Potter’s clay, used for luting or closing vessels in the laboratories of the alchemists; Latin, argilla; French, argile. ↩
Flowers of antimony. ↩
Incorporating. ↩
Turning to a citrine colour, or yellow, by chemical action; that was the colour which proved the philosopher’s stone. ↩
Not, as in its modern meaning, the masses of metal shaped by pouring into moulds; but the moulds themslves into which the fused metal was poured. Compare Dutch, ingieten, part, inghehoten, to infuse; German, eingiessen, part, eingegossen, to pour in. ↩
Name. ↩
Name; from Anglo-Saxon, threapian. ↩
Call. ↩
Publish, display. ↩
Easy to learn. ↩
Fantastic foolish. ↩
Ignorant. ↩
Know he letters—be he learned. ↩
Come to the same result in the pursuit of the art of making gold. ↩
Metal fillings; French, limaille. ↩
Anywhere. ↩
Though he look never so grim or fierce. ↩
Secure. ↩
Confession. ↩
Mad. ↩
Time. ↩
Repentant. ↩
Coarse cloak; Anglo-Saxon, bratt. The word is still used in Lincolnshire, and some parts of the north, to signify a coarse kind of apron. ↩
Cease. ↩
Shabbily. ↩
Whisper. ↩
Placed. ↩
Adjusts the proportions. ↩
Although. ↩
Gone, lost. ↩
Unless. ↩
Impious wretch. ↩
Dissatisfied. ↩
In consequence of; the modern vulgar phrase “all along of,” or “all along on,” best conveys the force of the words in the text. ↩
Ignorant and foolish. ↩
Mixed in due proportions. ↩
Stop. ↩
So thé ich—so may I thrive. ↩
Again; another time. ↩
Sure. ↩
Cracked; from French, écraser, to crack or crush. ↩
Confounded. ↩
Quickly. ↩
Rubbish. ↩
Time. ↩
Has gone amiss at present. ↩
Risk our property. ↩
Drowned, sunk. ↩
Endeavour. ↩
To bring our enterprise into a better condition—to a better issue. ↩
Blame. ↩
Assert, affirm noisily. ↩
Proof, test. ↩
Alexandria. ↩
Cunning tricks. ↩
Is not. ↩
Contract an excessive or foolish fondness for him. ↩
Except. ↩
Deceitful conduct. ↩
There is a black sheep in every flock. ↩
Individual, single. ↩
Counsel. ↩
Employed in singing annuals or anniversary masses for the dead, without any cure of souls; the office was such as, in the prologue to the Tales, Chaucer praises the Parson for not seeking: Nor “ran unto London, unto Saint Poul’s, to seeke him a chantery for souls.” See here. ↩
No matter. ↩
Neck. ↩
Quickly. ↩
Times. ↩
Pleased. ↩
I am not at all willing. ↩
A new thing to happen. ↩
Sure. ↩
Displeased, dissatisfied. ↩
Shown. ↩
Learn. ↩
With your own eye. ↩
Offer. ↩
Those wise folk of old. ↩
Press their way into his heart. ↩
Simple. ↩
Blinded; beguiled. ↩
Contrived. ↩
Stratagems, snares. ↩
Hasten. ↩
Stupidity. ↩
Knowledge. ↩
Imagine. ↩
Knows. ↩
Grieveth. ↩
At least. ↩
Villainy. ↩
Certainly. ↩
Fetched. ↩
Crucible. ↩
A chemical phrase, signifying the dissolution of quicksilver in acid. ↩
Knowledge. ↩
Send out of the way. ↩
Went. ↩
With which to deceive. ↩
Make haste. ↩
Lay in order. ↩
Done. ↩
Great thanks. ↩
Filings or dust of silver. ↩
Contrivance, stratagem. ↩
Before they separated. ↩
Cease; from Anglo-Saxon, blinnan, to desist. ↩
Grieveth. ↩
Revenge myself. ↩
Changeable, unsettled. ↩
Evil fortune attend him! ↩
Burn. ↩
Quickly. ↩
Evenly or exactly laid. ↩
Then. ↩
Turn out, succeed. ↩
Mistrust. ↩
Describe.
