With powts which in the muddy bottom lie; 

 Menows, which constant stores of eggs supply; 

 Lotes, on whose chins long hairy bristles grow ; 

 And skates and wide-mouth'd lampreys, which below 

 Resemble eels, but gape like frogs above j 

 With fragrant fish,* which murm'ring fountains love, 

 'Sweet to the smell like thyme's delightful flow'r; 

 Gudgeons who gravel greedily devour; 

 Perch like sea mullets both in taste and smell, 

 And pollards which within with prickles swell ; 

 With gaping sheaths, and plaise, whom, if their snout* 

 Were less obtuse, we might mistake for trouts, f 



In either stream the carp contented dwells, 

 With plenteous spawn thro' all the year she swells, 



But of all men he is the cheater, 

 Who with small fish takes up the greater, 

 He makes carpes without all dudgeon, 

 Make a Jonas of a gudgen ; 

 Cruell man that stayes on gravell 

 Fish that great with fish doth travell. 

 Breaks thy rod, &c. 



Llewellyn's Men Miracles, Sec. 1656. 

 * Thymallus. 



< The pike, the roach, the cheuen and the dace, 

 The bream, the .barbie with his bearded face, 

 The pearch, the gudgeon, and the siluer eele, 

 Which millers takea In their ozier weele, 

 Dwell in the riuer as principal fish, 

 And giuen to Pan to garnish thy dish ; 

 The ealmon, trout, flounder and creuise, 

 Dae dwell in riuers where the menow is. 

 The princely carpe, and medicinable tench, 

 la bottom of a foole tr.cmseluci doe ucn;h." 



Breton Ouran r a. 



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