Chascun si l'enclot et l'enserre,
Car il n'est pas à garçonner,
N'en ne la doit q'aus bons donner;—
Por les grans seignors l'en salache.
(ib. p. 300).
The "wyn of Oseye" (vin d'Osaie) was a foreign wine, very rare and dear, and sought up by 'gourmands:' it is mentioned with those of Malvoisia, Rosetta, and Muscadet. (Depping Réglemens sur les Arts et Métiers de Paris, p. lxiii.) It is unnecessary to explain what was 'wyn of the Ryn' (Rhine).
[456]. of the Reule | and of the Rochel. Whitaker.
[458]. These two lines, omitted in the MS. from which our text is printed, have been added from MS. Trin. 2.
[489]. fyve wittes. The five wits were equivalent to the five senses. One of the characters in the early interlude of The Four Elements, a production of the earlier part of the sixteenth century, says:—
I am callyd Sensuall Apetyte,