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D. D. Mollierus.
Clavicula triplici proprio de stemmate facta
Ingenue reseror; quarum jacet una, sepulta
Monte sub Istriaco; Mariano monte, secunda;
Tertia soliferis Scotiae reperitur in undis.
His tribus unitis - cedo non viribus ullis-
Longaevus, sanus, locuples, reserator abibis.
“A threefold key soon opens me, made of my proper kind;
The first lies still in Istria hill, there buried in that mine;
The next is wont in Marian Mount to lie among the mould;
The third is found in Scottish ground, in waters yielding gold:
Thir units three does open me - I fear non other force -
Depart with wealth, long life, and health, thou opener of my corse.”

An interesting volume, published in London in 1623, has the following
title:- A Revelation of the Secret Spirit, declairing the most concealed
secrets of Alchemie, written first in Latin by an unknown Author, but
explained in Italian by John Baptista Lambye, Venetian. Lately translated
into English by R. N. E., Gentleman. As the translator was, from the
dedication, evidently a native of Scotland, in which he states that the work
was published specially for the whole Scottish nation’s sake, the initials R. N.
E., Dr Laing thinks, with much probability, might stand for Robert Napier,
Esquire, or of Edinburgh.

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