l. 811. _Braggot._ This drinke is of a most hot nature, as being compos’d of Spices, and if it once scale the sconce, and enter within the circumclusion of the _Perricranion_, it doth much accelerate nature, by whose forcible atraction and operation, the drinker (by way of distribution) is easily enabled to afford blowcs to his brother. In Taylor. _Drink & Welcome_, 1637, A 3, back. l. 812. Mussels (_Mityli_, _Chamæ_) were never in credit, but amongst the poorer sort, till lately the lilly-white Mussel was found out about Romers-wall, as we sail betwixt Flushing and Bergen-up-Zon, where indeed in the heat of Sommer they are commonly and much eaten without any offence to the head, liver, or stomach: yea my self (whom once twenty Mussels had almost poisoned at Cambridg, and who have seen sharp, filthy, and cruel diseases follow the eating of English Mussels) did fill my self with those Mussels of the Low Country, being never a whit distempered with my bold adventure. _Muffett_, p. 159. l. 824, _Samon._ Also sumtyme where samons vsen for to haunte, Lampreys, luces, or pykkes plesaunte, wenyth the fyscher suche fysche to fynde. _Piers of Fullham_, ll. 11-13. l. 835, 4 [Footnote 235 in this e-text] _Torrentyne._ The passage before that quoted from Aldrovandi, de Piscibus, p. 585, in the note, is, “Trutta, siue ut Platina scribit Truta, siue Trotta Italicu{m} nome{n} est, à Gallis, quibus Troutte vel potius Truette, vel ab Anglis quib{us} à Trute, vel Trovvt appella{n}t, acceptum. Rhæti qui Italica lingua corrupta vtuntur, Criues vocant, teste Gesnero.” The special fish from the Tarentine gulf is the “Tarentella, Piscis genus. Tract. MS. de Pisc. cap. 26 ex Cod. reg. 6838. C.: _Magnus thunnus, is scilicet qui a nostris_ Ton _vocatur ... dicitur Italis Tarentella, a_ Tarentino, _unde advehitur, sinu_.” Ducange, ed. 1846. l. 845. _Hake. Merlucius_ (or _Gadus_) _vulgaris_ Y. ii. 258, ‘the Seapike ... It is a coarse fish, not admitted to the tables of the wealthy; but large quantities are anuually preserved both by salting and drying, part of which is exported to Spain.’ ‘Fish, samon, _hake_, herynge’ are some of the commoditees of Irelonde mentioned in the _Libelle_ (A.D. 1436), p. 186. l. 839, _reffett._ In the following extract _refete_ has the _Promptorium_ meaning: eteth of the [full grown] fysche, and be not so lykerous, Let the yong leve that woll be so plenteous; ffor though the bottomles belyes be not ffyllyd with such _refete_, Yet the saver of sauze may make yt good mete. _Piers of Fullham_, ll. 80-3, _E. Pop. P._, v. 2, p 5. l. 842. _breme._ ... y schall none pondes with pykes store, _Breme_, perche, ne with tenche none the more.--_Ibid._ ll. 51-2. l. 843, _flowndurs._ But now men on deyntees so hem delyte, To fede hem vpon the fysches lyte, As _flowndres_, perches, and such pykyng ware; Thes can no man gladly now-a-day spare To suffyr them wex vnto resonable age.--_Ibid._ ll. 74-8.