192 SHAKESPEARE'S [LOVE-IN-IDLENESS. 



OUR doublets were lined with taffeta, wherein Lice cannot 

 breed or harbour ; so as howsoever I wore one and the 

 same doublet till my return into England, yet I found not 

 the least uncleanliness therein. 



Fynes Moryson, " Itinerary," part i. p. 209. 



V. Flea. 



Love-in-idleness. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 168. 



V. Heart's-ease, Pansy. 

 Luce. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. I, 16. 



THE Luce feeds on poisons, toads and such like ; yet it 

 is said to be good food for the sick. If the net in which 

 it has been caught be lifted from the water so that it sees 

 the light of day, it rarely or never happens that it remains 

 any longer, but seeks itself some way out. The Luce 

 has in its brain a stone like crystal, but only when it has 

 lived long. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. 53. 



[The Sea-Luce is the codfish.] 

 Mace. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 49. 



V. Nutmeg. 

 Mackerel. 



i. KING HENRY IV., ii. 4, 395. 



WHEN Mackerel ceaseth from the seas 

 John Baptist brings grass-beef and pease. 

 Tusser, " Good Husbandry : " " The Farmer's Daily Diet/' 



THIS law-French is worse than butter'd Mackerel, 

 Full o' bones, full o' bones. 



"Life and Death of Captain Thos. Stucley," line 291. 





