title: The Alchemist
title_page_title: [2Y4r] THE ALCHEMIST. A Comedy.
title_page_author: The Author <i>B. J.</i>
title_page_performance: Acted in the yeere 1610. By the Kings  M<small>AIESTIES</small> S<small>ERVANTS</small>. With the allowance of the Master of R<small>EVELLS</small>.
title-page_latin_motto: [in single column] L<small>UCRET</small>. | ———<i>petere inde  coronam</i>, | <i>Vnde priùs nulli velarint tempora Musæ</i>.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed by R<small>ICHARD</small> B<small>ISHOP</small>.  M. DC. XL.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth ; <i>from</i>: Ben Jonson [2Y5r]
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons of the Play" [2Y5v]
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 3, 1610: Entered to Walter Burre: "a Comœdy called, The Alchymist made by Ben: Iohnson".<br />Jul 3, 1630: Transferred from the widow of Walter Burre to John Spencer: "The Alchemist".<br />Jul 4, 1635: Transferred from Walter Burre decd. to William Stansby: "by vertue of a noate vnder the hand" of Walter Burre and Matthew Lownes, Warden, "bearing date the 10<sup>th</sup> of Iune 1621 ... The Alchimist".
transcript_modern_spelling: The alchemist a comedy acted in the year 1610 by the king's majesty's servants with the allowance of the master of revels the author B.J. Lucret petere inde coronam unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae London printed by Richard Bishop MDCXL