THE
Mirror of Alchimy,
Composed by the thrice-famous and learned
Fryer, _Roger Bachon_, sometimes fellow of
_Martin_ Colledge: and afterwards of
_Brasen-nose_ Colledge in
_Oxenforde_.
Also a most excellent and learned discourse of
_the admirable force and efficacie of_ Art _and_ Nature,
_written by the same Author_.
With certaine other worthie Treatises of the like Argument.
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The Preface.
_In times past the Philosophers spake afters diuers and sundrie manners throughout their writings, sith that as it were in a riddle and cloudie voyce, they haue left vnto vs a certaine most excellent and noble science, but altogither obscure, and without all hope vtterly denied, and that not without good cause. Wherefore I would aduise thee, that aboue all other bookes, thou shouldest firmly fixe thy mind vpon these seuen Chapters, conteining in them the transmutation of mettalls, and often call to minde the beginning, middle, and end of the same, wherein thou shalt finde such subtilitie, that thy minde shalbe fully contented therewith._
The Mirrour of Alchimy, composed by the famous Fryer,
_Roger Bachon_, sometime fellow of
_Martin_ Colledge, and _Brasen-nose
Colledge in
Oxenforde_.
CHAP. I.
_Of the Definitions of Alchimy._
In many ancient Bookes t…