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l. 575. A _Dace_ or a Blawling, or a Gresling, or a Zienfische, or
Weyfisch; by all which the Germans call it, which in Latin is named
_Leucorinus_. And the French _Vengeron_, which is English’d to me a
_Dace_, or _Dace-fish_. R. Holme.
l. 577. _Refett._ “I thought it clear that _refett_ was roe, and I do
not yet give it up. But see P. P., _Refeccyon_, where the editor gives
‘_refet of_ fisshe K., _refet or_ fishe H., _reuet_ P.,’ from other
manuscripts, and cites in a note Roquefort from Fr. _reffait_ (refait)
as meaning a fish, the _rouget_, &c., &c. The authority of Roquefort is
not much, and he gives no citation. If, however, in K. H. and P. these
forms are used instead of the spelling _refeccyon_, and defined
_refectio, refectura_, it rather embarrasses the matter. Halliwell cites
no authority for _rivet_, roe.” G. P. Marsh. See note to l. 839 here,
p. 108.
l. 580. _Gobbin_, or _Gobbet_, or _Gubbins_: Meat cut in large peeces,
as large as an Egg. R. Holme.
l. 584. A _Thornbacke_, soe called from the Sharp Crooked Pricks set on
Studs, all down the middle of the Back. R. Holme.
l. 584. _Hound Fysch._ A Sow-Hound-Fish ... So it is called from its
resemblance of a _Dog_, and its fatness like to a _Swine_: though most
term it a _Dog-Fish_. It hath a small Head, great Eyes; wide Mouth,
rough, sharp and thick skinned. R. Holme.
l. 584, l. 830. _Thorlepolle._ Aldrovandi, describing the _Balæna vera
Rondel[etii]_ says: Hec belua Anglis, (vt dixi) Hore vocatur, & alio
nomine Horlepoole & VVirlepoole etiam, ni fallor, earu{m} nimiru{m}
omnium significatione, quòd impetuo suo & flatu vorticosas in mari
tanquam palude procellas excitet. Oleum ex ea colligi aiunt. p. 677. See
Holland’s Plinie on the Whales and Whirlepooles called Balænæ, which
take up in length as much as foure acres or arpens of land, v. 1,
p. 235, &c.
Thornback, _Raja_. Thornback, which Charles Chester merily and not
unfitly calleth Neptune’s beard, was extolled by Antiphanes in Athenæus
history for a dainty fish; indeed it is of a pleasant taste, but of a
stronger smell than Skate, over-moist to nourish much, but not so much
as to hinder lust, which it mightily encreaseth. Muffett, p. 172.
l. 596. _Verjuice_ is the juice of Crabs or sour Apples. R. Holme.
l. 622. _Jole of Sturgion or Salmon_ is the two quarters of them, the
head parts being at them. R. Holme.
l. 630. _Lamprey pie._ In the Hengrave Household Accounts is this entry
“for presenting a _lamprey pye_ vj d.” “It{e}m. the xiiij day of January
[1503] to a servant of the Pryour of Lanthony in reward for brynging of
two bakyn laumpreys to the Quene v s. Nicolas’s Elizabeth of York,
p. 89, and Glossary.”
Under ‘How several sorts of Fish are named, according to their Age or
Growth,’ p. 324-5, R. Holme gives
An _Eel_, first a Fauser, then a Grigg, or Snigg, then a Scaffling, then
a little Eel; when it is large, then an _Eel_, and when very large,
a _Conger_.
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