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A Hook that's fine, 

 And Taper Line, 



Two or three hairs below, 

 May well suffice, 

 Unto the wise, 



When they to Angling go. 

 No mighty skill for them you need expend, 

 If baits be good on those they will attend ; 

 Increase your sport, and by a fresh desire, 

 Invite you further on, and then aspire 

 To be compleat ; who so for Gudgeons Angle, 

 Do oftentimes the best of Fish intangle, 

 Both Chub and Roach, the Pearch and slimy 



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Insensible, unto a worm will steal, 

 And raise your Expectation to a higher pitch 

 Then floating fry, the vulgar so bewitch. 

 But let your baits be always pure and sweet, 

 And all your Tackling of the best compleat, 

 Else falls the Proverb to your luck, and then, 

 Of mighty Artists, prove but simple Men. 



Muse keep thy Theme, and sing what other 



Fish 



Compleats an Angler to his Roving wish ; 

 And tell those sorts that in our streams there be, 

 For to repay our cost and pains with usury. 

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