麻烦高人给个翻译吧,我英语太烂了,实在看不懂啊……以下是英语原文
The Ripley Scroll
The Ripley Scroll is an important 15th century work of emblematic symbolism. Twenty one copies are known, dating from the early 16th century to the mid-17th. There are two different forms of the symbolism, with 17 manuscripts of the main version, and 4 manuscripts of the variant form. There are very wide variations in the English text on the different manuscripts, and for the text here I have modernised and unified a number of versions. This is not a properly researched edition, but a reworking of the text into a modern readable form. I add the engravings of the Scroll printed in David Beuther, Universal und Particularia... Hamburg,
The Red gum that is so bright
And of the Moon do also
The which gum they both trowe.
The philosophers Sulphur vive1
This I call it without strife
Kybright and Kebright it is called also
And other names many more"
Of them drawe out a tincture+
And make of them a marriage pure
Between the husband and the wife
Espowsed with the water of life
But of this water thou must beware,
Or else thy work will be full bare
He must be made of his own kind
Mark thou now in thy mind
Acetome of philosophers men call this.
A water abiding so it is
The maidens milk of the dew
That all the work doth renew
The Serpent of life it is called also
And other names many more,
The which causeth generation:
Betwixt the man and the woman
But looke thou no division
Be there in the conjunction
Of the moon and of sun
After the marriage be begun
And all the while they be a wedding
Give to them their drinking
Acetome that is good and fine'
Better to them then any wine
Now when this marriage is done
Philosophers call it a stone
The which hath a great nature:
To bring a stone that is so pure
So he have kindly nourishment.
Perfect heat and decoction
But in the matrix when they be put
Let never the glasse be unshut
Till they have ingendred a stone
In the world there not such a one
The Red Lune. The Spirit of Water. Red Sol. The Red Sea.
On the ground there is a hill
Also a serpent within a well
His tail is long with wings wide
All ready to flee by every side
Repair the well fast about
That thy serpent pass not out
For if that he be there a gone
Thou lose the virtue of the stone,
Where is the ground you must know here
And the well that is so clear
And what is the dragon with the tail
Or else the work shall little avail
The well must run in water clear
Take good heed for this your fire.
The fire with water bright shall be burnt
And water with fire washed shall be
The earth on fire shall be put
And water with air shall be knit
Thus ye shall go to purification:
And bring the serpent to redemption
First he shall be black as a crow
And down in his den shall lie full low
The Ripley Scroll
The Ripley Scroll is an important 15th century work of emblematic symbolism. Twenty one copies are known, dating from the early 16th century to the mid-17th. There are two different forms of the symbolism, with 17 manuscripts of the main version, and 4 manuscripts of the variant form. There are very wide variations in the English text on the different manuscripts, and for the text here I have modernised and unified a number of versions. This is not a properly researched edition, but a reworking of the text into a modern readable form. I add the engravings of the Scroll printed in David Beuther, Universal und Particularia... Hamburg,
The Red gum that is so bright
And of the Moon do also
The which gum they both trowe.
The philosophers Sulphur vive1
This I call it without strife
Kybright and Kebright it is called also
And other names many more"
Of them drawe out a tincture+
And make of them a marriage pure
Between the husband and the wife
Espowsed with the water of life
But of this water thou must beware,
Or else thy work will be full bare
He must be made of his own kind
Mark thou now in thy mind
Acetome of philosophers men call this.
A water abiding so it is
The maidens milk of the dew
That all the work doth renew
The Serpent of life it is called also
And other names many more,
The which causeth generation:
Betwixt the man and the woman
But looke thou no division
Be there in the conjunction
Of the moon and of sun
After the marriage be begun
And all the while they be a wedding
Give to them their drinking
Acetome that is good and fine'
Better to them then any wine
Now when this marriage is done
Philosophers call it a stone
The which hath a great nature:
To bring a stone that is so pure
So he have kindly nourishment.
Perfect heat and decoction
But in the matrix when they be put
Let never the glasse be unshut
Till they have ingendred a stone
In the world there not such a one
The Red Lune. The Spirit of Water. Red Sol. The Red Sea.
On the ground there is a hill
Also a serpent within a well
His tail is long with wings wide
All ready to flee by every side
Repair the well fast about
That thy serpent pass not out
For if that he be there a gone
Thou lose the virtue of the stone,
Where is the ground you must know here
And the well that is so clear
And what is the dragon with the tail
Or else the work shall little avail
The well must run in water clear
Take good heed for this your fire.
The fire with water bright shall be burnt
And water with fire washed shall be
The earth on fire shall be put
And water with air shall be knit
Thus ye shall go to purification:
And bring the serpent to redemption
First he shall be black as a crow
And down in his den shall lie full low












