314 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



Now as operation in artifice is the corona of 

 art, so demonstration in science is the ultimate 

 end of experience. I forfeit neither my reason 

 nor opinion in this assertion : nor do I in my 

 arguments undermine those artists that practi- 

 cally and experimentally understand the right 

 use of the worm, though some with honey and 

 other dulcids have sweetly allured him, and 

 some others with tar (supposing him a tarpolin) 

 have summoned him ashore ; yet I declare upon 

 practice, that if the worm do not pleasure him, 

 the angler may mingle despairs with his sports. 

 But then let him consider the complement of 

 licorish, or the homogeniety of the oil of annis, 

 cummin, or assafetida, to furnish it with a hogoe, 

 which, in my opinion, surpasseth the camerial 

 oil of oespres : yet not that I altogether doubt 

 the truth of so famous a secret, celebrated by 

 the antients, but rather the rarity of so admira- 

 ble a discovery ; such another some fancy is that 

 of the Phenix. 



The carp's no courtier, nor a country guest, 

 Yet answers both, all after as he's drest. 

 He loves the silent deeps, in ponds and pools ; 

 A dish for states-men, or a mess for fools. 



