The Compleat ^Angler 



thou found it, eat no more than is sufficient, lest thou surfeit ; for it 

 is not good to eat much honey." And let me add this, that the un- 

 charitable Italian bids us " give eels and no wine to our enemies." 



And I will beg a little more of your attention to tell you Aldro- 

 vandus,and divers physicians, commend the eel very much for medicine, 

 though not for meat. But let me tell you one observation, that the eel 

 is never out of season, as trouts, and most other fish are at set times : at 

 least most eels are not. 



I might here speak of many other fish, whose shape and nature are 

 much like the eel, and frequent both the sea and fresh rivers ; as 

 namely, the lamprel, the lamprey, and the lamperne : as also of the 

 mighty conger, taken often in Severn, about Gloucester; and might 

 also tell in what high esteem many of them are for the curiosity of 

 their taste ; but these are not so proper to be talked of by me, because 

 they make us anglers no sport ; therefore I will let them alone, as the 

 Jews do, to whom they are forbidden by their law. 



And, scholar, there is also a flounder, a sea-fish, which will wander 

 very far into fresh rivers, and there lose himself and dwell; and 

 thrive to a hand's breadth, and almost twice so long : a fish without 

 scales, and most excellent meat ; and a fish that affords much sport 

 to the angler, with any small worm, but especially a little bluish worm 



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