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elude him not over-cautious, whatever it costs 

 him, that values not his life to purchase what he 

 loves. And fashion he affects not, nor the for- 

 mality of novels ; who contents himself with 

 country-commons, rather than to ramble up and 

 down for varieties ; yet would have it constant, 

 though not over-costly : who betters every thing 

 by his own delicacy, because himself is a delicate 

 morsel ; but seldom tasted, and as rarely consult- 

 ed. Which makes every angler desirous of him, 

 since he that takes him gets a reward ; which a 

 well-scoured red-worm certainly accomplishes, as 

 soon as any thing except the gudgeon, for that's 

 a charm that compels him ashore. 



To write the burbolt's epitaph ; he dreams 

 That baulks the calms, to search him in the streams. 

 That angler that will court him to his dish, 

 Must bring him gudgeons to obtain his wish. 



FLOUNDER. 



The flounder is a fish that bites before any 

 man's face, not dreading the aspect of an inva- 

 der. It's true, he's a fish that's as bold as a buc- 

 caneer ; of much more confidence than caution, 

 yet nothing more curious ; one that loves good 

 meat, and is good meat himself; whose appetite 

 is open as early as his eyes, arid contemplates 



