But the love-philtre is only a guess, and he had begun to go mad long before he met her.

He described its uses for treatment of asthma, to expedite delivery, to keep away witches, and as a love-philtre.

It was said that she won him with a love-philtre, and further that it sent him mad.

Laughing again she said: "I poured your own love-philtre into it, that you sold me at the agricultural show, don't you re-member?"

Yea, thou wast drugged--drugged with a love-philtre!

Teufelsbürst, without philosophizing about it, called his preparation simply a love-philtre, a concoction well known by name, but the composition of which was the secret of only a few.

Livia gave her a love-philtre, which she was to drink, saying that within a year it would make her irresistible to her husband, but that she must take it once a month, at full moon, and make certain prayers!

'The citoyenne Cabarrus, for refusing to make amorous overtures to the mysterious Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and for refusing to administer a love-philtre to him as prepared by Mother Théot at the bidding of citizen Robespierre!'

"That," he observed with unctuous complacency, "is a love-philter that would inflame a nursing infant or resurrect the powers of a dying nonagenarian.