Note 104 — W. CAREW HAZLITT.

i.e., Robin red breasts. Shakespeare uses ruddock for red breast in “Cymbeline.”—S. Again, in Nash’s “Lenten Stuff,” 1599: “He eft soons defined unto me, that the red herring was this old tickle cob, or magister fac totum, that brought in the red ruddocks, and the grummel seed as thick as oatmeal, and made Yarmouth for Argent to put down the city of Argentine.”