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before it can be ufed, is to be ground a little, and then ferveth it for the Brewer to life. If Mault being ground, be 
fried and applied in a bagge, or double cloth hot to the Tides or belly, pained with (fitches or gripings, occafioned 
by cold or winde, it giveth much eafe and helpe, and being made intoapiftis, affwageth tumors and fwel- 
lings. 
Chan XIX. 
Of Zytbttm, 
^Htopbmjtxs and Mofcoridei onely, and no other authors before them, that I can finde.have made 
mention of Zythnm, what it is, Or whereofit was made, and yet they are fo (hort therein, thac 
we rather underftand this by others relation, which thing (heweth it was fo common a drinke 
there in thofe places ofGrecce, &c. thatthey thought it not worth their labour further to ex¬ 
plane it,even as Pifcorides hath done the like with many herbes that were molt common in thole 
times,for he onely faith it is a drinke made of Barly and no more: ‘Piodorm Siculus faith that 
is a drinke made of Barly,and wasufed in Galatia where was neither wine nor oyle : Pliny after him 
hath a little further explained it by faying,Of (undry forts of Graine drink is ufed to be made,as Zythnm in Egypt, 
Cilia and (farea in Spaine (which as it is likely was fo in Pltny his time, and that before their planting of Vines 
there which hath generally now banifhed that Barly broth, they now drinking eythcr faire water aloneerwith 
a little Sugar, or to their water put more or leife wine as they delire to drinke it) Cereviji a and other kindesof 
drinkes in Gallia, and other countries,thus faith Pliny : Now the generall Tenet of our times is that it is the fame 
drinke which wc now call Beere or Ale, or but varied according to the manner of the countrey where it is made, 
andaccordingtothegoodnefl'c, quantitie and diverfitie of the graine whereof it is made, and alfoofthe water: 
for firft for the water, it is well knowne that there is no Beere can bee made in the low countries by reafonof 
their brackifli water, but will talk thereof, and be farre inferiOur to that is made in EngUndpnb againe it is ob- 
fervedby many.thatthe water of our River of Thames about London doth make better andflronger drinke f kee¬ 
ping equall propoi tion in all things) then that whichls made of other Spring or River water elfe whereand for 
the goodnefle of the graine and the welt ordering and making it into Mault, it is well knowne alio to make the 
drinke better or woiie ftronger or weaker; the diverfities of graine aifo caufeth diverfitic of drinke : for if it 
fhould be made of Wheate alone it would be too thicke, too fweete and fulfome as I faid before, or of Oates 
alone it would be too poare and thimand for the quantitie that is all in all to make it mightie & durable,even two 
or three yearcs, or poore and weake not to Ialle a moneth. But Petrut BeSonim in his (econd booke of obferva- 
tions and 98. Chapter is of opinion that this 'Lythnm ofthe ancient Grecians fs the fame drinkethat the Latines 
called Pofca or Pttfca, wherof Columella,Serapio and Avicen alfo make mention: but differeth as hee faith from 
Cerevijia Ale, becaufe it is white like milke, thicke and of a good nourifhment.and fuming into the head caufing 
drunkenneffe if it bee too largely taken : and this kinde of drinke faith hee is ulually fould in all the cities of Sofia 
in the tappe houfes appointed for it, and generally called with them Chouffet ; and to (Irengthen hisopinioual- 
ledgcth the place in Suetonius p where hee relateththat Cefart bondman that fled from him,was found at Capua 
felling Pofca in a tappe houfe, and therefore that Pofca could not bee Oxycratttm (which is Vinegar and water) 
but this Zythumfmt Scahger i n his annotations upon Bdlonius as they are extant in ClnRus his Sxotkkj, fheweth 
his manifold errours in this his fo faying : the manner of making this Chouffet of the Turkes I thinkenot amiffe 
brecftly here to fee downejthat you may fee the differences of the compofitions of drinkes in feverall places. It 
is made faith he of meale made into palte and boyled in a great Caudron,and then being made into fmallballes 
is calf into water, which will prefentlyboyleupof it fclfe and grow hoc without the helpe of any fire, and be¬ 
come a kinde of thicke drinke: The fpume or yeft thereof, faith he, is white and light, wherewith the Turkijh 
women ufe to annoint rhemfelves, efpecially when they are in bathing, making the rough skinr.e finoothand 
delicate, and this facultie the ancients attributed unto Zythum : and further Diofcorides faith, Z ythum provokerh 
Vrinebur httrteth the reinesand thefinewes, efpecially the tunicles that cover the braine, itbreedeth windineffe 
malteth ill blood and humors,and engendreth the falling fickneffe. 
Chap. XX. 
OfCurmi. 
His like wife hath no further relation or explanation from Diofcorides, then that it is alfo a drinke 
made of Barly and was often ufed fordrinke.noryctby further then as is (hewed before,that 
Cerevifa was made in Gallia and other kindes in other countries. We therefore in thefe times re- 
ferre this Curmi to our Ale as wee did formerly Z ythum unto Beere, and withall let me (hew you 
chat Ale was the mod ancient drinke was made in this Land, whereof the Wclfhffurw (which is 
Al* with them in their Language) hathafhew of neare correfpondtnce to Curmi, and thac our 
good Ale was better knowne to other nations by the word then by the forme or tafle . but with us became a pro- 
verbe.that it would make one have a rich face and nofe (meaning by the red pimples it would raife on their faces 
and nofes that did ufe to [land to itand drinke it (loutly) yet* (hanger both feeing it and raffing it herein Eng. 
/Wgavchis verdifb thereon in thefe words. Nihil ffiffiusdumbibitur, nihil clarius dum mingitur, undcconftaS 
multas feces in ventre relrtjuit. But Cercvijia which we more properly transferre to Ale is as it feemeth by Pliny,& 
word well knowne before his time,and more proper to Gaule or France then to Italy, as the matter it felfe alfo 
was.and which from them as it is likely hath beene transferred to us. This old Englijb drinke hath loll much of 
his reputation lince thac Bitra Beere came inafe.and nothing lo much defired as formerly it was, partly becaufe 
