2 3 o CURIOUS CREATURES. 



And of the Sea Bishop : 



" La terre n'a Evesques seulement, 

 Qui sot p bulle en grad honeur et tiltre, 

 L'evesque croist en mer sembablement, 

 Ne parlat point, cobien qu'il porte Mitre.' 



And Du Bartas writes of them, as if all in air, or on 

 the earth, had its double in the sea and he specially 

 mentions these piscine ecclesiastics : 



