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" Nam pisces omnes, qui stagna, lacusque frequentant, 

 Semper plus succi deterioris habent." 3 



" All fish that standing pools and lakes frequent 

 Do ever yield bad juice and nourishment." 



Lampreys, Paulus Jovius, c. 34, de piscibus fluvial., 

 highly magnifies, and saith, None speak against them, but 

 infpti et scrupulosi, some scrupulous persons : but eels, 

 c. 33, "he abhorreth in all places, at all times, all physicians 

 detest them, especially about the solstice." Gomesius, 

 lib. 1, c.22/tfe sale, doth immoderately extol sea-fish, which 

 others as much vilify, and above the rest, dried, soused, 

 indurate fish, as ling, fumados, red-herrings, sprats? 

 sleek-fish, haberdine, poor-John, all shell-fish. Tim. 

 Bright excepts lobster and crab. Messarius commends 

 salmon, which Bruerinus contradicts, lib. 22, c. 17. 

 Magninus rejects conger, sturgeon, turbot, mackerel, skate. 



" Carp is a fish of which I know not what to determine. 

 Franciscus Bonsuetus accounts it a muddy fish. Hippo- 

 litus Salvianus, in his Book de Piscium naturd et prcepa- 

 ratione, which was printed at Rome in folio, 1554, with 

 most elegant pictures, esteems carp no better than a slimy 

 watery meat. Paulus Jovius on the other side, disallowing 

 tench, approves of it ; so doth Dubravius in his books of 

 Fish-ponds. Freitagius extols it for an excellent whole- 

 some meat, and .puts it amongst the fishes of the best 

 rank; and so do most of our country gentlemen that 



3 Lib. De Aquatilibus. 



