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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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