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beyond the art of your exercise ; this I know and 

 perceive by his working, that if you work not 

 wisely, he'l work a reprieve. 



Theoph. Then Tie work with him, and trifle 

 him a shore, to examine the point, and exchange 

 of elements. I see he's convulst by fluttering his 

 fins ; and I'm sure he's half dead by rigling his 

 tail ; nay, more than that, he lies still without 

 motion : And are not all these mortal signs of 

 submission ? 



Am. And if he submits, he dies without re- 

 demption ; and death, you know, is a total sub- 

 mission. 



Theoph. I'le kill this fish, or forfeit my repu- 

 tation. 



Am. Take your chance, for I know you are 

 resolute. 



Theoph. I'le take my chance, and return vic- 

 torious. 



Arn. But there's no triumph, you know, till 

 possest of the trophies. 



Theoph. And I am pretty near them, was it 

 not that one or two stratagems strangely amuse 

 me ; the one of them is the casting himself on 

 the surface, as if designing thereby to cut my 

 line ; and the other, his fastning himself in the 

 bottom, thinking, as I apprehend, to tear all in 

 pieces; which, if he do, I lose my reputation : 



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