102 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



God, not contented to each kind to give, 6. Day of 



And to infuse the virtue generative, Bartas. 



By his wise power made many creatures breed 

 Of lifeless bodies, without Venus' deed. 



So the cold humour, breeds the Salamander ; 

 Who, in effect, like to her birth's commander, 

 With child with hundred winters, with her touch 

 Quencheth the fire, though glowing ne'er so much. 



So in the fire, in burning furnace, springs 

 The fig Perausta with the flaming wings : 

 Without the fire it dies ; in it it joys ; 

 Living in that which all things else destroys. 



So, sloiv Bootes underneath him sees ; T iev f , " 



Herbal and 



In th' icy islands goslings hatch' d of trees ; Camden. 

 Whose fruitful leaves falling into the water, 

 Are turn'd, 'tis known, to living fowls soon after. 



So rotten planks of broken ships do change 

 To Barnacles. transformation strange ! 

 'Twas first a green tree, then a broken hull, 

 Lately a mushroom, now a flying Gull. 



Ven. O my good Master ! this morning- walk has 

 been spent to my great pleasure and wonder : but 

 I pray, when shall I have your direction how to 

 make Artificial- Flies, like to those that the Trout 

 loves best ? and also how to use them ? 



