112 SHAKESPEARE’S (rise. 
Jong time. Also the serpent doth away his venom ere he 
gender with the lamprey. Also Fish conceive of dew only 
as oysters and other shell-fish. Fish that be called Elich 
come out of the water by night, and conceive in land of 
the morrow dew, and bring forth their brood; and in 
waning of the moon their shells be void. Also Fish is 
stirred to conceive and to breed by rising and down-going 
of stars. So Fish that hight Australis arise, when the stars 
that hight Pleiades begin to go down, and be not seen till 
Pleiades arise again. Generally Fish be giuttons, and covet 
much meat. And generally Fish travail more by day than 
by night, and more tofore midnight than after. And there- 
fore they be hunted tofore the sun rise, and then fishers set 
their nets; for that time fish see not. Full well they see 
when light increaseth; but by night they seek their meat 
by smelling. Also there is some kind of great huge Fish 
with great bodies and huge, as it were mountains and hills; 
such was the whale that swallowed Jonas the prophet ; his 
womb was so great that it might be called hell. The 
barnacle [g.v.] when he knoweth and feeleth that tempest 
of wind and weathers be great, he cometh and taketh a 
great stone, and holdeth him fast thereby, as it were by an 
anchor, lest he be smitten away, and thrown about with 
waves of the sea. And so he saveth not himself by his own 
strength, but helpeth to save himself by heaviness and weight 
that is not his own. And is made steadfast and stable 
against the coming of tempest and storm. And shipmen 
see this and beware that they be not overset unwarily with 
tempest and with storms. Heads of salt Fish burnt 
healeth the biting of a wood hound, and the stinging of 
a scorpion, Also the juice of every Fish helpeth 
against venom that is drunken, and against venomous 
stingings. [Cooper (“ Thesaurus,” s.v.) adds “The mugil 
[i.e. mullet] is of all scaled Fishes the swiftest, of colour 
white, having a great belly, and in greediness unsatiable ; 
when he is full he lieth still in one place, and being afraid 
hideth his head, deeming thereby that no part of his body 
is seen, They are so desirous each of other's kind, that 
when fishers hang a male of that sort on their line, all the 
females resort un‘o it, and so be taken; and likewise do 
all the males to the females.”] Also of a Fish which hight 
estaurus; for among Fish only that Fish cheweth his cud: 
