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

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Title: The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
Publication: [Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],; [1527?]
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Subject terms: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Cap. lxx.

PInna is a fisshe y^t layeth alwaye in the mudde and hathe alway a lodismā / & some name it a lytel hoge & it hathe a roūde body & it is in a shell lyke a muscle it layth in the mone as it were dede gapyng open / and than the smale fisshes come into his shel wenīg of him to take their repaste / but whan he feleth y^t his shell is almoste ful / than he closeth his mouthe & taketh them & eteth them / & parteth them amōge his felowes. The playce is well knowen fisshe for he is brode & blake on the one syde and whyte on the other·