Note 103 — ACT II. SCENE I.
Reading edition
Bastard wine] In a note, vol. ii. p. 347, I have said that bastard was “a sweet Spanish wine:” “That it was a sweetish wine, there can be no doubt; and that it came from some of the countries which border the Mediterranean, appears equally certain,” observes Henderson; who supposes that it approached to the muscadel wine in flavour, and was made from a bastard species of muscadine grape. Hist. of Wines, pp. 290-1.