muscadel

• Howbeit, as the beer well sodden in the brewing, and stale, is clear and well coloured as muscadel or malvesey, or rather yellow as the gold noble, as our pot-knights call it, so our ale, which is not at all or very little sodden, and without hops, is more thick, fulsome, and of no such continuance, which are three notable things to be considered in that liquor. —  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
• Spread some of this upon a linen cloth, and apply it to the veins of the back of her that is troubled with afterpains, and it will give her speedy ease Lastly, let her take half a drachm of bay-berries beaten into a powder, in a drachm of muscadel or teat II. —  The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy
• "I have played on it for years ... and it is infallible, 'pon my honor In the meanwhile the doors leading to the second room had been thrown open; serving men and women advanced carrying trays on which were displayed glasses and bottles filled with Rhenish wine and Spanish canary and muscadel, also buttered ale and mead and hypocras for the ladies Editha did not occupy herself with serving but the florid woman was most attentive to the guests. —  The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
• He had won a hundred pounds--a fortune in those days for a country lad like himself; but for the moment the thought of what that hundred pounds would mean to him and to his brother Adam, was lost in the whirl of excitement which had risen to his head like wine He had steadily refused the glasses of muscadel or sack which Mistress Endicott had insinuatingly and persistently been offering him, ever since he began to play; yet he felt intoxicated, with strange currents of fire which seemed to run through his veins The subtle poison had done its work. —  The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
• 'Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops All in the sexton's face Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. —  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

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