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 Pearch.

THe Pearch in Gréeke is called Perkae: with the Germanes Ein Bersig with y^e French∣men Perche: some think that it is called Par∣ca by Antiphrasis, signifying another thing then the worde sheweth. For with whome so∣euer she is angrie, she woundeth him with hir ••innes, or if she can not come by him, they are sure to haue it that are next to hir. There is hereof both Male and Female. But they haue their difference: for the Male hath his ••innes red, the Female hath not so. Lonicer sayth that when as the fish Lucius is hurte or sore wounded of any other kinde, and can not helpe hir selfe, she seeketh out the Pearch, which so soone as she sées him, she toucheth and suppleth his woundes: and so is she healed. It is a fishe of verie tender meate or flesh. As Ausonius re∣cordeth of hir thus.

Nec te delitias mensarum Parca silébo.

Amongst the kindes of delicate meates, the Perch I would haue spred: Whose flesh so soft and morsell sweete in all feastes is the hed.