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great inconveniences that grow thereby , making men 

 drunke. ButthisLaweisillobferved, for that they vfe 

 it ftill ; yea they fpend whole dayes and nights in drin- 

 kingcarowfe. Pliny reporteth, that this mancrof beve- 

 rngeofgraine ftieped, and after fodden wherewith 

 they were drunke, was in old timevfed in Sfaine y FrdftC 

 and other Provinces , as at this day in FUnders they vie 

 ale made of mault. There is another maner of making 

 this ACIM or Chicba^ which is to charnpc the mays, and 

 make a leven thereof, and then boile it- yea the Indians 

 holdc opinion , that to make good leven , it muft bee 

 champed by old withered women, which makes a man 

 ficke to heare , and yet they doe drinke it. The clean- 

 Heft manner, the moft wholefome,and that which leaft 

 harmcth , is to roaft the Mays, which the moft civil In- 

 duns doe vfe, and fomc Spaniardcs , yea for phyficke : 

 For in effed they findc it a very wholefomc drinke for 

 the rtines , fbas you (hall hardly finde any one at the 

 Indies complaine of painein the backe, for that they do 

 drinke of this Chicha. The Spanyards and Indians eatc 

 this Mays boyled and roafted for daintinefle , when it 

 is tender in the grape like milke^ they putteit into the 

 pot, and make fawces that are good to eate. The buds 

 of Mays are very fatte,andferveinftecdeofbutterand 

 : oyle : fo as this Mays at the Indies fervcs both for men 

 \ and beafts,for brcad,wine,and oilc. For this rcafbn the 

 Viceroy Don Francifio de Toledo fa/de, that Peru hadde 

 two things rich, and of great norifliment, which were 

 Mays, and the cattellofthecountrey. In truth he had 

 reafon , for thefe two things didfervc them as a thou- 



I will aske fooncr than I can anfwer it, whence -M*ys 

 was firft carried to the Indies > and why they do call this 



profits- 



