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CHilon eteth nat like other fisshes or bestes of these / but of them cō / meth a maner of moystnes whiche is lymye as it were slyme & that they ete and therof they leue / & they may fast very well / yet they be very strong and myghty. ¶Circhos is a beste of the see that hathe harde blacke scales and
in som place rede / & they be smoth / they haue .iiij. fete / the lefte fete be great / & the ryght fete be smale / & on euery fote be .iij. clawes lyke fyngers / & hys lefte fete bereth hym more than his ryghte fete. In tempestyous and wyndy we¦der they be weke & feble / & thā they cre¦pe vnder the stones & there they holde them fast on / & whan it is fayre weder than they come out agayne & they be s••ronge / it hath an hede almoste like a man / & the body lyke a see dogge