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有人知道瑞普里斯卷轴么?求翻译……

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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



1楼2011-04-18 22:36回复
    Swelling as a toad that lieth on the ground
    Burst with bladders sitting so round
    They shall to burst and lie full plain
    And this with craft the serpent is slain
    He shall shine colors here many a one
    And turn as white as whale's bone
    With the water that he was in
    Wash him clear from his sin
    And let him drink a little and a light!
    And that shall make him fair and white!
    The which whiteness be abiding
    Lo here is a very full finishing
    Of the white stone and the red
    Lo here is the very true deed.
    The Red Lion. The Green Lion. The Mouth of Choleric beware.
    Here is the last of the Red, and the beginning to put away the dead. The Elixir Vitae.
    Take the father that Phoebus so high
    That sit so high in majesty
    With his beams that shines so bright
    In all places wherever that he be
    For he is father to all things
    Maintainer of life to crop and root
    And causeth nature for to spring
    With the wife beginneth soothe
    For he is salve to every sore
    To bring about this prosperous work
    Take good heed unto this lore
    I say unto learned and unto clerk
    And Homogenie is my name'
    Which God made with his own hand
    And Magnesia is my dame
    You shall verily understand.
    Now I shall here begin
    For to teach thee a ready way
    else little shall thou win
    Take good heed what I do say
    Divide thou Phoebus in many parts
    With his beams that be so bright
    And this with nature him convert
    The which is mirror of all light
    This Phoebus hath full many a name
    Which that is full hard to know
    And but thou take the very same
    The philosophers stone ye shall not know
    Therefore I counsel ere ye begin
    Know it well what it should be
    And that is thick make it thin
    For then it shall full well like thee
    Now understand what I mean
    And take good heed thereto
    Our work else shall little be seen
    And turn thee to much woe!
    As I have said this our lore
    Many a name I wish he hath
    Some behind and some before
    As philosophers doth him give
    In the sea without lees
    Standeth the bird of Hermes
    Eating his wings variable
    And maketh himself yet full stable
    When all his feathers be from him gone
    He standeth still here as a stone.
    Here is now both white and red
    And all so the stone to quicken the dead
    All and some without fable
    Both hard and soft and malleable
    Understand now well and right
    And thank you God of this sight
    The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame.
    The Red Sea. The Red Sol. The Red Elixir Vitae.
    Red Stone. White Stone. Elixir Vitae. Luna in Crescent.
    I shall you tell with plain declaration
    Where, how, and what is my generation
    Omogeni is my Father
    And Magnesia is my Mother
    And Azot truly is my Sister
    And Kibrick forsooth is my Brother
    The Serpent of Arabia is my name
    The which is leader of all this game!
    That sometime was both wood and wild
    And now I am both meek and mild
    The Sun and the Moon with their might
    Have chastised me that was so light
    My wings that me brought
    Hither and thither where I thought
    Now with their might they down me pull
    And bring me where they will
    The Blood of mine heart I wish
    Now causeth both joy and blisse
    And dissolveth the very Stone
    And knitteth him ere he have done
    Now maketh hard that was lix
    And causeth him to be fix
    Of my blood and water I wish
    Plenty in all the World there is
    It runneth in every place
    Who it findeth he hath grace
    In the World it runneth over all
    And goeth round as a ball
    But thou understand well this
    the worke thou shalt miss
    Therefore know ere thou begin
    What he is and all his kin
    Many a name he hath full sure
    And all is but one Nature)
    Thou must part him in three
    And then knit him as the Trinity
    And make them all but one
    Lo here is the Philosophers Stone
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    著名的那句“赫尔墨斯之鸟乃我之名,噬我翼以驭我心”就是出自这里。求教各位达人翻译
    


    2楼2011-04-18 22:36
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      2026-08-19 03:14:35
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      可能会有因乱码导致的不顺畅,请各位见谅……


      3楼2011-04-18 22:37
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        貌似是纯英文,直接在线翻译什么的就好


        4楼2011-04-19 15:47
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          前提是这种晦涩的英语能机翻的通么?


          5楼2011-04-19 20:47
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            翻完自己整理一下不就好了


            来自掌上百度6楼2011-04-20 15:14
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              这里面是不是有方言…
              看到婚礼那个瞬间想到阴性汞和阳性硫磺结合…【好吧无视这段…


              来自掌上百度7楼2011-04-21 18:23
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                你觉得你看的懂这是什么意思么?


                10楼2011-05-07 21:20
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                  2026-08-19 03:08:35
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                  楼主 问一下 ,你的这些英文是在哪个网站上面找到的 能不能发一下,我想好好研究一下啊。


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