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The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].

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The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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[Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],
[1527?]
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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Cap. lxxxix.
[illustration]

A Lytell beste is Inter moche like ye wesyll of quātite & coloure / his body is wythe / his wolle is as softe as downe / his hede is dūne & blacke This beste woneth by ye water and lyueth of the fisshes & it may lyfe longe vnd water / & it is so gredi to gete his mete yt it gadereth so moche fisshe yt it layth by him & rotteth in his erthe & the stē / che therof īf etteth ye ayrether rownde aboute & somtimes it is taken of ye fys¦shers & tamed & thā they lerne it to fys¦she in this maner. ye fisshes casteth his nette at ye one syde of ye water & this ly¦tell beste is set in at the other syde & he dryueth ye fysshes ī to ye nette & helpeth his maister

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