REPLY1851
"Swinging Tureen,"
By H. G. T.
"Next crowne the bowle full With gentle lamb's-wooll Adde sugar, nutmeg, and ginger, With store of ale too; And thus must ye doe To make the wassaile a *swinger*." Herrick, cited in Ellis' *Brand*, ed. 1849, vol. i. p. 26. By the way, is not the "lanycoll" (so called, I presume, from the froth like wool (*lana*) at the neck (*collum*) of the vessel), mentioned in the old ballad of "King Edward and the Shepherd" (Hartshorne's *Met. Tales*, p. 54.), the same beverage as "lamb's-wool?"
Topics: Victorian Poetry, Historical Customs, Beverages