The Secrets of Angling. 



ffOOKES. 



Then buy your Hookes the finest and the best 

 That may be had of such as vse to sell, 

 And from the greatest to the very least 

 Of euery sort picke out and ehuse them well, 

 Such as in shape and making passe the rest, 

 And doe for strength and soundnesse most exec 11 : 

 Then in a little Hoxe of dryest wood 

 From rust and canker keepe them faire and good. 



That Hooke 1 loue that is in compasse round, 



Like to the print that Pt'gasns did make, 



With horned hoofe vpon Thessalian ground ; 



From whence forthwith Pcrnassus spring out brake. 



That doth in pleasant Waters so abound : 



And of the Muses oft the thirst doth slake ; 



Who on his fruitfull bankes doe sit and sing. 



That all the world of their swee[t] tunes doth ring. 



Or as Thaiimantis, when she list to shrowd 

 Herselfe against the parching sunny ray, 

 Vnder the mantle of some stormy cloud. 

 Where she her sundry colours doth display 

 Like lunoes bird, of her faire garments proud. 

 That Pko:bii3 gaue her on her marriage day: 



Shewes forth her goodly Circle farre and wide 

 To mortall wights that wonder at her pride. 



His Shank should neither be too short nor long, 

 His point not ouersharpe, nor yet too dull: 

 The substance good that may indure from wrong ; 

 His Needle slender, yet both round and full, 

 Made of the right Iberian mettell strong, 

 That will not stretch nor breake at eucry pull, 



Wrought smooth and cleane withoutcn crack or knot 

 And bearded like the wilde Arabian L r oat. 



