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loathing and sickness of stomach, and breed excremental 
nourishment. ‘They are convenient for labouring-men and 
those who have strong stomach. | 
Dogfish and hake are near of nature; not of hard con- Dogfish. 
coction, but yet scarcely of laudable nourishment, for they 12: 
increase crude and waterish humours. 
Codfish, for whiteness of colour, and moderate hardness Codfish. 
and friability of substance, is commended. It is easily 
digested, and yieldeth meetly strong nourishment, and not 
very excremental. Being salted, dried, and so kept, it 
becomes of harder concoction and worse nourishment. 
Haddock is pleasant to taste, in nature somewhat like Haddock. 
cod, but it is of lighter concoction, and not of so firm 
and durable nourishment. 
Mullet is somewhat of a hard substance, yet if taken in Mullet. 
gravelly and stony shore, is not of hard digestion. It is of 
pleasant taste, and meetly good nourishment; but if taken 
in a muddy place, is not easily digested, is hurtful to the 
stomach, and breedeth gross and excremental humours. 
The smaller mullets are the best. 
Bass is, in goodness of juice, inferior to mullet, fer it is Bass. 
of harder concoction, and breedeth a more gross and slimey 
nourishment. Both mullet and bass are agreeable for them 
who are of hot temperature and have strong stomachs. 
Salmon is ranked with the best sort of fish; it is pleasant Salmon, 
to taste, and not hard of digestion. It maketh good 
nourishment ; in consistence neither clammy or gross, yet 
it quickly oppresseth a weak stomach ; wherefore let such as 
have weak stomach and are infirm so carefully moderate 
appetite, as that the jucundity of it intice them not to a 
perilous and nauseative fulness. And it is not good for 
them that have strong stomachs to eat too much of it, for 
it soon weakeneth the stomach, subverteth appetite, and that 
oftentimes with the danger of a deadly surfeit. The belly is 
to be chosen before any other part, because it is tenderer, 
and of a more sweet and pleasant taste. ‘The eyes of a 
salmon are far wholesomer than the eyes of any other fish. 
