"But Alchemy,
I never heard the like, or Broughton's books."
In the Alchemist, "Face" is made thus to speak of a female companion:
"Y' are very right, Sir, she is a most rare scholar,
And is gone mad with studying Broughton's works;
If you but name a word touching the Hebrew,
She falls into her fit, and will discourse
So learnedly of genealogies,
As you would run mad too to hear her, Sir."
(See also The History of the Jews in Great Britain, vol. i. pp. 305, &c.)