The Fourth Day 99 



They that in private, by themselves alone, 

 Do pray, may take 

 What liberty they please, 

 In chusing of the ways 



Wherein to make 



Their soul's most intimate affections known 

 To him that sees in secret, when 

 Th' are most conceal'd from other men. 



But he, that unto others leads the way 



In public prayer, 

 Should do it so, 

 As all, that hear, may know 



They need not fear 



To tune their hearts unto his tongue, and say 

 Amen ; not doubt they were betray'd 

 To blaspheme, when they meant to have pray'd. 



Devotion will add life unto the letter : 



And why should not 

 That, which authority 

 Prescribes, esteemed be 



Advantage got ? 



If th' prayer be good, the commoner the better, 

 Prayer in the Church's words, as well 

 As sense, of all prayers bears the bell. 



CH. HARVIE. 



And now, scholar, I think it will be time to re- 

 pair to our angle-rods, which we left in the water to 

 fish for themselves ; and you shall choose which 

 shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of them 

 catches. 



And, let me tell you, this kind of fishing with a 

 dead rod, and laying night-hooks, are like putting 

 money to use ; for they both work for the owners 

 when they do nothing but sleep, or eat, or rejoice, 

 as you know we have done this last hour, and sat 

 as quietly and as free from cares under this syca- 

 more, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did 

 under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest 

 scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life 

 of a well -governed angler ; for when the lawyer is 

 swallowed up with business, and the statesman is pre- 



