| Description Of Item | Notes on morality and the devil through the image of the oyster and how, when it opens, the ‘crab-fish’ throw a stone into the shell so it cannot close again, then the oyster ‘becomes a prey unto the Crabbe’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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