Of Stockfish.
STockfish in Gréeke is called Salpae, with the Germaines Stockfish. Aristotle saith that
A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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"A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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it is a verie myrie fishe: and which can neuer be well sodden vnlesse it be beaten with a rod or wand. Amongst ye Germanes it hath raised a Prouerbe, which is, Salpa pelutantior aut lasciuior: More foolish or wāton thā a Stock∣fish: applied to such as haue their mindes set vpon wantonnesse: and which will doe no∣thing of their owne will vnlesse they be com∣pelled to it. With the Germanes it is after this sort. Er fantasiert ein Stockfish. In the person of this Laurentius Lippi{us} dalied with a Distich or double verse on this wi••e.
Salpa, obscenus ego dicor, nec decoquor vnquàm Ni ferula caedens verbera multa dabis. As a muddie Stocfish I am which neuer will be sod, Vnlesse she hath good store of stripes and be beaten with Rod.