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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... "
Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona - Page 45
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...smells like a 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 this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange...
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A Volume of Varieties

Charles Knight - 1844 - 246 pages
...common ; and thus, he that brought home " a dead Indian" or "a strange fish" was sure to be rewarded. " 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...
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The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson: The Arctic Discoverer

Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1845 - 450 pages
...exclusive right only to the trade of the country whose waters fall into Hudson's Bay: to which char* " 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...
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The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer

Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1845 - 444 pages
...to the trade of the country whose waters fall into Hudson's Bay: to which char* " A strange fish 1 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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 6; Volume 41

Theology - 1846 - 496 pages
...World, is well hit off in the language put in the mouth of Trinculo, when he encounters Caliban, — " 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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 41

Liberalism (Religion) - 1846 - 492 pages
...World, is well hit off in the language put in the mouth of Trinculo, when he encounters Caliban, — " 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...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest. Poor-John. are holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man : an% strange...
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...he smells like a fish ; a very undent and fish-like smell ; a kind of, not of the newest Poor-John. hers"- Shakespeare William" William Shakespeare( holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: uj strange...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...pailfuls. — What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell ; a kind of, not...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 this monster...
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A Romance of the Sea Serpent: Or, The Ichthyosaurus

Eugene Batchelder - Sea monsters - 1849 - 184 pages
...horn, And see the waltzers near and far ; The lamps and flowers are bright as yet." NP WILLIS. Trin. " A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and Had but this fish painted, * * * There would this monster make a man." Tempest, Act II. " It 's nothing but a porpoise, sir, that...
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