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.

Of the Whirlepoole.

THe Whirlepoole in French is called Ba∣lene. She is a fish of the Sea like a beast: for whome many striue to haue hir called the Whale: other are at variance to haue hir na∣med Pristix of y^e infinitiue moode of the Gréek verbe Prizein, which is to cut or seuer, as this is reported to cut the waues of the Sea as she swimmeth: she is of wonderful length. Plinie sayth, as also Aristotle, that she breatheth in the water: which thing they two striue at to be done in the residue of fishes. She giueth hir yong milke by Teate: which thing verie fewe other fishes do. She is often dulled in y^e water: for the which she often coueteth y^e Sands to re∣fresh hir spirites, and wil there somtimes play:

sometimes also sléepe a while.