C. io. 
ai» 
Me til much vfed 
of the ancient 
Britaines. 
* 3 - 
Whence Meth 
and iVIcthas- 
glen haue their 
name. 
* Mctbsgien. 
Of the fruit and profit of Bees* P. 3 . 
Winter- chcrric, it (8) nourifheth the bodie.( 9) So that ma- 
ny haue attained to long old age , onely by the vfe thereof. 
And therefore no maruaile that P ollio Romulus , who was an 
hundred yeares old, imputed the greateft caufe of his long 
continued health to this Soueraigne drinke. ( xo) For be- 
ing asked of zsfaguftus the Emperour, by what mcanes efpe- 
cially he had fo long preferued that vigor both of minde and 
body, his anfwer was, Intus mu Ijo, forts oleo. 
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The fame thing is more manifefted by the generall exam- 
pleof the ancient Britaines: who,aboue all otherNations, 
haue euer beenc addicted to Metb and MethagUn. For vn- 
der Heauen there is no fairer people of complexion, nor of 
more found and healthfull bodies. Of whofe c JMethuglen 
Lob el writcth thusa Cambric us tile potus ALethagla, non pa- 
trio, uti put ant Miffed * Graco nomine diclus, eft altera liqui- 
da & limpida Septentrionis tberiaca . 
* Hydromel borealibus, quibus vineta defunt, pro vino eft. Ideoque 
Cambrisa Meth dicitur. Pro qua voce Germam ( quibus Teuto- 
nico idiomate folenne eft Dpro Th ufurpare , ut in De,Dd,Dat, Dan- 
der 5 pro The, Tbit, That, Thunder ) adeoque Angli etiam, alijque populi 
boreales a Germams oriundi , corrupts dicunt Mede . Mcdoms plur»» 
inum bibunt Poloni & Lituani, quod Melle abundent, inquit Andreas 
Mauhiolus. Metheglen veto, quod Hydromel eft prarftantius, h pteSu 
euy\htv five contra&e aiyKw, id eft 3 vinum fplendidum denoir.inatur: 
quod (tnodo vetus fit & rite confe&um) non minus colore fuccino, 
quam fapore & vircute pr® vinisvinaceis (plendeat. De hoc Mercator in 
T ranfyl vania. Ex melle incolic delicatum potum confidant : qut etiam reram pe- 
ritd,vinum Creticum ceu Malvaticum epwantibtu, facile imponat. Et Vlyfl'es 
Aldrovanderdcmulfo. Fitprcetereaex melle potus gentet tod nunc Sarmatut , 
vidnifque Mofcovitd familiare. Vnde etiam per tofam Europam fere, prx- ipui 
per Germaniam devehitur. Decoquitur multiplicittr aroma teaddito, ( Medonem 
vacant) tam * nobile (cepe nt lautierum tan turn m n jar urn ft, & primates folnm 
bibant, Item Mercator in Bohemia de civitate Egra. Tot a ornatrfftma, io- 
ta pulchcrnma eft, Jnttts pulchru cedifieijs , civili vrbanoque papule, mag- 
nified & eximia yirtnte prceftantibtn virts illuftris: ford yero amocnifftmd ae 
fcecundifftmd hortu &agrd varufque pomorttm ac fruElwtm generibus luxuri- 
ant. Claret hodie heeccivitat ob Medonem (podtnem ex melle') qui nulia para- 
tur quam in hat civitate exceUentior. 
And as good and old LMeth&glen excelleth all Wines , as 
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