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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

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Bernard says165, note that new wine is hot in the first degree, old wine hot in the third degree, and medium wine in the second degree. Old wine is good [...] as a remedy only;166 and new wine is neither good as food nor as a remedy; but medium wine is good as food, and drink, and remedy. Wine is good for hot people, for it purges them; and for moist people, for it moderates the moisture and ripens it; and for cold people, for it brings them to moderation; and it is good for


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dry people, as it moistens and cheers them. According to this it is good for every complexion—that is, good wine.