(corresponding to “Fabulous Masked Man”)

From Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act II, Scene I:

THIRD FISHERMAN.

... Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.

FIRST FISHERMAN.

Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. such whales have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping till they they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.

PERICLES. [Aside]

A pretty moral.