Further instances of the topos of big fishes devouring the little, cited in previous issues of Traditio, include the following, in addition to those given in M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor, Mich. 1950), which appeared too late for inclusion in the previous discussions. Tilley offers a significant number of references under the headings: F 311 (‘The great fish eat the small’), and, analogously, L 354 (‘The little cannot be great unless he devours many’), Ο 63 (‘There would be no great ones if there were no little ones’), R 102 (‘The rich devour the poor, the strong the weak’), and Τ 507 (‘Great trees keep under the little ones’). See also the allusions in Kenneth Muir's 1952 edition of Shakespeare's Lear, annotating 4.2.49-50 (p. 156), and deriving some instances from F. P. Wilson's essay, ‘Shakespeare's Reading.’ We may compare aiso Plutarch, Cleverness of Animals 964, citing the already-noted Hesiod, Works and Days 277-79. The fifteenth-century Lanterne of reads: ‘But as þ greet fisches eeten þè smale so riche men of J)is world deuouren þe pore to her bare boon…’