Then into fish the traytors he transform'd, 

 The traytors, still with love of lucre warm'd, 

 The sailing ship for golden fragments trace. 

 And prove themselves deriv'd from human race. * 



If running waters overflow your lakes, 

 There best the barbel f thrive with speckled backs ; 

 And roach, which shoot as swiftly thro* the flood 

 As arrows, flying from the bending woodj J 



From 



* To the tale of lucre respecting the carp, may b not Inappropriately at- 

 tached ' a controuersie of a conquest in loue 'twixt Fortune and Venus.'* 

 Whilst fissher kest hit line the houtring fish to hooke, 

 By hap a rich man's daughter on the fissher kect hii looke. 

 Shec fryde with frantick loue, they marid eke at last : 

 Thus fissher was froia lowe estate in top of treasure plast. 

 Stoede fortune by and smylde : * how say you, dame,' quoth she 

 To Venus, * was this conquest your's, or is it due to mee?' 

 'Twas I (quoth Vulcan's wife) with help of Cupid's bowe, 

 That made this wanton wench to rage, and match hi* selfe so lowc.* 

 ' Not so, 'twas Fortune J, that brought the trull in place; 

 And fortune was it that the man stoode so m maydten's grace j 

 By fortune fell thfir loue, 'twas fortune strake the stroke j 

 Then detter is this man to mee that did the match prouoke." 



Epitaphes, Epigrams, &c. by George Turbervile, 



f- '* Timorous barkels will not taste the bit 



TiH with their tayls they haue vnhooked it : 

 And til the bayts tha fisher can deuise, 

 Cannot begaile their wary jcailusies." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 

 J ' . . . . lika as the litle roch 



Must either be eat, or leap upon the shore, 



When as the hungary pickerel! doth approch, 

 And there finde death which it escape before. 



Baldwin's Owen Glendour, Mirrour for M. 157$. 



A somewhat unfair aad rapacious mode of fishing is occasionally adopted 

 by anglers, who lay several rods, and have an increased number of gentles 

 attached to each float j for which practice the only excuse is poor Cunning- 

 ham's apolojy for bracking the sabbath, " the dinaer lying at the bottom of 



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