Denny 's' " Third Booked 79 



Dame Juliana had already given us more 

 than a century earlier, and more completely: 

 viz., a description of the various kinds of 

 fresh-water fish ; their seasons : how, when, 

 and where to take them ; the different 

 "bayts" to be used, etc. The last verse 

 of this book runs thus : 



"Thus have I shew'd how Fish of divers kinde 

 Best taken are, and how their bayts to know ; 

 But Phoebus now beyond the westerne Inde t 

 Beginneth to descend and draweth low, 

 And well the weather serves and gentle winde 

 Downe with the tide and pleasant streame to 



row, 



Unto some place where we may rest us in, 

 Untill we shall another time begin." 



DENNYS' "THIRD BOOKE." 



In this we again leave the practical and 

 less poetic side of angling, and find some 

 charming pictures of the angler's recrea- 

 tion, and of the qualities which a good 

 angler should possess, of which there are 

 twelve, not the least of them being 

 Patience. 



" For there are times in which they will not bite." 



And the angler is described in a charm- 

 ing metaphor as being at times like a 

 vessel waiting for a favourable wind : 



"And as a ship in safe and quiet roade 

 Under some hill or harbour doth abide, 



