Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

liver anciently supposed to be the inspirer of amorous passion and the seat of love: “the ardour of my liver,” THE TEMPEST, iv. 1. 56 ; “With liver burning hot,” THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 1. 105 ; “If ever love had interest in his liver,” MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iv. 1. 231 ; “wash your liver as clean,” AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 2. 387 ; “when liver, brain, and heart,” TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 1. 37 ; “motion of the liver,” TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 4. 97 ; “liver and all,” TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 5. 88 ; “were my wife's liver Infected,” THE WINTER'S TALE, i. 2. 304 ; “I had rather heat my liver with drinking” ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, i. 2. 23 (than have it heated with love); “the coal which in his liver glows,” THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 47 ; “Hot livers,” 1 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 314 ; “heat of our livers,” 2 HENRY IV., i. 2. 165.