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. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A20354 of text S121807 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 6769). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A20354 STC 6769 ESTC S121807 99856970 99856970 22626 2240881687

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A20354) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22626) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 380:13) 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. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) In Pawles Churchyarde by Thomas Purfoote at the signe of the Lucrece, Imprinted at London : [1566] Partly in verse. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Squids -- Netherlands -- Early works to 1800. eebo 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 gr [no entry] 1566 3 833 0 0 0 0 0 2 7202.88 F The rate of 7202.88 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2012-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-01 Sampled and proofread 2013-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The discription of a rare or rather most monstrous fishe taken on the East cost of Holland the .xvii. of Nouember , Anno 1366. The Workes of God how great and straunge they be A picture plaine behold heare may you see .

depiction of a giant squid-like sea creature

HEare thou hast ( gentle frend ) the picture shape and fashion of a fishe straunge and maruailous taken ( as is saide ) in Holland , hauing on his finnes hard skales in forme much like the beggers disshes , 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 vnderstand that the .vii. of December the said fishe was brought to the Citie of Antwarpt where it was openly shewed and sene aswell of Englishe men as other straungers what this monster with other vncouth sights sene of late do Prognosticate and signifye vnto vs , that I leaue to thy coniecture ( louing Reader ) beseching God the Lord and gouernour of all creatures not to deale with vs according to our desertes but for Christ his sonnes sake to power his mercye vpon vs and graunt vs Grace to amende and to doe those thinges whiche are pleasaunt and acceptable in his sight thorowe Iesus 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 inuentions 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 liued 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 vs 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 vs detest , And with his plage will punishe vs . But more to speake I rest .

Imprinted at London in Pawles Churchyarde by Thomas Purfoote at the signe of the Lucrece .

Secretary . What nedes assawte , I dare saye she wyll consent That ye shall entre by a reasonable poyntment And than take hede , for in keping of this warde & holde Is more daunger than in getynge a thousande folde . Ialowsye . She that is of mynde somwhat rechelesse Gyuynge her selfe all to ydelnesse And loueth to lye longe in her bedde Who wayteth a tyme , shall he not be spedde . Secretary . Tyme may nay , wayte yf she be in good mode For out of the chyrche , all tymes be good But passe not theron , though she saye naye For so she wyll , whan she hath best lust to playe . Ialowsye . She that can no conseyle kepe And lyghtly wyll sobbe and wepe Laugh agayne , and wote not why Wyll she not be soone tyced to foly . Secretary . The teares betoken a gracyous couroge And laughynge dothe all malyce aswage Whan she is in that takynge , marke well marke Let slyp , spare not for one course in her parke . Ialowsye . She that is fayre , lusty and yonge And can comon in termes wyth fyled tonge And wyll abyde why sperynge in the eare Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the seare . Secretary . By all these semely touches , me thynketh surely Her owne tayle she sholde occupy Somtyme for nede , her honesty saued She wyll wasshe often , or she be ones shaued . Ialowsye . She that paynteth her in starynge apparell Vse hote wynes , and dayly fare well And loueth to slepe at after none tyde Who lyst to stryke , trowe ye she wyll not stryde . Secretary . I can not saye , yf she wyll stryde But yf reason be offred , nothynge shall fall besyde For of trouth , as frost engendreth hayle Ease and ranke fedynge , dothe cause a lycorous tayle .

Imprynted at London in Crede Lane , by Iohn kynge .