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Lightfoot, who edited Broughton's works in 1662, entitled them as follows:—"The Works of the great Albionen Divine, renowned in many Nations for rare Skill in Salem's and Athens' Tongues, and familiar acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning," &c.
Ben Jonson has managed to introduce Broughton into some of his plays. In his Volpone, when the "Fox" delivers a medical lecture, to the great amusement of Politic and Peregrine, the former remarks,
"Is not his language rare?"
To which the latter replies,
"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.)