Chapter Lilli-Burlero to Lincolnshire Bagpipes of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

dune (the fen-town). If we had not known the Latin name, we should have given the etymology Llyn- collyne (the fen-hill, or hill near the pool), as the old city was on a hill.
   The devil looks over Lincoln. (See Devil.)

Lincoln College (Oxford). Founded by Richard Fleming in 1427), and completed by Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1479.

Lincoln Green Lincoln, at one time, was noted for its green, Coventry for its blue, and Yorkshire for its grey. (See Kendal Green.)

“And girls in Lincoln green.”
Drayton: Polyolbion, xxv.

   Falstaff speaks of Kendal Green (Westmoreland), 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.)

“Here be a sort of ragged knaves come in,
Clothed all in Kendale green.”
Plays of Robyn Hood.

Lincoln's Inn One of the fashionable theatres in the reign of Charles II.

Lincoln's Inn Fields London. Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, built an inn (mansion) here in the 14th century. The ground belonged to the Black Friars, but was granted by Edward I. to Lacy. Later, one of the bishops of Chichester, in the reign of Henry VII., granted leases here to certain students of law.

Lincolnshire Bagpipes The croaking of frogs in the Lincolnshire fens. We have Cambridgeshire nightingales, meaning frogs; fen nightingales, the Liège nightingale. In a somewhat similar way asses are called “Arcadian nightingales.”

“Melancholy as ... the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.”- Shakespeare: 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.