%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The discription of a rare or rather most monstrous fishe taken on the East cost of / Holland the. xvii. of Nouember, anno 1566. / The workes of God how great and straunge they be / A picture plaine behold heare may you see. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1566-1566 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/30/2012 32405

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S121807 AS thou this formed fishe doest see / I Chaunged from his state Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18317 The discription of a rare or rather most monstrous fishe taken on the East cost of / Holland the. xvii. of Nouember, anno 1566. / The workes of God how great and straunge they be / A picture plaine behold heare may you see. The discription of a rare or rather most monstrous fishe taken on the East cost of Holland the. xvii. of Nouember, anno 1566. The workes of God how great and straunge they be A picture plaine behold heare may you see. The description of a rare or rather most monstrous fish taken on the East cost of Holland the. xvii. of November, anno 1566. The works of God how great and strange they be A picture plain behold here may you see. Printer Thomas Purfoote 1566-1566

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HEare thou hast (gentle frend) the picture shape and fashion of a fishe straunge and marvailous taken (as is saide) in Holland, having on his finnes hard skales in forme much like the beggers dishes, which in that Contrie they were wont to weare in skoffe & derision, his eies like an owle & mouthed as a Popin gaye his taile reede and fower cornered like to a priestes Cap, which fishe hath bene seene and vewed of most Nobles and Peares of Flaunders, who hath plucked of his skales lyke to disshes and kepes them for a shew and for the more credit hereof, ye shal understand that the .vii. of December the said fishe was brought to the Citie of Antwarpt where it was openly shewed and sene as well of Englishe men as other straungers, what this monster with other uncouth sights sene of late do Prognosticate and signifye unto us, that I leave to thy conjecture (loving Reader) beseching God the Lord and governour of all creatures not to deale with us according to our desertes but for Christ his sonnes sake to power his mercye upon us and graunt us Grace to amende and to doe those thinges whiche are pleasaunt and acceptable in his sight thorowe Jesus Christe our Lord. Amen.
AS thou this formed fishe doest see I Chaunged from his state So many men in eche degree. From kynd degenerate, To monsters men are turned now, Disguised in their raye. For in theyr fonde inventions new They kepe no meane ne staye, Their maners mad and monsterous, what shoulde I now discry? Or yet their cates delitious, why shoulde I them espye? If one that lived in thys land, A fortye yeares before:
Could be released from the band, To be as he was yore. would he not wonder wonderously, when he our monsters spied, In so small tyme so folyshly From auntiant custume flyed? These monsters therfore God doth sende, To put us all in minde. Such shaples shapes for to amend, whych now are out of kynd, Or els the God of kind and shape wyll shaples us detest, And with his plage will punishe us. But more to speake I rest.
Imprinted at London in Pawles Churchyarde by Thomas Purfoote at the signe of the Lucrece.