A difference between a lady that
Does honorable offices, and one
They call a bawd. Your lordship was not wont
To have such coarse opinion of our practice.
Lord: The Lady Aretina is my kinswoman.
Madam Decoy: What if she be, my lord? The nearer blood
The nearer sympathy.
In A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by the English dramatist Philip Massinger (1583–1640), there appears a description of a love philtre:
Furnace: Here, drink it off; the ingredients are cordial,