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Here begins the second disposition
of the sayings of Morienus Romanus, which he had with

King Calid the son Gezid the son of Macoya.

Morienus said: Take white fume, and the green lion, and red Almagra,
and the uncleaness of a dead man. Dissolve all these, which being
dissolved, make them to ascend, and after the ascension make them also
to conjoin into one, so that in every part of the green lion, three parts of
the uncleaness of the dead man may be added. In like sort make one part
of the white fume, and two parts of the Almagra, and put them all in a
green vessel, and let them be decocted in it. And let the mouth of the
vessel be firmly closed according as it has been said before. Afterward
set it in the sun, and there let it dry, and when it shall be dry, put elixer to
it, and then put upon it water of blood, as much as may swim above it.
After three days and three nights bedew it with stinking water, having a
care that you diminish not any of its days, or that the fire of it be not
extinguished, or that the heat decrease not in burning.

Therefore seventeen nights being passed, you shall open the aforesaid
vessell, and take out the water which you shall find within, and again put
other stinking water into it; which thing must be done three nights ; and
also having a special regard that the vessel be by no means removed
from its furnace : but let the putting in of stinking water be done three
nights together. And then, twenty nights being passed, take the vessel
from the furnace and dry the elixer which shall be in it. Afterwards take
the white body, in which you have fixed it white, and put it in a very
small vessel, which is according to the quantity of the furnace of the
Magistery. Then join that vessel firmly to the furnace so that the flame of
the fire may neither burn it nor touch it. Also the elixer, which we have
said to be superior in it, ought to be cast in such sort, that if you shall add
part of the white body unto it you must add eleven parts of the elixer.
Which being mingled, upon every ounce of this commixed body, you
must cast only the fourth part of one dram of Eudica.

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