MUrena is a longe fisshe with a weke skinne lyke a serpent / & it conceyueth of the serpent vipera / it liueth longest in the tayle, for whan that is cut of, it dyeth incontinent / Must be boiled in wine. it must be soden in gode wyne with herbes & spices, or ellis it is very daungerous to be eten, for it hath many venymous humours, and it is euyll to disieste.
[ Cap. lxi.]
MUlus is a see fysshe that is smale of body / & is only a mete for gentils: & there be many maners of these / has 2 beards. but the best be those that haue ij. berdes vnder the mouthe / & whan it is fayre weder, than they waxe fatte / whan he is dede than he is of many colours.
[ Cap. lxiiij.]
NEreydes be monsters of the see, all rowghe of body / & whan any of them dyeth, than the other wepe. of this is spoken in balena, the .xiiij. chapter.
[ORchun] is a monster of the se / whose lykenes can nat lightely be shewed / Is Balene’s deadly enemy. & he is mortal ennemye to the balene, & tereth asonder the bely of the balene / & the balene is so boystous that he can nat turne hym to defende him, and that costeth him his lyfe / for as sone as he feleth him selfe wounded, than he sinketh doune to the botom of the water agayne / & the Orchun throweth at him with stones / & thus balena endith his lyfe.
[ Cap. lxvi.]
OStreñ is an oyster that openeth his shell to receyue the dewe & swete ayre. In the oyster groweth naturall orient perles that oftentymes laye on the see stronde, & be but lytell regarded, as Isidorus saith.
[ Cap. lxvij.]
Pagrus is a fisshe that hath so harde tethe that he byteth the oyster shelles in peces, & eteth out the fisshe of them. Sea-Peacock. Nota. Pauus maris is the Pecocke of the Se, & is lyke the pecocke of the londe, bothe his backe, necke, & hede / & the nether body is fisshe Percus. Nota. Percus is of diuers colours, & swift in ronnynge in the water, & hathe sharpe finnes, & is a holsome mete for seke people. Pecten: winks. Pecten is a fisshe that is in sandy grounde, & whan he is meued or stered, he wynketh.