6 ci^e gitttroDuctton. 



But if the Scolopcndra havefticktin 

 The foyer e-fweet morfelwith the barbed pin. 

 She hath as rare a Trtckjo rid her from it ^ 

 For in(l ant ly file all her Guts will vomit ^ 

 • jlnd having clear'' d them from the danger^ then 

 She fair andjoftly fups them in agaiu^ 

 So that riot one of them within her Womb 

 Changeth his Office or his wonted room. 



The Remora is a Fifh of foftrange and fecret a pro- 

 perty (and for that reafon is often ufed for a Meta- 

 phor) that as the fame Du-Bartas faith. 



Let all the Winds in one Wind gather them. 

 And (fecondedwith Neptune'j (Irongeft fir earn) 

 Let all at once blow all their sltjfefi gales, 

 Aflern a Galley under all her jails ^ 

 Let her be holpen with an hundred Oars\ 

 Each lively handled by five lufiy Rowers ^ 

 The Remora fixing her feeble Horn 

 Into the Temfesi-beaten f^ejjels Stern^ 

 Stays her Stone-fit 11. 



In the year of our Lord i iSo, near Orford in Suf^ 

 folk:, there was a Fifii taken in theperfed fli/ipeof a 

 Man j he was kept by Bartholomew de Glanvtle in 

 the Caftle of Orford above halfa year ^ but at length, 

 not being carefully looked to, he Hole to the Sea, 

 and was never feen after. He never fpake^ but 

 would eat any Meat tnatwas given him, elp^cially 

 raw Filh, when he had fqueezcd out the juice : He was 

 often had to Church, but never fiiewed any iign of 

 Adoration. 



Let what is already fpoken of FiOi fnffice, fince it 

 ,«vijl not onely be inipcitin^nt to enjjjrge farther, but 



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