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alfo make the belly coftiue,if fo be that it be not ripe. For fuch crude and rough wines do often- 
! times moleft weake ftomackes, and are troublelome to the belly. 
Red Ji (li yellow wine feemeth tobeinameanebetweeneathinand thiclce fubftance : other- A 
i wife it is of all vines the hotted; aand fuffereth moil water to be mixed with it, Hippocrates 
\ write th. 
TheoIcTvine of this kinde, being of a thin fubftance and good fuel!, is a fingular medicine for B 
all thofe thataremuch fubjeft to fwouning, although the caufe thereof proceed of choler that 
hurreth the mouth of the ftomacke,as Galtn teftifieth in the i ? . booke of his method. 
Svveete wine the leffe hot it is, the lefle doth it trouble the head, and offend the minde - and it C 
better pafifeth through the belly, making it oftentimes foltible: but it doth not fo eafily p’aife or 
defeend by vrine. 
Againe, the thicker it is of fubftance, the harder and (lowlier it pa fifth through : it is good for D 
the lungs, and for thofe that haue the cough. Itripenethraw humours thatfticke in the cleft, and 
caufeth them to be eafilier fpit vp ; but it is not fo good for the liner, whereunto it bringeth no 
fmall hurt when either it is: inflamed, or fchirrous. or when it is (lopped. It is alfo an enemy to 
the fpleene,it fticketh vnder the fliort ribs, and is hurtful] to thofe that are full of choler. For this 
kind of wine, efpecially the thicker it is, is in them very fpeedily turned into choler.-and in others ' 
when it is well concodtod, it increafeth plenty ofnourifhment. 
Aufterc wine.or that which is fomewhat harfh in taft,nouri(Tieth not much ; and if fo be that it E. 
be thin and white, it is apt to prouoke vrine, it ieife troubleth the head, it is not quickly digefted, 
for which caufe it is the more to be fhunned,as Galen faith in his 12. booke ofhis method. ’ 
1 That wine which is altogether harfh or rough in tail, the leffe ripe it is, rhe neerer it commerh F 
to the qualities of Veriuice made of fewer grapes, being euidently binding. It ftrengheneth a 
weake ftomacke;it is good againft the vnkindely hiding or longing of women with child • it ftai-* 
eth the laske, but it fticketh in the bowels : breedeth (loppings in the liner and miltjir (lowly def- 
cendeth by vrine, and fomething troubleth the head. 
- Old wine which is alfo made fharpe by reafon ofage.isnotonely troublefometo the braine, G 
but alfo hurteth the finewes : it is an enemy totbeentrailes, andmaketh the body leane. 
New wine, and wine of the firft yeere,doth eafily make the body to fwell,and ingendreth winde, H 
it caufeth troublefome dreames, efpecially that which is not throughly refined, or thicke, or very 
fweet : for fuch do fooner fticke in the intrailes than others do. C ther wines that are in a meane in 
colour, fubftance, ta(le,or age,as they do decline in vertues and goodnefife from the extreames ; fa 
alfo they be free from their faults and difeommodities. They come neere in faculties to thofe 
wines whereunto they be next, either in colour,tafte, or fub(lance,orelfein Fmellor in age. 
Wine is fitted for thofe that be ofnature cold and dry ; and alfo for old men,as Galen flaeweth I 
in his fifth booke of the gonernment of health : for it heateth all the members of their bodies, 
and purgetb away the watery part of the bloud,if their be any. 
The bed wines are thofe that be of a fat fubftance : for thofe both increafe blond, and nourifh K 
the body ; both which commodities they bring to old men, efpecially at fuch time as they haue no 
ferous humour in their veines, and haue need of much nourifhment. It happeneth ihat oftentimes 
there doth abound in their bodies a waterifli excrement, and then (land they in mod need of all of 
fuch wines as do prouokevrine. 
As wine isbeft for old men, fo it is word for children : by reafon that being drunke, it both moi- J, 
fleneth and dryeth ouermuch, and alfo filleth the head with vapours, in thofe who are of a moift 
and hot completion, or whofe bodies are in a meane betweene the extreames, whom Ga/f»inhis 
booke of the gouernment of health doth perfuade, that they fhould not fo much as tafte ofwine 
fora very long timc:for neither is it good for them to haue their heads filled/ior to be made moift 
and hot, more than is fufficient,bccaufe they are already of fuch a heateandmoifture,as if you 
fhould but little increafe either qualitie, they would forthwith fall into the extreme. 
And feeing that euery cxceflfe is to be fhunned,it is expedient moftofall to fhun this, by which M 
notonely the body, but alfo the minde receiueth hurt. 
Wherefore we thinke.that wine is not fit for men that be already of full age, vnlefte it be mode- N 
rately taken, becaufe is carieth them headlong into fury and luft, and troublethand dulleth the re- 
femabie part of the minde. 
of the delaying, or tempering of Wine. 
IT was an ancient cuftome, and of long continuance in old time, for wines to be mixed with wa- O 
ter, as it is plaineand euident notonely by Hippocrates, but alfoby other old mens writings. 
Wine firft began to be mixed with water for health and wholefomene fife fake: for as Hippocra- 
tes write th in his booke of ancient Phyficke, being fimplyandof itfelfemuch drunkc,it ma- 
Eeee keth 
