The Secrets of Angling. 55 



The ninth is placabilitie of minde, 



Contented with a reasonable dish, 



Yea though sometimes no sport at all he finde, 



Or that the weather proue not to his wish. 



The tenth is thankes to that God, of each kinde, 



To net and bayt doth send both foule and Fish, 

 And still reserue inough in secret store, 

 To please the rich, and -to relieue the poore. 



Th' eleauenth good guift and hardest to indure, 

 Is fasting long from all superfluous fare, 

 Vnto the which he must himselfe inure, 

 By exercise and vse of dyet spare, 

 And with the liquor of the waters pure, 

 Acquaint himselfe if he cannot forbeare, 



And neuer on his greedy belly thinke, 

 From rising sunne vntill a low he sincke. 



The twelth and last of all is memory, 



Remembring well before he setteth out, 



Each needfull thing that he must occupy, 



And not to stand of any want in doubt, 



Or leaue something behinde forgetfully : 



When he hath walkt the fields and brokes about, 

 It were a griefe backe to retvrne againe, 

 For things forgot that should his sport maintaine. 



Here then you see what kind of quallities, 



An Angler should indued be with all, 



Besides his skill and other properties, 



To serue his turne, as to his lot doth fall : 



But now what season for this exercise. 



The fittest is and which doth serue but small. 



My Muse vouchsafe some little ayd to lend. 



To brintr this also to the wished end. 



