"Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fai…"

"Mercury, the interpreting word and teacher of all."

"Paret Atlantiades dictis genitoris et inde summa pedum propere plantaribus inligat alis obnubitque comas et temperat …"

"The lively lark stretched forth her wing, The messenger of morning bright, And with her cheerful voice did sing The d…"

"O happy Tithon! if thou know’st thy hap, And valuest thy wealth, as I my want, Then need’st thou not—which ah! I grie…"

"The wolves have prey'd: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about, Dapples the drowsy east w…"

"You cannot rob me of free nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Aurora shows her brigh…"

"As faire Aurora in her morning gray, Deckt with the ruddie glister of her love Is faire Samela;"

"Her cheekes are like the blushing clowde That beautefies Auroraes face,"

"With gentle hand, as seeming oft to pause, The purple curtains of the morn she draws."