_Wormwood Wine_ (Vol. ii., p. 242.).--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.