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When Hotspur vents his bitterness on the arts by 

 which Henry Bolingbroke had wormed himself into the 

 affections of the people, it is to the angler's craft he goes 

 for a simile : 



And by this face, 



This seeming brow of justice, did he win 

 The hearts of all that he did angle for. 



In the heat and fury of his passionate denunciation of 

 his uncle, does not Hamlet fly to the fisher's craft for 

 an image, and accuse his father's murderer and his 

 mother's betrayer for that he hath 



Thrown out his angle for my proper life ? 



When Cressida puts to Troilus the question, " My lord, 

 will you be true?" mark the metaphor in which the 

 noble Trojan wraps his answer : 



Who, I ? Alas, it is my vice, my fault : 

 Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion , 

 I with great truth catch mere simplicity. 



Who but an angler would have made Claudio say to 

 Don Pedro, " Bait] the hook well ; this fish will bite " ? 

 Who but one who had often gone " a-angling " for the 

 " foolishest of fishes " would have put into the mouth of 

 Gratiano, as he seeks to cheer the sad Antonio, the 

 words : 



But fish not, with this melancholy bait, 

 For this fool gudgeon, this opinion? 



Would anyone who had never thrown a line have 



