The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile
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[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](/authors/OL26099A/SamuelTaylorColeridge) said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day.
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The Alchemist, 1612
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](/authors/OL26099A/SamuelTaylorColeridge) said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day.
The first volum of Sir Johan Froyssart of The chronycles of Englande/Fraunce/Spayne
The Pathway to Knowledge
The Pathway to Knowledge is the earliest work on Geometry written in the English language and it was in general use until the middle of the seventeenth century as an elementary textbook. It is a mathematical textbook with a difference - it has poetry in its pages. Recorde is fond of using poetical phrasing and examples abound in his text. An example of his verse is found on the title page, where Geometry gives her verdict: 'All fresh fine wits by me are filed, All gross dull wits wish me exiled. Though no man's wit reject will I, Yet as they be I will them try.'