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  • "Alchymist;" but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was done.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • "Alchymist;" but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was done.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • It is said to have been the ground of B. Jonson's "Alchymist;" but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was done.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

  • It is said to have been the ground of B. Jonson's "Alchymist;" but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was done.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 62: February 1667-68 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • [Footnote 67: An old play written by one Tomkins, four years, however, after Jonson's "Alchymist," and resuscitated in 1668.] *****

    The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665

  • Abbas Noachil said to the king, “Your Royal Alchymist, Vra-Kilian, may attend the rite, if you wish.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • “There is one more urgent request I must make — concerning the Royal Alchymist.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • The outer rooms of the Royal Alchymist were open, guarded by a pair of novices as usual.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • The two royal women were obliged to care for the king together night and day, since he refused to abide the presence of anyone else — especially the Royal Alchymist.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • She was the one who had begged Olmigon to appoint her brother Vra-Kilian to the post of Royal Alchymist.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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