468 CARP CYPRINE. Class IV. 



whom we were also indebted for that excellent 

 apple the pepin. The many good things that 

 our island wanted before that period, are enu- 

 merated in this old distich : 



Turkies, carps, hops, pickerel, and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year. 



That the carp, however, was known here 

 long before, is proved by the following extract* 

 made from the Boke of St. Aldan's printed at 

 Westminster, by JVynkyn de IVorde, in the year 

 1496\ 



' The carpe is a dayntous fisshe, but there 

 ben but fewe in Englonde, and therfore I 

 wryte the casse of him. For he is too stronge 

 enarmyd in the mouthe that there may noo 

 weke harnays hold hym. And as touchyne 

 his baytes, I have but lytyll knoolege of it, 

 and we were loth to wryte more than I know 

 and have provyd. But well I wote that the 

 redde worm and the menow ben good baytyn 

 for him at all tymes, as I have herd saye of 

 persones credyble, and also founde wryten in 

 bokes of credence.' 



Russia wants these fishes at this day ; Sweden 

 has them only in the ponds of the people of 



* I think myself much obliged to Mr. Haworth in Chancery* 

 lane, not only for this, but for several other curious remarks. 



