Stockwell.
Eisell—Wormwood—Scurvy Ale.—Such of your readers who have not yet made up their minds whether "eisell" and "wormwood" are identical, will not object to be reminded that Taylor, the Water Poet, in his Pennyless Pilgrimage, describing his hospitable reception at Manchester, when speaking of the liquid cheer supplied to him, says:—
"... Eight several sorts of ale we had
All able to make one stark drunk, or mad.
...
We had at one time set upon the table
Good ale of hyssop ('twas no Æsop fable);
Then had we ale of sage, and ale of malt
And ale of wormwood that could make one halt
With ale of rosemary, and of bettony,