XXXI.

French.

La Lune au plain de nuit sur le haut Mont, Le nouveau _Sophe_ d’Un seul cerveau la veu, Par ses Disciples estre immortel semond, Yeux au Midy, enfin, mains corps au feu.

English.

The Moon at full by night upon the high Mount, The new _Sophe_ with one onely Brain hath seen it, Invited by his Disciples to become immortal, His eyes to the South, conclusion, his hands and body to the fire.

ANNOT.

_Sophe_ in Greek signifieth a wise man or Philosopher, who shall find the Philosophers stone, when the Moon shall come to the full in the night upon a high Mount. His Disciples shall perswade him to make himself immortal, they being perswaded that the _Elixir_ cureth all diseases.

The last Verse saith, _His eyes to the South, his hands and body to the fire_; that is, this Chymist or _Adeptus_, shall retire into some Southern Countrey to work.

I cannot omit here that a conceited Chymist in _Paris_, whose name was _Haumont_, in _English_, _Highmount_, could not be disswaded but our Author spake of him in this Stanza, and that he could not die till he had got the Philosophers stone, but to other matters.