CHAP, v.] THE FOURTH DAY. 119 



and, in them, several fish that appeared and came when they 

 were called by their particular names.* And St James tells us,f 

 that all things in the sea have been tamed by mankind. And 

 Pliny tells us,J that Antonia, the wife of Drusus, had a Lamprey 

 at whose gills she hung jewels or ear-rings ; and that others have 

 been so tender-hearted as to shed tears at the death of fishes 

 which they have kept and loved. And these observations, which 

 will to most hearers seem wonderful, seem to have a further con- 

 firmation from Martial,§ who writes thus : — • 



Piscator, fuge : 7ie noceits^ &'c. 

 Angler 1 wouldst thou be guiltless ? then forbear ; 

 For these are sacred fishes that swim here. 

 Who know their sovereign, and will lick his hand, 

 Than which iione's greater in the world's command : 

 Nay more, they've names, and, when they called ar«, 

 Do to their several owner's call repair, 



All the further use that I shall make of this shall be, to advise 

 anglers to be patient, and forbear swearing, lest they be heard, 

 and catch no fish.y 



And so I shall proceed next to tell you, it is certain that certain 

 fields near Leominster, a town in Herefordshire, are observed to 

 make the sheep that graze upon them more fat than the next, and 

 also to bear finer wool ; that is to say, that that year in which 

 they feed in such a particular pasture, they shall yield finer wool 

 than they did that year before they came to feed in it ; and 

 coarser, again, if they shall return to their former pasture ; and, 

 again, return to a finer wool, being fed in the fine-wool ground : 

 which I tell you, that you may the better believe that I am certain, 

 if I catch a Trout in one meadow, he shall be white and faint, 

 and very like to be lousy ; and, as certainly, if I catch a Trout in 

 the next meadow, he shall be strong, and red, and lusty, and 

 much better meat. Trust me, scholar, I have caught many a 

 Trout in a particular meadow, that the very shape and the 

 enamelled colour of him hath been such as hath joyed me to look 



* Mens. 'Bernier, in his /Tif/crj' ^-^"'^"^'^'I'^i reports the like of the Great Mogul.— H. 

 t Chap. iii. 7. t Lib. ix, 35. 



2 Lib. iv. Epigr. 30. The verses cited are as follow : — 

 ** Piscator, fuge ; ne nocens recedas, 

 Sacris piscibus hse nacantur undae ; 

 Qui nfirunt dominum, manumque lambunt 

 Illam, qui nihil est, in orbe, majus : 

 Quid, quod nomen habent ; et ad magistri 

 Vocem quisque sui venit citatus." 

 I This saying occurs in Sicelides a Piscatory [by Fhineas Fletcher], as it hath been 

 acted in King's College in Cambridge. LoTid. 1631, 4to. 



" Nay if you sweare, we shall catch no fish." 



