220 THE COMPLETE ANGLEE. [PART I. 



Gesner reports, that in Poland, a certain and a great 

 number of large breams were put into a pond, which in the 

 next following winter were frozen up into one entire ice, 

 and not one drop of water remaining, nor one of these fish 

 to be found, though they were diligently searched for ; and 

 yet the next spring when the ice was thawed, and the 

 weather warm, and fresh water got into the pond, he affirms 

 they all appeared again. This Gresner affirms, and I quote 

 my author, because it seems almost as incredible as the 

 resurrection to an atheist. But it may win something in 

 point of believing it, to him that considers the breeding or 

 renovation of the silk-worm, and of many insects. And 

 that is considerable which Sir Francis Bacon observes in his 

 " History of Life and Death," folio 20, that there be some 

 herbs that die and spring every year, and some endure longer. 



But though some do not, yet the French esteem this fish 

 highly, and to that end have this proverb, " He that hath 

 breams in his pond, is able to bid his friend welcome." 

 And it is noted, that the best part of a bream is his belly 

 and head. 1 



Some say, that breams and roaches will mix their eggs 

 and melt together, and so there is in many places a bastard- 

 breed of breams, that never come to be either large or good, 

 but very numerous. 



The baits good to catch this 



Bream 



1 Connoisseurs commend the head of a carp, the back of a tench, the 

 middle of a bream, and the tail of a pike. BROWNE. 



2 The bream, according to Sir William Dugdale, appears to have been 

 Considered a great luxury in England, for in the 7th of Henry V. it was 



