_Fisher_. Go to the bench for judgment and to the lawe courts for counsell, I am free of neather, only one of _Neptunes_ poore bastards, a spawne of the sea, and nowe gladly desyres to be rydd of thee aland. _Clowne_. Onely one question resolve mee, and I have doone. _Fisher_. To bee well ridd of the I care not if I loose so much tyme. _Clowne_. But feythefully. _Fisher_. As I am honest peeterman.[121] _Clowne_. Observe mee then: I saw a theif, comitting fellony; I know the mayster of the thing was stolne, I com unto this theif, as't might bee thee, And make this covenant; eather give mee half And make mee sharer or thou forfettest all, I'l peach thee to the owner; in this case What may I justly claime? _Fisher_. Rather than forfeit all I shoold yeild halfe. _Clowne_. Knwe then 'tis thy case, and my case a most playne case, and concernes the booty in that cap-case.[122] I knowe the lord that wants it and the mayster that owes[123] it; boath howe it was lost and where it was lost. Com, unloose, unbuckle, unclaspe, uncase, lett's see then what fortune hathe sente us, and so part it equally beetwixt us. _Fisher_. Staye, staye, my frend this my case must not be opend till your case bee better lookt into. Thou knowest who lost it, I who fownd it; thou the lord of it that was, I the owner that nowe is; thou who did possess it, I who doth injoye it; hee had it, I have it; hee might have kept it, I will keepe it; I venter'd for all, I will inherit all; and theres thy pittifull case layde open. _Clowne_. First proove this to bee thyne. _Fisher_. I can and by the fisherman's rethorick. _Clowne_. Proceed sea-gull. _Fisher_. Thus land-spaniell; no man can say this is my fishe till hee finde it in his nett. _Clowne_. Good. _Fisher_. What I catche is myne owne, my lands my goodds my copy-hold, my fee-simple, myne to sell, myne to give, myne to lend, and myne to cast away; no man claimes part, no man share, synce fishinge is free and the sea common. _Clowne_.[124] If all bee common that the sea yeelds why then is not that as much mine as thyne? _Fisher_. By that lawe, when wee bringe our fishe to the markett, if every one may freely chuse what hee lykes and take where hee lyst, wee shoold have quikly empty dorsers[125] and cleane stalls, but light purses. _Clowne_. How can'st thou proove that to bee a fishe that was not bredd in the water, that coold never swimme, that hathe neather roe nor milt, scale nor finne, lyfe nor motion? Did ever man heare of a fishe cald a budgett? What shape, what collor? _Fisher_. This shape, this collor, there's nowe within better then the spawne of sturgeon; I must confesse indeed, they are rarely seene, and seldom fownd; for this is the fyrst I ever catcht in all the tyme of my fishinge. _Clowne_. All this sea-sophestry will not serve your turne, for where my right is deteind mee by fayre meanes I will have it by force. _Fisher_. Of what I caught in the sea?