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angle. The Mollet alfo knoweth that the baie hath a hooke within it,neitherisheignorantthatit G / 
is laid for to entraprand catch him;howbeit,fo'greedie he isthereof bynature,thatheneyerJin- 
heth beating it with histaile,untill he have fhaken off the meat from the hooke, The Pikeis nor 
fo warie and provident in forecaft,as to keep himfelfe from she danger of the hook;but of ereat | 
ftrength and force he iswhen he bethinketh himfelfe andrepenteth that he was{ofoolifhasto be ; 
caught: for no fooner hangs hee by the hooke,but hee runneth and girdeth with it in his tnouch 
tooand fro, forcing and wrefting his wound fo wide, untill thefaid hooke which had faft hold on 
chim before,befallen outof hismouthagaing. |)» it anil 
~.., The Lampreies devour the hookes,yea,they gobble in and {wallow more than fo, untill they 
cometo the very lines which they fer their {harpeteeth unto,and never reftunulltheyhavefret- 
ted and gnawne them afunder, And Pytheas.is mine Authour,who writeth thus of thembefides, py 
That if they find themfelves to be once upon the hooke,they turne their bodies and wryth with 
their backs, as knowing the fame to be armed with trenchant and keen edged fins likeknives,and 
fo with their very fharpe chine and fins cut the lines atwo, Licéxts Macer.wiiteth of Lampties, 
thar they be all of the female fex onely,and doe conceive by ferpents engendring with them,as 1 
Ahave heretofore obferved: which is the catife, that fithers lure them with hiffing like unto fer. 
pents,and by that means call them forth of their holes and catch them.He faith moreover, That 
*iatascfome they will feed fat wich *milke: and if aman give them a good knocke witha cudgill, they will not _ 
others lode, aie thereupon : rap them onely with a Fennell ftalke or fomefuch wand, you fhall {ee them dead 
swithmuch — forthwith, And verely itis held for certaine,that their life licth inthe tale: whichif itbefmitren, 
aoe they are very foone gone and bereft of vitall breath: {trike them upon the head, you fhall hard- ae 
2 ly and with much adoe kill them, : : 
There isa fifh called aRafoir :looke whatfoever toucheth it,fenteth prefently of yron, 
_, Confeffed it is and knowne for certaine,that the Lompe, Paddle, or fea-Owle,a fith called in 
Latine Orbis, of all others hath the tougheft and hardeft body.Shaped round itis without skales: 
a man that looketh upon it, would fay it were all head. . 
 Trebius Niger mine auchour affirmeth, That fo often as the fea Kite is feene to launce himfelfe 
and flie without the water, *it threateneth tempefts. 
The Sword-fith, called in Greeke Xiphias, that is to fay in Latine Gladius, #.afword, hath a 
beake or bill fharpe pointed, wherewith hee will drive through the fides and plankes of a fhip, 
and bouge them fo,that they fhail finkewithall, The experience whereof is {eene in the ocean, K 
neare unto aplace in Mauritania called Gorta, which is not farre from the river Lixos. Andthe 
forefaid writer Trebius Niger reporteth, That the fea-cats or Cutrle fithes, ealled Loligines, will 
flic out of the fea,and fete upon fhips in fach multitudes,that they force them under water, and 
fo drowne them. a 
The Emperour Ce/iv had many faire houfes of pleafure in the countrey,where hee keptfithes 
that would ordinarily come to hand and take meat, Our aunceftors made no fuch matvell ther- 
at namely,that they fhould be fo gentle and tra@ablein fmall ftewes and fith-ponds where they 
bekept to feed: but they have written the like of fifhes in great lakes and ftanding pooles : And 
namely,about Florus, a caftle in Sicilie, not farre from Syracufa:Likewife,in a well or fountaine 
of lupster Labradius there be yeels will take meat at ones hand, & thefe weare ear-rings alfoabout 
them, Semblably, in Chios neare unto the chappell of the auncients or elderscalled Veterum 
Delubrum : asal{o in acertaine {pring of Mefopotamia, called Cabura,whereof I have alreadie 
written. As for the fifhes which keepe about Myrz in Lycia,within the weil or fountain of Apollo, 
called Curius they will fhew themfelves of purpofe to give prefage and foreknowledge of things 
‘ tocome: and the manner is,to call them to the top of the water with three whiltles of a fife or 
~ fuch like pipe. The order is among thofe that come to berefolved by them in fome future events, 
tocaft peeces of fleth unco them :if they {natch the fame and fwim away therewith, itis a luckie 
and fortunatfigne, prefaging a good iflue of their affaires about which they come; but in cafe 
they rejeG@ the f{ame,and flurt the meat from them with theirtaile,that is an ominous token,and 
forefheweth fume unhappie eventto follow. About Hierapolis, acitie in Syria, the ith within 
the lake or poole of Ven#s,obey the voice of the wardens or fextons who have the keeping of her 
chappell there; and orderly they come at their call, garnifhed with their ornaments of gold a- 
boutthem: they will abide to be {cratched and clawed, they will wag their tailes like a dogge ina 
fawning and flattering manner j nay,they will gape with their mouths wide open,and futier chem 
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