Lyly, John

Lyly, John.Gallathea and Midas. Edited by Anne Begor Lancashire. Edited by Anne Begor Lancashire. Lincoln (NE) Univ of Nebraska P, 1969. 

Lyly, John.The complete works of John Lyly. Edited by R. Warwick Bond. Edited byR. Warwick Bond. Oxford Clarendon P, 1902. 

Medieval literature has numerous references to pseudoalchemists and satires of alchemy. For example, around 1390 Chaucer satirized the alchemists in The Canon Yeoman s Tale, as did the English Renaissance poet John Lyly in his comedy Gallathea and Samuel Butler (the seventeenth-century English poet, not the nineteenth-century novelist of the same name) in Hudibras. 

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