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Fat aged carps that run into thy net, 



And pikes, now weary their own kind to eat, 



As loth the second draught or cast to stay, 



Officiously at first themselves betray, 



Bright eels that emulate them, and leap on land, 



Before the fisher, or into his hand." 



Lilly (J.) 



Endimion. (1591). 

 ACT IV, sc. ii. 



" Samias. Worse and worse, but how wilt thou live ? 



Epiton. By angling ; O tis a stately occupation to stand foure houres 

 in a colde mo'rning, and to have his nose bitten with frost before his 

 baite be mumbled with a fish. 



Dares. A rare attempt." 



Sapho and Phaon. (1584). 

 ACT I, sc. i. 



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



pastime ? 



Phao. If the winde be with mee, I can ansjle, 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. 

 Phao. 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 Pisidia 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.) 



Ram- Alley, or Merry Tricks. (1611). 



ACT II, sc. i. 



" Adriana. 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 Cut- Purse. (1611). 



ACT I, sc. i. 



"Moll. Fish that must needs bite, or themselves be bitten ; 

 Such hungry things as these may soon be took 



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