Sentence:  He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, <WSD>Nectarines</WSD>, potions, ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A nectar-like liquid medicine.