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Of hare , leveret , or rabbit* 
HARE will be whitifh and ftiff, if new and clean killed 5 if 
ftalc, the flefh blackifh in moft parts and the body limber ; if the 
cleft in her lips fpread very much, and her claws wide and rag¬ 
ged, fhe is old, and the contrary young; if the hare be young* 
the ears will tear like a piece of brown paper; if old, dry and 
tough. To know a true leveret, feel on the fore-leg near the 
foot, and if there be a fmall bone or knob it is right, if not, it 
is a hare : for the reft obferve as in a hare* A rabbit, if ftale, 
will be limber and flimy$ if new, white and ftiff; if old, her 
claws are very long and rough, the wool mottled with grey 
hairs > if young, the claws and wool fmooth. 
FISH in feafon. 
Candlemas quarter * 
LOBSTERS, crabs, craw-fifh, river craw-fifh, guard-fifh* 
Mackrel, bream, barbel, roach, fhad or alloc, lamprey or lam- 
per-eels, dace, bleak, prawns, and horfe-mackrel. 
The eels that are taken in running Water, are better than 
pond eels 5 of thefe the filver ones are moft efteemed* 
Midfummer quarter% 
TURBUTSand trouts, foals, grigs, and fhafilins and glout, 
tenes, falman, dolphin, fiying-fifh, fheep-head, tollis, both land 
and fea, fturgeon, feale, chubb, lobfters, and crabs. 
Sturgeon is a fifh commonly found in the northern Teas; but 
Jnow and then we find them in our great rivers, the Thames, the 
Severn, and the Tyne. This fifh is of a very large fize, and will 
fometimes meafure eighteen feet in length. They are much 
efteemed when frefh, cut in pieces, and roafted or baked, or pick- 
led for cold treats. The cavier is efteemed a dainty, which is the 
fpawn of this fifh. The latter end of this quarter comes fmelts* 
Michaelmas quarter. 
COD and haddock, coal-fifh, white and pouting hake, lyiig, 
tuIke and mullet, red and grey, weaver, gurnet, rocket, herrings* 
fprats, foals, and flounders, plaife, dabs, and ftneare dabs, eels, 
fchars, fcate, thortibaek and homlyn, kinfoft, oyfters and fcollops* 
falmon, fea-perch and carp, pike, tench, and fea-tench* 
Scate-maides are black, and thornback-maides white* Gray 
bafs comes with the mullet. 
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