PImies Naturall Hiftorie, 



better reckoning than itj for twentieyeares (pace after it is laid up: neither is there greater loffe 

 againebyanyihingjifyepalfethattearmesbyreafonthattheprice will not grow 2nd arife ac- 

 cordingly : for feldomc hath it been knownetothisday, (and never biitacfome exceffive ryot 

 and fupcrfluoiis expcnce of wine) that an Amphore hath been fold for a thoiifand Sefterces; 

 True it is indeed, that they of Vienna only have made a better reckoning of thek wines^and fold 

 them deerer 5 1 meane thofe that give a taft of pitch, (the Overall kinds whereof we have deliv^^ 

 red before : j but they are thought fo to doe among themielves onely, and for the Ibve of . theiir 

 countrey^that it might have the name of wines, fo deere ahd coflly , To comrlude,' this wine df 

 Vienna^ is reputed colder than the reft 5 when the queftion is of cold drinke^^aTid that the bodi^ 

 is to be cooled. - 



C HAP. V, 



THe datilreand propSirtie df wine,is tb Keat the bowels within, if it te drimke • and tocbole 

 theexteriourpartSjif it be applied outwardly. And here itfhall not be amifle to rehearfe in 

 this very place, that which Androcfdes{tht noble,fage3and wife Philofopher) wrote unto* 

 King Alexander the Great, for to corred and ireforme his intemperate drinking of wine,where- 

 to he was very prone and over-much given iMy good lord (fmh he) rememyr whenym take your 

 wtne^thatyou dnnke the very blood of the earth : Hemlocke {jou know Sir) isfoifori to man^even fo 

 is xvine to Hemlecke, Now if that Prince had been fb wife as to have obeyed thefe precepts of his, 

 Q eertesjhe could never have killed his beft friends as he did,in his fits of drLinkennefr#ln^nme^ 

 this may be truly faid ofwinejThatb^eing taken foberly and in meafure, nothing is morcprofita- 

 ble to theftrength of the bodie , butcontrariwife^there is not a thing more dangerous and per- 

 niciousjthan the immoderate drinking thereof. 



Chap, vi. 

 of kindly Wmes made of the ksi Grapes^ 



' Ho doubteth, that fome wines be made more pleafant and acceptable than others ? 

 nay out ofthe very fame vat ye fhall have wines not alikein goodnes,biit that fome go 

 before their brethreUjprefled though they be at one time, and from the fame kind of 

 grape: which may belong either ofthe veflell whereinto they be filled, or of fome accidental! 

 occafion : and therefore as touching theexcellencie ofwinCjlet every man be his own tafier and 

 judge. The Emprefle Itflia Augufia would commonly fay. That flie was beholden to the Piicine 

 wine for living as l"he did 8 2 yeares: for {he never ufed to drinke any other. This wine crime of 

 the grape that grew along the Adriaticke fca,or Venice gulfe,upon a flonie and raggie hill, not 

 farrc from the fburce or fpring ofthe river Timavus, nouriflied with the vapoursbreathed from 

 thefeajand many Amphores there were no^drawne thereof at a vintage: andby the judgement • 

 of all men, there is not a wine more medicinablethanit is. Iwould thinke verily therefore^thac 

 the wine Py6lanon (which the Greekes fo highly praife) is the very fame 5 for it commeth from 

 the coafls of the Adriaticke Tea. The Emperor Auguflm C£far preferred the Setine wine befor^ 

 all others : and after him in manner, all the Emperours his flicceffours^for the ordinarie exp'^iri- 

 cnce they found thereby. That lightly the liquor of that wine would not hinder digeftionnor 

 breed raw humors in the ftomacke rand this wine commeth of the grape about thetowne Fo- 

 rum Appij. Before that time,the wine Caecubum was in beft account ; and the vines which ycel- 

 ded it, grew to the Poplars in the marifh grounds within the trad of Amycl^e. But now is that 

 wine cleane gone,as well through the negligence of thepaifants of that countrey5as the flreights 

 of the place: and fo much the rather,by reafon of the ditch or trench. which ^ro caufcd to be 

 madenavigablc,beginningatthelake or gulfeBajanuSjand reaching as farre as to Ofiia.In the 

 fecond degree of excellencie,are ranged the wines ofthe Falerne territories and principally that 

 which came from the vineyards Fauftian : and this excellencie it grew unto by pafling good or- 

 der Sdcarefull husbandrie.Howbeitthiswinealfo in thefe daiesbeginneth to grow outofnamc 

 and requeifjwhilcs men love rather to have plentie from their vines, than otherwife lay for the 

 goodnesthereof.Now thefe Falerncvineyardsj begin at the Campaihe bridge on the left hand 

 as men go to the city-colonie ercded bySylU^^nd lately laid to Capua & under the jurifdidion 



Nn iij thereof. 



