FISH. 
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Nestor. And there they fly, or die, like scaled sculls 
Before the belching whale ; 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 5. 
Hamlet. Or, like a whale ? 
Polonius. Very like a whale. 
Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 2. 
1st Fisher. I can compare our rich misers 
to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; ’a plays and tumbles, 
driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours 
them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard 
on o’ the land, who never leave gaping, till they’ve 
swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, 
and all. 
Pericles . . . . nor have I time 
To give thee hallow’d to thy grave, but straight 
Must cast thee, scarcely coffin’d, in the ooze; 
Where, for a monument upon thy bones, 
And aye-remaining lamps, the belching whale 
And humming water must o’erwhelm thy corpse, 
Lying with simple shells. 
Pericles, Act ii. Scene 1 ; Act iii. Scene 1. 
SHARK. 
3d Witch. . . . maw, and gulf, 
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark ; 
Macbeth, Act iv. Scene 1. 
PORPUS. 
3d Fisher. Nay, master, said not I as much, when 
