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CHAP. III. 
Of MADE WINES. 
Of MEAD , METHEGLIN, and 
HTDRO ME Z,. 
r T“*' H E S E Liquors are much ufed in 
I the northern Countries, where great 
Cold hinders the Growth of the Grape and 
Production of Wine ; but kind Nature has' 
bountifully provided them with Honey, 
which they make into a fpirituous Liquor 
with Water, and efteem it as much, yea 
fome prefer it before Wine. Mead, Me- 
theglin, and Hydromel, are all prepared 
from Honey, which is a fweet Juice exu- 
ding from the Flowers of all forts of Vege- 
tables, bitter as well as fweet, and fucked 
up from them by the Bees, and laid up in 
their Combs ; from fome of them alfo do 
Children fuck a Honey. Bees gather this 
Honey after the Sun is up, and exhaled 
the preceeding Night’s Dew. Honey was 
formerly thought to have different Quali- 
ties, according to the different Plants or 
Flowers it was gathered from but later 
Difcoveries have proved this to be falfe. 
Honey 
