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The Alchemist
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(1610)
Comedy by Ben *Jonson, in which Subtle, posing as an alchemist, fleeces various gullible visitors by promising them what they most long for. His victims include Sir Epicure Mammon, a wealthy knight addicted to conspicuous self-indulgence, and two Puritans, Ananias and Tribulation Wholesome. He is helped in the fraud by his whore, Dol Common, and by a servant, Face, who provides the premises for the fraud in his master's empty house.
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