coNncER.] NATURAL HISTORY. 69 
Cony: 
They will out of their burrows like conies after rain. 
CorioLanus, iv. 5, 226-7 
Contes be called small hares and feeble, and they dig 
the earth with their claws, and make them bowers and 
dens under the earth, and dwell therein, and bring forth 
many rabbits, and multiply right much. And rabbits be 
so loved in the Balearic Isles that those rabbits without 
mothers be taken and eaten of the men of the country, 
though the guts be unneath cleansed. As many dens as 
be in the increasing [excrement (Bartholomew)| of the 
Conies, so many years they have of age. In [that part of] 
the body be so many holes as the Conies have years. It 
is said that they have both sexes, male and female. And is a 
profitable beast both to meat and to clothing, and to many 
manner medicines, Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 68. 
By night he devours vine-shoots and fruits, but in the 
morning he enters his den, and makes the opening of it 
level with the soil by dust from within, lest men coming 
past by day should find out his dwelling. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. ch. xlv. 
Conger. 
Eats conger and fennel. 
ii, Kinc Hewry IV., li. 4, 229. 
ConceER is a sea-fish, as long as a lamprey, but much 
larger in the body. When the wind blows strongly it 
grows fat, and its flesh is most sweet to eat. It 1s an 
enemy to lampreys and other fish, yet it is strong, so that 
it can tear a polypus by the strength of its teeth. The 
Conger and the lamprey hate one another, and bite each 
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other’s tails. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iti. ch. xxiv. 
Tue Conger hath many wiles, and is witty and wily of 
getting of meat, for when he seeth meat on a hook, he 
dreadeth the hook, and biteth not the bait, but holdeth 
