accomplish this: or your great-great-uncle Henry by Bacon (Robert, Roger, or John?), a claim which the very reason of the times, the matter, and the men refutes. If a pair of Neros wishes to fish with a golden net, or rather to smelt a little gold from a great deal of orpiment (is this infamous, or insane? avaricious or prodigal?), let them feel the loss themselves:

Hor. l 1. ep. 15.
38.

Whatever booty they have seized, all of it
They turn into smoke and ash.

Aur. Vict.
Iul. Cap. in M.
Aur.
Maxim. Lib. I.
1 ep. 2.
Antigraman.
l. 1. ep. 15.
l. 2. ep. 99. 100.

But for a King, as for those who heal, since the safety, protection, health, and indeed utility of his people is no less his concern than his own; since he has cared for and provided for all people and all things as his own, Marcus Philosophus was called the Physician of his own century. May God grant to Great Britain, and may posterity celebrate, a Prince like him—whom God gave to us before You, and who is in every way parallel to You if we look at him, if we see God in him, his wife with him, his children from him—who is far superior. Come, in both names, let Paracelsus be heard as a wicked impostor by the Emperor, and let him either flee or be driven out because of the homicides in his Bohemia. Let it be enough for Libavius to either lash out at Gramanus and Amwaldus in a speech, or to convict them by reason, because they sold "Angelic Powder" and Cinnabar, made from sublimated mercury and sulfur, as a Panacea universal cure. Let it be for the magistrates to take notice. These men, like quacks, may push letters as a history of cures; but they are devoid of the judgment of true craftsmen: when however that which is to be well-judged must be judged by science.

Riol. P. apol.
exc. in Qu. p.
17. ad. Turq.
p. 87.
F comp. vet.
med. exam. in
Bau 163.
Quer incur.
in. Riol.

Let it be enough for Riolanus the father and son, under the name of the School, to name the persons who died not by their own fault, to note the prices—thirty-five gold pieces for two pills, one hundred pounds for an extract of rhubarb—and to examine the shapeless formulas of the Chemists, and finally to describe the Censure of the School against Quercetanus, Libavius, Palmarius, and other Spagyric alchemical books. Let it be for Princes to proscribe them. These men, however, may make incursions again, with two physicians acting as reserves, against