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To go a-fisliing with a crank through a window, or to set 

 lime twigs to catch a pan, pot or dish. 



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Usury. Fellow : Simony, this fell out pat, so well as heart could wish. 

 We are cunning anglers : we have caught the fattest fish." 



Three Lords and Three Ladies of London. (1590). 



"Simplicity. O boy ! who is the elder ? Hast thou not heard, give 



flounders to thy elder. 

 Wit. You mistake the fish ; trust me, I am sure 'tis give 

 plaice ; but begin with a good grace." 



May ( Thos.) 



The Heir. (1633). 

 Act I,sc. i. 



"• Roscio. Others will conic, mv lord, all sorts of fish 

 Will press upon your nets. 



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No doubt, my lord. 

 So fair a bait would catch a cunning fish ?" 



Massinger. 



The Fatal Dowry. (1632). 

 Act V, sc. ii. 



" Man Set, Phoebus, set ; a fairer sun doth rise 



From the bright radiance of mv mistress' eyes, 

 Than ever thou begat'st : I dare not look ; 

 Each hair a golden line, e.ich word a hook, 

 The more I strive, the more still am I took." 



The Old Law. 



Act IV, sc. i. 



" Simonides. Never by prince were such young judges made, 

 But now the cause requires it : if you mark it, 

 He must make \^oung or none ; for all the old ones 

 He hath sent a fishing." 



Still (John). 



Gammer Gnrton^s Needle, (circa 1575). 



"Hodge. Hase she not gone, trowest now thou, and lost her neele ? 

 Diccon. Her eele, Hodge ! who fysht of late .' that was a dainty dysh. 



Tush, tush, her neele, her neele, her neele, man, tys neither 



flesh nor fysh." 



Tancred and Sigismnnda. ( 1568). 



(Said to be the production of five gentlemen, students at the Inner 

 Temple.) 



Act III, sc. i. 



"Chorus 4. But he gives poison so to drink in gold, 



And hideth under pleasant baits his hook.' 



