328 SHAKESPEARE’S [VINEGAR. 
with oil stinging of scorpions, and biting of hounds. Ashes 
of the rind by itself restoreth and multiplieth hair that 1s 
fallen. Bartholomew (Berthelet), 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. 
Holinshed, “Description of Britain,” p. 110. 
WititramM or Matmessury 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 i, pp. 138-9. 
VY. Grape, Raisin, Wine. 
Vinegar. 
ii. Kinc Henry IV., ii. 1, 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. 
