The oils of long durance whereof he might make a large volume that would run through not all

but a part: Let him draw from the Tartar of wine, of which the best comes from Mompellier, even that which adheres unto the Tun. One which is very important, Tartar is one of the subjects where those who practise in the fire, do find so many blowsto cast. Take of this Tartar beaten into small powder and put it in a leaded earthen pot with clear fountain water, upon a Trevet or furnace making it boil easily and scum the villanies and filthiness off with a feather : the silver crusts that shall afterwards arise gather them with a head of glass where these grosse moules destang, of mudd so long till they rise no more renewing the water by measure when it comes to diminish. Turn it by inclination and put a part that which rests in the bottom in the shape of sand. Put again the crusts in new water make them boil gently as before and gather togethere the crusts that shall rise up more clear and lucent then the first separating their dregs and impurities if there be any presented and reiterate this fix or seven times till your crusts be clear and shining as silver or pearls. Dry them in the sum or before the fire upon a linnen and put them in a cornue with an open breech and a graduate fire reinforcing it by smalls : and through the beak of the cornue there will issue as a small rivolet of milk that will resolve into oil with the recipient. Pass it once again or twice upon Sand or Salt of Tartar : which is doen by calcining of Tartar within a pot of Earth of Paris not leaded in a fire of reverberation or in charcoles afterwards dissolve it with hot water and filter and congeal it and there will remain white Salt which will resolve it self into a liquor called the oil of Tartar or after it is well calcined let it resolve to it self in moisture. This Liquor is of great efficacy is quench and root out all sorts of wildfires. But of the sands that remain in the bottom without being unwilling to rise in crusts: there will be extracted anther more exquisite oil and less adustible. Tartar may be governed after another fashion ; We insist therein in this respect because it shews to have i know not what agreement with soot for as Soot is an excrement of fire so are Tartaar and lees the same of wine that have great affinity with fire. Take then of Tartar in powder within a leaded earthen vessel and cast hot water there on stirring it strongly with a stick and letting it rest a little put out the water with that which it hath gotten from the Tartar : which is after the form of slime within another dish : and put new luke warm water upon the Tartar reiterating as aforesaid so many times that the water may come forth neat and clear which will be perfected at the fifth or fixth time. And in the bottom there will remain the foresaid sand which being dryed diffolves it self withing the distilled vinegar and not into common water. Aqua vitae lidewise dissolves in a little space when the one and the other would take no more. Wash that which remaines with common water then dry it slowly and having put it into a cornue with sufficient good expression of fire graduating is by small pieces there will be extracted an odoriferous oil as of aspic. one of Raimon Lullius his secrets : which is one of his principal keys and entries into metallic dissolutions. Take the foresand evacuations and elevate the crusts as aforesaid. There are too many things to speak of Tartar and that which we have now set down is not vulgar but the rarest of our experiments ; Of vinegar after that the clear shall be distilled and that the white fumes shall begin to appear which is his adustible oilyness, put the dregs that shall remain (for you must have a great quantity) in a cellar or other fresh place and in five or six days there will be procreated small crystalline little stones ; separate them from their residences by ablutions of common water and dry them and you shall draw thereout an oil of no small importance so great certainly and admirable are the substances which the art of Fire extracts from Wine.

The most part of the oils that we have touched on heretofore being adustible are by consequent of a strong and troublesome odour as smelling the burnt when they burn you must therefore set them in the Sun certain days that is to say to dry them in the Sun and in the Air to take away from them this fiery smell : for recompence we will here treat of some rare ones and of good agreeable odour. And in the first that of Been which presumers use hath neither colour odour nor favour and therefore it is susceptible of all those which you shall apply thereunto. Being repassed upon Sand to take away the fatness, it would be of long durance and without an ill scent but it is too dear. As for oils of Olive rapes or long turneps, chenevy sesamum, but is rare in these quarters and other the like which are drawn by the press by means of the heat of fire : what repasses soever there may be yet they never disist to be of a good odour but so much less according as they shall be depured and by the same means of longer durance : Oils of Sage, Thyme, Pepper and other the like drawn by an instrument proper thereunto such artifices are so divulged even unto Chamber maids, that i should be ashamed to speak of : That of Benzoine is more rare and less known and more laborious to make. Take Benzoin throughly beaten to gross powder and put it into a Cornue with fine Aqua vitae, which swimmeth thereover three or four fingers and leave them so for two or three days upon a moderate fire of ashes that the Aqua vitae may not distill removing them every hour ; this done accommodate the Cornue upon the furnace with an earthen vessel full of sand. Distill the Aqua vitae with a gentle fire afterwared increasing it by degrees there will appear infinite little aignilles and filaments such as in the dissolutions of lead and quicksilver. The which sheweth sufficiently that Benzoin participates tereof : It whitens Copper quickens Gold and put in decoction of gayac doth admirable effects as also Tartar which containeth much quicksilver. When then these veins or little aiguilles shall shew themselves continue this degree of fire and let them play within the conue a certain space so long that all vanish away. In the interim have in a readiness a little stick which may enter within the neck of the Cornue for these aiguilles will come thither to bring again as in an mouelle, and if you take them not away speedily the vessel will break when this Gumme or Mouelle shall be all past with a certain form of butter which will cast it self aferwards within the Recipient the oil will begin to distill fair and clear of an hyacinth colour and fragrant odour : after which reinforcing the fire, there will issue out another more thick and dark which you must recieve apart. This Gumme or white marrow, which you shall have drawn out of the neck of the cornue wash it with the Aqua vitae which you distilled therefrom in the begining which shall extract therefrom a tincture or Citrine colour as Saffron and shall leave the Gumme very white and of a must agreeable smell, fit to make Pater Nosters of scents, of such a colour as you will please to give it : withdraw your Aqua vitae by a bath and in the bottom there will remain a yellow tincture of a good scent likewise which hath great properties and vertues. The black oil is a soveraign balm against all hurts and of the remaining earths a Salt of great efficacy. Thus you have of Benzoin five or six substances a white Gum, with its yellow Tincture the two oils and Salt. Aqua vitae which is its principal manifestation and without which nothing would be done therein there is also Storax, Calamint, Ladanum, Myrrh, and the like Gums out of which oil is extracted by the means of the carriage of Aqua vitae and therein you must proceed as in Benzoin : But there are not so many things to mingle together : Out of Myrrh there is likewise extracted a liquor very proper to take away all sots and marks remaining of scabs or poz and other like accidents. Take hard eggs and cleave them in the middle take away the yellow then fill the hollows with grains of Myrrh and cover them again with the other half : Leave the mthree or four days in the clear and inthe air, where the Sun comes not and they will resolve themselves into a liquor like honey or thick dew, frankincenss likewise doth the same.

Out of Sulphur also there may be drawn an adustible oil by opening it, with Aqua vitae and also by other ways. For Sulphur hath in it two substances the one iflammative the other not but aluminous and vitriolique whence proceeds this liquor which is called oil of Sulphur which hath yet greater properties and vertues then the oil of Vitriol which is more caustick and burning as well against evil inward affections as in Cankers and ulcers of hte mouth tooth-ach, cankers, and other the like where it works more moderately. Take then first a match of cotten yarn of the bigness of your little finger and two else long which you shall be smear with moten wax and with Turpentine as to make wax Lights. Take on the other side a pot of Paris earth leaded werein you shall put a bed of sulphur enough grossely beaten and thereupon lay aroung of your foresaid matches untill the pot be full on the top whereof you shall leave a little end of your Match a light it : (fine musker match is very good also). Put your pot under a chimney and hang thereupon an Alembic Cap whose mouth should relate to that of the pot. But your must first be smear nad crust over the clay to the thickness of a thumb : you must not join it just to the pot but that there may be an inch opening betwixt them. Light the Match and make the Sulphur burn which will cast from it a small white sume which will adhere within hte Cap and from thence it will resolve into a liquor of peach color that will fall into the Recipient when you have to such an end applyed it to the beak of the Cap : But this will do better in soft weather with south winds and d,aval and not in dry weather. We have long insisted on these oils as well for that they are produced for the most part out of the action of fire of which there is here a question as for that nothing is nearer of kin to fire then fatty oils unctuosities pitch rozin and black Turpentines, Gums and other like inflammative substances that are the true food and nourishment thereof : And for that we are so far enbarked therein there will be no hurt here in one train to prosecute something of the Artifices which are commonly called Grecian fires, whereof theere are many sorts that cannot be quenched with water. The foundation of them are Sulphur and Bitumen black pitch and rosin, Turpentine, Colophone, Sarcocol, Oils of Lin, Petrol and Laurell, Salt-peter, Camphere, Tallow, Grease and other unctuosities facil to conceive flame : Of these Greek fires plutarch speaketh in his Treatise of not lending upon usury and more lately by Zonaras, in his 3. Tome in the life of Constantine the pegonate where it is said that in the year of our Lord 678. the Saracens being come to besige Constantinople, an Ingenier by name Callinicus brought an Artifice of certain fire by means whereof the Saracens Fleet was defeated : But Gunpowder and the artifices that may be made thereby hath Slubbered them all ; whence consisteth the most part of our artificial fires pots and fire pikes, circles, granadoes, sauciges, petards, fuses, and infinite other the like which we pretend not here to specifie in particular. Take then a pound of Salt-Peter, 8,.ounces of Sulphur 6. ounces of Gunpowder, incorporate them together for Granadoes and fire-pots, which make great noise in the breaking. But to tye fire to wood and other inflammative matters mingle a pound of ppitch, rosin, a quartern of black pitch, 3. ounces of Colophon, and 5. of Sulphur bruise the Gums and cast into the melted Sulphurs when it is cold beat them again and moisten them with oil of Bayes or linnen. There is another composition much more violent but more dangerous. Melt a pound of Sulphuur within a leaded earthen pot and put therein by little and little but discreetly a quartern of powder gross grained with as much salt Peter stirring them often with a

rod of Iron. Take them off the fire and let them dry. This mingled with the aforesaid Artifices will work wondrous effects. Some mingle also a little beaten glass which coming to be warmed rewarms consequently the matter when it comes to flame : whose heat makes it stronger and of longer durance. Camphere serves to make it burn in the water, as likewise all other greases do and above all oil of brimstone drawn by a bath then which there is nothing more subtible or inflameable. But it would be too tedious to penetrate into the ruins of mankind of which there would be no end if a man should unne through them all. Therefore let us return to our left purpose of two fires. That above designed by Pallas and Minerva and that below by Vesta. Which although they be so far distant, yet fail not to have such an affinity together that they easily transmute one into the other for the sun beams are illightned by fire, by reason of a viol filled with water as putarch relate in the life of Numa. Wherefrom a burning looking glass of which i remember that i saw one so puissant in the States of Orleans, that in less then nothing and yet in the moneth of Ianuary, set a fire the staff of a torch and the fire contrariwise by many conveyances and contrivings from the top to the bottom and through the sides in many circular revolutions at in those of a Labyrinth and in furnaces which furnaces which they call a Tower its heat comes to be so moderated that it passeth into a natural heat, vivifying and nourishing in stead of burning baking or consuming : And with such a fire i can say that there were hatched at Rome at one time more then 100 or 120 Chickens the eggs being therein couved and settled as under a Hen. The Persians and Vestals fire at Rome reverenced as well by the one, as by the other as very holy was very carefully entertained. Touching the Persian, Strabo in his 15. Book writeth that the Magi had a custome to conserve it under ashes, before which they went every day to make their prayers and devotions, which is not without some mystery. The ashes denoting the sensible world and the body of man which it represents ; being nothing else but ashes and the fire therein inclosed and covered the sparkle of life wherewith it is animated and vivified. These ashes furthermore must be of some gummy trees, to make it of longer durance namely of Juniper wherein i heretofore have kept living coals more than a year heaping up bed upon bed within the ashes being all lock,t fast within a little barrel that no air may enter ; and this is that which is meant in the 120. Psalm. 4. ver. with Juniper coals according to the Hebrew in place of uncomfortable. With these burning coals the Persians came to light the luminaries of their Temples when they came to be extinguished. But the Vestals in case their fire should extinguish as it sometimes happened, it was not lawfull for them to light it again, but must draw it from the sun beams : And did not only attend that it should quench of it self or by some casual accident, but they renewed it yearly the firft day of March from that of heaven, as Ovidius observes tertie Fastorum. Add that new fire was made in the secret house and the renewed fire took force.