A PEPYSIAN GARLAND - online book

Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639

	A DESCRIPTION OF A STRANGE FISH 6   Some haue a project now in hand, (which is a tedious taske) When the Sea turnes, to bring to Land the same with empty cask: But how I cannot well conceiue, To each mans judgement that I leaue. O rare beyond compare, in England nere the like. 7   The lower jaw-bone nam'd of late, had teeth in't thirty foure, Whereof some of them are in weight two pounds, or rather more: There were no teeth i'th vpper jaw, But holes, which many people saw. O rare beyond compare, in England nere the like. 8    T T Is Pissle is in length foure yards, 1 1 big as a man i'th wast, This monster he who well regards, from th' first vnto the last, By euery part may motiues find, To wonder at this wondrous kind. O rare beyond compare, in England nere the like. 9   His Cods are like two hogsheads great, this seemeth past beleefe, But men of credit can relate what I describe in briefe: Then let's with charity confesse Gods works are more then man can guesse. O rare, &c.
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