... fish, from the eyes or gills to the crotch ofthe tails, but it is needless: also how the pike as he ageth receiveth divers names, as from a fry to a gilthead, from a gilthead to a pod, from a ... through their attractive force, proceeding from a vehement savour wherewith they areendued. There is greatest plenty of them in Persia, chiefly about Balascham, from whence they and their driedcods ... which are not to be taken from the middest ofSeptember to the middest of November, and are very plentiful in our greatest rivers, as their young store arenot to be touched from mid April unto Midsummer,...