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to-day : I will walk along by you, and look on, and after 

 dinner I will proceed in my lecture of fly-fishing. 



VIAT. I confess I long to be at the river, and yet I 

 could sit here all day to hear you : but some of the one, 

 and some of the other, will do well ; and I have a mighty 

 ambition to take a trout in your River Dove. 



Pise. I warrant you shall : I would not for more 

 than I will speak of but you should, seeing I have so 

 extolled my river to you : nay, I will keep you here a 

 month, but you shall have one good day of sport before 

 you go. 



VIAT. You will find me, I doubt, too tractable that 

 way ; for in good earnest, if business would give me leave, 

 and that it were fit, I could find in my heart to stay with 

 you for ever. 



Pise. I thank you, Sir, for that kind expression ; and 

 now let me look out my things to make this fly. 



