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SHAKESPEARE'S [WINE. 



this theory is the reason why the Willow is the badge of 

 the forsaken lover?] Of Willows be perches made and 

 rails for vines. Of the rinds be made bonds and hoops. 

 And [another kind of] Willows be less and more pliant, 

 and therewith men bind wine-pipes and tuns. And of the 

 third kind of Willows be made divers needful things to 

 household, as stools, seats, paniers and cups. Oft in the 

 hollowness thereof lieth venomous worms, as adders and 

 serpents, and therefore it is not sicher [safe] to sleep under 

 the Willow-tree. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 144. 



[Gerard has engravings of seven sorts of Willows, including 

 the osier or water-willow.] 



BEING pilled they are excellent good for the more delicate 

 sort of wicker-ware, and better far than stubborn leather ; 

 but principally for leaning-chairs, wherein a man or woman 

 may gently take a nap, sitting at ease, and reposing most 

 Sweetly. Holland's Pliny, bk. xvi. ch. xxxvii. 



[Evelyn (" Silva," p. 101) enumerates twenty-two kinds of 

 "Willow, withy, sallow and osier." He thinks that the in- 

 genious house-wife might make of the willow, cotton, cushions, 

 and pillows of chastity. From the osier Evelyn says are made 

 " baskets, flaskets, hampers, cages, lattices, cradles, and the 

 bodies of coaches and waggons, for which 'tis of excellent use, 

 light, durable and neat, as it may be wrought and covered, 

 chairs, hurdles, stays, bands, fish-wives, and for all wicker and 

 twiggy works."] 



Wine. 



THE worthiness and praising of Wine might not Bacchus 

 himself describe at the full, though he were alive ; for 

 among all liquors and juice of trees, Wine beareth the price, 

 for passing all liquors Wine moderately drunken most com- 

 forteth the body, and gladdeth the heart, and healeth and 

 saveth wounds and evils. Wine heateth cold bodies, and 

 cooleth hot bodies, and moisteth dry bodies, and abateth and 

 drieth moist bodies. And in Wine take heed of these 

 things : of the liquor, of colour, of savour and smell. Of 

 colours of Wine be four manners, white, black, citron 

 [yellow], and red. Bartholomew Berthelet\ bk. xvii. 184. 



