Third Fisherman. — Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 



First Fisherman. — Why as men do a-land ; the great ones eat up the little 

 ones. 

 I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a 

 whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry 

 before him, and at last devours all at a mouthful. 

 Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never 

 leave gaping, till they've swallowed the whole parish, 

 church, steeple, bells and all. 



Shakespeare, Pericles. 



