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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 to... "
Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ... - Page 224
by William Shakespeare - 1851 - 418 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...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...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...; a very ancient and fish-' like smell ; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I was,) and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold...
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists. Trinculo says, speaking of Caliban, "Were I but in England now .... and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." And again ; " Do you put tricks upon's with savages and men of Inde ?" &c. The whole play of the Tempest,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell ; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but...man : when they will not give a doit to relieve a kme beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 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) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...sight of Caliban, gives expression to the regret : — ' Were I in England now, as I once was, and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but 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 Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I 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. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

1822 - 654 pages
...society is all very well for select people. Your's to command, Kit Cannister." HOW TO SEE TEIE DEVIL. " Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver." — Temput. JOHN Bull is fond of sights, And of a disposition far too curious ; In England any monster...
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