192 SHAKESPEARE’S _ [Love-IN-IDLENESS. 
Our doublets were lined with taffeta, wherein Lice cannot 
breed or harbour; so as howsoever I wore one and the 
same doublet till my return into England, yet I found not 
the least uncleanliness therein. 
Fynes Meryson, “Itinerary,” part i. p. 209. 
V. Flea. 
Love-in-Idleness. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, il. 1, 168. 
VY. Heart’s-ease, Pansy. 
Luce. 
Merry Wives or Winpsor, i. I, 16. 
Tue Luce feeds on poisons, toads and such like ; yet it 
is said to be good food for the sick. If the net in which 
it has been caught be lifted from the water so that it sees 
the light of day, it rarely or never happens that it remains 
any longer, but seeks itself some way out. The Luce 
has in its brain a stone like crystal, but only when it has 
lived long. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. § 53. 
[The Sea-Luce is the codfish. ] 
Mace. 
Winrer’s Tate, iv. 3, 49. 
Vv. Nutmeg. 
Mackerel. 
i. Kinc Henry IV.,, ii. 4, 395. 
Wuen Mackerel ceaseth from the seas 
John Baptist brings grass-beef and pease. 
Tusser, “Good Husbandry :” ‘* The Farmer’s Daily Diet.” 
Tuis law-French is worse than butter’d Mackerel,— 
Full o’ bones, full o’ bones. 
“Life and Death of Captain Thos, Stucley,” line 291. 
