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Viat. My thanks. And now, if you please, let us 

 look out this fine morning 1 . 



Pise. With all my heart ; Boy, take the key of 

 my Fishing-house, and carry down those two angle- 

 rods in the hall-window, thither, with my fish-pan- 

 nier, pouch, and landing-net ; and stay you there 

 till we come. Come, Sir, we'll walk after ; where, 

 hy the way, I expect you should raise all the excep- 

 tions against our country you can. 



Viat. Nay, Sir, do not think me so ill-natured 

 nor so uncivil : I only made a little bold with it 

 last night to divert you, and was only in jest. 



Pise. You were then in as good earnest as I am 

 now with you : but had you been really angry at it, 

 I could not blame you ; for, to say the truth, it is 

 not very taking at first sight. But look you, Sir, 

 now you are abroad, does not the sun shine as 

 bright here as in Essex, Middlesex, or Kent, or any 

 of your southern counties. 



Viat. "lis a delicate morning indeed ! And I now 

 think this a marvellous pretty place. 



Pise. Whether you think so or no, you cannot 

 oblige me more than to say so : and those of my 

 friends who know my humour, and are so kind as 

 to comply with it, usually flatter me that way. But 

 look you, Sir, now you are at the brink of the hill, 

 how do you like my river, the vale it winds through 

 like a snake, and the situation of my little Fishing- 

 house ? 



