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A04636
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The alchemist. VVritten by Ben. Ionson
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
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O no FAC. Hee will do 't It is the gooddest soule Abell about it Thou shalt know more anone Away be gone A miserable Rogue and liues with Cheese And has the wormes That was the cause indeed Why he came now He dealt with me in priuate To get a med'cine for ' hem SVB. And shall Sir This workes FAC. A wife a wife for one on' vs my deare Subtle Wee 'll eene draw lots and he that fayles shall haue The more in goods the other has in tayle SVB. Rather the lesse For she may be so light She may want graynes FAC. I or be such a burden A man would scarse endure her for the whole SVB. Faith best let 's see her first and then determine FAC. Content But Doll must ha' no breath on 't SVB. Mum. Away you to your Surly yonder Catch him FAC. 'Pray God I ha'not stayd too long SVB. I feare it ACT. 3. SCENE 1. TRIBVLATION ANANIAS THese Chastisements are common to the Saints And such rebukes th' Elect must beare with patience They are the exercises of the Spirit And sent to tempt our fraylties ANA. In pure zeale I doe not like the man He is a Heathen And speakes the language of Canaan truely TRI. I thinke him a prophane person indeed ANA. He beares The visible marke of the beast in his forehead And for his Stone it is a worke of darknesse And with Philosophie blinds the eyes of man TRI. Good Brother we must bend vnto all meanes That may giue furtherance to the holy cause ANA. Which his cannot The sanctified cause Should haue a sanctified course TRI. Not alwaies necessary The Children of perdition are oft times Made instruments euen of the greatest workes Beside we should giue somewhat to mans nature The place he liues in still about the Fire And fume of Mettalls that intoxicate The brayne of Man and make him prone to passion Where haue you greater Atheists then your Cookes Or more prophane or cholerick then your Glasse-men More Antichristian then your Bell-founders What makes the Diuell so diuelish I would aske you Sathan our common enemy but his being Perpetually about the fire and boyling Brâ—stone and Arsnike We must giue I say Vnto the motiues and the stirrers vp Of humors in the blood It may be so When as the Worke is done the Stone is made This heate of his may turne into a zeale And stand vp for the beauteous discipline Against the menstruous cloth and ragg of Rome We must awayt his calling and the comming Of the good Spirit You did fault t' vpbraid him With the Brethrens blessing of Heidelberg waighing What neede we haue to hasten on the Worke For the restoring of the silenc'd Saints Which ne'er will be but by the Philosophers Stone And so a learned Elder one of Scotland Assur'd me Aurum potabile being The onely med'cine for the ciuill Magistrâ—te T' incline him to a feeling of the cause And must be dayly vs'd in the disease ANA. I haue not aedified more truely by man Not since the beautifull light first shone on mee And I am sad my zeale hath so offended TRI. Let vs call on him then ANA. The motion 's good And of the Spirit I will knock first Peace be within ACT. 3. SCENE 2. SVBTLE TRIBVLATION ANANIAS O Are you come 'T was time Your threescore minutes Were at the last thred you see And downe had gone Furnus acediae Turris circulatorius Lembeke Bolts-head Retort and Pellicane Had all beene cinders Wicked Ananias Art thou return'd Nay then it goes downe yet TRI. Sir be appeased Hee is come to humble Himselfe in Spirit and to aske your patience If too much zeale hath carried him aside From the due path SVB. Why this doth qualefie TRI. The Brethren had no purpose verely To giue you the least greeuance but are ready To lend their willing hands to any proiect The Spirit and you direct SVB. This qualefies more TRI. And for the Orphanes goods let them be valew'd Or what is needfull else to the holy Worke It shall be numbred Here by me the Saints Throw downe their purse before you SVB. This qualifies most Why thus it should be now you vnderstand Haue I discoursâ—d so vnto you of our Stone And of the good that it shall bring your cause Shew'd you beside the mayne of hiring forces Abroad drawing the Hollanders your friends From the' Indies to serue you with all their Fleete That euen the med'cinall vse shall make you a faction And party in the Realme As put the case That some great Man in statâ— he haue the Gout Why you but send three droppes of your Elixir You help him straight There you haue made a Friend Another has the Palsey or the Dropsie He takes of your incombustible stuffe Hee 's yong againe There you haue made a Friend A Lady that is past the feate of body Though not of minde and hath her face decay'd Beyond all cure of painting you restore With the Oyle of Talâ—k There you haue made a Friend And all her friends A Lord that is a Leper A Knight that has the bone-ache or a Squire That hath both these you make 'hem smooth and sound With a bare fricace of your med'cine Still You increase your Friends TRI. I 't is very praegnant SVB. And then the turning of this Lawyers pewter To plate at Christ-masse ANA. Christ-tide I pray you SVB. Yet Ananias ANA. I haue done SVB. Or changing His parcell guilt to massy Gold You cannot But raise you Friends With all to be of power To pay an armie in the field to buy The King of France out of his Realmes or Spaine Out of his Indies What can you not doe Against Lords Spirituall or Temporall That shall oppone you TRI. Verely 't is true We may be temporall Lords our selues I take it SVB. You may be any thing and leaue of to make Long-winded exercises or suck vp Your ha and hum in a tune I not deny But such as are not graced in a State May for their endes be aduerse in Religion And get a tune to call the flocke together For to say sooth a tune do's much with women And other phlegmatick people It is your Bell. ANA. Bells are prophane a tune may be religious SVB. No warning with you Then farewell my patience 'Slight it shall downe I will not be thus tortur'd TRI. I pray you Sir SVB. All shall perish I haue spoke it TRI. Let me finde grace Sir in your eyes The man He stands corrected neither did his zeale But as your selfe allow a tune some-where Which now being to'ard the Stone we shall not need SVB. No nor your holy vizard to winne Widdowes To giue you Legacies or make zealous Wiues To rob their Husbands for the common cause Nor take the start of Bandes broke but one day And say they were forfeited by prouidence Nor shall you neede ore night to eate huge meales To celebrate your next dayes fast the better The whilst the Brethren
and the Sisters humbled Abate the stiffenesse of the flesh Nor cast Before your hungry hearers scrupulous bones As whether a Christian may hawke or hunt Or whether Matrons of the holy Assembly May lay their haire out or weare doublets Or haue that Idol Starch about their linnen ANA. It is indeed an Idoll TRI. Minde him not Sir I doe command thee Spirit of zeale but trouble To peace within him Pray you Sir goe on SVB. Nor shall you need to libell 'gainst the Prelates And shorten so your eares against the hearing Of the next wire-drawne Grace Nor of necessitie Rayle against playes to please the Alderman Whose dayly Custard you deuoure Nor lie With zealous rage till you are hoarse Not one Of these so singular artes Nor call your selues By names of Tribulation Persecution Restraint Long-Patience and such like affected By the whole Family or Wood of you Onely for glory and to catch the eare Of the Disciple TRI. Truely Sir they are Wayes that the Godly Brethren haue inuented For propagation of the holy cause As very notable meanes and whereby also Themselues grow soone and profitably famous SVB. O but the Stone all 's idle to'it nothing The art of Angels Natures miracle The diuine secret that doth flye in clouds From East to West and whose Tradition Is not from men but spirits ANA. I hate Traditions I doe not trust ' hem TRI. Peace ANA. They are Popish all I will not peace I will not TRI. Ananias ANA. Please the prophane to greeue the godly I may not SVB. Well Ananias thou shalt ouercome TRI. It is an ignorant zeale that haunts him Sir But truely else a very faithfull Brother A Botcher and a man by reuelation That hath a competent knowledge of the Truth SVB. Has he a competent summe there i' the bagg To buy the goods within I am made Guardian And must for Charitie and Conscience sake Now see the most be made for my poore Orphane Though I desire the Brethren too good Gayners There they are within When you haue view'd bought 'hem And tane the Inuentory of what they are They' are ready for â—roiection there 's no more To doe Cast on the med'cine So much Siluer As there is Tinne there so much Gold as Brasse I 'll gi' it you in by waight TRI. But how long time Sir must the Saints expect yet SVB. Let me see How 's the Moone now Eight nine ten dayes hence He will be Siluer potate then three dayes Before he citronise some fifteene dayes The Magisterium will be perfected ANA. About the second day of the third weeke In the ninth Month SVB. Yes my good Ananias TRI. What will the Orphanes goods arise to thinke you SVB. Some hundred Markes as much as fill'd three Carres Vnladed now you shall make sixe millions of ' hem But I must ha'more coales laid in TRI. How SVB. Another load And then we ha' finish'd We must now encrease Our fire to Ignis ardens we are past Fimus equinus Bâ—lnei Cineris And all those lenter heates If the holy Purse Should with this draught fall low and that the Saintâ— Doe need a present summe I haue trick To melt the Pewter you shall buy now instantly And with a tincture make you as good ` Dutch Dollers As any are in Holland TRI. Can you so SVB. I and shall bide the third examination ANA. It will be ioyfull tidings to the Brethren SVB. But you must cary it secret TRI. I but stay This act of coyning is it lawfull ANA. Lawfull We know no Magistrate Or if we did This 's forraine coyne SVB. It is no coyning Sir It is but casting TRI. Ha you distinguish well Casting of money may be lawfull ANA. 'T is Sir TRI. Truely I take it so SVB. There is no scruple Sir to be made of it beleeue Ananias This case of conscience he is studied in TRI. I 'll make a question of it to the Brethren ANA. The Brethren shall approue it lawfull doubt not Where shall 't be done SVB. For that wee 'l talke anone There 's some to speake with me Goe in I pray you And viewe the parcels That 's the Inuentory I 'll come to you straight Who is it Face Appeare ACT. 3. SCENE 3. SVBTLE FACE DOL. HOw now Good prise FAC. Good poxe Yon'd costiue Cheater Neuer came on SVB. How then FAC. Iha ' walkd the round Till now and no such thing SVB. And ha' you quit him FAC. Quit him and Hell would quit him too he were happy 'Slight would you haue me stalke like a Mill-Iade All day for one that will not yeeld vs Graynes I know him of old SVB. O but to ha' gull'd him Had beene a maystry FAC. Let him goe black Boy And turne thee that some fresh newes may possesse thee A noble Count a Don of Spaine my deare Delicious compeere and my party-baud Who is come hether priuate for his Conscience And brought munition with him sixe great slopps Bigger then three Dutch Hoighs beside round trunkes Furnish'd with Pistolets and Peeces of eight Will straight be here my Rogue to haue thy Bath That is the colour and to make his battry Vpon our Dol our Castle our Cinque-Port Our Douer Pire our what thou wilt Where is shee She must prepare perfumes delicate linnen The bath in chiefe a banquet and her wit For she must feele his Epididimis Where is the Doxie SVB. I 'll send her to thee And but dispatch my brace of little Iohn Leydens And come againe my selfe FAC. Are they within then SVB. Numbring the summe FAC. How much SVB. A hundred markes boy FAC. Why this 's a lucky day Ten pounds of Mammon Three o' my Clearke A Portague o' my Grocer This o' the Brethren beside Reuersions And States to come i' the Widdow and my Count. My share to day will not be bought for forty DOL. What FAC. Pounds dainty Dorothee art thou so neare DOL. Yes say Lo Generall how fares oÌ„ur Campe FAC. As with the few that had entrench'd themselues Safe by their discipline against a world Dol And laugh'd within those trenches and grew fat With thinking on the booties Dol brought in Dayly by their small parties This deare hower A doughty Don is taken with my Doll And thou maist make his ransome what thou wilt My Dousabell He shall be brought here fetter'd With thy fayre lookes before he see 's thee and throwne In a Downe-bed as darke as any Dungeon Where thou shalt keepe him waking with thy Drum Thy Drum my Dol thy Drum till he be tame As the poore Black-birds were i' the great frost Or Bees are with a bason and so hiue him I' the Swan-skin Couerlid and cambrick Sheetes Till he worke Honey and Waxe my little Gods-guift DOL. What is he Generall FAC. An Adalantado A Grande Girle Was not my Dapper here yet DOL. No. FAC. Nor my Drugger DOL. Neither FAC. A poxe on 'hem They are so long a furnishing Such Stinkards Would not be seene vpon