071r - - - - - Amber
It softens like paste when boiled in melted wax, and takes color boiled with fat of a young goat, for that of a goat would make it break, principally if it is glazed.
Bois madre
The elm, in its knotty root, has beautiful streaks diversified with grey and black, and the root of the maple, but one needs to chose well the grain of the wood. One gives the maple a certain yellow color, then one varnishes it.
Sugared and mulled wine
When the English have a cold, they mull wine in this way. They heat wine in a large tin pot until it boils, and when it becomes frothy, they light it with burning paper to determine if it is hot enough. After, to mull the whole of it, they pour it from one vessel into another, as if they wanted to churn eau panée, and as they do it, someone else lights with a burning paper what is falling from the one vessel into the other, such that you would think you were pouring fire. When the wine is mulled enough, heat it again a little while adding a few cloves & a sufficient quantity of sugar. And they the English drink it when it is as hot as possible in order to overcome their melancholy.
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English commoners put sugar in wine as a substitute for new sweet wine, which they cannot have because, owing to the long sea crossing, the wine loses its sweetness and clarifies itself before it reaches their country.
Weary horses
In order to restore a harried horse, they make it drink some of the aforesaid wine through a horn, and it finds itself disposed to do an even harder labor.
Eau de vie
The Irish do not drink any wine because they convert it into spirits, which they use almost as habitually as we use wine.