T14 SHAKESPEARE’S [ FITCHEW. 
Tue pike is friend unto the tench as to his leech and 
surgeon ; for when the fishmonger hath opened his side and 
laid out his rivet and fat unto the buyer, for the better 
utterance of his ware, and cannot make him away at that 
present, he layeth the same again into the proper place, and 
sewing up the wound, he restoreth him to the pond where 
tenches are, who never cease to suck and lick his grieved 
place, till they have restored him to health, and made him 
ready to come again to the stall, when his turn shall come 
about. It is believed with no less assurance of some than 
that an horse-hair, laid in a pail full of the like [i.e., fenny | 
water, will in short time stir and become a living creature. 
Holinshed, “Description of Britain,” pp. 223-4. 
Tue Lomond Lake [hath] fleeting isles and Fish with- 
out fins, Ibid., p. 88. 
[In Cuba] fishermen after a strange fashion used to hunt 
Fish, and take them by the help of another Fish, which 
they kept tied in a cord by the boat’s side, and when they 
espied a Fish loosed the cord; this hunting Fish presently 
lays hold on the prey, and, with a skin like a purse grow- 
ing behind her head, graspeth it so fast that by no means 
it can be taken from her, till they draw her up above the 
water. Purchas “Pilgrims,” p. go4 (ed. 1616). 
Fitchew. 
A dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, 
or a herring without a row. 
Troitus ano Cressipa, v. 1, 67. 
V. Pole-cat. 
Tue skin is stiff, harsh and rugged in handling, and 
therefore long lasting in garments, yet the savour of it is 
so rank, that it is not in any great request, and moreover 
it offendeth the head, and produceth ache therein, and 
therefore it is sold cheaper than a fox-skin. 
Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” p. 172, 
