So as the bokes it recorden,
The kinde of hem I schal recorden. 2530
[The Three Stones of the Philosophers.]
These olde Philosophres wyse[1319]
Be weie of kinde in sondri wise
Thre Stones maden thurgh clergie.
Nota de tribus lapidibus, quos philosophi composuerunt, quorum primus dicitur lapis vegetabilis, qui sanitatem conseruat, secundus dicitur lapis animalis, qui membra[1320] et virtutes sencibiles fortificat, tercius dicitur lapis mineralis, qui omnia metalla purificat et in suum perfectum naturali potencia deducit.
The ferste, if I schal specefie,[1321]
Was lapis vegetabilis,[1322]
Of which the propre vertu is