p. 5, etc. "Metheglin is esteemed to be a very wholsom Drink; and doubtless it is so, since all the world consents that Honey is a precious Substance, being the Choice & Collection which the Bees make of the most pure, most delectable, & most odoriferous Parts of Plants, more particularly of their Flowers & Fruits. Metheglin is therefore esteemed to be an excellent Pectoral, good against Consumption, Phthisick and Asthma; it is cleansing & diuretick, good against the Stone & Gravel; it is restorative and strengthening; it comforts and strengthens the Noble parts, & affords good Nourishment, being made Use of by the Healthy, as well as by the Sick. "My worthy Master, that Incomparable Sir Kenelm Digby, being a great lover of this Drink, was so curious in his Researches, that he made a large Collection of the choicest & best Receipts thereof." Hartman, _Select Receipts_, p. 1. Concerning the difference between Mead and Metheglin, Borde (_Regyment of Helth_) says:-- "_Of Meade_: Meade is made of honny & water boyled both togyther; yf it be fyred and pure, it preserveth helth; but it is not good for them the whiche have the Ilyache or the Colycke. "_Of Metheglyn_: Metheglyn is made of honny and water, & herbes, boyled and sodden togyther: yf it be fyred and stale, it is better in the regyment of helth than meade." But the distinction seems to have been forgotten in the hundred odd years between the publication of Borde's book and Digby's. GLOSSARY _Ana_, of each. _Apple-Johns_, or _John Apples_, apples considered best when shrivelled, so called because they are ripe about St. John's Day. _Aume, aam, awm_, a liquid measure used for wine and oil. A Dutch aume of wine equalled about 41 English gallons. _Balneum_, a vessel filled with water or sand, in which another vessel is placed to be heated. _Beatilies, beatilia, battalia_, tit-bits (e.g. cockscombs or sweet-breads) in a pie. _Bragot_, ale boiled with honey. _Bunt_, the cavity or baggy part of a napkin when folded or tied as a bag. _Burthen_, a quantity, here signifying no certain amount. _Call_, a wedge. _Calvered_, cut in thin slices when "fresh," and pickled. _Canicular days_, dog days. _Cock's tread_, "The opaque speck or germinal vesicle in the surface of the yolk in an impregnated egg." M. _Coddle_, to boil gently, to stew. _Coffin_, a mould of paste for a pie. _Cucurbite_, a gourd-shaped vessel; also a shallow vessel with a wide mouth, used for distillation. _Demistier_ = demi setier, a measure of quarter-pint capacity. _Electuary_, a medical conserve or paste of powder mixed with honey, syrup, etc. _Faeces_, dregs. _Fearced_, forced, stuffed. _Florenden_, _florentine_, a kind of pie, of minced meats, currants, spices, etc., baked in a dish with a cover of paste. _Gambon_, _gammon_, a smoked ham.