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

by Harry E. Wedeck

Mammon: Pertinax Surly,

Will you believe antiquity? Records?

I’ll show you a book where Moses, and his sister,

And Solomon have written of the art;

Ay, and a treatise penn’d by Adam—

Surly: How!

Mammon: Of the philosopher’s stone, and in High Dutch.

Surly: Did Adam write, sir, in High Dutch?

Mammon: He did;

Which proves it was the primitive tongue.