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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ALCHEMY ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575–1700 For Michael, Deborah, Lisa, and Christopher ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575–1700 From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts Edited by ROBERT M. SCHULER Volume 5 Firstpublishedin1995 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1995RobertM.Schuler Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-63753-4(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-08445-8(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-64189-0(Volume5) eISBN:978-0-203-07926-3(Volume5) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575- 7 1 00 FROM PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS EDITED BY ROBERT M. SCHULER GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1995 Copyright © 1995 by Robert M. Schuler AU rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700: from previously unpublished manuscripts I edited by Robert M. Schuler. p. cm. - (English Renaissance hermeticism; vol. 5) (Garland refer- ence library of the humanities ; vol. 1087) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8240-7599-4 (alk. paper) 1. English poetry-Early modern, 1500-1700. 2. Alchemy-Poetry. 3. Didactic poetry, English. 4. French poetry-To 1500--Translations into English. 5. Latin poetry, Medieval and modem-Translations into English. I. Schuler, Robert M. II. Series. III. Series: English Renaissance hermeti- cism ; 5. PR1209.A37 1995 821' .308037-dc20 95-13704 CIP Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii General Introduction xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xlviii Bibliography I PART ONE: ELIZABETHAN VERSIFYING ALCHEMISTS 1 Edward Cradock I. A Treatise Touching the Philosopher's Stone (ca. 1575) 3 Simon Forman II. Of the Division of the Chaos (ca. 1595) III. Compositor ad Lectorum (1597) 49 PART TWO: THREE VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM MIDDLE FRENCH BY WILLIAM BACKHOUSE (1644) 71 Jean de La Fontaine IV. The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge (1413) 79 v

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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ALCHEMY ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575–1700 For Michael, Deborah, Lisa, and Christopher ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575–1700 From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts Edited by ROBERT M. SCHULER Volume 5 Firstpublishedin1995 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1995RobertM.Schuler Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-63753-4(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-08445-8(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-64189-0(Volume5) eISBN:978-0-203-07926-3(Volume5) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575- 7 1 00 FROM PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS EDITED BY ROBERT M. SCHULER GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1995 Copyright © 1995 by Robert M. Schuler AU rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700: from previously unpublished manuscripts I edited by Robert M. Schuler. p. cm. - (English Renaissance hermeticism; vol. 5) (Garland refer- ence library of the humanities ; vol. 1087) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8240-7599-4 (alk. paper) 1. English poetry-Early modern, 1500-1700. 2. Alchemy-Poetry. 3. Didactic poetry, English. 4. French poetry-To 1500--Translations into English. 5. Latin poetry, Medieval and modem-Translations into English. I. Schuler, Robert M. II. Series. III. Series: English Renaissance hermeti- cism ; 5. PR1209.A37 1995 821' .308037-dc20 95-13704 CIP Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii General Introduction xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xlviii Bibliography I PART ONE: ELIZABETHAN VERSIFYING ALCHEMISTS 1 Edward Cradock I. A Treatise Touching the Philosopher's Stone (ca. 1575) 3 Simon Forman II. Of the Division of the Chaos (ca. 1595) III. Compositor ad Lectorum (1597) 49 PART TWO: THREE VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM MIDDLE FRENCH BY WILLIAM BACKHOUSE (1644) 71 Jean de La Fontaine IV. The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge (1413) 79 v

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Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are v
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