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NOTE
DUKE OF ATHOL'S NOURICE.
He spared na the sack, though it was dear,
The wine, nor the sugar candy.—p. 128, v. 6.
The manner of living among the Scots, in the end of
the sixteenth century, is curiously, though accurately
described by an Englishman who visited Edinburgh in
the year 1593.— Speaking of their drinking, and the
use of confections in their wine, he says, " They drinke
pure wines, not with sugar as the English ; yet at feasts
they put comfits in the wine, after the French manner,
but they had not our vinteners fraud to mixe their
wines."
—
Morysoris Itinerary, Part III. p. 155.