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Of fish generally. CAP. 14.
THe best fish after the opinion of Galen, is that which swimmeth in a pure sea, and is tossed and lift vp with windes and sourges. The more calme that the water is, the worse is the fish.
They which are in muddie waters, doe make much fleume and ordure, taken in fennes and ditches be worst, being in riuers and swift, bee sometime commendable: Albeit generally all kinds of fishe maketh more thinner bloud than flesh, so that it doth much nourish, and it doth the sooner passe ouer by vapours: to a hot cholericke sto∣macke, or in feuers, sometime they bee holesome, being new, fresh, and not very hard in substance or slimy, hard fish is hard of digestion: but the nourishment thereof is more firme, then that which is soft: those which haue much grosse humors in them, are best powdred.