Haveing digested one part of <{gold}>[replacing 'præpared doppy[?]', Boyle hand] amalgam'd with <4 of>[in Boyle hand] {mercury} for about a fortnight, (perhaps the longer the better) if you afterwards drive away the {mercury} and melt downe the remaineing calxe into a body, the mettall will bee much palear then before, nor will easily recover its colour <by {antimony}, or>[in Boyle hand] otherwise then by the addition of a little, (and there needs but a very little) rose Copper.

Take two parts of <good> sugar [ 'of Lead' deleted] and one of Camphire, powder them and mix them together as well as you can then distillill them over in Balneo, haveing a care to preserve very well stopt the liquor that comes over, <which often, (tho not alwayes) will be an Oile.>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

Take one parte of oyle <of Albada,>[in Boyle hand] and two of pure {spirit of wine} and without digesting them cohobate them five or sixe times at least, [ 'which done' deleted] distilling onely ad melaginem or very little beyond it; but drawing it somewhat dryer at the last distillation. then dissolve the almost dry Caput mortuum, in aqua Regis, filtre it and reduce['s' at end of word deleted] it to a thicker consistence, and by some subsequent filtrations and coagulations ad melaginem bring it to bee very pure <&> high colour'd.

Take of good <Miniere de Banasis>[replacing 'Mercury sublimate', Boyle hand] one pound, and imbibe it at two or three times with two pound of oyle of Tartar per deliquium, keeping it each time stirring in an earthen platter till it bee dry. Then take one pound of Crystalls of Tartar and mix them very well together, and distill them for eighteen or twenty houres by degrees of fire [ 'till' deleted] (makeing it strong at the last) into a receiver halfe filld with water, to receive the runing mercury, which will be very pure and genuine.

Take the Caput mortuum of our <Ens {copper}>[replacing 'draff', Boyle hand] and haveing suffer'd it to run per deliquium, and coagulated the salt drive it over with a strong fire, and then takeing out the Caput mortuum, suffer that also to run per deliquium into a['n' at end of word deleted] [ 'odd kinde of' deleted] liquor < of a deep lovely greene>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

Take good Spirit of Salt and putt to it a little good oyle of vitrioll unite by cohobations, and by the same way bring over with this mixture the <Butyr. {antimony}>[replacing 'unctuous ingredient of the menstruum Catholicum', Boyle hand]

Dr Faustus's disciple assur'd me that by the helpe of the Engine to which belong the accumilated receivers, he had drawne in 18 houres