The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

According to the common way of the amalgama Hermetis amalgam of Hermes, and by means of salts.
Which are of two kinds: the one
Is prepared from the wine's tartaro tartar.
Without the other, man cannot live.
It resists putredini putrefaction.
If the aurum pur pure gold is to be subtil subtle,
Add to it the resin of the earth.
That repetition must happen often,
When one wants the auri Corpus body of gold
To be truly capable for our affairs,
To make potabile aurum drinkable gold therefrom.
From the best, strongest wine,
Mark well, let it be advised to you,
To distill a spiritum spirit from it,
This you must then acuiren sharpen/activate.
When you want to bring the gold there,
So that it becomes good for Medicin medicine,
With water that does not wet the hand,
It is called by the learned:
The philosophical Mercurius mercury
Dwells in the Microcosmi fontibus fountains of the microcosm.
Put these together in weight,
For this time I say no more.
See that they both are united,
Then the gold will be solvirt dissolved.
Pray to GOD and be pious besides,
This is Lully's Menstruum solvent.

We have therefore taken a Hungarian ducat, annealed it, or beaten it so thin that one could tear it into small pieces, then glowed it well in a crucible; at the same time, in another crucible, allowed four ducats' weight of Mercurij vivi quicksilver to become hot until it begins to...