Note E271 — 45.
Reading edition
"Woodbine," not a bine that grows in woods, but a creeper that binds or entwines trees, the honeysuckle. A.S. wudu-winde and wudu-bind, from wudu = a tree, and windan, bindan = to entwine. In Shakspere (Mids. Night Dr. Act iv. sc. 1) it seems to mean the bittersweet:
"So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist."