Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime twigs, the more he struggles, the more belimed.
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man,
yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)