| | Ye be as bold as is baiard the blynde | |
| 695 | That blundrith forth and paril castith none | |
| | He is as bolde to renne ayens a stone | |
| | As forto go besidis in the wey | |
| | So faren ye that multiplye I sey | |
| | Yf that your yen can not se a right | |
| 700 | Loke that your mynde lak not his sight | |
| | For though that ye loke right brood & stare | |
| | Ye shul wynne neuer of that chaffare | |
| | But waste al that ye mowe rappe and renne | |
| | Withdraw the fyre lest it to faste brenne | |
| 705 | Medlith nomore with that art I mene | |
| | For yf ye do your thrift is gon ful clene | |
| | And right as swithe I wol you telle here | |
| | What Philisophris did in this matere | |
| | Lo thus saith Arnolde of the new toun | |
| 710 | As his Rosary makith mencioun | |
| | He saith right thus withouten ony lye | |
| | Ther may noman mercury mortify | |
| | But yf it be by his brotheris knowlechinge | |
| | Lo how that he withsayde this thinge | |
| 715 | Of philisophris fadir was hermes | |
| | He saith how that the dragon doutles | |
| | Ne dieth not but yf that he be sleyn | |
| | With his brothir and that is forto seyn | |
| | Be the dragon mercury and non other | |
| 720 | He vnderstondeth & brymston be his brother | |
| | That out of sol and luna were I drawe | |
| | And therfore sayde he take hede to my sawe | |
