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Orchun.

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rchun is a monster of the se/ whose lykenes can nat lightely be shewed / & he is mortal ennemye to the Is Balene's deadly balene, & tereth asonder the bely of the balene / & the balene is so boystous that he can nat turne hym to defende him, and that costeth him his lyfe / for as sone as he feleth him selfe wounded, than he sinketh doune to the botom of the water agayne & the Orchun throweth at him with stones / & thus balena endith his lyfe.

Pearl-Oyster.

Pagrus.

Sea-Peacock.

Percus.

Pecten: winks.

Pinna.

How he catches small fishes.

Plaice.

Polippus.

Rumbus.

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Cap. lxvi.

Stren is an oyster that openeth his shell to receyue the dewe & swete ayre. In the oyster groweth naturali orient perles that oftentymes laye on the see stronde, & be but lytell regarded, as Isidorus saith.

Pagr

Cap. lxvij.

agrus is a fisshe that hath so harde tethe that he byteth the oyster shelles in peces, & eteth out the fisshe of them. Nota. Pauus maris is the Pecocke of the Se, & is lyke the pecocke of the londe, bothe his backe, necke, & hede / & the nether body is fisshe Nota. Percus is of diuers colours, & swift in ronnynge in the water, & hathe sharpe finnes, & is a holsome mete for seke people. Pecten is a fisshe that is in sandy grounde, & whan he is meued or stered, he wynketh.

Pinna

Cap. lxx.

inna is a fisshe that layeth alwaye in the mudde, and hathe alway a lodisman, & some name it a lytel hoge, & it hathe a rounde body, & it is in a shell lyke a muscle; it layth in the mone as it were dede, gapyng open / and than the smale fisshes come into his shel, wening of him to take their repaste/ but whan he feleth that his shell is almoste ful than he closeth his mouthe, & taketh them & eteth them / & parteth them amonge his felowes. The playce is well knowen fisshe, for he is brode & blake on the one syde, and whyte on the other.

polippus

Cap. lxvij.

Olippus hath gret strength in his fete / what he therin cacheth, he holdeth it fast / he springeth somtyme vp to the shippes syde, & snacheth a man with him to the grounde of the see, & there eteth him / & that that he leueth, he casteth it out of his denne agayn / they be moche in the se about Venis & he is taken in barellis where hartys hornes be layd in / for he is gladly be those hornes.

Cap. lxxvij.

Umbus is a great fisshe stronge & bolde / but he is very

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soberly with swimmyng / therfor he layth him down in the grounde or mudde, & hideth him there and all the fisshes that he can ouercome / commynge forby him, he taketh and

eteth them.

Cap. lxxviij.

Ubus is a fisshe of the grekes se & of the sees of ytaly / Rubus. they be rounde lyke a ringe, & haue many rede spottes/ & is full of sharpe finnes & pinnis / he is slow in swimmynge because he is so brode / he gothe be the grounde, & wayteth there his praye/ & suche fisshes as he can gete he burieth in the sandes, & it is a very swete fisshe. Ryache be fisshes Ryache. that be rounde / somtyme they be in length & brede two cubites & it hath a long tayle / theron be sharpe pinnes / & it is slowe in swimmynge.

Salm

Cap. lxxix.

almo is a fysshe engendred in the swete water, & he waxeth Salmon. longe & gret / & also he is heuy / & his colour nor sauour

is nat gode tyll he haue ben in the salt water & proued it / thus draweth the samon to the water agaynst the streme; he neuer seaseth tyll he haue ben in the se and returned agayn to his olde home, as Phisiologua saith / his fisshe' is rede, & he may nat liue in a swet standinge water he must be in a fresshe riuer that he may playe up and doune at his plesure.

Sa

[1? fleshe.]

alpa is a fowle fisshe and lytell set by / for it will neuer be Salpa. Stockfish? ynough for no maner of dressinge tyll it haue ben beten

with grete hamers & staues.

Cap. lxxij.

Erra is a fysshe with great tethe, and on his backe he hathe Serra. sharpe fynnes lyke the combe of a cocke / and iagged

lyke a sawe wherewith thys monstrous fisshe cutteth a ship Cuts through thorough, & whan he seeth a shippe commynge, than he ships with his fins. setteth vp his finnes & thinketh to sayl with the shippe as fast as it but whan he seeth that he can nat continue / than he latteth his finnes fall agayn & destroieth the shippe with the people, and than eteth the dede bodyes. Nota. Scilla is Scylla. a monster in the see betwene Italye & Sicill/ it is great ennemye vnto man. It is faced & handed lyke a gentylwoman / but it hath a wyde mouthe & ferfull tethe/ & it is belied like a beste, & tayled lyke a dolphin / it hereth gladly singinge. It is in the water so stronge that it can nat be ouercome / but on the lond it is but weke.

Syrene

Cap. lxxxiij.

yrene. the mermayde is a dedely beste that bringeth a man Siren. gladly to dethe/ frome the nauyll vp she is lyke a woman

Siren is like an eagle below,

to mariners,

pieces.

with a dredfull face / a long slymye here, a grete body, & is lyke the egle in the nether parte / hauinge fete and talentis to tear asonder suche as she geteth / her tayl is scaled like a sings sweet songs fisshe/ and she singeth a maner of swete song, and therwith deceyueth many a gode mariner / for whan they here it, they fall on slepe commonly / & than she commeth, and draweth and tears them to them out of the shippe, and tereth them asonder / they bere their yonges in their armes, & geue them souke of their papis whiche be very grete, hanginge at their brestis / but the wyse maryners stoppe their eares whan they se her / for whan she playth on the water, all they be in fear, & than they cast out an empty tonne to let her play with it tyll they be past her / this is specifyed of them that haue sene it. Ther be also in some places of arabye, serpentis named sirenes, that ronne faster than an horse, & haue wynges to flye. [Cap. lxxxv.]

Sirens, serpents.

Solaris.

Sole.

Solopendria.

Sea-Scorpion.

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Sturgeon.

Eats no food, has no mouth,

Olaris is a fishe so named because it is gladly be the londes

& a blake skine, & slipper as an ele / it waxeth gret, & is gode to be eten. Solea is the sole, that is a swete fisshe and holsom for seke people.

So

Cap. lxxxvi.

Olopendria is a fisshe whan he hathe swalowed in an angle, than he spueth out al his guttes till he be quyt of the hoke / and than he gadereth in all his guttes agayne. The' Scorpion of the see is so named because whan he is taken in any mannys handes he pricketh him with his stinge of his tayle. Plinius saith that the dede creuyce that layeth on the drye sonde be the see syde, becommeth scorpyons.

Cap. lxxxix.

Turio / the sturgion is a gret fisshe in the ronninge waters / and he taketh no fode in his body, but lyueth of the styl and swete ayres therfore he hathe a small bely / with a hede and no mouthe, but vnder his throte he hathe a hole that he closeth whan he wyll he openeth it whan it is fayre grows fat on east weder / & with an east wynde he waxeth fat / and whan that the north winde bloweth, than falleth he to the grounde / it is a fisshe of ix. fote longe whan he is ful growen / he hath Has no bones in whyte swete flesshe & yolow fatte / & he hathe no bone in all his body but only in his hede.

wind.

his body.

Tench.

Cap. xcij.

Ecna is a tenche of the fresshe water, and is fedde in the

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Tintinalus.

swete fisshe, but it is euyll to disiest. ¶Tintinalus is a fayre

mery fisshe, & is swete of sauour, & well smellinge lyke the
tyme, where of it bereth the name. Torpido is a fisshe. Torpedo.
but who-so handeleth hym shalbe lame & defe of lymmes /
that he shall fele no thyng / & it hathe a maner of Squitana
that is spoken of in the lxxxiiii. chapter', and his nature.

2

Cap. xciij.

¶ Trncka / the trowte is a fisshe of the ryuer, & Trout. [2 for Trutta] hathe scales, & vpon his body spottys of yelow and blodye coloure. & his fisshe3 is rede frome the monthe of July to the monthe of Nouember / and is moche sweter than the fresshe samon; and all the other part of the yere his fisshe3 is whyte.

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Cap. xcv.

[3 ? flesshe]

Estudo is a fysshe in a shelle / & is in the se of Inde/ & his Testudo. shelle is very great & like a muskle / & be nyght they go out for theyr mete / & whan they haue eten theyr bely full than they slepe swymming vpon the water. than ther come iij. fisshers botes / of the wiche .iij. twayn take one of these muskles. Solinus sayth. that this muskle hathe his vppermest shell so brode that it may couere a howse / where many folke may hyde them vnder / And it gothe out the water vpon the londe / & there it layth an hondred egges as grete as gose eggis / and couer them with erth / & oftentymes be night it gothe to the eggys & layeth vpon them with her brest, & than become they yonges.

[This copy of Admiral Swinburne's Andrewe ends with the next column of this page, sign. v. i. back, with an illustration not headed, but which is that to Cap. xcvij.]

Squatinus is a fisshe in the se, of fiue cubites longe: his tayle is a fote brode, & he hideth him in the slimy mudde of the se, & marreth al other fisshes that come nigh him: it hath so sharpe a skinne that in som places they shaue wode with it, & bone also / on his skinne is blacke short here. The nature hathe made him so harde that he can nat almoste be persed with nouther yron nor stele.

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Note to Balena, p. 231. bar [in pe se of Brytain] bup ofte ytake dolphyns, & se-calves, & balenes, (gret fysch, as hyt were of whaales kinde) & dyvers manere schyl-fysch, among þe whoche schyl-fysch bup moskles þat habbep wipynne ham margey perles of al manere colour of hug, of rody & red, of purpre & of bluz, & specialych & moost of whyte. Trevisa's Higden, in Morris's Specimens, p. 334. For the cocke of Balena' see Musculus, p. 235, above; and for its' mortal ennemye,' Orchun, p. 236.

the best cure is Boxing.

Wilyam Bulleyn on

Borong & Neckeweede.

(From The Booke of Compoundes, fol. lxviii.)

Sicknes.

Will boxyng doe any pleasure?

Health.

Ea forsothe, verie moche: As example, if you haue

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any sausie loughte, or loitryng lubber within your For saucy louts, house, that is either to busy of his hand or tongue : and can do nothing but plaie one of the partes of the .24. orders of knaues. There is no pretier medicen for this, nor soner prepared, then boxyng is: iii. or .iiii. tymes well set on, a span long on bothe the chekes. And although perhaps this will not alter his lubberly condicions, yet I assure you, it wil for a time chaunge his knauishe complexion, and helpe him of the grene sicknes and euery man maie practise this, as occasion shall serue hym in his familie, to reforme them. Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence, 1562.

The names of
Hemp.

(From The booke of Simples, fol. xxvii. back.)

Marcellus.

Here is an herbe whiche light fellowes merily will

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call Gallowgrasse, Neckeweede, or the Tristrams knot, or Saynt Audres lace, or a bastarde brothers badge, with a difference on the left side, &c. you know my meaning.

Hillarius.

WHat, you speake of Hempe? mary, you terme it

with manie pretie names. I neuer heard the like

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