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On the late Boyle Godfrey, Chemist, written by himself.

Here lieth to digest,
Macerate and amalgamate
With Clay:
In balneo veneris stratum
Super stratum,
The residuum caput mortuum of
BOYLE GODFREY, Chemist:
- A man who, in his early labors, tried various processes
to obtain the arcanum vitæ, or secret of life; but, alchy-
mist-like, all his various projections evaporated in fumo.
Full 70 years was his exalted essence hermetically seal-
ed in its terrehe matrass, but the radical moisture being
exhaled, the elixir of life spent, and exsiccated to a cuticle,
could no longer suspend in its vehicle, but precipitated
per campanum to its original dust. May that light, brigh-
ter than the Bolognian Phosphorus, preserve him from
the athanor cucurbit and reverberating furnace of the
other world, highly depurate him from the fæces and
scoriæ of this- and place him in a crystalline orb among
the elect of the Flowers of Benjamin, never more to be
saturated until the resuscitation, calcination, consumma-
tion, and conflagration, of all things.