Madam Decoy: To men Of honor, like yourself. I am well known To some in court, and come not with ambition Now to supplant your officer. Lord: What is The lady of pleasure you prefer? Madam Decoy: A lady Of birth and fortune, one upon whose virtue I may presume, the lady Aretina. Lord: Wife to Sir Thomas Bornwell? Madam Decoy: The same, sir. Lord: Have you prepar’d her? Madam Decoy: Not for your lordship, till I have found your pulse. I am acquainted with her disposition, She has a very appliable nature. Lord: And, madam, when expect you to be whipt For doing these fine favors? Madam Decoy: How, my lord? Your lordship does but jest, I hope; you make 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, And this the true elixir; it hath boil’d Since midnight for you. ’Tis the quintessence Of five cocks of the game, ten dozen of sparrows, Knuckles of veal, potato-roots and marrow, Coral and ambergris. Were you two years older And I had a wife, or gamesome mistress, I durst trust you with neither. You need not bait After this, I warrant you, though your journey’s long; You may ride on the strength of this till tomorrow morning. Allworth: Your courtesies overwhelm me: I much grieve To part from such good friends. Later, in Act 3 of the same play, Allworth, the young page, describes the amatory lure of Margaret: