Plinies NaturallHiftone, i6j 



A that the fame kinds of fiflies^ in one place arc better than in another. As the Pikes in the river 

 Tiberisj which are taken betweene the two bridges : the Turbot of Ravenna : the Lamprey ixi 

 Sicilie: the Elops at Rhodes, and fo forth of other forts of fifliestforldoenot meane heereto 

 make a bill of all the daintie filTi to fervc the kitchin. There was no talke then of EngliOi oiflersj 

 when Orata brought thofc of the L ucrine lake into requeft, for as yet the Britifh coafts were not 

 oursj which indeed have the befl oyflcrs of all other. But afterwards it was thought it would 

 quit the coft and pay for the paines^to fetch oytters from the furtheft part of Italic, even as farre 

 asBrundifium. Andbecaufe there fhould grow no quarrellnor controvcrfie arife, whether thefe 

 or the former had the more delicate andpleafant taftj it was of late devifed that the hungrie oy- 

 fters(which in the long carriage from Brundife were almofl; famifhed)l"houId be fed with the refl 



B in the Lucrine lakcjand fo tail alike. In thoie very daiesjbut fomwhat before Orata^ Ucimm Mu- 

 renA devifed pooles and ftewcs for to keepc and feed other fifhes : whofe example noble men fol- 

 lowed and did the like after thcmjnamely, Thili^ and Homnftm. Lu-cud^cs cut through a rnoun- 

 taine neere unto Naples for this purpofe^namelyjio let in an arme of thefea into his fifh-pools : 

 the doing whereof coft him more money, than the houfe it felfc which he there had built. Here- 

 upon Pompey the Great gave him the name of Romane Xerm^ in his long robe. The fifhes of 

 thatpooleof his^after his death, were fold for thirtie hundred thoufand S efterccs,/. three mil-- 

 lions of Scflcrces. 



Chap. lv. 



C Whoinvtntedthe fierves for Lamprejs, 



CA'm Hlrtim was the man by himfelfe, that before all others devifed a pond to keep Lam- 

 preys in. He it was that lent Cdtfar Di(5tatour for to furnifn his feafis and great fuppcrs du- 

 ring the time of his triumph, ^oo Lampreys, to be paid againeby weight and tale in the 

 fame kind : for fell them bee would not right out for any money, nor exchaungc them for other 

 commodities. A houfe he had for his pleafure in the countrey, and but a very little one, yet the 

 ponds and fifhes about it fold the houfe for foure millions of Sefterces. In ptocelfe of time folkc 

 grewtohavealoveandcaftafancietofomeone fcverallfifh above the reft. For the excellent 

 OratourHflr/^»//^hadanhouleatBauli,uponthefidethatlyethtoBaise5 anda fifh-pond to 

 D it belonging : and he took fuch an affection to one Lamprey in that poole, that when it was dead 

 (by report) he could not hold but weepe for love of it. Within the fame poole belonging to the 

 faid houfe, the wife of JDrr//^ (unto whome they fell by inheritance) had fo great a li- 



king to another Lamprey, that fhe could find in her heart to decke it,and to, hang a pake of gol- 

 den eatings about the guils thereof, Andfurcly for the noveltie of this Ifraunge fight, and the 

 name that went thereot,many folke had a defire to fee Bauli,and for nothing eife. 



Ghap. lvi. ^ 



^ The fletves of Winkles ^and rvhofrjl was the devifer* 



FVh'm Hirpnm was the fiift inventor of warrens as it were for Winkles, which hee caufed 

 to be made within the territorie of Tarquinij^ a little before the civile warre with Powpey-the, 

 Great. Ancjthofe had their diftind partitions, for fundrie forts of them .-that the white, 

 which came from the parts about Reate, fhould be kept apart by themfelves : thelllyrian(and 

 thofe werechiefe for greatnefle) alone by their felves : the Africanes (which were moft fruitfull) 

 in onefeverall: and the Solitanes (fimply the beft of all the reft) in another. Nay, more than 

 that, he had a devife in his head to feed them fat,namely,with a certaine paft made of cuitc and ^1^^ 

 wheatemeale,and many other fuch like: to the end forfboth, that the gluttons table might be quarts: for 

 ferved plentifully with home-fed and franked great Winkles alfo. And in time,men grew to take S^^^^"" ^^'^^ 

 fuchaprideandgloriein this artificiall feat, and namely, in ftriving who fhould have the big- ^p"c ofsex- 



geft, thatintheendoneof their fhells ordinarily would containe ^fourefcorc mcafures called tarius,&sex- 

 Quadrants,if cJ?/.r^rrtf fay true^who is mine author. pTm&lSt 



Aa i| Chaf, 



pintf 

 or 18 ounces* 



