174 SHAKESPEARE'S [LATTEN. 
Tue Lapwing’s tongue, if hung over a man who suffers 
from much forgetfulness, helps him, 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iit. § 118. 
Ir the Lapwing do sing before the vines do bud, it fore- 
shows great plenty of wine. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk, ix. § 21, 
Quirin is a stone that is found in Lapwings’ nests. 
This stone bewrayeth and discovereth in sleep counsel and 
privity. For this stone, laid and set under a man’s head 
that sleepeth, maketh him tell as he thinketh sleeping, and 
multiplieth wonderly phantasies. Therefore witches love 
that stone, for they work witchcraft therewith. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 83. 
Latten, 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, i. 1, 165. 
Lartren, though it be brass or copper, yet it shineth as 
gold without. Also Latten is hard as brass or copper. 
For by meddling of copper and of tin and of auripig- 
mentum, and with other metal, it is brought in the fire to 
colour of gold. Also of Latten be composed divers manner 
of vessel, and fair, that seem gold when they be new, but 
the first brightness dimmeth some and some, and becometh 
as it were rusty. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 5. 
Laurel. 
“iii, Kine Henry VIL, iv. 6, 34. 
THE common fame is that only this tree is not smit with 
lightning ; therefore the land that beareth laurel-tree is safe 
from lightning both in field and in house. The green 
leaves thereof that smell full well, if they be stamped, 
healeth stinging of bees and of wasps. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 48. 
Vv. Bay. 
