Crossword-Solution: TENCHES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

This fact is so well known, that it is always recommended to stock a pond with two male tenches to one female, or at least with three males to two females.

Take Tenches and smyte hem to pecys, fry hem, drawe a lyour of Raysouns coraunce witþ wyne and water, do þerto hool raisouns & powdour of gyngur of clowes of canel of peper do the Tenches þerto & seeþ hem with sugur cypre & salt.

Our dance's freight is a matter of eight; And two, the which are wenches: In all they be ten, four cocks to a hen, And will swim to the tune like tenches.

For when the fishmonger hath opened his side and laid out his rivet and fat unto the buyer, for the better utterance of his ware, and cannot make him away at that present, he layeth the same again into the proper place, and sewing up the wound, he restoreth him to the pond where tenches are, who never cease to suck and lick his grieved place, till they have restored him to health, and made him ready to come again to the stall, when his turn shall come about.

For now, I see a thing beyond belief-- A prodigy; all sorts of kinds of fish Sporting around this cape--tenches and char, White and red mullet, rays, and perch, and eels, Tunnies, and blacktails, and cuttle-fish, and pipe-fish, And hake, and cod, and lobsters, crabs and scorpions; as Heniochus says in his Busybody; I must, therefore, as the comic poet Metagenes says-- Without a sign his knife the hungry draws, And asks no omen but his supper's cause-- endure and listen to what more you have all got to say.