DOLPHIN. | NATURAL HISTORY. 89 
Dog-fish. 
i. Kinc Henry VI, i. 4, 107. 
Tue Dog-fish is a terrible monster, and hostile to all 
living creatures, which die from its blows. These hunt the 
shoals of fish in the sea, like dogs hunting wild beasts on 
land, except that they cannot bark ; but instead of a bark 
they have a horrible breath. These monsters are with 
difficulty killed by many fish-spears. Its gall is said to be 
poison, and if any one eats the quantity of a bean of it, 
he dies after a week. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. iv. ch. xvii. 
Dolphin. 
i, Kinc Henry VI, i. 4, 107. 
Tue Dolphins follow man’s voice, and come together in 
flocks to the voice of the symphony, and have liking in 
harmony; and in the sea is nothing more swift than 
Dolphins be. For oft they startle [spring] and overleap 
ships, the whose leaping and playing in the waves of the 
sea tokeneth tempest. And in the river of Nile is a kind 
of Dolphins with ridges [back-bones], toothed as a saw, 
