NATURAL HISTORY of NO RTF AY. 135 



"Bort Lodde med al din forgiftige ftank 

 Al Verden foronlker dig alikens fkavank 



Du eft: os et riis og en fvobe : 

 Ret faafom en hore, der tragter at flye, 

 Saa rommer ungdommen med hende af bye. 



Som bukke med gederne lobe, £Cc." 



The fenfe of which lines is this : 



Away Lodde with thy poifonous ftench, 

 All the world wifhes thee pain and torment; 

 Thou art to us a rod and a fcourge, 

 Thou art as a whore pretending to fly, 



In order to draw the unwary youth away with her out of town. 

 They run after her, like the wanton he-goats after the fe- 

 males, &c. 



The Lyr or Lyfle, the Piper, a middle-flzed Sea-fifh, fbme- L y r < 

 thing like the Trout kind in fhape, tho' fmaller The fcales 

 alfb are lefs 5 and the flefh is excellent. Some look upon this Fifh 

 to be nearly allied to the Salmon ; and the roe is reckoned a 

 very great delicacy. They are caught with a net, but not in 

 any great quantity. Aldrovand, Lib. ii. c. vii. fpeaks of a Fifh 

 in the Mediterranean by the name of Lyra, whofe head is lhaped 

 like a harp, but whether that belongs to this clafs I do not 

 know. 



S ErC T. II. 



The Mackarel, Scomber, a well known Fifh, of about a foot Mackarei. 

 long, with beautiful blue and green ftripes on its fmooth mining 

 ikin : the fielh is like the Herring'sj but without that ftrong 

 flavour ; and has not fo many fmall bones. It is very white, 

 and agreeable to thofe who can digeft their fat; but is not 

 reckoned veyy wholefome by the phyficians. When they firft 

 appear with us in the Spring they are very lean, but they grow 

 fatter towards the Summer. The Mackarel is an unfteady and 

 uncertain Fifh ; for they go in great Ihoals from one place to 

 another, and drive the Herrings before them, which are terrified 

 at their appearance. They are eafily caught with hooks and 

 lines, and in nets in great numbers. They are pickled, and 

 exported ; but what is got by them hardly makes amends for 

 the lofs of the Herrings which are driven away by them. They 

 are exceffive greedy and voracious ; like the Shark kind ; and, like 



them, 



