A man in this play claims to have read a cedar board treatise by Adam in High Dutch, proving that it was the “primitive tongue.” In this play, a man is given a bird by a woman and told to let it suck his blood once a week. This play opens as two men hurl insults at each other like “Thy worst. I fart at thee.” before a woman knocks a vial from one of their hands. A man in this play has a piece of gingerbread stuffed in his mouth and is (*) gagged while waiting for the Queen of Fairy. A druggist seeking advice on the layout of his tobacco shop, an Anabaptist named Ananias, and the nobleman Epicure Mammon are among the gullible customers in this play who arrive at a home whose real owner, Lovewit, has left London amid a plague outbreak. For 10 points, the conmen Face and Subtle peddle a scam involving the philosopher’s stone in what comedy by Ben Jonson? ■END■
ANSWER: The Alchemist
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