New Englands Prospect / A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants

by active 1629-1635 William Wood

The flounsing Sammon, Codfish, Greedigut:

Cole, Haddocke, Haicke, the Thornebacke, and the Scate,

Whose slimie outside makes him selde in date,

The stately Basse old Neptunes fleeting post,

That tides it out and in from Sea to Coast.

Consorting Herrings, and the bony Shad,

Big bellied Alewives, Machrills richly clad

With Rainebow colours, th' Frostfish and the Smelt,

As good as ever lady Gustus felt.

The spotted Lamprons, Eeles, the Lamperies,