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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Pericles, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 28ff (2.1.28-29) [with George Wilkins]
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