244 SHAKESPEARE'’S [ PIGEON. 
Tuere were three Sucking-pigs serv'd up in a dish, 
Ta’en from the sow as soon as farrowed, 
A fortnight fed with dates and muscadine, 
That stood my master in twenty marks apiece, 
Besides the puddings in their bellies. 
Massinger, “The City Madam,” ii. 1. 
Five shillings a Pig is my price at least; if it be a 
Sow-pig, sixpence more. 
Ben Fonson, “Bartholomew Fair,” ii. 2. 
Roastep with fire of Juniper and Rosemary-branches. 
Ibid., iii, 2. 
Some of my country-men at Wittenburg, desiring to eat 
a Pig, hardly bought one for half a dollar, and were our 
selves forced to kill, dress and roast it. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part iii, p. 84. 
V,. Boar, Swine. 
Pigeon. 
As You Lixe Iv, i. 2, 993; and iv. 1, 150. 
i. Kinc Henry IV., v. 1, 16. 
V. Dove. 
To boil Pigeons in black broth. 
Dawson, “'The Good Huswife’s Jewel.” 
Tue sparrow hawk is a fierce enemy to all Pigeons, but 
they are defended of the kestril, whose sight and voice the 
spar-hawk doth fear, which the Pigeons or doves know 
well enough ; for where the kestril is, from thence will not 
the Pigeons go (if the spar-hawk be nigh) through the 
great trust she hath in the kestril her defender. 
Lupton, “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. x. § 3. 
Piczons do so love the kestril, that if one close young 
kestrils in a pot, and stop and cover the same close, and 
shall hang them in four corners of the dove-house, it will 
