244 SHAKESPEARE'S [PIGEON. 



THERE were three Sucking-pigs serv'd up in a dish, 

 Ta'en from the sow as soon as farrowed, 

 A fortnight fed with dates and muscadine, 

 That stood my master in twenty marks apiece, 

 Besides the puddings in their bellies. 



Massinger, "The City Madam," ii. i. 



FIVE shillings a Pig is my price at least ; if it be a 

 Sow-pig, sixpence more. 



Ben Jonscn, "Bartholomew Fair," ii. 2. 



ROASTED with fire of Juniper and Rosemary-branches. 



.) iii. 2. , 



SOME of my country-men at Wittenburg, desiring to eat 

 a Pig, hardly bought one for half a dollar, and were our 

 selves forced to kill, dress and roast it. 



Fynes Moryson, " Itinerary," part iii. p. 84. 



V. Boar, Swine. 

 Pigeon. 



As You LIKE IT, i. 2, 99; and iv. I, 150. 

 ii. KING HENRY IV., v. I, 16. 



V. Dove. 



To boil Pigeons in black broth. 



Dawson, "The Good Huswife's Jewel." 



THE sparrow hawk is a fierce enemy to all Pigeons, but 

 they are defended of the kestril, whose sight and voice the 

 spar-hawk doth fear, which the Pigeons or doves know 

 well enough ; for where the kestril is, from thence will not 

 the Pigeons go (if the spar-hawk be nigh) through the 

 great trust she hath in the kestril her defender. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. x. 3. 



PIGEONS do so love the kestril, that if one close younj 

 kestrils in a pot, and stop and cover the same close, am 

 shall hang them in four corners of the dove-house, it wilJ 



