328 SHAKESPEARE'S [VINEGAR. 



with oil stinging of scorpions, and biting of hounds. Ashes 

 of the rind by itself restoreth and multiplieth hair that is 

 fallen. Bartholomew (Bertbelet\ bk. xvii. 177. 



[Evelyn (" Kalendarium Hortense ") mentions the following 

 sorts : Amboise, Frontignac (Grizzling, excellent, White, excel- 

 lent, Blue), Burgundian, Early Blue, Muscatel (Black, White, 

 excellent), Morillon, Chassela, Cluster- grape, Parsley, Raisin, 

 Bursarobe, Burlet, Corinth. Large Verjuice (excellent for sauces 

 and salleting).] 



SOMETIMES there hath been tendrils of gold found in the 

 Vine ; whereof there hath been money coined. And in 

 Germany, within Danubia, Vines did bear little nails and 

 leaves of pure gold, which were given as presents to kings 

 and dukes. Lupton, "Notable Things," bk. iv. 42. 



I MUSE not a little wherefore the planting of Vines should 

 be neglected in England. 



inshedy "Description of Britain," p. 110. 



WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY writes that Gloucestershire 

 yielded in his time plenty of Vines, abounding with grapes 

 of a pleasant taste, so as the wines made thereof were not 

 sharp, but almost as pleasant as the French wines ; which 

 Camden thinks probable, there being many places still called 

 Vineyards, and attributes it rather to the inhabitants' sloth- 

 fulness, than to the fault of the air or soil, that it yields not 



wine at this day. 



Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii. pp. 138-9. 



V. Grape, Raisin, Wine. 

 Vinegar. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., ii. I, 102. 



WINE is first sweet and temperate in savour, and is 

 corrupt by long working of the sun or of the air, and by 

 long boiling, and turneth into sourness when it hath no 

 virtue by the which it may be kept and saved. And by 

 subtlety of the substance thereof, and by feebleness of the 

 coldness it thirleth [traverses] the body soon, and cometh 

 to the well worse place. And Vinegar helpeth against 

 venom and also against venomous beasts which slayeth. 



