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 Eikon Basil’ik [Portraiture of the King]Eisteddfod. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
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 exi.
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 Eikon Basil’ik [Portraiture of the King]Eisteddfod. 

 
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