1 82 . SHAKESPEARE'S [LING. 



quencheth fire. Hot lime sod with auripigment and water 

 maketh hair to fall. Bartholomew (Bertfalet), bk. xvi. 24. 



SINCE the Spanish sacks have been common in our 

 taverns, which for conservation are mingled with Lime in 

 the making. 



Sir Richard Hawkins, quoted in Steevens* Shakespeare. 



Ling. 



ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iii. 2, 14. 



[Or salted and dried cod-fish] Haberdine and Ling are 

 accounted the best and daintiest. 



Hart, " Diet of the Diseased," bk. i. ch. xxi. 



RED herring and Ling never come to the board without 

 mustard their waiting-maid. Nash, " Lenten Stuff." 



Dank Ling forgot 

 Will quickly rot. 

 Tusser, "Good Husbandry," December's Abstract. 



[A side of Ling cost 2Od. in 1573 ; whereas a side of haber- 

 dine cost but 8d. A whole Ling was worth 35. to 35. 4d.] 



His Majesty's [James I.'s] Serjeant-caterer hath yearly 

 gratis, out of every ship and bark, one hundred of the 

 choicest and fairest Lings, which are worth more than jio 

 the hundred. 



Tobias Gentleman, " England's Way to Win Wealth." 



A GOOD tough gentleman ! He looks like a dry 

 Poul [perhaps Jowl] of Ling upon Easter-Eve, that has 

 furnished the table all Lent. 



Ben Jonson, " Every Man out of his Humour," iv. 4. 



Lion. 



SOME Lions be short with crisp hair and mane, 

 and these Lions fight not ; and some Lions have 

 simple hair of mane, and these Lions have sharp and 

 fierce hearts. And he dreadeth noise and rushing of 

 wheels, but he dreadeth fire much more. And when they 

 sleep their eyes wake. And when they go forth or about, 



