HONEY.] NATURAL HISTORY. 157 



[The Dutch caught the Herrings in English waters, and sold 

 them to Englishmen, so that they were sold in England at 

 20s. to 303. the barrel ; cf. " England's Way to Win Wealth " 

 (1614); but "the English export into Italy great quantity of 

 red Herrings " (Fynes Morysoiis " Itinerary," bk. iii. p. 148), 

 though this trade was afterwards encroached on by the Dutch. 



As to the cooking of the red Herring: "Take well in worth 

 a farthing- worth of flour to white him over and wamble him 

 in " (Nasfts " Lenten Stuff"). He was " hosted, roasted and 

 toasted" (ibid.}, "powdered and salted" (ibid.}, and was served 

 with mustard (ibid., and Greenes " Looking-Glass for London," 

 etc.), or with " oil and onion, crowned with a lemon-pill " 

 (Beaumont and Fletcher s " Elder Brother "). The first dish that 

 was brought up to table (at Queen's College, Oxford) on Easter 

 Day was a red Herring riding away on horseback, i.e., a Herring 

 ordered by the cook something after the likeness of a man on 

 horseback set in a corn salad (Aubrey's MS. Account of English 

 Customs (1678).] 



Hind. V. Deer, 

 Hog. V. Swine. 

 Honey. 



KING HENRY V., i. 2, 199. 



PHYSICIANS tell, that treat of kind of things, that Honey 

 is unprofitable meat and grievous to children and young 

 men, in the which is much heat, and according to full old 

 men and cold, with wine and with hot meats. Also' for 

 Honey is even and temperate, Honey is much according 

 and friend to kind, and likeneth itself much to the 

 members. Honey keepeth and saveth and cleanseth and 

 tempereth bitterness, and is therefore put in Conservatives, 

 and cleanseth medicines to temper bitterness of spicery. 

 But raw Honey not well clarified is right ventuous, and 

 breedeth a fever that hight Diurna, and stretcheth and to- 

 hauleth the body under the small ribs. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet}, bk. xix. 54. 



