For it was at the season when Nature brews the irresistible philter.

Must I lay to the philter's magic this audacious notion; that the face of Little Miss had tangibly come to me in some night of the mind?

Even after that I must have recourse to the wonted philter to bring sleep, the face of my vision being unaccountably the face of the true Little Miss before she had evolved into Miss Lansdale of the threatening self-possession.

I doubt whether there is any love philter that could affect La Fontaine, he has never been a lover of women unless they were able to foot the bills.

talisman, amulet, periapt^, telesm^, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei [Lat.], lamb of God; furcula^, madstone^; mascot, mascotte^; merrythought^; Om, Aum^; scarab, scarabaeus^; sudarium^, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot^, gammadion^. wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin^; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap. 994.

Achmed and his Mare At Sea Bloodroot Chicadee Double-Headed Snake of Newbury, The Drifting Hamlet at the Boston Inscription for an Alms-Chest Joy-Month Last Bird, The Left Behind Morning Street, The Our Skater Belle Palm and the Pine, The Philter, The Prayer for Life Sphinx, The Spring Two Years After Walker of the Snow, The Waterfall, The REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

The means by which they work are usually charms, images, as that in Hector Boethius of King Duffe; characters stamped of sundry metals, and at such and such constellations, knots, amulets, words, philters, &c., which generally make the parties affected, melancholy; as Monavius discourseth at large in an epistle of his to Acolsius, giving instance in a Bohemian baron that was so troubled by a philter taken.

As for herbs and philters, I could never skill of them, "The sole philter that ever I used was kissing and embracing, by which alone I made men rave like beasts stupefied, and compelled them to worship me like an idol."

3); he hath a story of a young man, that with a philter made a maid mad for the love of him, which maid was after cured by Hilarion.

Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.

Aphonsi, hath a story of one Stephan, a Neapolitan knight, that by a philter was forced to run mad for love.

Of course the elixir of youth is at the same time a love-philter.

On seeing Selkirk enter, she exclaimed to the boy, pointing to the newly-arrived: 'A pot of ale!' 'No,' cried the young man smiling; 'the ale which I once drank here was for me a philter full of bitterness; a glass of whiskey, if you please,' and, pointing to the little table opposite the bar at which he was formerly accustomed to place himself, he said: 'Serve me there; I will return to my old habits.

* THE PHILTER.

BARBARA [awe-struck] Oh! PIPER [slowly] Will you drink the philter?

some enchantment? PIPER [mysteriously] 'T is a love philter.

Burton thought (160) that an Indian woman "will administer 'squaw medicine,' a love philter, to her husband, but rather for the purpose of retaining his protection than his love.

ISOLDE, the wife of King Mark of Cornwall, who, under the potency of some philter which she had inadvertently taken, conceived an illicit passion for Sir Tristram, her husband's nephew, the story of which is celebrated in mediæval romance.

To her in chains thy dignity was led; At her polluted shrine thy honour bled; With blasted weeds thy awful brow she crowned, Thy powerful tongue with poisoned philters bound, That baffled Reason straight indignant flew, And fair Persuasion from her seat withdrew:

Is it a philter brewed by the burning sunshine?

"A love-potion," replied Luke Hatton, calmly, "I am about to prepare a philter for her, and will answer for its effect.

I have been applied to by Sir Francis for a philter to be administered to Mistress Aveline, and I have promised it to him; but I am secretly in the service of Clement Lanyere, and will defeat the old usurer's villainous designs.

Dissembling her aversion as well as she could, and assuming looks very foreign to her feelings, she easily succeeded in persuading him that the philter had taken effect, and that all obstacles to his happiness were removed.

Without inquiring the meaning of these requests, which, indeed, she partly conjectured, Aveline promised ready compliance; and her adviser left her, but not till he had once more proffered her the supposed philter, and caused her to place the cup containing it to her lips.

The philter; it was clear, had been given him, and he was now under its influence.