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" A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 45
by William Shakespeare - 1879
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1844 - 640 pages
...! Were I in England now, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give me a piece of silver. There would this monster make a...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." A Mermaid desired to know whether she was intended by the Sphynx's enigma, as she was a lady. Sir Charles...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man s ; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian 9 . Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my 7 —this fish painted,] To exhibit fishes,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man 8 ; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian9. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my 1 — - this fish painted,] To exhibit...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...regret : — ' Were I in England now, as I once was, and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' The dream of discovering an El Dorado, the hope of plunder, and religious fervour sent men on expeditions...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...yond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. — What have we here ? a man or a fish ' Dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient...to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fips like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer ; this is no...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man 9 ; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o'my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer ; this is no fish, but an islander, that...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical ..., Volumes 25-26

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 636 pages
...Caliban, ' and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver.— When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustable plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 21-22

British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...' and had but this fish painted, not an holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. — . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The Adventurer, Volume 3

1823 - 298 pages
...Caliban, " and had but this fish painted, not an holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. — When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

James Ferguson - 1823 - 322 pages
...Caliban, " and had but this fish painted, not an holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. — When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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