101.4 ‘sod,’ soused: cp. The Two Noble Kinsmen, I.3, line 21; ‘lead,’ cauldron: cp. The Maid and the Palmer, 9.2, [p. 154]. ‘Salting-leads’ are still in use.
First they took him and hang’d him half,
And let him down before he was dead,
And quartered him in quarters many,
And sod him in a boiling lead.
102.
And then they took him out again,
And cutten all his joints in sunder,
And burnt him eke upon a hill;
I-wis they did him curstly cumber.