Flauting and Graffing^ g j 
Of gathering your Grapes 
A LI Grapes that men do cut, before they are thorow ripe, the 
wine (ball not be natural), nor yet fliall long endure good: 
But if ye will cut or gather grapes to have them good, and to have 
good Wine thereof 5 ye lhall cut them in the full, or foon after the 
full of the Moon, when (he is in Cancer, in Leo, in Scorpio, and in 
Aqumus, the Moon being in the wajnc, and under the earth, 
To hflow if your Grape be ripe enough, 
F Or to know if your grape be ripe.enough, or not, which yce 
lhall liot^nely know in the taft, hut in fight and tafte toge- 
ther, as in tafi if th^be fweet, and full in eating, and in fight, if 
the ftone will foonc fall out, being ehafted or bruiled, which is 
the bertknowledge, and alfo whether they be while: or blew, it i* 
all one matter : The-good Grape is he, which commeth out all 
watry, ©r thofe which be all clammie as birdlime ; By thefe fignes 
lhall ye know when to cut, being thorow ripe or not, and where- 
as you doe prefle your Wine, ye muft make your place fweet and 
cleane, and your veflels within to be clcane alfo, and fee that 
they haveftrong heads, and thofe perfons which doe prefiethe 
Grape, muft looke their hands, feet, and body be cleane wafhed, 
when as they goe to prefle the Grape, and that no woman be ther# 
having her termes : And alfo ye lhall eat of no Cheboles, Scalions, 
Onions, c?r Garlike, Anniflccds, or fuch like : For all ftrong fa- 
vours your Wine will draw the infe6fion thereof, and as (bone at 
your Grape is cut and gathered, you lhall prefle your Wine aftef 
as foonc as ye may, which will make your Wine to be more plea- 
fant and ftronger, for the Grapes which tarry longunprefl, ma* 
keth the Wineto befmall and ill : ye muft fee thatyour VeflTells 
be new and fweet within, and to be walhed with fweet water, and 
then well dried againe, and to perfume them with maftick, and 
fuch Iwect vapour, and ifyour veflel chance not to be fweet, then 
lhall ye pitch him on the fides, which pitch will take away all evill, 
and fuch ftincking favour therein. 
To prove or ta!f f^ine. 
A Nd whenfoeverye will prove or taft any Wine, she beft time 
is, early in the morning, and take with you three or foure 
fops of bread, then dip one aftei- another itito the wine, for therein 
ye {ball find ( if there be any (harp taft of the wine. C ** 
this prcftnt ) to fpeak any rurthcr of the Vine and Grape. 
