Love Potions Through the Ages: A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores

by Harry E. Wedeck

let me have a wife,

The fairest maid in Germany;

For I am wanton and lascivious,

And cannot live without a wife

Mephistopheles, virtually a pander, suggesting provocative amatory delights, promises:

Tut, Faustus,

Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;

And if thou lovest me, think no more of it.

I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,

And bring them every morning to thy bed;