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Theoph. Thanks, Arnoldus, if thanks be ar- 

 gument good enough to retaliate your bounty. 

 But what must we think of those hovering 

 clouds ? 



Am. I think they'l bring us summons of 

 night, otherways I am loth to relinquish these 

 pleasant streams, that divert the angler with 

 such profitable entertainments. 



Theaph. If the night approach, it's time to 

 withdraw ; but to withdraw from such sweet 

 diversion, goes against the grain. Eden, fare- 

 wel. Nay, I'le repeat it twice ; Farewel, 

 Eden. With what reluctancy do I relinquish 

 thy smiling fords, though to solace myself in 

 the fortress of Carlisle. 



Arn. You are shrewdly hurt. Will refresh- 

 ment incommode you after the toils of recrea- 

 tion ? and your observation of this late encoun- 

 ter invalidate the art ? Ingenuously tell me, 

 what your observation directs to ? 



Theoph. This I observ'd worthy my obser- 

 vation, that it was a field fairly fought, but I 

 cannot say without loss of life. 



Arn. And I declare it a conquest of an easy 

 purchase, where arms and artillery (the rod ex- 

 cepted) amounts not to sixpence. 



Theoph. Was it six shillings, what a purchase 

 is that to experience art and tantalize fish ? 

 What's the single hazard of a hook and line, (a 



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