TJic Secrets of Angling. 45 



FOR THE SEW A NT AND FLOUNDER. 



Behold some others ranged all along, 



To take the Sewafit, yea, the Flounder sweet, 



That to the banke in deepest places throng, 



To shunne the swifter streame that runncs so fleete, 



And lye and feede the brackish waues among, 



Whereas the waters fresh and salt doe meete : 



And there the Eele and S/iad sometimes is caught, 

 That with the tide into the brookes are brought. 



But by the way it shall not be amisse, 

 To vnderstand that in the waters gray, 

 Of floating Fish, two sundry kindes there is, 

 The one that Hues by rauen and by pray. 

 And of the weaker sort, now that, now this. 

 He bites, and spoyles, and kills, and beares away, 

 And in his greedy gullet doth deuowre. 

 As Scillas gulfe, a ship within his powre. 



And these haue wider mouths to catch and take 

 Their flying pray, whom swifdy they pursew, 

 And rows of teeth like to a saw or rake. 

 Wherewith the gotten game they bite and chew, 

 And greater speede within the waters make, 

 To set vpon the other simple crew, 



And as the grayhound steales vpon the hare, 

 So doe they vse to rush on them vnware. 



Vnequall Fate, that some are borne to be 



FearfuU and milde, and for the rest a pray, 



And others are ordain'd to Hue more free, 



Without controule or danger any way : . 



So doth the Foxe the Lambe destroy we see, 



The Lyon fierce, the Beuer, Roe, or Gray, 



The Llauke, the foule, the greater wrong the lesse. 

 The lofty proud, the lowly poore opprcsse. 







