Note 1455 — THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.

Dyce regards the passage as mutilated. Mitford's 'balm' does not fit the sense. For 'lamprey' (from W. Bell and Fleay), see Ward. I think that explanation is good; for Greene is not averse to coining words, and if he is translating muræna by 'lamp,' the figure in the next line suggests that a paronomasia may have won favor with him by reason of a false derivation from λαμπρός (sc. the Lampris, a brilliant deep-sea fish).