Volpone: Ay me, I have ta’en a grasshopper by the wing!
Lady Politic Would-Be: Burnt silk and amber. You have muscadel
Good i’ the house—
Volpone: You will not drink, and part?
Lady Politic Would-Be: No, fear not that. I doubt we shall not get
Some English saffron, half a dram would serve;
Your sixteen cloves, a little musk, dried mints;
Bugloss and barley-meal—
In Ben Jonson’s Volpone Nano the Dwarf sings some verses, in Act 2, scene 2, extolling an elixir that has remarkable medicinal and amatory properties: