&longs;ee here, &longs;aith he, the Well, which repre&longs;enteth the Tube, &longs;ee
<lb/> here the gro&longs;s vapours, from whence is taken the invention of
<lb/> the Cry&longs;tals, and &longs;ee here la&longs;tly the &longs;ight fortified by the pa&longs;&longs;age
<lb/> of the rays through a diaphanous, but more den&longs;e and ob&longs;cure
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>medium.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>This is a way to comprehend all things knowable, much
<lb/> like to that wherewith a piece of marble conteineth in it one, yea,
<lb/> a thou&longs;and very beautiful Statua's, but the difficulty lieth in be­
<lb/> ing able to di&longs;cover them; or we may &longs;ay, that it is like to the
<lb/> prophe&longs;ies of Abbot <emph type="italics"/>Joachim,<emph.end type="italics"/> or the an&longs;wers of the Heathen
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Oracles,<emph.end type="italics"/> which are not to be under&longs;tood, till after the things
<lb/> fore-told are come to pa&longs;&longs;e.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>And why do you not adde the predictions of the <emph type="italics"/>Ge­
<lb/> nethliacks,<emph.end type="italics"/> which are with like cleerne&longs;&longs;e &longs;een after the event, in
<lb/> their Horo&longs;copes, or, if you will, Configurations of the Heavens.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>In this manner the Chymi&longs;ts find, being led by their
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg237"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> melancholly humour, that all the &longs;ublime&longs;t wits of the World
<lb/> have writ of nothing el&longs;e in reality, than of the way to make
<lb/> Gold; but, that they might tran&longs;mit the &longs;ecret to po&longs;terity with­
<lb/> out di&longs;covering it to the vulgar, they contrived &longs;ome one way, and
<lb/> &longs;ome another how to conceal the &longs;ame under &longs;everal maskes; and
<lb/> it would make one merry to hear their comments upon the ancient
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Poets,<emph.end type="italics"/> finding out the important mi&longs;teries, which lie hid under
<lb/> their Fables; and the &longs;ignification of the Loves of the <emph type="italics"/>Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> and her de&longs;cending to the Earth for <emph type="italics"/>Endimion<emph.end type="italics"/>; her di&longs;plea&longs;ure
<lb/> again&longs;t <emph type="italics"/>Acteon,<emph.end type="italics"/> and what was meant by <emph type="italics"/>Jupiters<emph.end type="italics"/> turning him&longs;elf
<lb/> into a &longs;howre of <emph type="italics"/>Gold<emph.end type="italics"/>; and into flames of fire; and what great
<lb/> &longs;ecrets of Art are conteined in that <emph type="italics"/>Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> the <emph type="italics"/>Interpreter<emph.end type="italics"/>; in
<lb/> tho&longs;e thefts of <emph type="italics"/>Pluto<emph.end type="italics"/>; and in tho&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>Branches<emph.end type="italics"/> of <emph type="italics"/>Gold.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg237"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Chymi&longs;ts inter­
<lb/> pret the Eables of
<lb/> the Poets to be &longs;e­
<lb/> crets for making of
<lb/> Gold.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>I believe, and in part know, that there want not in the
<lb/> World very extravagant heads, the vanities of whom ought not to
<lb/> redound to the prejudice of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> of whom my thinks you
<lb/> &longs;peak &longs;ometimes with too little re&longs;pect, and the onely antiquity
<lb/> and bare name that he hath acquired in the opinions of &longs;o many
<lb/> famous men, &longs;hould &longs;uffice to render him honourable with all
<lb/> that profe&longs;&longs;e them&longs;elves learned.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>You &longs;tate not the matter rightly, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/>; There
<lb/> are &longs;ome of his followers that fear before they are in danger,
<lb/> who give us occa&longs;ion, or, to &longs;ay better, would give us cau&longs;e to
<lb/> e&longs;teem him le&longs;&longs;e, &longs;hould we con&longs;ent to applaud their <emph type="italics"/>Capricio's.<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg238"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> And you, pray you tell me, are you for your part &longs;o &longs;imple, as
<lb/> not to know that had <emph type="italics"/>Arictotle<emph.end type="italics"/> been pre&longs;ent, to have heard the
<lb/> Doctor that would have made him Author of the <emph type="italics"/>Tele&longs;cope,<emph.end type="italics"/> he
<lb/> would have been much more di&longs;plea&longs;ed with him, than with tho&longs;e,
<lb/> who laught at the Doctor and his Comments? </s><s>Do you que&longs;tion
