While he was poring over the writings of Sandivogius, and Philalethes, and dominus de Nuysment, and endeavouring to comprehend the symbolical language in which they have locked up their mysteries, Antonio would occupy himself among the retorts and crucibles, and keep the furnace in a perpetual glow.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Listen lordis, I sall you tell, Off ane very grit marvell, Off Lord Fergussis gaist, How meikle Sir Andro it chest, Unto Beittokis bour, The silly sawle to succour: And he hes writtin unto me, Auld storeis for to se, Gif it appinis him to meit, How he sall conjure the spreit: And I haif red mony quars, Bath the Donet, and dominus que pars, Ryme maid, and als redene, Baith Inglis and Latene: And ane story haif I to reid, Passes Bonitatem in the creid.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Phor-Cun signifies Ignis dominus, the same as Hephastus.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant