PILCHARD.] NATURAL HISTORY. 245 



procure such a love to the Pigeons of that place, that for 

 the desire of them being so enclosed in the said pots, they 

 will never change that place, so much they love the kestrils 

 their friends after their death. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. i. 46. 



THAT Pigeons be not hunted or killed of cats at the 

 windows at every passage and at every Pigeon's hole, hang 

 or put little branches of rue ; for rue hath a marvellous 

 strength against wild beasts. ibid., bk. Hi. 38. 



IF the skull of an aged man be hanged in a dove-house, 

 Pigeons will be increased there, and will live quietly. 



Ibid., bk. viii. 23. 



PIGEONS, now an hurtful fowl by reason of their multi- 

 tudes, and number of houses daily erected for their increase 

 (which the bauers of the country call in scorn alms-houses, 

 and dens of thieves and such like) whereof there is great 

 plenty in every farmer's yard. 



Holinshed, "Description of England," p. 223. 



Pike. 



ii. KING HENRY IV., iii. 2, 356. 



V. Luce. 



To boil a Pike with oranges (a banquet dish) : [The 

 Pike was boiled in a pint of water, and a pint of wine, 

 with oranges, dates, spices, sweet butter, and served with 

 its head cut off and placed erect before its body, and an 

 orange in the mouth. 



The second part of the " Good Huswife's Jewel," p. 22.] 



[Pike was also baked (" Widow's Treasure ").] 

 Pilchard. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. I, 40. 



THE inhabitants of Cornwall make great gain by the 

 fishing of Pilchards, which they salt and dry in the smoke, 



