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have no tongues like other fiih, but 

 a piece of flefh-like-fifh in their 

 mouth like to a tongue, and may 

 be fo called, but it is certain it is 

 choicely good, and that the Carp is 

 to be reckoned amongft thofe lea- 

 ther mouthed fifh, which I told you 

 have their teeth in their throat, and 

 for that reafon he is very feldome 

 loft by breaking his hold, if your 

 hook bee once ftuck into his 

 chaps. 



I told you, that Sir Francis Bacon 

 thinks that the Carp lives but ten 

 years ; but Janus Dubravms (a Ger- 

 mane as I think) has writ a bookin 

 Latine of Fifh and Fifh Ponds, in 

 which he fayes, that Carps begin 

 to Spawn at the age of three yeers, 

 and continue to dofo till thirty; he 

 fayes alfo, that in the time of their 

 breeding, which is in Summer when 

 the Sun hath warmed both the earth 

 and water, and fo apted them alfo 

 for generation, that then three or 



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