Plinics Naturall Hiftorie. 



A called ^Pinnothcresj and for his fiTjaIne(re5.moftrubje(5t and cx^ Biitasfubf^ * br^pidncs* 



tie and craftie he isj as he is litdc :for his manner is to fhrowd and hide himfelfe within the fhels ^^'^"* 

 of etnptie oyfters : and ever as he groweth bigger and bigger, to goc into thofe that be wider^ ' 

 Crabs when they be affraid,will recule backward as faft as they went forward.Thcy will fight one 

 with another, and then yee ("hall (ee them jurre and butt ^ith their homes like rainiues , Singu- 

 lar good they are againft the biting and flinging of ferpentsJt is reported,that V;hiles the funne 

 is in the figneGancerjthe bodies within of dead Crabs that lie with, the water upon the drie 

 land^ will turne to be Scorpions. Of the iame fort that the Crabs be, are the Vrchins 'of the fca 

 called Echini 5 and thefejin ftead of feetjhavc certain pointed prickles. Their manner of going^, 

 is to roll themfelvesjar^d tumble round : and therefore many times l"hall ye find themnwith their 



n pricks wornc. And of this fort be they that are called Echinomctrx. The longeft prickles, they 

 have of all others, and the leaft (hells or cafes.wherein they are.Neither are they all of the fame 

 colour of glafleifor aboutToronethey are found to be white^and have liiiall pricks.They have 

 all of them five egges when they lay j but they are bitter. Their mouths ftandin the mids of their 

 bodieS3bendingdownwardtotheearth.lt is faid^that they have a fore- fight and knowledge be- 

 forehand, of a fea tempefl : for by reafon that they are fo round, and therefore fobn whirled and 

 ^ carriedhere and there,they fall then to la hour and gather ffones, wherewith they charge and 

 ' peifc their bodies as withballaft, that they may abide more ftedfaft^ for that they are notwil* 

 ling towearetheirprickswith rolling and turning over and over -.which when the marintrs and 

 failcrs perceived oncejthenprefently they caft many ankersaaiid flay their fhips. / ■ - 



Chap, xxxii, 



^ of mnkles^and fea-Snatles;, 



IN the fame ranke are to be reckoned the Winklcs,as well of the land as the water-Wiicn they 

 put themfelves out of their fhells, they ihrulf outtwo homes that they havcj and they will 

 plucke them in againe when they lift. Eies have they none to fee withall; and therefore, thcfe 

 little homes fervc them in good fie ad, to found as it were and trie the way as they gp„ 



CuAP.^ XXXIII. 



D of Scallop : of the ^reatep Wmkh alW' Murex^ mddtUr 



kinds of0ell-flhs, 



THe great Scallops in the fea, arc counted of the lame race : which lie hidden alfo ifk the 

 time as well of great heat as cold. They have certaine nailes as itwcrejiliininglike fire in 

 the night feafon :yeain their very mouthes that be eating of them. As forihe Pourcc- » 

 Janes or MuriceSjthey have a ftronger skaled fhelijas alfo all the kind of Winkles great & fiiiall,' 

 Wherein a man may fee the wonderfull varietie of Nature in this play and paftime of hers, gi- 

 ving them fo many and fundnc coloursj with fuch diverfirie of formes and figures :for of them 

 ye {hall have flat and plaine, hollow, lung, horned like the moone croiffam, full round, halfe 

 £ round, and cut as it werejuft through the mids, bow backt and rifing up, fmooth, rough, too^ 

 thed and indented like a iaw,ridged and chamfiredbetweene,.wrinkling and winding upward to 

 the top like caliraps, bearing out fliarpe points in the edges, without- forth broad and fpread at 

 large, within-forth rolled in plaits. Moreover, there be other diftinetfbapes befides all thefe : 

 fomebee flripedand raied with long fheakes, others creftcd and blafingv^fith^a bufhof jong 

 haire : Ibme againt crifped and curled, others made like an hollow gutter or piper.fpme falhio- 

 ned as it were a combe, others v\aving with plaits one above another tile- wife^ others framed iii. 

 ihemanner of a net or lattife : fome are wrought crooked and byas^others fpread out dire(Slytirr 

 length. A man lliali fee of themjthofe that are made thicke and moiTie thruff togitherandcom- 

 pa6t, others ffrctched forth at large: yee fhallhave of them wrapt and lapt one within another* 

 p And to conclude,ye lliall find them run round into a fhort faft knot, and all theirfides united'ccK 

 githcr in one: fome flat and plaine, good togivta clapjothers turning inward crooked iike a 

 cornetjmadeas it were to found and windwithall. Of all thefefgrts, thePourcelancsor Fenf^s 

 ;VVinkles,fwimme above the w3ter,and with their concavitie and.hollow.part which they fet in- 

 mthe weather, helpe themfelves in fkad of failcs, and fo gathering wind^ faileaiitwere aloft 

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