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saw at his father's board Greek wines served 

 up but once at a meal; but when he returned 

 from Asia, he gave to the people a largess 

 of more than 100,000 gallons of this wine; 

 and Hortensius, at his death, left above 

 10,000 barrels full of Greek wines to his 

 heir." 



I have selected the following lines of a 

 poet, who wrote in the fourth century, to 

 show of what wines the Britons had know- 

 ledge at that early time, 



Ye shall have rumney and nialespiue, 

 Both ypocrasse and vernage wyne, 

 Mountrese and wyne of Greek, 

 Both algrade and despice eke; 

 Antioche and Bastarde, 

 Pyment also, and garnarde, 

 Wyne of Greke and Muscadell, 

 Both clare, pyment, and Rochell. 



Some of these liquors, as ypocrasse, py- 

 ment, and clare, were compounded of wine, 

 honey, and spices. 



At the installation feast of George Ne- 

 ville, Archbishop of York, and Chancellor of 

 England, amongst other liquors is mention- 

 ed, " In ale, 300 tun ; in wine, 100 tun ; in 

 ipocrasse, 1 pipe." 



In the year 1311 we find Thomas Earl 

 of Leicester debited by his cofferer, or pay- 



