Dames maritorious ne’er were meritorious.
Speak plain, and say, “I do not like you, sir,
Y’are an ill-favor’d fellow in my eye;”
And I am answer’d.
Tamyra: Then, I pray, be answer’d:
For in good faith, my lord, I do not like you
In that sort you like.
The love charm in the form of a spell was a belief current in the Elizabethan age. In the drama Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, by Robert Greene, Bacon, conceived as a thaumaturgist, declares:
Thou com’st in post from merry Fressingfield,