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Unless a gentle Breez, 



Blow Neighbouring flys from off the taller Trees; 

 Which to your hook and single hair, 

 Judicious eye and special care. 

 Angler tread soft, for if the ground 

 By ruder feet make any sound ; 



Then void is all your care, 

 As well as if you stood too near: 

 Which to prevent no shadow should come nigh, 

 Nor you to see, 

 Where Fishes be, 

 Into the waters pry; 

 Keep the Sun constant in ^our face, 

 Reflections on the water less will be, 



So you'll have pleasure to embrace, 

 While others loose by their simplicity. 

 Cheapsteed, I'd love thee could'st thou always be, 



From Knaves and Poachers ever free, 

 Then thy sweet stream would multiply : 

 To Longford then where first the worm we use, 

 For these two baits I only always use; 

 For Minnows none we have, nor none are nigh, 

 For better sport should Trouts our worms deny, 

 And never rise at Natural, or at Artificial fly, 

 Then sometime in a dusky evening late : 

 A grey Snail from the ground I take, 

 And gently o'r the stream I troul. 



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