Meaning of “iuie” if we speak English as pre modern times.
I found this phrase in Featherstone’s Dedication at the front of an English translation of the Commentary on John by John Calvin:
It is an old saying, (Right Honorable,), and no lesse true then olde, that saleable wines neede no iuie bush which prouerb importeth thus much.
What does the word IUIE mean? Why is the name ivy not easy to get right?
In Abraham Fleming’s The Diamond of Deuotion, Cut and squared into sixe seuerall points, A Documentary Edition is reported the following sentence:
Is it possible that the lambe and the woolfe, the spider and the flie, the falcon and the feasant, the hound and the hare, the peacocke and the snake, the cat and the mouse, the owle and the nightingale, the owle and
At the end of the page there are the following notes:
176 the iuie and the oke: the ivy and the oak.
177 Cf. Rabelais, “for it is more their opposition and enemy…than cabbage to vines” (Gargantua et Pantagruel 370).
What are some examples?
Is it an ivy? From The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4 I find this:
In Mr Gomme’s delightful antiquarian collection, The Gentleman’s Magazine Library (Dialect, Proverbs, Word-Lore Section), I find the following curious contribution. “, The Bush, the principal tavern at Bristol, and the ivy Bush, the head inn at Carmarthen, originated in the ancient practice of hanging a flower at the door of those houses that sold wine, whence the pro In
that
very curious volume Earle’s Micro-cosmographie (1628) we have amongst the “Characters” a description of the ‘Tauerne’, in which the writer remarks: “If the Vintners nose be at the doore, it is a signe sufficient. The absence of this is supplyed by the ‘Pitbull’ (Arber’s Reprint, p 34)….. ”
What are some good examples?
In Abraham Fleming’s The Diamond of Deuotion, Cut and squared into sixe seuerall points, A Documentary Edition is reported the following sentence:
Is it possible that the lambe and the woolfe, the spider and the flie, the falcon and the feasant, the hound and the hare, the peacocke and the snake, the cat and the mouse, the owle and the nightingale, the owle and
At the end of the page there are the following notes:
176 the iuie and the oke: the ivy and the oak.
177 Cf. Rabelais, “for it is more their opposition and enemy…than cabbage to vines” (Gargantua et Pantagruel 370).
What are some examples?
Iuie stands for ivy. Last time there was v then u. Is there any more ‘u’ before v is written?
Just as an addition, to make the meaning of that sentence clear.
“Saleable beverage needs no iuie bush which prouerb importth thus much. “Good
wine needs no bush. Why did the Greeks hang ivy plants outside their stores as a sign that they were making wine? ” I believe it was a symbol of an ancient saying, “I have an ancient tradition, I know it is true and you know me, I’m a stone.’ Is there a magic trick to selling wine?
With respect to usage of “iuie” in this
sentence.
From the beginning of the 1562 book, “ACCEDENCE OF ARMOURIE”, the first line reads
“The common saying is that the Iuie bushe is hanged at the Tauerne doore to declare the wine within
2 days”
Iuie stands for ivy. Last time there was v then u. Is there any more ‘u’ before v is written?
Just as an addition, to make the meaning of that sentence clear.
“Saleable beverage needs no iuie bush which prouerb importth thus much. “Good
wine needs no bush. Why did the Greeks hang ivy plants outside their stores as a sign that they were making wine? ” I believe it was a symbol of an ancient saying, “I have an ancient tradition, I know it is true and you know me, I’m a stone.’ Is there a magic trick to selling wine?
With respect to usage of “iuie” in this
sentence.
Is it an ivy? From The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4 I find this:
In Mr Gomme’s delightful antiquarian collection, The Gentleman’s Magazine Library (Dialect, Proverbs, Word-Lore Section), I find the following curious contribution. “, The Bush, the principal tavern at Bristol, and the ivy Bush, the head inn at Carmarthen, originated in the ancient practice of hanging a flower at the door of those houses that sold wine, whence the pro In
that
very curious volume Earle’s Micro-cosmographie (1628) we have amongst the “Characters” a description of the ‘Tauerne’, in which the writer remarks: “If the Vintners nose be at the doore, it is a signe sufficient. The absence of this is supplyed by the ‘Pitbull’ (Arber’s Reprint, p 34)….. ”
What are some good examples?
Iuie stands for ivy. Last time there was v then u. Is there any more ‘u’ before v is written?
Just as an addition, to make the meaning of that sentence clear.
“Saleable beverage needs no iuie bush which prouerb importth thus much. “Good
wine needs no bush. Why did the Greeks hang ivy plants outside their stores as a sign that they were making wine? ” I believe it was a symbol of an ancient saying, “I have an ancient tradition, I know it is true and you know me, I’m a stone.’ Is there a magic trick to selling wine?
With respect to usage of “iuie” in this
sentence.
Is it an ivy? From The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4 I find this:
In Mr Gomme’s delightful antiquarian collection, The Gentleman’s Magazine Library (Dialect, Proverbs, Word-Lore Section), I find the following curious contribution. “, The Bush, the principal tavern at Bristol, and the ivy Bush, the head inn at Carmarthen, originated in the ancient practice of hanging a flower at the door of those houses that sold wine, whence the pro In
that
very curious volume Earle’s Micro-cosmographie (1628) we have amongst the “Characters” a description of the ‘Tauerne’, in which the writer remarks: “If the Vintners nose be at the doore, it is a signe sufficient. The absence of this is supplyed by the ‘Pitbull’ (Arber’s Reprint, p 34)….. ”
What are some good examples?
Is it an ivy? From The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4 I find this:
In Mr Gomme’s delightful antiquarian collection, The Gentleman’s Magazine Library (Dialect, Proverbs, Word-Lore Section), I find the following curious contribution. “, The Bush, the principal tavern at Bristol, and the ivy Bush, the head inn at Carmarthen, originated in the ancient practice of hanging a flower at the door of those houses that sold wine, whence the pro In
that
very curious volume Earle’s Micro-cosmographie (1628) we have amongst the “Characters” a description of the ‘Tauerne’, in which the writer remarks: “If the Vintners nose be at the doore, it is a signe sufficient. The absence of this is supplyed by the ‘Pitbull’ (Arber’s Reprint, p 34)….. ”
What are some good examples?
