The Alchemist’s Plot (Quotations)

This is (I hope) a complete list of all the quotations – and some references made – in The Alchemist’s Plot, notable exceptions being the proverbs which Anders Jensen often uses. Where a quote or reference has been fully explained in the text it is not included here. Longer quotations I have only given the opening, or the first two lines of a song or poem. The quotations are listed in order of appearance.
Please note, unless otherwise stated, all Biblical quotations are taken from the King James Version.
Any mistakes in my attributions or missing quotations, please do let me know.

Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim, hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail
From King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act Three, Scene Six.

Feed apace then greedy eyes,
On the wonder you behold
From Are They Shadows by Samuel Daniel

The braver they are, the sooner are mercers undone
From If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in It by Thomas Dekker, Act One, Scene Two.

The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain…
Matthew 4:8

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, but not a sceptre to control the world.
From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, Act One, Scene One.

Thames the most loved of all the ocean’s sons
By his old sire, to his embraces runs
From Cooper’s Hill by John Denham

Murder be proud, and tragedy laugh on
From Lust’s Dominion or The Lascivious Queen authorship uncertain, Act Five, Scene Three.

non compos mentis
Legal term meaning ‘not of sound mind’

felo de se
An archaic legal term meaning suicide. The Latin translates as a crime against oneself.

…a companion of the hellhounds, a caller and a conjuror of wicked and damned spirits.
From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by John Dee

Ignorance is the curse of God
From King Henry VI Part II by William Shakespeare, Act Four. Scene Seven

Oh, Maximilian! May God, through this mystagogy, make you or some other scion of the House of Austria the most powerful…
From Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare Act Three, Scene Two.

Let’s handle it with such an excellence as if we would bring thieving into honor.
From The Night Walker or The Little Thief by John Fletcher, Actus Secundus

Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show?
From Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Scene Five

Suddenly, there seemed to come out of my Oratory a Spirituall creature…
From A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed For Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Meric Casaubon.

We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act Three Scene Two

Dieses Gewölb, ob es wohl von der Sonnen niemahls bescheinet wurde, leuchtet es doch helle von einer andern…
This vault, though it has never been illuminated by the sun, shines brightly from another
From Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer by an unknown author.

…the saying that none but fools and lawyers hate and despise Alchemy has passed into a proverb.
From The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelley