LEATHER-COAT.] NATURAL HISTORY. 175 



Lavender. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 104. 



LAVENDER has no seed. The smell thereof oppresses 

 the head, and causes sleep. Hortus S-anitatis, bk. i. 250. 



THOSE hose are in Lavender [/'.., pawned]. 



Middleton, " Family of Love," iii. 2, 79. 



[So Ben Jonson, " Every Man out of his Humour," iii. 3, 

 Greene, " Quip for an Upstart Courtier."] 



Lead. 



OF brimstone that is boistous, and not swiftly pured, 

 but troubly and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of 

 lead is gendered ; so of uncleanness of unpure brimstone 

 lead hath a manner neshness [softness], and smircheth, his 

 hand that toucheth it. If thou hang lead over vinegar, 

 it hurteth it ; for vinegar shall thirl the substance thereof, 

 and turn it to powder ; therewith women paint themself 

 for to seem fair of colour. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xvi. 81. 



TIN and Lead are very plentiful with us, the one in 

 Cornwall, Devonshire and elsewhere in the North, the other 

 in Derbyshire, Weardale, and sundry places of this island, 

 whereby my countrymen do reap no small commodity, but 

 especially our pewterers. There were mines of lead some- 

 times also in Wales, which endured so long till the people 

 had consumed all their wood by melting of the same. 



Holinsked, "Description of England," p. 238. 



Leather-coat. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., v. 3, 44. 



[Henley, in Steevens' edition (loc. cit.), says : " The apple 

 commonly denominated " russeting," in Devonshire is called 

 the * buff-coat.' ' 



" Evelyn, in his " Kalendarium Hortense," under " Fruits in 

 Prime, or yet lasting" (in December), enumerates, "Russeting, 

 Pippins, Leather-coat"; and in the same work "Leather-coat" 

 is distinguished from " russet pippin " and " golden russet 

 pippin " in the catalogue of the best apple-trees.] 



