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Let rivers therefore from the mountains flow, 

 To change the water of your lakes below. 

 Fish, by the river brought, your ponds receive, 

 Which with the stream, when they attempt to leave, 

 To bar their flight a fence of hurdles place, 

 Thro' which the stream may flow ; the finny race, 

 Struggling in vain, becomes an easy prize, 

 And still pursues the stream with eager eyes. 

 No place for fish is more convenient found, 

 Than moats which do your house's walls surround , 

 For here the mazes of the stream they trace, 

 And chuse in Winter's cold, a sunny place, 

 Or to the house's friendly shade repair 

 As oft as summer suns inflame the air : 

 Be mindful thou the hungry race to feed, 

 The fish themselves in their own cause will plead j 

 And, rising to the surface of the flood, 

 With hungry gaping jaws demand their food. 

 Let then your children crums of bread bestow, 

 Or bits of biscuit from their windows throw, 

 From whence they may behold their sportive play, 

 And see how greedily they snatch the prey. * 



Sometime* 



* u One, like a pirat, only Hues of prizes, 

 That in the deep he desperatly surprises : 

 Another haunts the shoar, to feed on foam j 

 Another round about the rocks doth roam, 

 Nibbling on weeds ; another, hating thieuing, 

 Eats nought at all, of liquor only liuing j 

 For the salt humor of his element 

 Serues him, alone, for perfect nourishment. 

 Scm loue the clear streams of swift tumbling torrents, 

 Which, through the recks straining their struggling current*, 

 Break banks and bridges, and doo neuer stop, 

 Till thirsty summer come to drink them vp ; 

 1 Some almost alwayes pudder in the mud 

 Of sleepy pools, and neuer brook the flood 



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