400 ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 



breame, roch, dace, eels, or such like, as will live 

 and breed together. It is not possible to tell the 

 names of all the fishes to be found in our rivers. Yet, 

 lest I seem incurious to the reader, in not delivering so 

 many of them as have been brought to my know-v 

 ledge, I will not let to set them down as they do 

 come to mind. 



Salmon. First, salmon, which is not to be taken from the 



middst of September to the middst of November, are 

 very plentifull in our greatest rivers, as their young 

 store are not to be touched from mid- April to Mid- 

 summer. We have 



Trout, barbell, graile, powt, chenin, pike, gudgeon, 

 smelt, perch, menan, shrimps, crenises, lampreies, and 

 such like, whose preservation is provided for by divers 

 laws ; not only in rivers but in lakes and ponds which 

 otherwise would be small value to their owners. 



Friendship of The pike is friend unto the tench. The fish- 

 pike to tench. 



monger openeth the side of the pike and layeth bare 



the fat unto the buyer, for the better utterance of his 

 ware, and cannot make him away at the present ; he 

 laieth the same again in the proper place, and sewing 

 up the wound, he restoreth him to the pond where 

 tenches are ; who never cease to lick and suck his 

 greeved places till they have restored him to health 

 and made him ready to come again to the stall when 

 his turn come about. 



I might here make report how pike, carp, and some 

 other of our river fishes are sold by inches of clean 

 fish, from the gills to the crotch of the tail, but it is 

 needless ; also how the pike as he ageth receiveth 

 divers names ; as from a frie to a gilthed, pod, tacke, 

 pickerell, pike, and last of all luce. Also that salmon is 



