Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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1 Fish.  Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Venus and Adonis. Line 145.

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,

And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

Venus and Adonis. Line 1019.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

Venus and Adonis. Line 1027.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.