DOLPHIN.] 



Dog-fish. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



i. KING HENRY VI., i. 4, 107. 



THE Dog-fish is a terrible monster, and hostile to all 

 living creatures, which die from its blows. These hunt the 

 shoals of fish in the sea, like dogs hunting wild beasts on 

 land, except that they cannot bark ; but instead of a bark 

 they have a horrible breath. These monsters are with 

 difficulty killed by many fish-spears. Its gall is said to be 

 poison, and if any one eats the quantity of a bean of it, 

 he dies after a week. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch. xvii. 



Dolphin. 



i. KING HENRY VI., i. 4, 107. 



THE Dolphins follow man's voice, and come together in 

 flocks to the voice of the' symphony, and have liking in 

 harmony ; and in the sea is nothing more swift than 



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olphins be. For oft they startle [spring] and overleap 

 ships, the whose leaping and playing in the waves of the 

 sea tokeneth tempest. And in the river of Nile is a kind 

 Dolphins with ridges [back-bones], toothed as a saw, 



