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Thitniayalfobcc 

 rcracd (harper, and Joe 



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ipyncd vuto them, which refpeeteth the age : for by age wines become hot- 



^ r_. joe wichail change oftentimes the colour, the fubftance, and the fraell : for 



fomc wines arc iweetottafte 5 others auftere or forathing harfh ; diuers of a rough taftc,oralto- 

 octberlurihiandmoft ofthem fumcient fliarp : there be likewife wines of a middle fort, incli- 

 ning to one or other qiulicic. 



\Vine ;s of colour either white or reddiih,or of a blackifh deep red, which is called blacke, or B 

 of ie middle colour betweene thefe. 



Some wine is ofiubftancc altogether thin 3 other ibme thick and fat j and many alfo of amid- C 



Jjccoafiiknce. 



One wine is o , great ftrengtb, and another is weake, which is called a wateri/h wine : a full wine D 

 fccalkd in l&K&zVwJm, Tnere be alfoamong thefe very many that beof a middle ftrength 



There is in all wwes, be they neuer fo weake, a certaine wmie fubftance thin and hoc. There be E 

 likewife water* parts,and alfo diuers earthy : for wine is not Ample, but(as Gden tcftifieth lib a. 

 of the faculties ot medicines) confifteth of parts that hauc diuers faculties ' 



Oi the fundry mixture and proportion of thefe fubftances one with anothcrthere rife diuers and F 

 fnndry faculties of the wine. 



That is the beft and fulleft wine in which the hot and winie parts doe moft of all abound • and G 

 the weaken" is that wherein the waterie haue the preheminence. 



1 healthy fubftance abounding in the mixture caufeth the wine to beauftcreorfometbin* H 

 hji ili,as a crude or raw fubftance doth make it altogether harfh. The earthy fubftance being fe- 

 in ledfailcth dpwne, and in continuance of time finketh to the bottomland becomes the dreg^s 

 or lees of then ine ; yet it is not alwaies wholly feuered, but hath both thctaft and other qualities 

 of this fubftance remaining in the wine. ,, ,i,nA« 



All wines haue their heate, partly from the proper nature and inward or originall heate of the I 

 u..e, and partly from the Sun : for there is a double heate which ripencth notonlv the grapes but • 

 alfo all other fruits, as Gale* teftifieth ; the one is proper and naturall to euery thing , the other is 

 borrowed of the Sun . which if it be perceiued in any thing, it is vndoubtedly beft and efpecially 



in the ripening of grapes. 



ooncodeth 



and doth efpecially ripen them, ftirring vp and increafing the inward and naturall heat of the wine' 

 *nich otherwife is foouerwhelmcdwith abundance of raw and waterifh parts, as it feemes to bee 



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dulled and almoft without life. 



I or vnlefle wine had in it a proper and originall heat, the grapes could not be fo concofted by 

 1„K theSunne as that the wine fhould become hot s no lefle than many other things na- 

 turally cold, which although they be ripened and made perfect by the heat of the Sun, do not for 

 lor d leir ? n S ina11 nature i as the fruits,iuices, or feeds of Mandrake, Nightfhade, Hem- 



Si™ ° P i^ a -° f °, tber fuch likCj which thou & h the y be made ri P e > and br °u^ht to full perfe- 

 aion, yet (till retaine their owne cold qualitie. 



Wherefore feeing that wine through the heate of the Sunne is for the moft pan brought to his M 



diTfn hC J tC> 3nd tha r l . he heate and force is not a11 alike in aI1 re S ions ™<* P^cs of the earth t 

 to facuTi y reai0n ° diuerfitic °f regions and places, the wines are made not a little to differ 



tie. 



The (hoi 



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and»» 3 i, ■ iT - ""^s"-""-" 1 'uuuivuuuiuu«uu places mar ne to tac sun : the rawer 

 v uiccr in cold regions and prouinces that lie open to the North . 



rinef^ hot or the moifteritis,the leffe O 



quaJi,« nfT' Notv ™ b £ andin g t noc onl y ^e manner of the weather and of the Sun,maketh the 

 ' ™* e wmc t0 d) ffer > b w the natiue propertie of the foik al fo 5 for both the taft and other 



W 1 1 es of the wine are according to the manner of the Soile. And it is very well knowne that 

 »» the colour of the wine, but the taft alfo dependeth vpon the diuerfity of the grapes ' 



*" Ce^hof fn^fi 1 ^ 5 hOC ^ v ^T d degree V a ° d Ch ,f VVl V Ch 1S VCr - V ° ,d ' in the *ird 5 but 

 me is not m the firftdeerces which tlimas areefpeciallytobeevnderftood concerning the 



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t Iemr f C lt ' 0fone y eare old ^ arc for the moft P art hot in the fecond degree. The wea'-eft an H 



ThS ?*2* W ines > a !though they be old, do feldome exceed the fecond decree 

 '« Ins boot" r i S anfvverable to tIle I:eate »o proportion, as Gden faith in his bookW Simoles-hur 



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opinions be true. 



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