FISH. 
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CRAB. 
Hamlet. ... for you yourself, sir, should be 
old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward. 
Hamlet, Act ii. Scene 2. 
PRAWNS. 
Hostess. Did not goodwife Keech, the 
butcher’s wife, come in then, and call me gossip 
Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; 
telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby 
thou didst desire to eat some; 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 1. 
SHRIMP. 
Holofernes. Great Hercules is presented by this imp , 
Whose club killed Cerberus , that three-headed canus ; 
And , when he was a babe , a child , a shrimp, 
Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus : 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
Countess. Is this the scourge of France ? 
Is this the Talbot, so much fear’d abroad, 
Alas ! this is a child, a silly dwarf: 
It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp 
Should strike such terror to his enemies. 
King Henry VI., Part I. Act ii. Scene 3. 
