And also to put into the broths and drinke of those that haue hot burning feauers, or any other inflammation.
They stay (as it is held for true) womens longings, if they be either taken inwardly, or applyed outwardly.
Wine is vsually taken both for drinke and medicine, and is often put into sawces, broths, cawdles, and gellies that are giuen to the sicke. As also into diuers Physicall drinkes, to be as a vehiculum for the properties of the ingredients.
It is distilled likewise after diuers manners, with diuers things, for diuers & sundry waters to drinke, & for diuers purposes both inward and outward.
Also distilled of it selfe, is called Spirit of wine, which serueth to dissolue, and to draw out the tincture of diuers things, and for many other purposes.
The iuice or veriuice that is made of greene hard grapes, before they be ripe, is vsed of the Apothecaries to be made into a Syrupe, that is very good to coole and refresh a faint stomacke.
And being made of the riper grapes is the best veriuice, farre exceeding that which is made of crabs, to be kept all the yeare, to be put both into meates and medicines.
The grapes of the best sorts of Vines are pressed into wine by some in these dayes with vs, and much more as I verily beleeue in times past, as by the name of Vineyard giuen to many places in this Kingdome, especially where Abbies and Monasteries stood, may bee coniectured: but the wine of late made hath beene but small, and not durable, like that which commeth from beyond Sea, whether our vnkindly yeares, or the want of skill, or a conuenient place for a Vineyard be the cause, I cannot well tell you.
Grapes of all sorts are familiarly eaten when they are ripe, of the sicke sometimes as well as the sound.
The dryed grapes which we call great Raysins, and the Currans which we call small Raysins, are much vsed both for meates, broths, and sawces, in diuers manners, and this Countrey in generall aboue any other, wherein many thousands of Frailes full, Pipes, Hogs-heads, and Buts full are spent yearly, that it breedeth a wonder in them of those parts where they growe and prouide them, how we could spend so many.