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and this Fish is right witty. For when he knoweth that he 
is entered, and is within the dangers of the fishers’ gin, he 
reseth not forth headlong, neither putteth his head between 
the rolls of the gin; but he beateth fast on the other side 
with his tail, and beginneth to make him a way with 
breaking and renting of rods, and so passeth backward. 
And if it happen that another Fish of the same kind seeth 
this doing, and how he travaileth for to break out, he 
busieth to help him, and taketh his tail in his mouth, and 
helpeth as he may to draw him out, and deliver him of 
the gin, Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xiii. § 26. 
V. also Crab, Oyster, Lamprey, Whale, Conger, etc. 
. Beccars are sometimes carted in pairs of paniers or in 
dossers like fresh Fish from Rye, that comes on horseback. 
Dekker’s “Lanthorn and Candlelight,” ch. viii, 
Heaven is not pleased with our vocation. I speak it 
to my grief, and to the burthen of my conscience, we fry 
our Fish with salt butter. 
Marston's “Dutch Courtezan,” ii, 3, 12. 
He, excellent in love as the sea-inhabitant, 
Of whom ’tis writ that, when the flattering hook 
Has struck his female, he will help her off, 
Although he desperately put on himself, 
But if he fail, and see her leave his eye, 
He swims to land, will languish, and there die— 
Such is his love to me. 
Robt. Davenport, “City Nightcap,” Act v, (1624). 
In Snowdonie are two lakes, whereof one beareth a 
movable island, which is carried to and fro as the wind 
bloweth ; the other hath three kinds of Fishes in it, as eels, 
trouts and perches; but herein resteth the wonder, that all 
those have but one eye apiece only, and the same situate in 
the right side of their heads. 
Holinshed, “Description of Britain,” p. 129 (ed. 1586). 
Tue osprey, both alive and dead, yea even her very oil 
is a deadly terror to such Fish as come within the wind 
of it. Ibid, p. 227. 
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