WORMS. Class VL 



The antients fometimes made ufe of it inftead 

 of ink. Perjius mentions the fpecies in his defcrip- 

 tion of the noble ftudent. 



Jam liber, et bicolor pofitis membrana capilli?, 

 Inque manus charts, nodofaque venit arundo. 

 Turn querimur, crafTus calamo quod pendeat 



humor ; 

 Nigra quod infufa vanefcat Sepia Lympha *: 



At length, his book he fpreads; his pen he takes: 



His papers here, in learned order lays -, 



And there, his parchment's fmoother fide difplays, 



But oh ! what croffes wait on fludious men, 



The Cuttle's juice hangs clotted .at our pen. 



In all my life fuch ftuff I never knew. 



So gummy thick — Dilute it, it will do. 



JV*y, now 'tis water ! Dryden. 



This animal was efteemed a delicacy by the an- 

 tients ; and is eaten even at prefent by the Italians. 

 Ronddetius gives us two receipts for the drefling "f, 

 which may be continued to this day. Athenxus J 

 alio leaves us the method of making an antique 

 Cuttle-hih fauiage -, and we learn from Ariftotle |], 



Sat. iii. f De Pifc. 510. % Lib. vii. f. 326. 



Lib. viii. c. 50. Hiji. 4"» 



that 



