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a. In his most excellent and laborious collection of our ancient English Hermetic Hermetic: Relating to alchemy and the mystical philosophy attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. authors, called Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum (The British Chemical Theater), printed in London, 1652.

The Compound of Alchemy A famous poem on alchemy written by George Ripley in 1471., which seems to be the source most frequently used for quotations in this book, mostly agrees with the edition published by Ralph Rabbards and printed in London in 1591 in quarto Quarto: A book size created by folding a standard sheet of paper twice, forming four leaves.. In that edition, the English is not as archaic as the copy published by Elias Ashmole, Esquire.^a Yet I humbly believe that this commentator original: Expositor has [provided] The text here is likely obscured or missing in the original due to the torn margin mentioned in the warning. in quarto with his learned and ingenious observations upon the same.

And I heartily wish that the learned philosophers of our age could prevail upon him to publish his second volume of that collection, which he had almost finished nearly twenty years ago (as I heard from his own mouth). It has lain dormant original: asleep ever since and is likely to remain so; for he is now unwilling to be persuaded to finish it, unless some worthy friend of his can influence him before the sleep of death seizes him and leaves those rare pieces of antiquity to be inevitably lost. This would be to the detriment of all philosophers and a great dishonor to the English nation.