Kutsanmış Sebze Taşı

Here begynnyth the seconde boke of master John Mehn, in the which it is treatyd of the vegetable stone, and first of the which yt is drawyn.

The blessyd vegetable stone ys made of one thynge, to which no straunge thynge ys put to, but only superflue thynges be put away. Also in the mynerall ministracion yt is most longest wrote, in so myche as gybus sayth: the wiseman shulde father sayth in his wrote that yt wer possible to hym to make prayse the labour, but the philosophers stone may not be made wt one the spryte of quyntessence. Therfor which the philosophers preferth the trewe philosophers stone to be made of vegitable, ye ys opyn that the spryte of the quyntessence ys founde in the vegitable which worcheth all vegitable, & the same ys sayde of ye animate. And for as moche that amonge all vigitable ther ys one vigitable, for the reason yt ys thoroughe, one of vigitable which ys more stronge, more myghtye, more honorable, more highyer, & more noble, & that in hym silf holdyth all the elyments; therfor sum wyty men wull take yt alone, wtout reposicion of any other thyng...

...ye ys the rysyng and smoke of the vapor, whiche is made of fyre and moystnesse; and of the other thynges before sayd, of the sauour and fylth of blode and uryne, of thyngs animate and mynerall, bothe in these and other; we exorte the to leve, for the blessyd stone ys not made of them — for in them all ys a sharpe and fylthy sauour, and the stone may not be made of them, for it must be made of a thyng ryght clene and pure, havyng in hym the iiii elements. Also thou shalt understonde that the iiii elements shall never be devyded and departed in ther colours, or that they be waschyd in a heep; and tho colours shalbe as the colours of man, and of them the best and most precyous also of vegetable another element commyth out of; the blessyd Stone may also be made of the water distyllyd...