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He speakes to his Scholars thus, Know my dear Sonne that this is a Booke of the Secrets of nature, and I shall devide it into six parts. In the first discourse what the stone is, secondly why the Stone is natural, thirdly why the Stone is animal like our blood, fourthly why it is called herball or Radicall, fifthly I'le relate its true and constant preparation, and sixtly I shall truly and without lies give you an account of the augmentation of our growing stone, to the end that fooles may bee derided, and wise and understanding men taught....

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