Social Commentaries
Of Faustus fishing
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
WIth siluer hooke Faustus for flesh was fishing,
But that game byting not vnto his wishing,
He said, he did (being thus shrewdly matcht)
Fish for a Roach, but had a Gudgen catcht.
Faustus, it seemes thy luck therein was great,
For sure the Gudgen is the better meat.
Now bayt againe, that game is set so sharpe,
That to that Gudgen, thou mayst catch a Carpe.
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 28
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