7726' Secrets of Angling. 59 



Carpe, Eele, and Tench, doe loue a muddie ground, 

 Eeles vnder stones or hollow rootes doe lye ; 

 The Tench among thicke weedes is soonest found, 

 The fearfull Carpe into the deepe doth flic, 

 Bream, Chub and Pike, where clay and sand abound, 

 Pike loues great pooles, and places full of frie : 



The Chub delights in streame or shadie tree, 



And tender Breame in broadest lake to be. 



The Salmon swift the Riuers sweet doth like, 

 Where largest streames into the Sea are led ; 

 The spotted Trout the smaller Brookes doth seeke, 

 And in the deepest hole there hides his head : 

 The prickled Pearc/i in euery hollow creeke, 

 Hard by the banke, and sandy shoare is fed. 



Pean/i, Trout, and Salmon loue cleere waters all, 

 Greene weedy rockes, and stony grauell small. 



So doth the Billhead, Goodgion, and the Lvache, 

 The most in shallow Brookes delight to be, 

 The Ruffe, the Dace, the Barbill, and the Roach, 

 Grauell and sand doe loue in lesse degree, 

 But to the deepe and shade doe more approach, 

 And ouerhead some couert loue to see, 



Of spreading Poplar, Oake or Willow greene, 

 Where vnderneath they lurke for beeinu seene. 



The mighty Luce great waters haunts ahvay, 

 And in the stillest place thereof doth lye, 

 Satte when he raungeth foorth to seeke his pray, 

 And swift among the feerefull fish doth flye, 

 The dainty Humber loues the marley clay, 

 And cleerest streair.es of champion countrie live, 



And in the chiefest pooles thereof doth rest, 

 Where he is soonest found and taken best. 



