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¶ Of those fishes that lie within a stonie and hard flintie shell: also of those that haue [unspec F] no sence: and of other nastie and filthie creatures.
THe greatest securitie that fishers and dyuers haue of safety, is when they see the broad flat gristly fishes; for certain it is, that they be neuer in any place where hurtfull and noisome
beasts do haunt: which is the cause that these dyuers which ducke and plunge for sponges, call [unspec G] those fishes Sacred.
We must needs confesse, that fishes within stone shels, haue small or no sense, as namely oi∣sters. Many are of the nature of very Plants, to wit, those that they cal Holothuria: also Pulmo∣nes, resembling the lungs of a beast: and Star-fishes, made in forme of stars (such stars I meane as it pleaseth the Painter to draw.) In sum, what is there not bred within the sea? Euen the very fleas that skip so merily in summer time within victualling houses and Ins, and bite so shroud∣ly: as also lice that loue best to lie close vnder the haire of our heads, are there engendred & to be found: for many a time the fishers twitch vp their hooks, and see a number of these skippers and creepers setled thicke about their baits which they laied for fishes. And this vermine is thought to trouble the poore fishes in their sleep by night within the sea, as well as vs on the [unspec H] land. Last of all, some fishes there be, which of themselues are giuen to breed fleas and lice, a∣mong which the Chalcis, a kind of Turbot, is one.