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then the Wine after 10 or 12 weekes (& not before) must be rack't'w' at beginning of word deleted off from the Lees, & if it were prick't or could not be kept in the Vessell for it's mad working, this will perfectly recover it. Stirke.

{Recipe} Sal. marinum Hispanic. primo decrepita, postea funde igne forti. Of'O' altered from 'o' this melted Salt, put 2 ounces to a common barrell of beere or ale; it corrects sowrenesse & prevents it; & in sommer will keepe ale good & briske for 6 weekes together (says Dr St.) Muria duely made after Helmont's way will do the same, but the common Brine oftentimes will not, it's halituous spirit being not <duely>replacing 'yet' spent, & exantlated upon the Flesh.

Urine & Savine will præcipitate muddy wine but makes it unwholesome; Chalke doth it more safely.

Cohobate Sal ar: upon dulcify'd colcotar till all be fixed inaltered from 'at' the bottome, which will runne per deliquium into a greene sweet oyle, & yeeld greene fixt Crystalls, that will keepe their color in the fire.

Make our Ens with a third part of Stella in relation to the colcotar; & if the Dose exceed not two graines, it will not vomit.

To produce insects, make a Kind of Rob of the Juice of the vegetable, & lay it on a kind of wicker flat thing, not broade enough to touch the sides of the earthen Vessel You put it into : & under this Wicker floore cast little stickes or strong thatch to support it; that so the aire may ambire materiam putrifaciendam, over it likewise may be cast a little of some light thatch &c but the vessel must not be fill'd full. then it must be shallowly bury'd in the earth, the top being cover'd with something that may be remov'd at pleasure, to see the alterations of the matter.

{Recipe} Galmey one ounce, Pot-ashes {ounce} {half} salis marini {ounce} i deleted one pound, powder the Galmey, & with tantillum aqua font. mixe the sal mar deleted ashes with it, & the deleted then adde the sea-salt & beate them well together into a masse, which let stand a day or 2. The same way may be opened the Body of Nitre &c.

Keepe {copper} & m deleted {lead} ana in a fluxe for 4 or 5 houres, & have a regulus which powder'd will tinge Vitrum Saturni greene.

{Recipe} {antimony} p. i Galmey p. ii. with a little peter or Pot ash melt them into a Golden Regulus.

{Recipe} Ash {pound} i. dossolve it in [quantum satis] of Sr deleted Urine, put to it lb 3, 4, or 5 of Minium Misce, let them stand to putrify 5 or 6 dayes. then humiditatem evoca; & what remaines melt in a good fire into (a <q> greenish) masse: which kept very dry is an excellent flux or in a cellar will run per deliquium into Glaubers Aqua Saturni .

His Ens [auris] is either in floribus [antimonii], silicibus, & yellow sand.