The double pelican (a cautionary tale).

Gather Dew in the Month of May, when the Sun is in Aries and the Moon is in Taurus, with a clean white Linen Cloth spread upon the Grass [Figure 1]. Filter the Dew into a clean white Porcelain Pan, and deliver it into the Great Egg. Combine this Dew with Virgin’s Milk and Infant’s Blood, digest for fourteen Days in Horse Dung, and distill to one quarter its Bulk four times running. This Procedure will yield a potent Spirit of Dew which, if you are truly an Artist, may be used to prepare an Elixir of Wonderful Virtue that will Transmute all Metals, and will cause Old Men to rejoice in their restored Youth and Vigor.1