| The difference is that mead is fermented honey and water, while metheglin usually means mead infused heavily with herbs. |
| This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth. |
| Where metheglin was making, he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called Bee-wine. |
| The Welsh once enjoyed honey-based liqueur, metheglin, flavoured with herbs and highly potent. |
| My acquaintance never ran out of metheglin, which was mixed when he harvested his honey, and he never failed to offer me a swig or two. |
| References to metheglin appear in Love's Labour's Lost and The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
