wint,] NATURAL HISTORY. 345 
Rep Wine that is full red as blood is most strong, and 
maketh strong drunkenness, and needeth therefore to be right 
well watered. And such Wine turneth soon to blood because 
of likeness that it hath with blood in liquor, savour and 
colour. Also Wine turneth the soul out of cruelness into 
mildness, out of covetise into largeness,.out of pride into 
meekness, and out of dread into boldness. The drunklew 
[drunken] man’s face is pale, his cheeks hang, his eyes be 
full of whelks and pimples and of blearedness. The drunk- 
lew man’s hands tremble and shake, and his tongue is 
bounden and knit, and his stomach bolketh and giveth up 
in the morrow-tide some foul and abhominable stinking 
thing, as it were a pit, wherein some dead carrion lieth, and 
feeleth and is grieved with sore pricking and aching in his 
head. And the palate or roof of the mouth waxeth bitter 
by choler, that is heat; by hot fumosity of kind, the throat 
is tormented with dryness, burning and thirst ; and Wine- 
drunken men fare as the worms that suck blood, for ever 
the more the Wine-drunken man drinketh, the more he is 
athirst. And if Wine be oft taken, anon the body abideth 
as it were a-ship in the sea without stern [rudder] and 
without lodesman, and as chivalry without prince or duke. 
Therefore the drunken man favoureth the thing that should 
not be favoured, and granteth that should not be granted, 
and praiseth that should not be praised, and maketh of wise 
men fools, and of good men and well-willed, drunkenness 
maketh evil men and wicked. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 185. 
Wine made is made by craft of good spicery and herbs, 
and such Wines be wholesome and liking, when wholesome 
‘spicery and herbs be incorporate therein in due manner , 
for virtue of spicery keepeth and saveth wines that they be 
not soon corrupt. Ibid., § 187, 
TuE juice of grapes is called in English Wine. For cer- 
tain other juices, as of apples, pomegranates, pears, medlars, 
or services, or such as otherwise made (for example’s sake) 
of barley and grain, be not at all simply called Wines, but 
with the name of the thing added whereof they do consist 
—the Wine which is pressed forth of the pomegranate 
berries is Wine of pomegranates, out of pears, perry, and 
