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This is all that is wanting,—that a philosophaster like this should lay his impure hands on us, the natural sciences and history!

Philosophaster is a vivacious exposure of charlatanism.

There are points of resemblance to Philosophaster in Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Tomkis's Albumazar, but in the prologue Burton is careful to state that his was the earlier play.

A Latin comedy, Philosophaster, originally written by Robert Burton in 1606 and acted at Christ Church in 1617, was long supposed to be lost; but in 1862 it was printed for the Roxburghe Club from a manuscript belonging to the Rev. W.E.

Philosophaster, with an English translation of the same.