Volpone on Il Pastor Fido: “LADY P: Here's pastor Fido-- VOLP [ASIDE.]: Profess obstinate silence, That's now my safest. LADY P: All our English writers, I mean such as are happy in the Italian, Will deign to steal out of this author, mainly:”
The Alchemist on Don Quixote: “It is my humour: you are a pimp and a trig, And an Amadis de Gaul, or a Don Quixote.”
The Alchemist on Amadis de Gaul: “It is my humour: you are a pimp and a trig, And an Amadis de Gaul, or a Don Quixote.”
The Alchemist on The Emerald Tablet: ““It’s the Emerald Tablet,” said the Englishman, proud that he might teach something to the boy. ... “What was written on the Emerald Tablet?” the boy wanted to know. — accepted at low confidence despite being a legendary/traditional Hermetic text rather than an ordinary book: the narrative treats it repeatedly as a specific, real, named…”
The Antiquary on The Alchemist: “--And this Doctor, Your sooty smoky-bearded compeer, he Will close you so much gold in a bolt's head, And, on a turn, convey in the stead another With sublimed mercury, that shall burst i' the heat, And all fly out in fumo.-- The Alchemist.”
Old Mortality on The Alchemist: “Tribulation. You must await his calling, and the coming Of the good spirit. You did ill to upbraid him. The Alchemist.”
Kenilworth on The Alchemist: “Will come in time to be a great distiller, And give a say (I will not say directly, But very near) at the philosopher's stone. THE ALCHEMIST.”
The Anatomy Lesson on The Alchemist: “Listed among classic works his college humanities teacher taught 'like holy books' alongside The Poetics, King Lear, and The Oresteia — the Jacobean comedy, not the later Coelho novel (chronologically impossible for a 1949 college course)”
The Antiquary on The New Inn: “Sack, says my bush, Be merry and drink Sherry, that's my posie. Ben Jonson's New Inn.”