Eisell
Wormwood wine. Hamlet says to Laertes, Woul't drink up
eisell —i.e. drink wormwood wine to show your love to the
dead Ophelia? In the Troy Book of Ludgate we have the line “Of bitter eysell and of eager [sour] wine.” And in Shakespeare's sonnets;
I will drink
Potions of eysell, gainst my strong infection
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance to correct correction.
Sonnet cxi.
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