Extract and symbol key from an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alchemy" class="extiw" title="en:alchemy">alchemical</a> text - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Digby" class="extiw" title="en:Kenelm Digby">Kenelm Digby</a> <i>A Choice Collection of Rare Secrets</i>  (1682) 
<p>Take reddiſh rich Virgin Earth in ♈, impregnate it with ☉, ☽, ſerene and dew, till the end of May: Then imbibe ſprinklingly with dew gathered in May, and dry in ☉, expoſe all Night to the ☽ and Air, ſecuring it from Rain. Still when it is dry, imbibe and turn the Earth often. Continue this till 🝞mation. The hot ☉ (eſpecially in the Dog-days) will make a pure Salt ſhoot up, which mingle back into the Earth, by turning it all over. Then diﬅill by graduated 🜂 as A.F. forcing all the Spirits[...]
</p><p>An Explication of the Charac͡ters which are uſed in this Book.
</p><p>☉ Gold.<br>
☽ Silver.<br>
♂ Iron.<br>
☿ Mercury.<br>
♃ Jupiter.<br>
♀ Venus.<br>
♄ Lead.<br>
🜬 Antimony.<br>
🜹 Sal Ammoniac.<br>
A.F. Aqua Fortis.<br>
A.℞. Aqua Regis.<br>
S.V. Spirit of Wine.<br>
🝞 Sublimate.<br>
🝟 Precipitate.<br>
🝛 Amalgama.<br>
🜄 Water.<br></p>
🜂 Fire.
1682
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