344 _ 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.] 
Berne 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. Hollana’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. 
Tue 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 
Lyellow], and red. Bartholomew Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 184. 
