THE FIFTH DAY. 



CHAP. XVIII. Of the MINNOW or PENK, of the LOACH, andoj 

 the BULL-HEAD, or MILLER'S-THUMB. 



PISCATOR. 



THERE be also three or four other little fish that I had 

 almost forgot, that all are without scales ; and may, for 

 excellency of meat, be compared to any fish of greatest value 

 and largest size. They be usually full of eggs or spawn all the 

 months of summer ; for they breed often, as 't is observed mice 

 and many of the smaller four-footed creatures of the earth do ; 

 and as those, so these come quickly to their full growth and 

 perfection. And it is needful that they breed both often and 

 numerously ; for they be, besides other accidents of ruin, both 

 a prey and baits for other fish. And first I shall tell you of the 

 MINNOW or PENK. 





