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The adage referred to is, the cat loves fish, but does not like to wet her paws.
Letting I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat iʹ the adage.
Shakespeare: Macbeth, i. 7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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