EPIGRAM OF THE AUTHOR.

The tireless youth Hippomenes carried off the prize of the Hesperian garden,
When the goddess Venus original: "Cypride," an epithet for Venus referencing her birth on Cyprus gave him the triple apple:
Following her, he threw it from the ground before the face of the fleeing
Maiden Atalanta, and by this means she was drawn into slow delays:
Soon he flashes, and soon she flashes, swifter than the East winds,
As he scatters the golden gifts upon the soil,
He delayed the slow footsteps of the girl
Once more, yet she once more turns her back in flight,
Until the lover threw the third weight, and then
ATALANTA yielded, the prize for her victor.
Hippomenes is the virtue of Sulfur; she is the virtue of fleeting
Mercury In alchemy, Sulfur represents the "fixed" or masculine principle, while Mercury represents the "volatile" or feminine principle. Their "race" is the process of chemical transformation.; in the race, the woman is conquered by the man.
After they embrace each other with longing love
In the temple of Cybele The Phrygian Mother Goddess. In the myth, the couple's passion leads them to desecrate her temple, resulting in their transformation., anger corrects the Goddess;
The avenger clothed them both in a lion’s skin,
Thereafter they blush in their bodies, and are wild.
So that my Muse might express the very likenesses of this race
For you with a triple voice, she provides the fugues:
One voice remains simple and represents the delaying apple,
Another is fleeing, and the third is duly following.
Let these Emblems term: Emblem (a symbolic picture accompanied by a motto and a poem, used to convey moral or natural secrets) be set before your ears and eyes,
But let reason seek out the secret marks within:
I have brought these objects to the senses, so that the intellect
Might seize those precious things which lie hidden by those allurements.
Whatever wealth the world has, or whatever medicine of health,
The Twin-Lion original: "Leogeminus." This refers to the two lions—the transformed couple—symbolizing the union of fixed and volatile principles in the Philosophers' Stone. is able to supply it all.