The Earth is its Nurse.

Three staves of musical notation for a three-voice fugue. The notation uses diamond-shaped mensural notes on a five-line staff with C-clefs. The lyrics are printed beneath the notes of each voice.

Atalanta Fleeing.

Romulus is said to have pressed the teats of a shaggy wolf, but Jupiter those of a goat; and credit is given to these stories. original: "Romulus hirta lupæ preſſiſſe ſed ubera capræ / Jupiter & dictis fertur adeſſe fides."

Hippomenes Following.

Romulus is said to have pressed the teats of a shaggy wolf, but Jupiter those of a goat; and credit is given to these stories.

The Delaying Apple.

Romulus is said to have pressed the teats of a shaggy wolf, but Jupiter those of a goat; and credit is given to these stories.

II. German version of the Latin Epigram.

Romulus was suckled by a she-wolf, but Jupiter by a goat,
As common rumor testifies.
What wonder is it then, if we say that the Child of the Sages The "Child of the Sages" refers to the "Philosopher's Stone" or the "Embryo" of the alchemical work in its early stages of development. is nourished
By the Earth, which has granted him her milk?
If animals have surely fed such great heroes of old,
How great must he be, for whom the Earth itself is a nurse?