FISH.] NATURAL HISTORY. 113 



and this Fish is right witty. For when he knoweth that he 

 is entered, and is within the dangers of the fishers' gin, he 

 reseth not forth headlong, neither putteth his head between 

 the rolls of the gin ; but he beateth fast on the other side 

 with his tail, and beginneth to make him a way with 

 breaking and renting of rods, and so passeth backward. 

 And if it happen that another Fish of the same kind seeth 

 this doing, and how he travaileth for to break out, he 

 busieth to help him, and taketh his tail in his mouth, and 

 helpeth as he may to draw him out, and deliver him of 

 the gin. Bartholomew (Eerthelet\ hk. xiii. 26. 



V. also Crab, Oyster, Lamprey, Whale, Conger, etc. 



BEGGARS are sometimes carted in pairs of paniers or in 

 dossers like fresh Fish from Rye, that comes on horseback. 

 Dekkers "Lanthorn and Candlelight," ch. viii, 



HEAVEN is not pleased with our vocation. I speak it 

 to my grief, and to the burthen of my conscience, we fry 

 our Fish with salt butter. 



Marstons "Dutch Courtezan," ii. 3, 12. 



HE, excellent in love as the sea-inhabitant, 



Of whom 'tis writ that, when the flattering hook 



Has struck his female, he will help her off, 



Although he desperately put on himself, 



But if he fail, and see her leave his eye, 



He swims to land, will languish, and there die 



Such is his love to me. 



Robt. Davenport, "City Nightcap," Act v. (1624). 



IN Snowdonie are two lakes, whereof one beareth a 

 movable island, which is carried to and fro as the wind 

 bloweth ; the other hath three kinds of Fishes in it, as eels, 

 trouts and perches ; but herein resteth the wonder, that all 

 those have but one eye apiece only, and the same situate in 

 the right side of their heads. 



Holimked, "Description of Britain," p. 129 (ed. 1586). 



THE osprey, both alive and dead, yea even her very oil 

 is a deadly terror to such Fish as come within the wind 

 of it. ibid,, p . 227 . 



