CHAP. I. 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



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Of other plants, more rare, more strange than these ; 

 As very fishes, living in the seas ; 

 As also Rams, Calves, Horses, Hares, and Hogs, 

 Wolves, Urchins, Lions, Elephants, and Dogs ; 

 Yea men and maids ; and, which 1 most admire, 

 The mitred Bishop and the cowled friar *, 

 Of which examples, but a few years since, 

 Were shewn the Norway and Polonian prince. 



* This story of the Bishop fish is told by Rondeletius, and vouched by 

 Bellonius. Without taking much pains in the translation, it is as follows : 

 u In the year 1531, a fish was taken in Polonia, that represented a bishop. 

 " He was brought to the king ; but seeming to desire to return to his own 

 " element, the king commanded him to be carried back to the sea, into 

 " which he immediately threw himself." Rondeletius, had before related 

 the story of a Mpnk-fish, which is what Du Bartas means by the "cowled 

 Friar." The reader may see the portraits of these wonderful personages 

 in Rondeletius ; or, in the Posthumous Works of the reverend and learned 

 Mr. John* 'Gregory, in 4to, Lond. 1683, page 121, 123, where they are 

 thus exhibited : 



Stow, in his Avnals, p. 1 57, from the Chronicle of Radulphus Coggeshale, 

 gives the following relation of a sea-monster, taken on the coast of Suffolk, 

 Temp. Hen. II. 



Neare unto Orford in Suffolk, certaine fishers of the sea tooke m 

 " their nets a fish, having the shape of a man in all points : which fish was 

 " kept by Bartlemew de Glaunville, custos of the castle of Orford, in the 

 ' same castle, by the space of six moneths and more, for a wonder. He 

 spake not a word, All manner of meates he did eate, but most greedily 



