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∗ *Vide* Sans. texts, p. 52. The identical distich occurs also in R. R. S. Cf. vol. I. p. 119. Cf also ‘ But to detain you no longer on this subject, give me only leave to strengthen the paradox I have proposed, by the authority of that great and candid chymist Basilius Valentinus, who speaking of antimony, after he hath told us, that there are several kinds of it, and especially two; the one more mercurial and of a golden property, witnessed by the shining streaks or beams it abounds with; the