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there be any shouting : the treaders shall 

 tread out no wine in their presses; I have 

 made their vintage shouting to cease. " 



The Spaniard, during the vintage, throws 

 off his stateliness and his cloak, and cries 

 out to his servants, " Let us be merry, my 

 companions ; wisdom is fled out of the win- 

 dow." 



The various wines made from the juice of 

 the grape are so numerous, that to give a short 

 description of each would be to write a vo- 

 luminous work, and could only be interesting 

 to those who are in the wine trade. Pliny 

 says, there were eighty kinds of the best 

 wines in his days. 



The Grecians were renowned for their 

 wines. Homer has celebrated several : among 

 them, the kind called Maronean wine, which 

 was made from grapes growing upon the 

 coast of Africa; and also thePramnian wine, 

 which, according to Pliny's account, was 

 made from one vineyard only in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Smyrna, near to the temple of 

 Cybele. 



These wines were so rare and expensive in 

 Rome, in the younger days of Lucullus, that 

 only one draught was allowed at a repast, 

 however sumptuous the feast was in other 

 respects. Lucullus says, that " he never 



