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nourishment, But it is not good to eat too much of, 
specially for those of weak stomach, or who suffer from 
gout or stone, because it breedeth gross and phlegmatic 
juice. 
Allowes is taken in -he same place as salmon, it is Allowes. 
meetly pleasant to the taste. Yields much, and some- 
what a thick nourishment, vet not ill, so it be well con- 
cocted in the stomach; but it is of hard concoction, 
wherefore it is hurtful to them of weak stomach, and that 
are by constitution phlegmatic and melancholy. The 
allowes that tarry in and are taken in sweet waters is 
wholesomer than that of the sea; for it is fatter, of 
tenderer substance, of easier concoction, and of better 
savour. 
The guilthead or goldine is whiter, and not quite so Guilthead. 
hard as the allowes, therefore of easier concoction and 
better nourishment. It is only in season in the winter, 
when he is sweeter in taste; and is convenient for every 
age, temperature of body, so that the stomach be strong 
enough to take it. 
The calaminary sea-cur or cuttlefish and poure-cuttle are Calaminary. 
even of one and the same nature; they are of hard concoc- Collette 
tion, and fill the body with crude and gross humours. 
They may, when in want of better meat, serve mariners 
and rusticall bodies, who through strength of stomach and 
hard labour are able to convert any gross neat into good 
nourishment. The small ones are best, being more tender 
and easily digested. They are all hurtful to them who 
have weak sinews, and are subject to the palsey. 
The wolf-fish is of cold, moist temperature, pleasant taste, The Wolf. 
and easy of concoction. It breedeth a cold, thin, waterish 
juice, and therefore such as are phlegmatic and rheumatic 
perpetually shun the use of it. 
The lump or lomp-fish, so named from his shape, is in Lompfish. 
taste agreeable to the name; it is hard of concoction, 
and of gross excremental juice. 
The conger is a large round fish like unto an eel, and is Conger. 
