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With a line of finest silk, 

 And a rod as white as milk, 

 To deceive the little fish : 

 So I take my leave, and wish 

 On this bower may ever dwell 

 Spring and summer." 



Rule a Wife and have a Wife. (1624.) 

 ACT II, sc. iv. 



" Clara. Hast thou married him ? 



Estifania. What, dost thou think I fish without a bait, wench ? 

 I bob for fools : He is mine own, I have him. 

 I tell thee what would tickle him like a trout, 

 And as I cast it, so I caught him daintily. 

 ACT IV, sc. i. 



Estifania. Here comes another trout that I must tickle, and tickle 

 daintily. I've lost my end else." 



The False One. (circa 1618.) 

 ACT I, sc. ii. 



Apollodorus. Did you tell her 



Of the sports I have prepared to entertain her ? 

 She was used to take delight, with her fair hand, 

 To angle in the Nile, where the glad fish, 

 As if they knew who 'twas sought to deceive them, 

 Contended to be taken. 



Monsieur Thomas, (before 1621.) 

 ACT I, sc. iii. 



"Dorothea. Fare you well. 



The fool shall now fish for himself. 

 Alice. Be sure then 



His tewgh be tith and strong ; and next, no swearing ; 



He'll catch no fish else." 



Four Plays in One. (circa 1 6 1 1 .) 



" Martins. Oh, how thou confut'st divinely, and thy words 

 Do fall like rods upon me ! but they have 

 Such silken lines and silver hooks, that I 

 Am faster snared." 



The Two Noble Kinsmen. (1634.) 

 ACT I, sc. i. 



Third Queen. Lady, lady, alack, 



He that with all the treasure know o' the earth 

 Must know the centre too ; he that will fish 

 For my least minnow, let him lead his line 

 To catch one at my heart." 

 ACT IV. sc. i. 



" Jailor. But why all this haste, Sir ? 



Wooer. I'll tell you quickly. As I late was angling 



