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They that in private, by themselves alone, 



Do pray, may take 

 What liberty they please, 

 In choosing of the ways 



Wherein to make 



Their soul's most intimate affections known 

 To Him that sees in secret, when 

 They're most conceal'd from other men. 



But he that unto others leads the way 



In public prayer, 

 Should do it so 

 As all that hear may know 



They need not fear 



To tune their hearts unto his tongue, and say, 

 Amen ; not doubt they were betray'd 

 To blaspheme, when they meant to have pray'd. 



Devotion will add life unto the letter : 



And why should not 

 That which authority 

 Prescribes, esteemed be 



Advantage got ? 



If the prayer be good, the commoner the better ; 

 Prayer in the Church's words as well 

 As sense, of all prayers bears the bell. CH. HARVIE. 



And now, scholar, I think it will be time to repair to 

 our angle-rods, which we left in the water, to fish for them- 

 selves : and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and 

 it is an even lay, one of them catches. 



And, let me tell you, this kind of fishing with a dead 

 rod, and laying night-hooks, are like putting money to use ; 

 for they both work for the owners, when they do nothing 

 but sleep, or eat, or rejoice ; as you know we have done 

 this last hour, and sat as quietly and as free from cares 

 under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus 

 did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest 

 scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a 

 well-governed angler, for when the lawyer is swallowed 

 up with business, and the statesman is preventing or con- 



