Herrings.

Great store and very good of these are caught nigh Yarmouth, where once every year on the Feast of Saint Michael, is a Fair held for the sale of fish, and such the plenty of Herrings there constantly vented, that incredible the sum which is raised thereby. Indeed, the fishing for Herrings is a most gainful trade, fish though contemptable in it self, considerable in its company, swiming in such shoals, that what the Whale hath in bigness the Herring hath in number. (It may well mind such who excell in strength and valour, not to boast or be proud thereof, seeing the greatest courage may be soon pressed to death under unequal number.) Yea, Red-herrings in England mostly eaten for sauce to quicken the Appetite, serve in Holland and elsewhere for food to satisfy hunger.

Page  247I will conclude the Natural Commodities of this County, with this memorable passage, which I have read in a modern* Author;

My belief tireth in coming up to the top of this story, suspecting the addition of a cypher. But if it were so, how much would it have inriched us, if those mock∣China-dishes had been made in England.