Wormwood Wine

If, as MR. SINGER supposes, "Eisell was absynthites, or wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter medicament then much in use," Pepys' friends must have had a very singular taste, for he records, on the 24th November, 1660,— "Creed and Shepley, and I, to the Rhonish wine house, and there I did give them two quarts of wormwood wine." Perhaps the beverage was doctored for the English market, and rendered more palatable than it had been in the days of Stuckius.