4.U The fourteenth Boolce of 



judgement in the v^jorld^andufedlcaft of all others to ertcemc toicsandvanitiesa brought this Q 

 ferme into a greater name & credit : for fo farre in love was he of this poflellion, that he bought 

 out FaUmon^ and was not afliamed to let him goc away with the prick and^praife for £ood h us- 

 bandriejand to remoove him into other parts where he might fhew the like cunning : and in one 

 word, paid for thele forefaid vineyards of his fourfold as much as they cottjnot above ten years 

 before this good husbandrie was beftowed upon them. Certes^great pitie it is^that the Jike indu- 

 ftrie was not (hewed and emploiedin ihfc territories aboutthe hills Cecubus and Setinus^where 

 (no doubt) it would have well quit all the cott^ confidering that many a time afterwards, every 

 . acreof vineyard there, yeeldedfeven Culeijthatistofay, 140 Amphores of new wine one year 

 with another. But leaft any man lliould thinkc^that we in thefe daics have ^^rpaffcd our aunce- 

 ftors in diligence, as touching good husbandrie 5 know he,thatthe abovenamcd i::^/^? hath left jJ ' 

 in writing, How of an acre of vineyard therchatharifenordinarily * ten Culei of wine by the 

 to f ^'•^'«*vycare. Certainly thefe be effe<5tuall examples and pregnant proofes, thatthe hardie and adven- 

 turous voiages by Tea, arc not more advantageous ; neyet the commodities and merchandife, 

 and namely Pcarles, which be fet as farre as the red lea and the Indian oceanjarc more gainfull 

 to the merchant, than a good ferme and homcftall in the countrey, well tilledand carefully huf- 

 banded* 



As touchingthe Wines in old time , Homer writcth , that the Maronevin wine made of the , 

 grapes growing upon the fea-coaft of Affcickc,was the beft and moft excellent in his dales. But ' 

 my mcar^g is not to ground upon fabulous tales and variable reports, as touching thecxcei- 

 lencie or t. itiquitie of wine. True it is, that i^nJl^H^ was the firft, who in that very nation min- 

 gled honjr^ with wine; whichmuftnccdsbeapafilngfweetanctpleafaniliquorjmade oftwona^ I 

 lures fo'^;)gularastheybeeof themlelves. And yet to come againc tothc forefaidMaronean 

 wine, tl fr fame Homer faith. That to one part thereof, there would be put twentie parts of water ; 

 and e* .'in at this day, that kind of wine continucth in the faid land of the fameforce, and the 

 ftrength thereof will not be conquered norallaisd.For Mutianus^vihohz^ been thrice Confull 

 of Rome, and one of thole tl*at latcft wrote of this matter^ found by experience (being himlclfe 

 perfonally in that tra(5t) that every fextar or quart of that wine,would bcareeight of water: who 

 reportcth moreover,that the wine is of colour blacke,of a fragrant fweet fmell,and by age com- 

 meth to be fat and undiious . Moreover, thePramnian wine, (which the fame Homer hath fo 

 highly commended) continucth yet in credit and holdeih the name ftill ritcommeth from a 

 vineyard in the countrey about Smyrna, neare to the temple of Cy^^-/? the mother of the gods. K 

 As for other wines,no one kind apart excelled other. 



One yearc there was, when all wines proved palling good 5 to wit, when L,Ofim 'm wa s Con- 

 full, at what time as C.<7f<7f<:te a Tribune of the Commons (pradifing to fow fedition within 

 the citie among the common people) was flaine: for then fuch feafonable weather happened, 

 and fo favourable for all frtiitjthat they called it(Codura)as a man would faVjthe ripening timei 

 fo bsneficiall was the Sunne to the earth : and this fell out in the yeere after the naiivitie & foun- 

 dation ofthecitieofRomejd3<j. 



Moreoverj there be Ibmc wines lb durable, that they have been knowne to laft two hundred 

 yeeres ; and arc come now by this time to the qualitie and confiftence of a rough, fharpe, and £, 

 auftere kind of honey : and this is the nature of all when they bee old t neither are they potable 

 alone by themfclves,unlefle the water be predominant; fo tartthey are of the lees and fo muftie 

 withall, that they are bitter againe. Howbeit a certaine mixture there is of them in a very final! 

 quantitie with other wines, that gives a pretie commendable taft unto them. Suppofe now, that 

 according to the price ofwine in thole dales of 0/'/W/^,every Amphorewerefetbut atan hun- i 

 dred Sefterces, yet afterthe ufuric of fix in the hundred yeerely (which is the ordinariepropor- I 

 tion and areafonable intereft among citizens, for the principall thatlyeth dead and dormant in * 

 flocke) by the hundred and fixtieth yeere after the faid Amphorc was bought (which fell out in 

 the time that CjCaltgula Cdfar the fonnc oiGermanicm was Emperour) no marveile if an ounce 



•» Ettl 11 seft. in meafure of the fame wine (to wit,the twelfth part of a Sextarius) coft fo many Sefterces : for ^ 

 as we have fhcwed by a notable example, when we did fet downe the life of Pompomm Seciwdui 



IndThiik^ the Poet, and the feaft thaf he made to the faid prince Caligula ^ there was not a ^ Cyathus of 

 * ^ ^* that wjnedrawnc, but fo much was paid for it. Loe what a deale of money lieth in thefe wine- 

 ceilars/or keeping of wine ! And in very ttutb^there is nothing more gainfull nor groweth to a 



better 



