182 . SHAKESPEARE’S [ LING. 
quencheth fire. Hot lime sod with auripigment and water 
maketh hair to fall. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 24. 
Since the Spanish sacks have been common in our 
taverns, which for conservation are mingled with Lime in 
the making. 
Sir Richard Hawkins, quoted in Steevens’ Shakespeare. 
Ling. 
Auu’s WeLt tTHaT Enps WELL, ill. 2, 14. 
[Or salted and dried cod-fish] Haberdine and Ling are 
accounted the best and daintiest. 
Hart, “Diet of the Diseased,” bk. i. ch. xxi. 
Rep herring and Ling never come to the board without 
mustard their waiting-maid. Nash, “ Lenten Stuff.” 
Dank Ling forgot 
Will quickly rot. 
Tusser, “Good Husbandry,” December’s Abstract. 
[A side of Ling cost 20d. in 1573 ; whereas a side of haber- 
dine cost but 8d. A whole Ling was worth 3s. to 3s. 4d.] 
His Majesty’s [James I.’s] Serjeant-caterer hath yearly 
gratis, out of every ship and bark, one hundred of the 
choicest and fairest Lings, which are worth more than £10 
the hundred. 
Tobias Gentleman, “ England’s Way to Win Wealth.” 
A coop tough gentleman! He looks like a dry 
Poul [perhaps Jowl] of Ling upon Easter-Eve, that has 
furnished the table all Lent. 
Ben Fonson, “Every Man out of his Humour,” iv. 4. 
Lion. 
Some Lions be short with crisp hair and mane, 
and these Lions fight not; and some Lions have 
simple hair of mane, and these Lions have sharp and 
fierce hearts. And he dreadeth noise and rushing of 
wheels, but he dreadeth fire much more. And when they 
sleep their eyes wake. And when they go forth or about, 
