When we be there as we shall exercise Our elvish 4683 craft, we seemë wonder wise, Our termës be so clergial and quaint. 4684 I blow the fire till that mine heartë faint. Why should I tellen each proportión Of thingës, whichë that we work upon, As on five or six ounces, may well be, Of silver, or some other quantitý? And busy me to tellë you the names, As orpiment, burnt bonës, iron squames, 4685 That into powder grounden be full small? And in an earthen pot how put is all, And, salt y-put in, and also peppére, Before these powders that I speak of here, And well y-cover’d with a lamp of glass? And of much other thing which that there was? And of the pots and glasses engluting, 4686 That of the air might passen out no thing? And of the easy
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