Chapter III: French

_Mars_ & _Mercure_, & Largent joint ensemble,
Vers le Midy extreme siccité,
Au fond d’_Asie_ on dira Terre tremble,
_Corinthe_, _Ephese_ lors en perplexite.

English.

_Mars_ and _Mercury_, and Silver joyned together,
Towards the South a great drought,
In the bottome of _Asia_ shall be an Earth-quake,
_Corinth_ and _Ephesus_ shall then be in perplexity.

ANNOT.

After the Author hath in the foregoing Stanza expressed the mistery of the Philosophers stone, he seemeth to give here a receit, though Sophistical, for the relief of the Inquisitors, and as it were a _Viaticum_, for them to subsist till they can attain to the perfection, as _Basilius_, _Valentinus_ hath done since to his disciples.

He saith then, that with _Mars_, that is, Iron, _Mercury_ and Silver joyned together, some thing may be done, if you beware of a _drought in the South_; that is, in the middle of the operation; and this is concerning the two first Verses. Those that shall desire to be better and further informed, may come to me, and they shall have all the satisfaction I can afford them.

The two last Verses have no relation to the first two, and foretel onely a great _Earthquake_ in _Asia_, by which, those two Towns, _Corinth_ and _Ephesus_, shall be in great perplexity.