346 . SHAKESPEARE’S [ WOLF. 
that which is compounded of barley is called barley-wine 
—in English, ale or beer. Wine is a remedy against taking 
of hemlock ,or green coriander, the juice of black poppy, 
wolf’s-bane and leopard’s-bane, toad-stools, and other cold 
poisons, and also against the biting of serpents, and stings 
of venomous beasts, that hurt and kill by cooling. 
Gerara’s “ Herbal,” s.v, “Vine.” 
[Among the Wines mentioned by Elizabethan dramatists 
are: Sack, Claret, Charneco, Canary, Palermo, Sherry, Greek, 
Spanish, Orleans, French, Vino de Monte, Cyprus, Candy, 
Graves, Saragossa, Pedro Ximenes (Peter-see-me), Bordeaux, 
De Clare, Corsican, Malmsey, Hypocras (a compound of Wine 
and herbs), Lentica, Muscadine, Whippincrust, Rhenish, Lesbian, 
Drum-wine, White Muscadel, Merry-go-round (slang for wine?), 
Alicant, Aristippus, Cherally, Madeira, Malaga, Nipitato, 
Verdea, Fontiniac, Gascon, Nectarella, Deal, Back-rag, Medea, 
Tunis, and Bastard (white and brown), etc. 
Wine was mixed with sugar (g.v.), amber (Beaumont and 
Fletchers “Custom of the Country,” Bex Jonson's ‘ Magnetic 
Lady”), with rose-water and sugar, to correct hardness (“ London 
Prodigal’’), eggs, carduus (as a cure for obesity, Beaumont and 
Fletcher's “Philaster”), and borage (“Trial of Treasure’). It 
was also mulled or burnt. From a pint to a gallon was the 
allowance for a man. 
“The Widow’s Treasure” gives a-test for the purity of Wine, 
viz., that ripe mulberries or a pear clean pared swim in pure 
Wine, and sink in watered Wine.] 
THE vintners sold no other sacks, Muscadels, Malmsies, 
Bastards, Alicants, nor any other Wines but white and 
claret, till the 33rd year of King Henry VIII. (1543). All 
those sweet Wines were sold till that time at the apothe- 
caries’ for no other use but for medicines. 
Fobn Taylor, “The Old, Old, Very Old Man,” 
(Life of Thomas Parr). 
Wolf. 
Tue Wolf hath virtue in his feet, as the lion hath, and 
so what he treadeth with his feet liveth not. Churls speak 
of him and say, that a man loseth his voice if the Wolf 
seéth him first; and certainly, if he know that he is seen 
first, he loseth his boldness, hardiness and fierceness. The 
Wolf may not dure with hunger long time, and devoureth 
much after long fasting. In Ethiopia be Wolves with hair 
