Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    with oil stinging of scorpions, and biting of hounds. Ashes of the rind by itself restoreth and multiplieth hair that is fallen. Bartholomezv {Berthelet\ bk. xvii. § 177. [Evelyn ( Kalendarium Hortense'') mentions the following sorts : Amboise, Frontignac (Grizzling, excellent, White, excel- lent, Blue), Burgundian, Early Blue, Muscatel (Black, White, excellent), Morillon, Chassela, Cluster-grape, Parsley, Raisin, Bursarobe, Burlet, Corinth. Large Verjuice (excellent for sauces and salleting).] Sometimes there hath been tendrils of gold found in the Vine ; whereof there hath been money coined. And in Germany, within Danubia, Vines did bear little nails and leaves of pure gold, which were given as presents to kings and dukes. Lupton, Notable Things, bk. iv. § 42. I MUSE not a little wherefore the planting of Vines should be neglected in England. Hoiinshed, Description of Britain, p. iio. William of Malmesbury writes that Gloucestershire yielded in his time plenty of Vines, abounding with grapes of a pleasant taste, so as the wines made thereof were not sharp, but almost as pleasant as the French wines ; which Camden thinks probable, there being many places still called Vineyards, and attributes it rather to the inhabitants' sloth- fulness, than to the fault of the air or soil, that it yields not wine at this day. /■y/ztv Mor^so/i^ Itinerary, part iii. pp. 13S-9. Vinegar. V. Grape, Raisin, Wine. ii. King Henry W., ii. i, 102. Wine is first sweet and temperate in savour, and is corrupt by long working of the sun or of the air, and by long boiling, and turneth into sourness when it hath no virtue by the which it may be kept and saved. And by subtlety of the substance thereof, and by feebleness of the coldness it thirleth [traverses] the body soon, and cometh to the well worse place. And Vinegar helpeth against venom and also against venomous beasts which slayeth.