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.

_Garavanzas_, chick-peas.

_Gelt_, castrated.

_Ginet-moils_, _gennet-moil_, a kind of apple ripe before others.

_Hippocras_, _hypocras bag_, a bag used in making hippocras, a
medicinal drink consisting of spiced wines.

_Humble-pie_, a pie made of umbles or numbles (the heart, liver,
kidneys, etc.) of the deer.

_Kiver_, _kive_, _keever_, a l