70 Otto Jespersen: is Liberty-hall, gentlemen. You may do just as you please here‘. (Goldsmith, She Stoops II, Globe ed. p. 652) Lat. atrium libertatis? lips?: In Shakespeare's Xing Lear II, 2. 9 Kent says: If I had thee in Zipsðury Pinfold, I would make thee care for me‘‘. No really satisfactory explanation of this obscure passage has been given, but if Nares is right in thinking that a pun on ‘lips’ is intended, and that the phrase denotes ‘the teeth’, the expression is correctly included in my list. lock: Put up your pipes, and go to Lockington wake‘ (G.). Lockington in Leicestershire, upon the confines of Derby and Nottingham shires. Grose says, Probably this was a saying to a troublesome fellow, desiring him to take himself off to a great distance‘. More probably there is an allusion to Žoc/ (prison; or ‘lock up’ = ‘shut up). long: It is coming by 7om Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long expected.» Grose, Vulg. 1788. loth: Though such for woe, by Zothbury go, For being spide about Cheapside‘ (Tusser, quoted by Nares, who says that it seems to be put in a proverbial sense to express unwillingness, being loth). KLothbury is a street in the City of London. marrow-bone (marrowbone stage or coach, i. e. walking): go by the Marylebone stage, i. e. walk (Muret). Marylebone, parish in London. Cf. also ’’to bring any one down on his marrow bones; to make him beg pardon on his knees‘ (Grose, Vulg.; Slang Dict.) may-be: "May be there is, Colonel. — Ay; but May-bees don't ἣν now, Miss“. Swift, Polite Conversation 67. need: ”You are in the highway to Needham. That is, you are in the high road to poverty‘. (G.) Needham is a markettown in Suffolk. Nares quotes from Tusser: ’’Soon less line host at Needham’s shore, To crave the beggar’s boone‘. Netherlands see Shakespeare, Ærrors IlI. 2. 142; Beaumont ἃ Fletcher, Mermaid ed. I 290. Low countries, Shakesp. H4B II. 2. 25. nod: I'm going to the land of Nod. — Faith, I'm for Bedfordshire‘ (Swift, Polite Conversation 188). The Land of Nod is mentioned in Genesis 4,16. partridge: ” Why aren't you in the stubbles celebrating St. Partridge‘, Mrs. H. Ward, Rob. Elsmere III. 278 i. e. shooting R