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that Trout bit not for hunger but wantonness ; and it is the 

 rather to be believed, because both he then, and many others 

 before him, have been curious to search into their bellies, what 

 the food was by which they lived ; and have found out nothing by 

 which they might satisfy their curiosity. 



Concerning which you are to take notice, that it is reported by 

 good authors, 5 that grasshoppers * and some fish have no mouths, 

 but are nourished and take breath by the porousness of their 

 gills, man knows not how : and this may be believed, if we con- 

 sider that when the raven hath hatched her eggs, she takes no 

 further care, but leaves her young ones to the care of the God of 

 nature, who is said, in the Psalms, " to feed the young ravens 

 that call upon him." And they be kept alive and fed by a dew ; 

 or worms that breed in their nests ; or some other ways that we 

 mortals know not. And this may be believed of the Fordidge 

 Trout, which, as it is said of the stork, that he knows his season, 

 so he knows his times, I think almost his day of coming into 

 that river out of the sea ; where he lives, and, it is like, feeds, 

 nine months of the year, and fasts three in the river of Fordidge. 

 And you are to note, that those townsmen are very punctual in 

 observing the time of beginning to fish for them ; and boast much, 

 that their river affords a Trout that exceeds all others. And just 

 so does Sussex boast of several fish ; as, namely, a Shelsey 

 Cockle, a Chichester Lobster, an Arundel Mullet, and an Amerly 

 Trout. 



And, now, for some confirmation of the Fordidge Trout : you 

 are to know that this Trout is thought to eat nothing in the fresh 

 water ; and it may be the better believed, because it is well 

 known, that swallows, and bats, and wagtails, which are called 



VARIATION. 



5 That there is a fish that hath not any mouth, but lives by taking breath by the 

 porings of her gills, and feeds and is nouiished by no man Knows what, and this may be 

 believed of the Fordidge Trout, &c. zd, ^d, and j^th. edit. 



* It has been said by naturalists, particularly by Sir Theodore Mayerne, in an Epistle 

 to Sir William Paddy, prefixed to the translation of Mouffet's Theatr. Insect, printed 

 with Topsel's History of four-footed Beasts and Serpents, that the grasshopper has no 

 mouth, but a pipe in his breast, through which it sucks the dew, which is its nutriment. 

 There are two sorts, the green and the dun ; some say there is a third, of a yellowish 

 green. They are found in tang grass, from June to the end of September, and even in 

 October, if the weather be mild. In the middle of May, you will see, in the joints of 

 rosemary, thistles, and almost all the larger weeds, a white fermented froth, which the 

 country-people call Cnckoius Spit ; in these the eggs of the grasshopper are deposited ; 

 and if you examine them, you will never fail in finding a yellowish insect, of about the 

 size and shape of a grain of wheat, which, doubtless, is the young grasshopper. A 

 passage to this purport is in Leigh's History of Lancashire, page 148. H. 



