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[...] this s [...]ould [...] in the dai [...]s of K. Henrie the second.

A fish like to a man.

In this sixt yeare of king Iohns reigne, at Oxe|ford in Suffolke, as Fabian saith (although I sh [...]ke he be deceiued in the time) a fish was taken by fish| [...]rs in their nets as they were at sea, resembling in s [...]ape a wild or sauage man, whome they presented vnto sir Bartholomew de Glanuille knight, that had then the kéeping of the castell of Oreford in Suf|folke. He was naked, and in all his liues and mem|bers resembling the right proportion of a man; he had haires also in the vsuall parts of his bodie albeit that the crowne of his head was bald, his beard was long and rugged, and his breast hairie. The knight caused him to be kept certeine daies & nights from the sea, me [...]t set afore him he greedilie deuoured, & did eat fish both raw and sod. Those that were raw he pressed in his hand till he had thrust out all the moisture, and so then did eat them. He would not or could not vtter any speach, although to trie him they hung him vp by the héeles, and miserablie tormented him. He would get him to his couch at the setting of the sunne, and rise againe at the rising of the same.