Hempen Caudle
.A hangman’s rope.
“Ye shall have a hempen caudle then, and the help of a hatchet.”—Shakespeare: 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.