Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fisk

(in Hudibras) was Nicholas Fisk, a physician and astrologer, who used to say that a physician never deserved his bread till he had no teeth to eat it. In his old age he was almost a beggar.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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