[This copy of Admiral Swinburne’s Andrewe ends with the next column of this page, sign. v. i. back, with an illustration not headed, but which is that to Cap. xcvij.]
[1.] Squatinus is a fisshe in the se, of fiue cubites longe: his tayle is a fote brode, & he hideth him in the slimy mudde of the se, & marreth al other fisshes that come nigh him: it hath so sharpe a skinne that in som places they shaue wode with it, & bone also / on his skinne is blacke short here. The nature hathe made him so harde that he can nat almoste be persed with nouther yron nor stele.
[Note to [Balena, p. 115]. þar [in þe se of Brytain] buþ ofte ytake dolphyns & se-calves, & balenes, (gret fysch, as hyt were of whaales kinde) & dyvers manere schyl-fysch, among þe whoche schyl-fysch buþ moskles þat habbeþ wiþynne ham margey perles of al manere colour of huȝ, of rody & red, of purpre & of bluȝ, & specialych & moost of whyte. Trevisa’s Higden, in Morris’s Specimens, p. 334. For ‘the cocke of Balena’ see [Musculus, p. 119], above; and for its ‘mortal ennemye,’ [Orchun, p. 120].]
(From The Booke of Compoundes, fol. lxviii.)
Sicknes.
Will boxyng doe any pleasure?
Health.