O no!  For this is not lawful for me to do, although you would give me this whole Roome full of Gold in Duckets; and that not by reason of the price of the Matter, but by reason of another certain Consequence; Yea, surely, if it were possible, that Fire could be burned with Fire, I would sooner cast this whole Substance into the devouring Flames of Vulcan, before your Eyes.  A little after this, he also asked me, whether I had not another Room, the Windows of which were not to the Street-side; I presently brought this Phaenix, or Bird most rare to be seen in this Land, into my best furnished Chamber; yet he, at his Entrance (as the manner of Hollanders is, in their Countryes) did not shake off his Shooes, which were dropping wet with Snow.  I indeed, at that very time, thus thought:  perhaps he will provide, or hath in readiness some Treasure for me; but he dash’d my hope all to pieces.  For he immediatey asked of me a piece of the best Gold-mony; and in the mean while layed off his Cloak, and Country Coat; also he opened his Bosom, and under his Shirt he wore in green Silk, five great Golden Pendants, round, filling up the magnitude of the Interior Space of an Orb of Tin.  Where, in comparing these, in respect of Colour and Flexibility, the difference between his Gold, and mine, was exceeding great.  On these Pendants he had inscribed with an Iron Instrument, the following Words, which, at my request, he gave leave I should coppy out.

The form of the Pendants, and words engraven thereon, are as follows.

I. Amen Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord our god, for all things are full of his Power.  Leo:  Libra.

II.  The wonderfull wonder-working wisdome of Jehovah in the Catholick Book of Nature.  Made the 26. day Aug. 1666.

[Alchemical symbols:  Gold, Mercury, Silver] The wonderfull god, Nature and he Spagyrick Art, make nothing in vain.

      Sacred, Holy Spirit
      Hallelujha
      Hallelujha
      Away Devil,
      Speak not of
      god without
      Light, Amen.

The Eternal Invisible, only wise, Best of all and omnipotent god of Gods; Holy, Holy, Holy, Governour & Conserver deservedly ought to be praysed.

Moreover, when I, affected with admiration said to him; My Master, I pray tell me, where had you this greatest Science of the whole World?  He answered, I received such Magnalia from the Communication of a certain Extraneous Friend, who for certain dayes lodged in my House, professing, that, he was a Lover of Art, and came to teach me various Arts; viz. how, besides the aforesaid, of Stones and Crystal, most beautiful precious Stones are made much more fair than Rubies, Chrysolites, Saphires, and others of that kind.  Also how to prepare a Crocus Martis in a quarter of an hour of which one only Dose infallibly heals a Pestilential Dysentery Likewise a Metallic