Curious Collection on Bismuth

We saw him, but he had no form that would have pleased us, wherefore many are offended by him. But he has very beautiful, precious garments and great wealth hidden under his black-gray smock. Under his dirty coat jacket is a beautiful green velvet jacket, and under that a beautiful white shirt, decorated with flowers of all kinds of beautiful colors. And if you wash and dry this white shirt properly, it becomes a precious, purple-colored golden piece, from which you can obtain health and inexhaustible wealth. For this white shirt of his and the purple gold piece are the two beautiful flowers on one stem of the white lilies, from which the red one grows. Make yourself acquainted with this unsightly little man, and seek his health, for he is one of the seven planets and metals, indeed the eighth among them, a true hermaphrodite. His name is (so that you might attain his acquaintance the sooner, I tell you his name here in great secret, and describe him quite clearly, because few otherwise know him) Bißgemuth Wießbieckel; he carries these signs in his name The alchemical symbol for Saturn (♄) is depicted; for he is of ♄ tialis Saturnine ☿is mercurial and ☽næ lunar nature, the white ♄ Saturn/Lead or lead ore of the wise, which has fooled many because they took it for common antimony and lead ore. After I have now clearly [described] this old, unsightly master to you