XXIII.

This cole with overblowing quench'd and dead, The Soule from her too active organs fled T'a brooke. A female fishes sandie Roe With the males jelly, newly lev'ned was, For they had intertouch'd as they did passe, 225 And one of those small bodies, fitted so, This soule inform'd, and abled it to rowe It selfe with finnie oares, which she did fit: Her scales seem'd yet of parchment, and as yet Perchance a fish, but by no name you could call it. 230