Miser, Sick: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Having no other pleasure of his gain But torment, that it cannot ease his pain. Poems. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a Whale; that plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful Such whales I have heard of on land, who never leave gaping, till they have swallowed up a whole parish, church, steeple— P. P. ii. 1
bells, and all.