philter

• “And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread.”

  Chapter 11

• “Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II

• “He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter.”

  Simon & Schuster: Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon

• “Charles the Great enforced to love basely by a philter”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Aphonsi, hath a story of one Stephan, a Neapolitan knight, that by a philter was forced to run mad for love.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “As for herbs and philters, I could never skill of them, The sole philter that ever I used was kissing and embracing, by which alone I made men rave like beasts stupefied, and compelled them to worship me like an idol.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “St. Hierome proves that they can do it (as in Hilarius 'life, epist.lib. 3); he hath a story of a young man, that with a philter made a maid mad for the love of him, which maid was after cured by Hilarion.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “King Duffe; characters stamped of sundry metals, and at such and such constellations, knots, amulets, words, philters, &c., which generally make the parties affected, melancholy; as [1276] Monavius discourseth at large in an epistle of his to Acolsius, giving instance in a Bohemian baron that was so troubled by a philter taken.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Rumor has it that she may have given him something called a "love-philter" to keep him impotent and away from her.”

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