Al'I'l-.NUIX. 301 



I'al a^cd carps llial run into tliv net, 



And pikes, now weary their own kind to eat, 



As loth the second drauf^ht or cast to stay, 



Officiously at first themselves betray, 



Hright eels that emulate them, and leap on land. 



Before the fisher, or into Iiis hand." 



Lilly (J.) 



Hiu/nni'jii. (1501). 

 Act IV, sc. ii. 



•' S:ii/t/.is. Worse and worse, hut how wilt thou live? 



Epiton. Hv angling ; O tis a statelv occupation to stand foure houres 

 in a colde morning, and to have his nose bitten with frost before his 

 baite be mumbled with a fish. 



Daii's. A rare attempt." 



Saplio and Phaon. (1584). 

 Acr I, sc. i. 



" Venus. To passe the time in thy boate, canst thou devise any 



pastime ? 

 Pkao. If the winde be with mee, I can an:'le, or tell tales : if against 

 mee, it will be pleasure for you to see mee take paines. 

 Venus. I like not fishing : yet was I born of the sea. 

 Pkao. But he may blesse fishing, that caught such a one in the sea. 

 Venus. It was not with an angle, my boye, but with a nette." 



My das. (1592). 



" Coryn. Hee that fishes for Lesbos, must have such a wooden net, as 

 all the trees in Phrygia will not serve to make the cod, nor all the woods 

 in Pis-idia provide the corks. 



Draipon. Nay, he meanes to angle for it with a hooke of gold and a 

 baite of golde and so strike the fish with a pleasing baite that will slide 

 out of an open net." 



Barry ( Ludowick.) 



Ra tn - A II ey , r Merry Tricks . (1611). 



Act II, sc. i. 



" Adriann. I took you for a novice ; and I must think 

 You know not yet the inwards of a woman, 

 Do you not know that women are like fish, 

 Which must be struck when they are prone to bite, 

 Or all your labours lost." 



William Small-shanks. Has the gudgeon bit .' 



Frances. He has been nibbling." 



Middleton ( T.) and Dekkar (T.) 



The Roaring Girle : or Moll Ctit-Pnrse. (161 1). 



Act I, sc. 1. 



'■^ Moll. Fish that must needs bite, or themselves be bitten ; 

 Such hungry things as these muv soon be took 



