^o6 The fotirteenth Booke of 



arch- wife in nianer of a vault : with others they make no more ado,b ut put them up prefently as Q 

 they come from the VinCjinto earthen pots, whiles they be frefli & in their vigor ;and afterwards 

 they are beftowed, well lapped over with their leaves, in other greater velTels over them 3 and for 

 to kccpe them better^they be flopped clofe with kernels heaped and piled upon/weating round 

 about, toeonditeand preferve them in their naturall heat. Others they fuffer to be dried in the 

 fmoke of finiths forgesjwherby they get the very taft of enfumed wine/o ordered in the finoke. 

 And in truth Tibermi Cafr the Emperour gave cfpeciall credite and name by his example to 

 fuch grapes dried in the furnaces of Atfricke. For before his timcj the Rhetian grapes and thofe 

 that came out of the territorie of Verona, were ordinaiily ferved up to the table firil:, for the very 

 Left. As for the Raifins called PaflaEjthey tooke that name in Latine of their patience to endure 

 their drying and confiture. Some grapes there be that are condite in Mull or new winCjandfo 

 they drinke their owne liquor wherein they lie ibking,without any other feething. Others againe 

 are boiled in Muft abovelaid, untill they ioofe their owne verdure, and become fweet and plea- 

 fant. Moreover,yee{halUee old grapes hang ftill upon the Vine their mothet^untill new come : 

 but within glaflesjthataman may fee them cafily through: howbeit, to make them to laft and 

 continue in their full ftrength^as well as thofe which bee preferved in barrels, tuns, and fuch like 

 vcflels aforefaid5they ufe the helpe of pitch or tarre, which they poure upon the ftalkes that she 

 clufter hangeth to,and wherewith they flop clofe the mouth ot the hid glafle.It is not longfince 

 that there was a deviie foundjthat wine of it felfe (asit came ns curaliy from the grape growing ' 



* WixcJ/vof, upon the Vine) fhould have a fmackeand fentof pitch. And iurcly this kind of "^Pitch- wine, 

 Plutarch, brought thc territorie about Vienna into great name and reput audn : and before that this Vine 



was knownejthole of i^uvernejBurgundiejand the Helvij^wer e in no iequel\ a.t alL But thefe de- I 

 vifes as touching Vines and W ines, were not in the dates of the Poet ^/r^ V, who died about 



• ninetieyeares paft^But behold what I have to fay more of the Vine tree .-the Vine wand is now 

 entred into the Gampe,and by it our armies are raunged into battaillons : nay, upon the diredi- 

 on thereof dependeth the maine cftate of our foveraigne Empire : For the Centurion hath the 

 honour to carie in his hand a Vine- rod: the good guidance and ordering whereof advaunceth 

 after long time the Centemcrs (for a good reward of their valorous and faithfullfervice) from 

 theieadingof inferiuur bands, tothccaptainefhipof ihatregimentand cheefe place in the ar- 

 mie, unto which the maine ftandard of the yEgle is committed : yea, and more than that^ the 

 Vine wand chaihleth the trefpalfes and lighter offences of the fouldiors 5 who take it for no dis- 

 honour nor dilgrace to be thus punillied at their .Centurions hand. Over and befides, the plan- K 

 ting of Vineyards hath taught martiall men how to approch thc walls, of their encmicsjto give 



an aflault under a frame devifed for the purpoie,which thereupon took the name of V inea.Lafl:- 

 ly, for medicinable vercues in Phyficke, the Vine is fo profitable to mans heakh,that the ufe of 

 it alone is a fufficient remediefot the diftemperature of mans bodie,caufed by wine it felfc. 



Chap, i i, 



"l^Ofthediverfe kinds of Fines, 



DEmocritit^ was the onely Philofopher ever known^who made profeilion to reduce all the j;^ 

 forts and kinds of Vines to a certaine number,and indeed he vaunted and made his boafi: 

 that he had the knowledge of all things that were in Greece. All others befides himielfe, 

 and thofe comming nearer to the truth, (as fliall appear more evidently by the varietie of wines) 

 tciblutely havefetdownCj that there be infinite forts of Vine- trees. Lookc not therefore at my 

 handsjthat I ihould write of them all,but onely of the princ'ip.<ll : tor that in truth there bee in 

 mannerasmanyaiidasfundriekindsof them^asareof grounds. Wherefore 1 will content my 

 fclfe,and thinke it fuffic ient to fhew thofe that bee fingular and mofl renowned among them, or 

 fuch as have fbme fecret proprietie worth admiration . And firff to begin with the Aminean^ 

 Vines,all the world giveth them the cheefe praife and greareft name- v as well for their grapes, of 

 jfolaffiitg and durable a nature,asfor the wine made thereof,which in all places continueth long yi 

 in v gur .and is ever the better for the age. And hereof there be five fundrie forts.Of which, the 

 kindly Vines named Germana?, have both IcfTe grapes and graines within, but they burgen and 

 bioume better than others : and after the flower is gone, they can abide bodi raine and tempefl:. 

 But the fecond kind (which is the greater) isnotib bardie: howbeit^lcffefubjc^t to wind&wea- 



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