VINEYARD.] NATURAL HISTORY. 329 



And strong Vinegar done upon iron or upon the cold 

 ground boileth and seetheth anon. Also Vinegar stauncheth 

 parbreaking [vomiting] and wambling, if the mouth and 

 the other part of the throat be washed therewith, and 

 thrown out again ; and helpeth deaf ears, and openeth the 

 hearing and the ways ; and sharpeth the sight of eyes. 

 And drasts [dregs] of Vinegar helpeth against the biting 

 of a wode hound, and of the crocodile. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xviii. 188. 



" How to make white of red Vinegar : Fetch your Vinegar 



at St. Katherine, a groat a gallon "[add a pottle of elder 



flowers to six gallons of Vinegar. Renew every year with 



resh flowers and Vinegar (" Good Huswife's Treasury," bk. vi.)]. 



EVEN now I strike his body to wound : 

 Behold, now his blood springs out on the ground. 

 (Stage-direction : A little bladder of Vinegar pricked^ 



"Lamentable Tragedy of Cambyses"; 

 so "Return from Parnassus," i. 2. 



I WILL sell her 

 For twopence a quart, Vinegar ! Vinegar in a wheelbarrow ! 



Randolph, "Hey for Honesty," etc., iv. 3. 



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Is your patent for making Vinegar confirm'd ? 



Chapman, " The Ball," ii. 2, 



ineyard. 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. i, 29, etc. 



V. Vine. 



A VINEYARD is busily tilled and kept, and oft visited 

 and overseen of the earth-tillers, and keepers of vines, that 

 they be not appaired [damaged] neither destroyed with 

 beasts, and a wait is there set in an high place to keep 

 the Vineyard, that the fruit be not destroyed, and is left 

 in winter^ without keeper or waiter. The smell of the 

 Vineyard that bloometh is contrary to all venomous things, 

 and therefore adders and serpents flee, and toads also, and 

 may not sustain and suffer the noble savour thereof. 

 Foxes lurk and hide themself under vine-leaves, and gnaw 



