A price so high and so extravagant
For a poor despicable paltry fish.—Anon.
Amphis. (Book vi. § 5, p. 356.)
The general of an army is at least
A thousand times more easy of access,
And you may get an answer quicker too
Than from these cursed fishmongers: ask them
The price of their commodity, they hold
A wilful silence, and look down with shame,