3. l. 118. _Cute._ “As for the _cuit_ named in Latin Sapa, it commeth neere to the nature of wine, and in truth nothing els it is, but Must or new wine boiled til one third part and no more do remain; & this _cuit_, if it be made of white Must is counted the better.” _Holland’s Plinies Nat. Hist._, p. 157. “(of the dried grape or raisin which they call Astaphis).... The sweet _cuit_ which is made thereof hath a speciall power and virtue against the Hæmorrhois alone, of all other serpents,” p. 148. “Of new pressed wine is made the wine called _Cute_, in Latin, _Sapa_; and it is by boiling the new pressed wine so long, as till that there remaine but one of three parts. Of new pressed wine is also made another _Cute_, called of the Latines _Defrutum_, and this is by boiling of the new wine onely so long, as till the halfe part be consumed, and the rest become of the thicknesse of honey.” _Maison Rustique_, p. 622. ‘Cute. A.S. _Cæren_, L. _carenum_, wine boiled down one-third, and sweetened.’ Cockayne, Gloss. to Leechdoms. 4. _Pyment._ In order to cover the harshness and acidity common to the greater part of the wines of this period, and to give them an agreeable flavour, it was not unusual to mix honey and spices with them. Thus compounded they passed under the generic name of _piments_,[†] probably because they were originally prepared by the _pigmentarii_ or apothecaries; and they were used much in the same manner as the _liqueurs_ of modern times. _Hend._ p. 283. [Footnote †: See the recipe for making Piment in Halliwell’s Dictionary, s.v.] The varieties of Piment most frequently mentioned are the _Hippocras & Clarry._ The former was made with either white or red wine, in which different aromatic ingredients were infused; and took its name from the particular sort of bag, termed Hippocrates’s Sleeve, through which it was strained.... _Clarry_, on the other hand, which (with wine of _Osey_) we have seen noticed in the Act 5 Richard II. (St. 1, c. 4, _vin doulce, ou clarre_), was a claret or mixed wine, mingled with honey, and seasoned in much the same way, as may be inferred from an order of the 36th of Henry III. respecting the delivery of two casks of white wine and one of red, to make _Clarry_ and other liquors for the king’s table at York (duo dolia albi vini et garhiofilacum et unum dolium rubri vini ad _claretum_ faciend{um}). _Henderson_, p. 284. _Hippocras_, vinum Aromaticum. Withals. “Artificiall stuffe, as _ypocras_ & wormewood wine.” _Harrison, Descr. Brit._, p. 167, col. 2, ed. 1586.