For the Gentlemen |
Make a love potion by drying and crushing to a powder the web of a wild gander's foot. A pinch of this in your loved one's coffee will cause her to fall in love with you and remain faithful. (Wild geese take only one mate.) To make a young girl fall madly in love, hide the dried tongue of a turtledove somewhere in her room. She will be helpless to resist your advances. To win a maiden, the lover should count her steps up to the ninth one, then take some earth from the track made by her left heel, and carry it in his pocket for nine days. If you want to have good luck with a girl, just wear a rose. And, lastly and gently:
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