368 The Animal-Lore of ShaJcspeare's Time. 
with the true cinnabre-lake called minium: they are less than loches, 
feeding upon nothing, hut licking one another. . . . They are a most 
delicate and light meat, either fried or sodden.” (Page 183.) 
In Wynkyn de Worde’s Bohe of Kervynge , minnowes, 
or menewes, are recommended as an adjunct to stewed 
porpoise, as we add shrimp sauce to cod. 
Goriolanus insolently treats the plebeian senator, the 
tribune of the people, the tongue of the common mouth, 
who ventures to oppose him, as a giant among pigmies:— 
“ Shall remain! 
Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you 
His absolute * shall 3 ? ” 
(. Goriolanus , iii. 1, 87.) 
The haughty temper of the consul who would fain have 
destroyed at one fell swoop the many-headed multitude, 
as a whale annihilates whole shoals of undistinguished 
fishes, cannot brook that such small fry should venture to 
have rights or opinions of their own. 
