I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs By the known rules of antient libertie, When strait a barbarous noise environs me Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs

In one sense or another, each of the stories is about the creation of private fictions, reshapings of the world in order to make it walkable.

So on the sea she shall be set adrift.

a demigod is oftener joined to a demibeast than a demiman