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procure such a love to the Pigeons of that place, that for 
the desire of them being so enclosed in the said pots, they 
will never change that place, so much they love the kestrils 
their friends after their death. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. i. § 46. 
Tat Pigeons be not hunted or killed of cats at the 
windows at every passage and at every Pigeon’s hole, hang 
or put little branches of rue; for rue hath a marvellous 
strength against wild beasts. Ibid. bk. iti. § 38. 
Tr the skull of an aged man be hanged in a dove-house, 
Pigeons will be increased there, and will live quietly. 
Ibid., bk. viii. § 23. 
Piczons, now an hurtful fowl by reason of their multi- 
tudes, and number of houses daily erected for their increase 
(which the bauers of the country call in scorn alms-houses, 
and dens of thieves and such like) whereof there is great 
plenty in every farmer’s yard. . 
Holinshed, ‘Description of England,” p. 223. 
Pike. 
ii, Kinc Henry IV,, iii. 2, 356. 
V. Luce. 
To boil a Pike with oranges (a banquet dish) :—[The 
Pike was boiled in a pint of water, and a pint of wine, 
with oranges, dates, spices, sweet butter, and served with 
its head cut off and placed erect before its body, and an 
orange in the mouth. 
The second part of the “ Good Huswife’s Jewel,” p. 22.] 
[Pike was also baked (‘‘ Widow’s Treasure ”’).] 
Pilchard. 
Twetrru Nicat, iii. 1, 40. 
Tue inhabitants of Cornwall make great gain by the 
fishing of Pilchards, which they salt and dry in the smoke, 
