MUNDUS SYMBOLICUS—THE ROSE AND FISH 277 
in my chapter on Tackle. Nor, again, is the author far astray 
with his Jemma for the Monachus or Monk fish (a name derived 
from the hood on its head)—‘‘ Habitum non virtutem ’’—which 
recalls the medieval jeer, ‘‘ The cowl makyth not the Monk,”’ 
and Oscar Wilde’s description—half-echoing Browning—of the 
pike as ‘‘some mitred old bishop in partibus.’’ Of the Monk 
fish—also Bishop fish—a well intended representation can be 
found in the pages of the learned Gesner. 
Under Salmo, when suffering from leeches or gill-maggots, 
the author provides us not only with the lemma, “ Heret 
ubique’’ and the appropriate, if not quite original, reflection 
of St. Bernard that conscience is like the leech which ceaseth 
not night nor day from making its presence felt, but also with 
a vivid description of a kelt dying— donec toto corpore tabescat.”’ 
Any connection between a salmon and a swallow (hirundo) 
for a moment seemed a new ichthyic revelation! The context, 
however, and not least St. Bernard’s pointing of the moral, led 
to the discovery of the misprint of hivundibus for hirundinibus 
(‘ leeches ’). 
With one more passage I regretfully leave Picinelli, or rather 
Erath. The collocation of the rose and fish held in the hand 
of Cupid, which Alciatus “‘ non sine mysterio instruxtsset,’”’ occa- 
sioned “‘ the erudite ’ and anonymous epigram (p. 671) showing 
that Love resembles the rose and the fish. This apparent 
incongruity finds explanation thuswise: while each has 
prickly points, the first fades in a day and the second is incapable 
of being tamed—a comparison which, if unique, ignores the 
Egyptian and Roman powers of domestication.! 
“ Symbola adulantum cernis, Rosa, Piscis amorum,? 
Non sane unius Symbola certa malt. 
Nam Rosa verna suis non est sine sentibus, idem 
Piscis habet spinas intus et ipse suas. 
Pulchra Rosa est, verum illa brevi fit marcida, piscis 
Est ferus, esse aliqua nec cicur arte potest.” 
1 The bronze statuette found at Hartsbourg showing the Germanic god 
Chrodo, standing on a fish, while holding in his uplifted left hand a wheel, 
and in his lowered right a basket of fruit and vegetables, is not at all on all 
fours. Cf. Montfaucon, Antiquity Explained, trans. D, Humphreys (London, 
1921), II. 261, pl. 56, 3. . ; 
2 The construction of ‘ Rosa, Piscis’ is not discernible. Perhaps (‘ Rosa 
Piscis ’) would be less obscure. 
