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Fiz-gigs

By C. B.

In those excellent poems, Sandys's *Paraphrases on Job and other Books of the Bible*, there is a word of a most destructive character to the effect. Speaking of leviathan, he asks, "Canst thou with *fiz-gigs* pierce him to the quick?" It may be an ignorant question, but I do not know what fiz-gigs are.

Topics: Victorian Poetry, Biblical Paraphrases