384 The Animal-Lore of Slidkspeare 9 s Time. 
The curious power of adhesion that the remora pos¬ 
sesses was attributed by the ancient writers to super¬ 
natural agency, and from these writers also comes the 
confusion which often .occurs in the descriptions of 
travellers between this fish and the lamprey. 
“ Frenchmen, I’ll he a Salisbury to you : 
Dog-fish. Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or Dogfish, 
Tour hearts I’ll stamp out with my horse’s heels.” 
(1 Henry VI 1, i. 4,106.) 
Thus threatens Talbot , stung to fury, and thirsting to 
revenge the dying Salisbury. 
The dog-fish, a species of ground-shark, is chiefly 
remarkable in modern times for its voracity. It was used 
by our forefathers as an article of food, and was rendered 
palatable, or at least eatable, by the addition of a sauce 
compounded of garlic or mustard, verjuice, and pepper. 
Chaucer thus alludes to the rough scales of this fish, 
whence the name Rough-hound :—• 
“ He lullith her, he kissith hir ful ofte; 
With thikke bristlis on his herd unsofte, 
Lik to the skyn of hound-fisch, scharp as brere, 
(For he was schave al newe in his manere,) 
He rubbith hir about hir tendre face.” 
(Marchaundes Tale.) 
According to Du Bartas (p. 46), the dog-fish, like the 
adder, swallowed its young in time of danger :— 
“ So, in the deep, the dog-fish for her fry 
Lucina’s throwes a thousand times doth try. 
For, seeing when the suttle fisher followes them, 
Again alive into her womb she swallows them ; 
And when the perill’s past, she brings them thence, 
As from the cabins of a safe defence; 
And (thousand lives to their deer parent owing) 
As sound as ever in the seas are rowing.” 
The theory was often broached, both by classical 
