Salmon. 
Friendship of 
pike to tench, 
70 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 
breame, roch, dace, eels, or such like, as will live 
and breed together. It is not possible to tell the 
names of all the fishes to be found in our rivers, Yet, 
lest I seem incurious to the reader, in not delivering so 
many of them as have been brought to my know- 
ledge, I will not let to set them down as they do 
come to mind. 
First, salmon, which is not to be taken from the 
middst of September to the middst of November, are 
very plentifull in our greatest rivers, as their young 
store are not to be touched from mid-April to Mid- 
summer. We have 
Trout, barbell, graile, powt, chenin, pike, gudgeon, 
smelt, perch, menan, shrimps, crenises, lampreies, and 
such like, whose preservation is provided for by divers 
laws; not only in rivers but in lakes and ponds which 
otherwise would be small value to their owners, 
The pike is friend unto the tench. The fish- 
monger openeth the side of the pike and layeth bare 
the fat unto the buyer, for the better utterance of his 
ware, and cannot make him away at the present ; he 
laieth the same again in the proper place, and sewing 
up the wound, he restoreth him to the pond where 
tenches are; who never cease to lick and suck his 
ereeved places till they have restored him to health 
and made him ready to come again to the stall when 
his turn come about. 
I might here make report how pike, carp, and some 
other of our river fishes are sold by inches of clean 
fish, from the gills to the crotch of the tail, but it is 
needless ; also how the pike as he ageth receiveth 
divers names; as from a frie to a gilthed, pod, tacke, 
pickerell, pike, and last of all /uce. Also that salmon is 
