Show bishop pictured weird land joseph hall an english bishop of the first half of the seventeenth century wrote a book of satires picturing a land where the geese generated out of the fallen leaves of trees lambs grew out of the earth and as for fish when a line was thrown into the sea fish clung to it in the thousands cooks tavern keepers and bakers make up the chiefs of the city magnitude of stomach and not wisdom constitute statesmanship among their laws any one guilty of fasting for four hours is com compelled commelle pelle d to eat a double dinner and one convicted of high treason is starved to death |