[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

white and shining feathers: then give it to eat saffron and rust of iron, and then give it blood to drink, and nourish it thus for a long time, and then let it go; for there is no poison that can harm it and that it does not overcome. And this one looks at the Sun straight in the eye without blinking.

8. ACSUBOFES says, Master, you have said without envy what it is appropriate to say, may God reward you. Pythagoras says, And King Acsubofes, say what you think of it. And he says, Know that sulphur contains sulphur, and one moisture holds the other. THE TURBA says, Is that all? you say nothing new. And he says, The moisture is poison, which when it pe-