William Shakespeare on Fishing
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“Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.”
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
“The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait.”
“Give me mine angle, we'll to the river; there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws.”