Vin de Gascoigne, sa coulour N'est pas de petite valour; Les autres vins fet honnorer. Quant de soi les veult coulourer: Force donne, aide, et confort, Et d'un vin foible, fet. i. fort. Il a de vin plaine sustance; Il nourrist sans faire grevance: Aus testes est bons et au flanc. Et du rouge y a et du blanc. (_Jubinal, Nouveau Recueil de Contes, &c._, i. 399.) The 'wyn of the Rochel' (vin de la Rochelle) was also a favourite wine.-- Rochelle, qui tant a de pris, Que l'en la va de partout querre; 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, All craturs in me delyte; I comforte the _wyttys fyve_, The tastyng, smellyng, and herynge, I refresh the syght and felynge, To all creaturs alyve. Stephen Hawes, in his Pastime of Pleasure (chap. xxiv), belonging to this same age, refines upon this notion, and talks of five "internall wittes," answering to the five external wits, or to those which were commonly understood by that name. 522. Genesis xix, 32. It is very singular that this story of Lot and his daughters was the favourite example of the medieval preachers against drunkenness. 563. Luke xx, 25. 595. _on an eller._ It was the prevailing belief during the middle ages, that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was an elder. Maundevile tells us that this tree was still in existence, when he visited Jerusalem. "Also streghte from Natatorie Siloe is an ymage of ston and of olde auncyen werk, that Absalon leet make; and because thereof, men clepen it the hond of Absalon. And faste by is yit the _tree of eldre_ that Judas henge himself upon for despeyr that he hadde, whan he solde and betrayed oure Lord." The same notion continued to exist in the age of Shakespeare, and is alluded to by Shakespeare himself, Ben Jonson, and others. _Hol._ What mean you, sir? _Boyet._ To make Judas hang himself. _Hol._ Begin, sir; you are _my elder_. _Biron._ Well followed: _Judas was hang'd on an elder._ _Love's Labours Lost_, v, 2.