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To go a-fishing 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 come, my 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 my mistress 1 eyes, 

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

 Each hair a golden line, each 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 young or none ; for all the old ones 

 He hath sent a fishing." 



Still (John). 



Gammer Gur ton'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 an d Sigism tin da. (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. ' 



