title: The Alchemist
title_page_title: [3E1r] THE ALCHEMIST. <i>A Comœdie</i>.
title_page_author: The Author B. I.
title_page_performance: Acted in the yeere 1610. By the Kings M<small>AIESTIES</small> Seruants.
title-page_latin_motto: [in single column] L<small>VCRET</small>. | ——— <i>petere inde  coronam</i>, | <i>Vnde priùs nulli velarint tempora Musæ</i>.
title_page_imprint: L<small>ONDON</small>,  Printed by W<small>ILLIAM</small> S<small>TANSBY</small>. M. DC. XVI. [<i>var</i>.: "S<small>TANSBY</small> M."]
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth ; <i>from</i>: Ben Jonson [3E2r]
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons of the Play" [3E2v]
paratext_other_paratexts: Note on performance and license [3L3v, leaf mis-signed 3K3]
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 the author B.J. Lucret petere inde coronam unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae London printed by William Stansby MDCXVI.