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[Note to Balena, p. 115. þar [in þe se of Brytain] buþ ofte ytake dolphyns & se-calves, & balenes, (gret fysch, as hyt were of whaales kinde) & dyvers manere schyl-fysch, among þe whoche schyl-fysch buþ moskles þat habbeþ wiþynne ham margey perles of al manere colour of huȝ, of rody & red, of purpre & of bluȝ, & specialych & moost of whyte. Trevisa’s Higden, in Morris’s Specimens, p. 334. For ‘the cocke of Balena’ see Musculus, p. 119, above; and for its ‘mortal ennemye,’ Orchun, p. 120.]