And thou shalt have some cockell-bread.
In an old Elizabethan play there is reference to lunary or moonwort as a contributory factor in amatory thoughts:
I have heard of an herb called Lunary that being bound to the pulse of the sick causes nothing but dreams of weddings and dances.
In Endymion, a drama by the Elizabethan playwright John Lyly (c. 1554–c. 1606), Endymion soliloquizes:
As ebony, which no fire can scorch, is yet consumed with sweet savors, so my heart which cannot be bent by the hardness of fortune, may be bruised by amorous desires.
In the drama The Old Wives Tale, by George Peele, the Elizabethan playwright, Frolic and Fantastic sing an erotic chant:
Whenas the rye reach to the chin,