l. 808, _Cony._ "The coney is a lytel beste dwellynge in an hole of the erthe / & thore as he vseth he encreaseth very moche, and therfore he is profitable for man, for he casteth oftentymes in the yere ... Ysaac sayth. That conys flesshe hath properli { th}e vertue to strengen { th}e mawe and to dissolue the bely / and it casseth moche vryne." _The Noble Lyfe_, sign. e. i.
l. 811. _Mead_ or _Meath_, a drink made of Ginger, Sugar, Honey and Spring water boiled together. R. Holme.
_Metheglin_, a drink made of all sorts of wholesome Herbs boiled and strained with Honey and Water, and set to work with Bearm, as Ale or Beer. _R. Holme._ Dan. _miod._
l. 811. _Braggot._ This drinke is of a most hot nature, as being compos'd of Spices, and if it once scale the sconce, and enter within the circumclusion of the _Perricranion_, it doth much accelerate nature, by whose forcible atraction and operation, the drinker (by way of distribution) is easily enabled to afford blowcs to his brother. In Taylor. _Drink & Welcome_, 1637, A 3, back.
l. 812. Mussels (_Mityli_, _Chamæ_) were never in credit, but amongst the poorer sort, till lately the lilly-white Mussel was found out about Romers-wall, as we sail betwixt Flushing and Bergen-up-Zon, where indeed in the heat of Sommer they are commonly and much eaten without any offence to the head, liver, or stomach: yea my self (whom once twenty Mussels had almost poisoned at Cambridg, and who have seen sharp, filthy, and cruel diseases follow the eating of English Mussels) did fill my self with those Mussels of the Low Country, being never a whit distempered with my bold adventure. _Muffett_, p. 159.
Also sumtyme where samons vsen for to haunte, Lampreys, luces, or pykkes plesaunte, wenyth the fyscher suche fysche to fynde. _Piers of Fullham_, ll. 11-13.
l. 835, 4 [Footnote 235 in this e-text] _Torrentyne._ The passage before that quoted from Aldrovandi, de Piscibus, p. 585, in the note, is, "Trutta, siue ut Platina scribit Truta, siue Trotta Italicu{ m} nome{ n} est, à Gallis, quibus Troutte vel potius Truette, vel ab Anglis quib{ us} à Trute, vel Trovvt appella{ n}t, acceptum. Rhæti qui Italica lingua corrupta vtuntur, Criues vocant, teste Gesnero." The special fish from the Tarentine gulf is the "Tarentella, Piscis genus. Tract. MS. de Pisc. cap. 26 ex Cod. reg. 6838. C.: _Magnus thunnus, is scilicet qui a nostris_ Ton _vocatur ... dicitur Italis Tarentella, a_ Tarentino, _unde advehitur, sinu_." Ducange, ed. 1846.