Of fat, Brets, Turbets, Dories, Holybut.
Round, Pilcherd, Herring, Pollock, Mackrell, Gurnard, Illeck, Tub,
Breame, Oldwife, Hake, Dogfish, Lounp, Cunner, Rockling, Cod, Wrothe,
Becket, Haddock, Guilt-head, Rough-hound, Squary Scad, Seale, Tunny,
and many others, quos nunc, &c.
The Sheath, or Rasor-fish, resembleth in length and bignesse a mans
finger, and in taste, the Lobster, but reputed of greater restoratiue.
The Sea-hedge-hogge, of like or more goodnesse, is enclosed in a
round shell, fashioned as a loafe of bread, handsomely wrought and
pincked, and guarded by an vtter skinne full of prickles, as the
land Vrchin. But the least fish in bignes, greatest for gaine, and
most in number, is the Pilcherd: they come to take their kind of the
fresh (as the rest) betweene haruest and Alhallon-tyde, and were wont
to pursue the Brit, vpon which they feede, into the hauens, but are
now forestalled on the coast by the Drouers and Sayners. The Drouers
hang certaine square nets athwart the tyde, thorow which the schoell
of Pilchard passing, leaue many behind intangled in the meashes.
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