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standing up there distant from the rock, this is called 

 Pike Pool. And young Mr. Izaak Walton was so pleased 

 with it, as to draw it in landscape, in black and white, 

 in a blank book I have at home, as he has done several 

 prospects of my house also, which I keep for a memorial 

 of his favour, and will shew you when we come up to 

 dinner. 



VIAT. Has young Master Izaak Walton been here too ? 



Pise. Yes, marry has he, Sir, and that again and again 

 too, and in France since, and at Rome, and at Venice, 

 and I can't tell where : but I intend to ask him a great 

 many hard questions so soon as I can see him, which 

 will be, God willing, next month. In the meantime, Sir, 

 to come to this fine stream at the head of this great 

 pool, you must venture over these slippery, cobbling 

 stones ; believe me, Sir, there you were nimble, or else 

 you had been down ; but now you are got over, look 

 to yourself : for, on my word, if a fish rise here, he is 

 like to be such a one as will endanger your tackle : how 

 now ! 



VIAT. I think you have such command here over the 

 fishes, that you can raise them by your word, as they 

 say conjurers can do spirits, and afterward make them 

 do what you bid them ; for here's a trout has taken my 

 fly, I had rather have lost a crown.* What luck's 

 this ! he was a lovely fish, and turned up a side like a 

 salmon. 



It stands in the midst of the River Dove ; and not far from Mr. 

 Cotton's house ; below which place this delicate river takes a swift 

 career betwixt many mighty rocks, much higher and bigger than 

 St. Paul's church before it was burnt. And this Dove being opposed 

 by one of the highest of them, has, at last, forced itself a way through 

 it ; and after a mile's concealment, appears again with more glory 

 and beauty than before that opposition, running through the most 

 pleasant valleys and most fruitful meadows that this nation can 

 justly boast of. (WALTON, junior.) 



* Not taken it in the ordinary angling acceptation, but taken it 

 off the line broken away with it, so that both fish and fly are lost. 

 E. 



