*Named afters 
ward Opucar- 
pa/ un, 
The two and thirtieth Booke : 
The Sea-{wine or Porpuis, hath prickie finns upon hisbacke, and thofeate counted among G 
‘other venomous things that the fea yeeldeth, putting them to much paine that are wounded or 
hurt thereby : but what helpe therefore ? furely the verie muddie {lime that gathereth about the 
bodice of the {ame fith, is the onely remedie. 
The Sea-calfe, otherwife named a Seale, hatha certaine greace, wherewith it is good to an- 
noint the face or vifage of thofe, who by reafon chat they are bitten with a mad dog, are afraid to 
drinke and cannot away with water: butit will worke the better ,if there be mingled therewith the 
marrow of an Hyzna, the oile of the maftich tree and wax, that all may beereduced into a li- 
niment. , 
As for the biting ofa Lamprey, there is not a better thing to heale it than the afhes of alam- 
preys head, The Puffin likewife or Forke-fith, cureth the wound that himfelfe infl:cted; namely, 
if the place be annointed with his owne alhes,tempered with vinegre, or mixed with theathes of 
any other fith. Ifa man would make meat of chis fith, there ought tobe taken out of the backe 
whatfoever is there found like unto faffron: likewife the head all and whole would betaken away: 
and yet tomaintaine and keepe the taft thereof, the fame muft be wafhed buta little andno more - 
than all (hell fithes, tor otherwife all the pleafantnefle in the eating would be cleane gone. 
The mifchievous venoine of the Sea-hate,fcalled otherwife Imbriago] isquenched cleane 
and mortified, by taking the flefh ofthe Sea-horfe any way in drinke. : 
Againtt che poifon of deadly dwale,the meat of {ea-urclins is foveraign: and whofoever have . 
druonke the daungerous juice of * Carpafum, fiad much eafe and helpe efpecially by-fupping 
their decoction, 10 conclude, the broth of fea-crabs likewife taken, isthoughtto be effectuail 
againft the torefaid dwale, named Dorycnium. . 
Cuap. vi, 
0% Of Oiftres and Purple fhell-fifhes : of Sea-moffe,or Reits. andthe reme- 
dtes which ihey affourd, 
| Oreover,Oifters have a {peciall vertue to refift the venome of the Sea-hare.And albeit I 
IV have writcen already of Oilters,yetme thinks I cannot fpeake futliciently of them,feeing 
thatfor thefe many yeers they have ben held forthe principall dith & dainticft meat chat 
can be ferved up tothe table. This fith loveth to have frefh water, and joyeth to be in thofe coafts 
where moft rivers doe run into the fea:which is the reafon that few of them are found inthe deep, 
called thereupon Pelagia; and thofe thrive not,burare in comparifon very {mall. Howbeit, they 
breed and engender otherwhiles among rocks, & in {uch holes which want the recourfe of {weet 
waters ; as for example, about Grynia and Myrna, They wax big and full according to the en-. 
creafe of the moone, as] have thewed alreadie in my treatife of creatures living in waters: but 
principally about the {pring prime, when they be full of a certaine humor or moifture like unto 
_anilke; and in tho‘e fhallow places where the Sun pearceth with bis beams tothe very bottome 
~ of the water. And this feemeth to be the reafon,that in other coafts and parts of the fea, they be 
found far leffe : for thade hindreth their growth, and for want of the cheerefull fight of the Sun, . 
they have lefle appetirto meat and feed nor. Moréover,this is to.be noted, that oifters differ one 
from another in colour, In Spaine they bereddith ; whereas in Sclavonia they bebrowne & duf- + 
kith: but about the cane Circedj in lalie, theirfhelland fleth both, bee blacke. In what coaft or 
countrey foeverthey be found, the beft and principall thofe are held to be,whichbe maffie and 
compact ;not glib and flipperie without, wich their owne humor and moifture: and rather bee. 
they chofen which are thicke, than broad and flat: fuch alfo as be taken neitherin muddie nor 
yct in fandie places, but upon the found and firme ground in the bottome; having their white 
meat trufled up fhort and round,and not flaggie as flefh: the fame not jagged and fringedabout 
in the edges with final] ftrings, but lying all clofe unired togither as it were couched within the 
belly. They thatbe more expert and practifedin the choice of oifters, add one marke more to 
chufe chem by, namely, ifthere be a purple thread or ftring thar compaffeth them about the ed- 
ges: and by this figne they knowthe oifters of the beft kind and race, from others, and call them 
by a proper naine Calliblephara, Oifters delight (as 1 may fo fay) to travaile into ftraunge quat- 
ters, to be rran{ported from their naturall feat into other unknowne waters. 7 bus the oifters bred 
about Brindis, and remooved from thence to the lake Avernus ; and beeing there fed, are {fup- 
poled 
