(= made a play), wherein Frogges made pastime. Bullein's Bulwarke, 1562, or, The booke of Simples, fol. xvj. b. 1. 995. Bilgres. Can this be bugloss? I find this, as here, in juxtaposition with scabiose, in Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence, Book of Simples, fol. xvj. b. G. P. Marsh. 1. 1004. For Selden's Chapter on Precedence see his Titles of Honour, ch. xi. Rouge Dragon (Mr G. Adams) tells me that the order of precedence has varied from time to time, and that the one now in force differs in many points from Russell's. 1. 1040. Nurrieris. I find no such name in Selden's chap. ix., Of Women. Does the word mean 'foster-mothers or fathers,' from the Latin "Nutricarii, Matricularii, quibus enutriendi ac educandi infantes projectos cura incumbehat: Nourissiers. Vita S. Goaris cap. 10: Hæcque consuetudo erat, ut quando aliquis homo de ipsis infantibus projectis misericordia vellet curam habere, ab illis, quos Nutricarios vocant, matriculariis S. Petri compararet, et illi Episcopo ipsum infantem præsentare deberent, et postea Episcopi auctoritas eumdem hominem de illo Nutricario confirmabat. Id clarius explicatur a Wandelberto in Vita ejusdem Sancti, cap. 20." Ducange, ed. 1845. The following list of Names of Fish, from Yarrell, may be found convenient for reference. Names of Fish from Yarrell's History of British Fish, 1841, 2nd ed. The Lamperns have been taken in the Thames at Teddington this autumn (1866) in extraordinary quantities. English Names. Smelt. Spirling and Sparling in Salmo Sperlanus, or Scotland Sturgeon, the Common, Yar., vol., page ii 75 & Latin Names. Osmerus Sperlanus 129 Acipenser latirostris ii 479 Extracts about Fish from "The noble lyfe & natures A VERY rare black-letter book, without date, and hitherto undescribed, except perhaps incorrectly by Ames (vol. 1, p. 412, and vol. 3, p. 1531), has been lent to me by Mr Algernon Swinburne. Its title is given above: " The noble lyfe and natures of man" is in large red letters, and the rest in smaller black ones, all surrounded by woodcuts of the wonderful animals, mermaids, serpents, birds, quadrupeds with men's and women's heads, a stork with its neck tied in a knot, and other beasts "ỷ be most knowen." The illustrations to each chapter are wonderfully quaint. The author of it says in his Prologus "In the name of ower sauiour criste Iesu, maker & redemour of al mankynd / I Lawrens Andrewe of the towne of Calis haue translated for Johannes doesborrowe, booke prenter in the cite of Andwarpe, this present volume deuyded in thre partes, which were neuer before in no maternall langage prentyd tyl now / As it is doubtful whether another copy of the book is known, I extract from the Third Part of this incomplete one such notices of the fish mentioned by Russell or Wynken de Worde, as it contains, with a few others for curiosity's sake: here after followeth of the natures of the fisshes of the See whiche be right profitable to be vnderstande / Wherof I wyll wryte be the helpe and grace of almighty god, to whose laude & prayse this mater ensueth. A CAP. PRIMO, Bremon* is a fruteful fisshe that hathe moche sede / but it is nat through mouynge of the he/ but only of the owne proper nature and than she rubbeth her belly upon the grounde or sande / and is sharpe in handelinge & salt of sauour / and this fisshe saueth her yonges in her bely whan it is tempestius weder / & when the weder is ouerpast, than she vomyteth them out agayne. áßpauis, a fish found in the sea and the Nile, perhaps the bream, Opp. Hal. i. 244. Liddell & Scott. Eel (Russell, 1. 719). Is of no sex; is best roasted. Herring (Russell, 1.722). fresh, (Russell, 1. 748) or salted. Cap. ij. Nguilla/ the Ele is lyke a serpent of fascyon, & may leue eight yere, & without water vi. dayes whan the wind is in the northe /in the winter they wyll haue moche water, & that clere / amonge them is nouther male nor female for they become fisshes of the slyme of other fisshes / they must be flayne / they suffer a longe dethe/ they be best rosted, but it is longe or they be ynouge / the droppinge of it is gode for paines in the eares. Cap. iij. Lec, the heringe, is a Fisshe of the see / & very many be taken betweene bretayn & germaia / & also in denmarke aboute a place named schonen / And he is best from the Is delicious when beginnynge of August to december / and when he is fresshe taken / he is a very delicious to be eten. And also whan he hath ben salted he is a specyall fode vnto man / He can nat Dies when it feels leue without water, for as sone as he feleth the ayre he is dede & they be taken in gret hepis togeder / & specially where they se light, there wyll they be, than so they be taken with nettis / which commeth be the diuyne Prouydens of almighty God. the air. Whale (Russell, 1. 582). Shipmen cast anchor on him, and make a fire on him. He swims away. and drowns them. Golden poll? Ahuna. A Cap. v. Spidochelon / as Phisiologus saith, it is a monstrous thinge in the see, it is a gret whale fisshe, & hath an ouer-growen rowgh skinne / & he is moste parte with his bake on hye aboue the water in such maner that some shypmen that see him, wene that it is a lytell ylande / & whan they come be it, they cast their ankers upon him / & go out of theyr shippes & make a fyre upon hym to dresse theyr metys/ and as sone as he feleth the hete of the fyre / thanne he swymmeth fro the place, & drowneth them, & draweth the shippe to the grounde / And his proper nature is, whan he hath yonges, that he openeth his mouthe wyde open/ & out of it fleeth a swete ayre / to the which the fisshes resorte, and than he eteth them. A A Aurata is a fysshe in the see that hathe a hede shinynge lyke golde. Cap. xi. Huna is a monster of the see very glorisshe, as Albertus saith/what it eteth it tourneth to greas in his body/ it hathe no mawe but a bely / & that he filleth so full that he When the Ahuna speweth it out agayne/ & that can he do so lyghtely / for he hath no necke / whan he is in peryl of dethe be other fisshes / than he onfacyoneth himselfe as rounde as a bowle, withdrawynge his hede into his bely / whan he hathe then hounger / He is in danger, he puts his head in his belly, and |