" A Merry Carroll Sing" 8 r 



I fear few modern anglers can lay much 

 claim to possess the "eleventh gift of 

 a good angler." Even Dennys called it the 

 " hardest to endure " ; but much depends 

 on what he calls " superfluous fare " : 



" The eleventh good gift and hardest to indure, 

 Is fasting long from all superfluous fare, 

 Unto the which he must himself inure, 

 By exercise and use of dyet spare, 

 And with the liquor of the waters pure, 

 Acquaint himselfe if he cannot forbeare, 

 And never on his greedy belly thinke 

 From rising sunne until! a low he sincke." 



With one more quotation from these 

 Secrets I must leave Dennys : it is his last 

 verse : 



" And now we are arrived at the last, 

 In wished harbour where we meane to rest; 

 And make an end of this our journey past ; 

 Here then in quiet roade I thinke it best 

 We strike our sailes and stcdfast Anchor cast, 

 For now the Sunne low setteth in the West, 

 And yee Boat-Swaines, a merry Crro//sing 

 To him that safely did us hither bring." 



