The fourteenth Booke of 



meth all burnt ; of Petra, and Myconc. Asforthe ivincMefogitesjitisknownetomake head- G 

 ach : neicher is the wine ofEphefus holfome & healthfullj becaufe it is fophiiHcated with a kind 

 of cuit halfe fodden, called Defrutum, and fea-wateii. As for the wine of Apamea^ by report it 

 commcth very nearc to a kind of MedCjand will very well agree withallj like as Prastutiiuii in Ita- 

 lic. For otherwile, this isthepropertie in generall of all fweet wines, rhatthey will not well fort 

 togetlierj& be good ftill.Touching the wine ProtagiuiTijii is now gtowne out ofremembrance : 

 and yetthePhyficiansof y^fclepUdes hh fed:andftfho6le, gave praifd nntoit next thfe kalian 

 wines.The learned Phyfician {^polloslorm^m histreatife that hecompilcd of good wines^which 

 he rcconimendcd unto king Ptolmau^ for to drink* asnieetfor the health of his perfon3(for de- 

 fault of Italian wines then unknown^) highly praifed the wines in Pontus, and principally that 

 which is called Nafpercenites : next to it the Oroeotiekejthe Oeneatesjthat of Leuc:adia,Gf Am- t| 

 bracia 5 and(which hcprcfcrreth above allthe reft)the wine of Peparethns : and yethee faid, thas: 

 there went the lefle name and opinion of itj bccaufd aftcl: fiXe yeaies k loofeth the ftrength and - j 

 pleafanttaftthatithad. ' - ' : ' ' \ 



Chap. Viii. 

 Seven.kindsof fiprvine, 



'T^ Htrs faf re forth have wc diicoijrfed of the very flovoerof good i^M^Sjaccording to the regi^ 

 \ ons where naturally they come of the grape. Now are wee to treat-of wines compounded. 

 . And lirflycimongfuch wines is ihatjwhich they called Bi^on(an invention of the Greeks) • f 

 which above all others was mpft efteemed:and great t'eafon .for devifed it was for the cure of ma- 

 ny maladies jas we-fliall fliew hereafter in our treatifc of. Phyficke. The making whereof is in this 

 manner : Take grapes gathered fomewhat before they bee ripe : let them lie to drie and parch in 

 the hot Sunne tor three daies, andbe'tiirnedduly thrice a day: upon the fourth day prefle them 

 forth for winejput the liquor up in barrclsand fb let it worke in the Sunne. Howbcit, hereto they 

 putagoodquantitieof fak^ea-water. But this devile was learned firftof a falfe thcevifhknave, 

 who having robbed his maifter and drunke up a good dcale of his winc^filled up the VeflTell again 

 andmade juftmeafure with (ea- water. White wine if it bee ordered in this forr^is called Leuco- 

 chrum by the Greekes : but in other nations the hke wine fo made is named Tethala(Tbmenon<. 

 As for Thalaflitesj it is akind of wine fo calledj for that the veflels when the wine is new lunnedj k 

 be caft into the feaijand there let to remaine for a time^by which meanes the wine will foon feeme 

 old and readie to be drunke. FuEthermorejC<i/^j alio here among us hath fhewed the way how to 

 make the Greekifh wine Coumjof our owne Italian wine : but above all hee hath let downe an 

 exprefle rule ,to let it firft take the maturitie andperfcdion foureyeares in the Sunne. As for the 

 wine of Rhodes, it is much like to that of Coos. But the Phorinean wine is more fait than the 

 wine of the Ifle Coos. Finally ,all traniinarine or beyond- fea wines are thought infevcn or fixe 

 yeares at the leaftjto come unto their middle age. 



; Chap. iX. 

 ^'FQuretcmeforfsoffaeetwmesj, £ 



ALwaics the fwecter that they be in taft, the lefle fragrant & odoriferous they are : the thin- 

 ner and fmaller that they be,the more ever they fmell to the nofe. Of wines there be fours 

 principall colours, white, yellow-,red,and blacke. As for Ply thium and Melampfy thium, 

 they be certaine kinds of cuit,havingafeveralltaff apart by themfelves^not refembling win^in- 

 deed. And for Cicibelites made in Galatiajit tafteth alwaies like new wine : fo dothHalyntium 

 in Sicilie.For as touching Syr£ei]iTi,which fomc calIHepfema,and we in Latine Sapa [/.Cuit] it 

 is a meere artificial! thing, thedevifcofmans wit, and no wOrke of Nature : namely ,when new 

 Wineisfodden away a third part rforwhen icboileth to the halfe,we then call itDefrucum. And 

 in very deed, all thefe bee inventions to fophif^icatc and counterfet honie. But thofe beforena- 

 med retaine the naturall taft of the grape and the foile whereof they doe confift. Next to thefe 

 cuit- wines of Candie ;thofe of Cilicia, Affrickjltalie,and the provinces confronting thereupon, 

 arc held for the beft.Certaine it is,That they be made of one grape,which the Greekes call Sti- 

 cajand wc Apiana [/.the MufcadcllJ and of another named Scirpula :the which have been iuf- 



• fered 



