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Lavender. 
Winrer’s Tag, iv, 3, 104. 
LavenperR has no seed. The smell thereof oppresses 
the head, and causes sleep. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 250. 
Tuose hose are in Lavender [7.e., pawned]. 
Middleton, “Family of Love,” iii, 2, 79. 
[So Ben Jonson, “Every Man out of his Humour,” iii. 3, 
Greene, ‘Quip for an Upstart Courtier.”] 
Lead. 
Or brimstone that is boistous, and not swiftly pured, 
but troubly and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of 
lead is gendered; so of uncleanness of unpure brimstone 
lead hath a manner neshness [softness], and smircheth his 
hand that toucheth it. If thou hang lead over vinegar, 
it hurteth it; for vinegar shall thirl the substance thereof, 
and turn it to powder; therewith women paint themself 
for to seem fair of colour. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 81. 
Tin and Lead are very plentiful with us, the one in 
Cornwall, Devonshire and elsewhere in the North, the other 
in Derbyshire, Weardale, and sundry places of this island, 
whereby my countrymen do reap no small commodity, but 
especially our pewterers. There were mines of lead some- 
times also in Wales, which endured so long till the people 
had consumed all their wood by melting of the same. 
Holinshed, ‘Description of England,” p. 238. 
Leather-coat. 
ii. Kinc Henry IV., v. 3, 44. 
[Henley, in Steevens’ edition (/oc. cit.), says: “The apple 
commonly denominated “russeting,” in Devonshire is called 
the ‘ buff-coat.’ ” 
Evelyn, in his “Kalendarium Hortense,” under “Fruits in 
Prime, or yet lasting” (in December), enumerates, ‘‘ Russeting, 
Pippins, Leather-coat”; and in the same work “ Leather-coat” 
is distinguished from ‘‘russet pippin” and “golden russet 
pippin” in the catalogue of the best apple-trees.] 
