XXX.

French.

Plus d’unze fois Luna Sol ne voudra, Tous augmentes & baissez de degre, Et si bas mis que peu d’Or on coudra, Qu’apres faim, peste, descouvert le secret.

English.

The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times, Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree, And put so low, that a little Gold shall be sowed up, So that after hunger and plague, the secret shall be discovered.

ANNOT.

_The Moon will not have the Sun above eleven times_; that is, the Moon of the Philosophers will not imbibe their Sun above Eleven times.

_Then both shall be encreased and lessened in degree_; that is, both shall be encreased in quality, and lessened in quantity.

_And put so low that a little Gold shall be sowed up_; that is, the powder of projection, or Philosophers stone shall be so small in Bulk, that one may sow it about him, and hide it in his Cloths.

_After famine and plague the secret shall be discovered_; that is, somebody shall die, with famine or plague, about which the secret shall be found and discovered.