Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity of the London populace. In the midst of their merry fleecing...