174 SHAKESPEARE'S [LATTEN. 



THE Lapwing's tongue, if hung over a man who suffers 

 from much forgetful ness, helps him. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iii. 118. 



IF the Lapwing do sing before the vines do bud, it fore- 

 shows great plenty of wine. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. ix. 21. 



QUIRIN is a stone that is found in Lapwings' nests. 

 This stone bewrayeth and discovereth in sleep counsel and 

 privity. For this stone, laid and set under a man's head 

 that sleepeth, maketh him tell as he thinketh sleeping, and 

 multiplieth wonderly phantasies. Therefore witches love 

 that stone, for they work witchcraft therewith. 



Bartholomew (Berthe/et), bk. xvi. 83. 



Latten. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. I, 165. 



LATTEN, though it be brass or copper, yet it shineth as 

 gold without. Also Latten is hard as brass or copper. 

 For by meddling of copper and of tin and of auripig- 

 mentum, and with other metal, it is brought in the fire to 

 colour of gold. Also of Latten be composed divers manner 

 of vessel, and fair, that seem gold when they be new, but 

 the first brightness dimmeth some and some, and becometh 

 as it were rusty. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. 5. 



Laurel. 



iii. KING HENRY VI., iv. 6, 34. 



THE common fame is that only this tree is not smit with 

 lightning ; therefore the land that beareth laurel-tree is safe 

 from lightning both in field and in house. The green 

 leaves thereof that smell full well, if they be stamped, 

 healeth stinging of bees and of wasps. 



Bartholomew {Berthelef}, bk. xvii. 48. 



V. Bay. 



