deduced from observation of some extraordinary effort of nature, often made in sick persons just before death; and partly from a superstitious notion of an ominous and preternatural mirth, supposed to come on at that period, without any ostensible reason." Nares's Gloss.

like, likely: as like as it is true, i. 509.

like, to make like, to liken: like me to the peasant boys of France, v. 63; liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, iv. 331. like, to please: an it like your majesty, iv. 243; complexions that liked me, iii. 77; the music likes you not, i. 307; It likes me well, iii. 166; The offer likes not, iv. 449; this lodging likes me better, iv. 470 ; some conceit or other likes him well, v. 404; that that likes not you, vi. 86; It likes us well, vii. 133; This likes me well, vii. 207; His countenance likes me not, vii. 280.

like well-You, You are in good case, good condition of body, iv. 357: see liking.

likelihood, "similitude" (WARBURTON): by a lower but loving likelihood, iv. 496.

likelihood, "semblance, appearance" (JOHNSON): By any likeli hood he showed to-day, v. 404.

liking, condition of body: to make difference of men's liking, i. 361; while I am in some liking ("while I have some flesh, some substance," MALONE), iv. 258 (Compare Greene's Neuer too late, Part First; "Here is weather that makes grasse plentie and sheepe fatte; . . . . and yet I haue one sheepe in my fold thats quite out of liking." Sig. o verso, ed. 1611).

Limander... Helen, blunders for Leander and Hero, ii. 317. limbeck, an alembic, vii. 20.

limb-meal, limb by limb, vii. 670 (Compare inch-meal—By). Limbo, hell (properly, the borders of hell): of Satan, and of Limbo, iii. 284; As far from help as Limbo is from bliss, vi. 316.

Limbo, a cant term for " a prison, confinement:" he's in Tartar Limbo, worse than hell, ii. 34.

Limbo Patrum-In, A cant expression for "in prison, in confinement," v. 569: According to the schoolmen, Limbus Patrum was the place, bordering on hell, where the souls of the patriarchs and saints of the Old Testament remained till the death of our Saviour, who, in descending into hell, set them free. (Qy. Is not Nares mistaken, when, in his Gloss., sub "Limbo," he describes Limbus Patrum as a place "where the fathers of the church, saints, and martyrs, awaited the general resurrection"?)

Limbs of Limehouse-The: see Tribulation of Tower-Hill, &c. lime, bird-lime: put some lime upon your fingers, i. 225; lay lime to tangle her desires, i. 302.

LIME-LINE.

lime in this sack-Here's: see sack, &c.

lime-Froth and: see froth and lime.

limit of your lives-The, The limited time of your lives, v. 402. limit-Strength of: see strength of limit.

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limit, to appoint: Limit each leader to his several charge, v. 443; For 'tis my limited service, vii. 26.

limited professions, vi. 562: Here limited is explained by Warburton "legal," by Malone "regular, orderly," by Steevens "to which people are regularly and legally appointed," by Mr. Knight "legalised," by Mr. Collier "restricted."

limits of the charge set down-And many, iv. 208: Here limits is explained by Warburton "estimates," by Heath "outlines, rough sketches, or calculations," by Malone "the regulated and appointed times for the conduct of the business in hand," by Mr. Collier "bounds of the expense."

Limoges! 0 Austria!—0, iv. 32: "Shakespeare has, on this occasion, followed the old play [The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn, &c., see vol. iv. p. 3], which at once furnished him with the character of Falconbridge, and ascribed the death of Richard I. to the Duke of Austria. In the person of Austria he has conjoined the two wellknown enemies of Coeur-de-lion [following the old play, where Austria is called Lymoges, the Austrich Duke]. Leopold, Duke of Austria, threw him into prison, in a former expedition [in 1193]; but the castle of Chaluz, before which he fell [in 1199], belonged to Vidomar, Viscount of Limoges; and the archer who pierced his shoulder with an arrow (of which wound he died) was Bertrand de Gourdon. The editors seem hitherto to have understood Lymoges as being an appendage to the title of Austria, and therefore inquired no further about it" (BLAKE). Lincolnshire bagpipe-The drone of a, iv. 212: "Lincolnshire bagpipes' is a proverbial saying. Fuller has not attempted to explain it; and Ray only conjectures that the Lincolnshire people may be fonder of this instrument than others" (DOUCE).

line-This most memorable, iv. 447: Here line means "genealogy, deduction of his lineage" (JOHNSON).

line of life, one of the lines in the palm of the hand, according to the language of palmistry, ii. 363.

line-Come, hang them on this, i. 224: The late Joseph Hunter, in his

Essay on the Tempest, maintains that here "line" means a linden or lime-tree. But though, a little after in this play, mention is made of "the line-grove," it is evident that here a rope, and not a tree, is spoken of. If no other objections could be urged against Mr. Hunter's acceptation of the word line, we surely have a decisive one in the joke of Stephano, "Now, jerkin, you are like to lose

your hair" (see jerkin under the line, &c.); a joke to which it is impossible to attach any meaning, unless we suppose that the line was a hair-line. Mr. Knight observes; "In a woodcut of twelve distinct figures of trades and callings of the time of James I. (see Smith's 'Cries of London,' p. 15), and of which there is a copy in the British Museum, we have the cry of ' Buy a hairline!" And in Lyly's Midas, a barber's apprentice facetiously says, "All my mistres' lynes that she dryes her cloathes on, are made only of Mustachio stuffe [i.e. of the cuttings of moustachios]." Sig. G 2 verso, ed. 1592.

line, to strengthen: To line his enterprise, iv. 231; did line the rebel,

vii. 11.

line, to delineate: All the pictures fairest lin'd, iii. 38.

line-grove, a grove of linden or lime-trees, i. 226: see note 116,

i. 255.

ling, heath, broom, furze, i. 177: Feeling convinced that this reading

is sufficiently established by what has been said of it in note 4, i. 237, I should have made no allusion to it here, had I not found that Mr. Beisly defends the old lection, "long heath and brown furze, because ling and heath or heth are names for one and the same plant, and Shakspere would not have called this plant by two different common names." Shakspere's Garden, &c. p. 12: But Farmer has shown (vide the note just referred to) that Harrison, in his description of Britain prefixed to Holinshed, speaks of heath and ling as different plants; and I have little doubt there are other old writers who have made the same distinction. (Mr. Beisly, in his "Introduction," declares most extravagantly that Shakespeare's knowledge of Botany was not less than that of any other branch of natural history he investigated and described." p. xviii.) link to colour Peter's hat―There was no, iii. 152: "A link is a torch of pitch. Greene, in his Mihil Mumchance, says; 'This cozenage is used likewise in selling old hats found upon dung-hills, instead of newe, blackt over with the smoake of an old linke'" (STEEVENS): The tract just quoted is wrongly attributed to Greene.

linstock, the stick which holds the gunner's match, iv. 449. lions-Like one of the, i. 274: "If Shakespeare had not been think

ing of the lions in the Tower, he would have written 'like a lion'" (RITSON); a note carped at by Mr. Knight, who seems to have forgotten that a caged lion paces up and down his prison very majestically.

lip, to kiss, vii. 438; lipp'd, vii. 525.

Lipsbury pinfold, vii. 278: A pinfold is a pound; but what the

commentators have written about the name Lipsbury is too unsatisfactory to be cited; Mr. Collier boldly adopts the alteration of his Ms. Corrector,-" Finsbury."

liquor, to rub with oil or grease, in order to keep out the water: liquor fishermen's boots with me, i. 406; justice hath liquored her, iv.

225.

list, desire, inclination: when I have list to sleep, vii. 398.

list, a limit, a boundary: the list of my voyage, iii. 362; The very list, iv. 265; within the weak list of a country's fashion, iv. 505; The ocean, overpeering of his list, vii. 182; Confine yourself but in a patient list, vii. 438.

list, to like, to please, to choose: let them take it as they list, vi. 389; 'If we list to speak,” vii. 127; do what she list, vii. 413.

lither sky-The, v. 64: "[Here] lither is flexible or yielding" (JOHNSON); and see Richardson's Dict. in "Lithe," &c. (With lither sky -which has been explained quite erroneously, "lazy sky"-compare the "agitabilis aër" of Ovid,

"Terra feras cepit; volucres agitabilis aër.” Met. i. 75.) little-In, In miniature: Heaven would in little show, iii. 39; his picture in little, vii. 141. (The expression in little is found occasionally in writers long after the time of Shakespeare: so in Pepys's Diary, &c., "Cooper, the great limner in little," vol. i. p. 309, ed. 1848; and in Shadwell's Sullen Lovers, "I will paint with Lilly [Lely], and draw in little with Cooper for 5000l." Works, vol. i. p. 27.) little pot, and soon hot-A, iii. 149: A proverbial expression. live i' the sun-To, "Is to labour and 'sweat in the eye of Phoebus,' or vitam agere sub dio" (TOLLET), "To make his pleasures consist in the enjoyment of the sunshine, and simple blessing of the elements" (CALDECOTT), iii. 29.

livelihood, liveliness, appearance of life, animation, iii. 208. lively, living: thy lively body, vi. 315.

liver, anciently supposed to be the inspirer of amorous passion and the seat of love: the ardour of my liver, i. 219; With liver burning hot, i. 362; If ever love had interest in his liver, ii. 124; wash your liver as clean, &c. iii. 46; when liver, brain, and heart, &c. iii. 328; motion of the liver, iii. 354; liver and all, iii. 357; were my wife's liver infected, &c. iii. 429; I had rather heat my liver with drinking (than have it heated with love), vii. 500; the coal which in his liver glows, viii. 288; Hot livers, iv. 240; heat of our livers, iv. 324. liver-vein-The, ii. 199: see the preceding article. livery-Sue His, iv. 128, 271; sue my livery, iv. 138: "On the death of every person who held by knight's service, the escheator of the court in which he died summoned a jury, who inquired what estate he died seized of, and of what age his next heir was. If he was under age, he became a ward of the king's; but if he was found to be of full age, he then had a right to sue out a writ of ouster le

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main, that is, his livery, that the king's hand might be taken off, and the land delivered to him" (MALONE).

living, fortune, possessions: life, living, all is Death's, vi. 458 (a passage which has been misunderstood); If I gave them all my living, vii. 266; in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, ii. 384.

lizards' stings, v. 161; lizards' dreadful stings, v. 261; Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing, vii. 46: It was commonly believed in Shakespeare's days that the poor harmless lizard had a sting and was a venomous reptile.

loach-Your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a, iv. 224: "This has puzzled the commentators; but it seems as reasonable to suppose the loach infested with fleas as the tench, which may be meant in a preceding speech. Both sayings were probably founded upon such fanciful notions as make up a great part of natural history among the common people; but Holland's Pliny warrants the notion that some fishes breed fleas and lice, [Book ix.] ch. xlvii. [This passage of Pliny was first referred to by Reed, Shakspeare, ed. 1785.] Had the Carrier meant to say 'as big as a loach,' he would have said 'breeds fleas like loaches.' Warburton and Capell are far from the mark. Mr. Malone's suggestion, that it may mean 'breeds fleas as fast as a loach breeds,' that is, breeds loaches, is not improbable, as it was reckoned a peculiarly prolific fish." Nares's Gloss.: "The efforts of critics who gravely labour to establish the pertinence and integrity of such comparisons as these, are as profitable, to adopt a characteristic simile of Gifford's, as the milking he-goats in a sieve. When the obtuse Carrier tells us that his horse-provender is as dank as a dog-that chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach, and that he himself is stung like a tench and as well bitten as a king, he means no more, than that the peas and beans are very damp, that chamber-lie breeds many fleas, and that he is severely stung," &c. (STAUNTON).

lob of spirits-Thou, Thou lubber of spirits, ii. 275: Mr. Grant White is probably right in saying that here lob "is descriptive of the contrast between Puck's squat figure and the airy shapes of the other fays:" As Puck could fly "swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow," and "could put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes," the Fairy can hardly mean, as Mr. Collier supposes, “to reproach Puck with heaviness."

lob down their heads, hang down, droop, their heads, iv. 479.

lock, a love-lock, a long lock of hair, often tied and plaited with riband, worn on the left side, and hanging down by the shoulder: 'a wears a lock, ii. 113; they say he wears a key in his ear, and a lock hanging by it, ii. 137 (Dogberry, as Malone remarks, supposing that the lock must have a key to it).

lockram, a sort of cheap linen, made of different degrees of fine