Cowley, Use of Reason in Divine Matters.
Hence the fool’s paradise, the statesman’s scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
The maid’s romantic wish, the chemist’s flame,
The poet’s vision of eternal fame.
Pope, The Dunciad, b. iii. 9-12.
He that follows chemistry must have riches to throw away upon the study of it; whatever he gets by it, those furnaces must be fed with gold.—South, Sermons, 1644, vol. ix. p. 277.
Chest. I am not aware that ‘cista’ was ever used in the sense of a coffin, but ‘chest’ is continually so used in our early English; and ‘to chest,’ for to place in a coffin, occurs in the heading of a chapter in our Bibles, Gen. l. 26: ‘He [Joseph] dieth, and is chested.’
He is now deed and nayled in his chest.
Chaucer, The Clerkes Prologue.