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with the hook in his upper lip, and letting him 

 swim up and down, about mid-water or a little 

 lower, and you still keeping him to about that 

 depth by a cork, which ought not to be a very 

 little one : and the like way you are to fish for 

 the perch with a small frog, your hook being fas- 

 tened through the skin of his leg, towards the 

 upper part of it : and lastly, I will give you but 

 this advice, that you give the perch time 

 enough when he bites, for there was scarce ever 

 any angler that has given him too much. And 

 now I think best to rest myself, for I have almost 

 spent my spirits with talking so long. 



Ven. Nay, good master, one fish more, for you 

 see it rains still, and you know our angles are 

 like money put to usury ; they may thrive, though 

 we sit still and do nothing but talk and enjoy 

 one another. Come, come, the other fish, good 

 master. 



Pise, But, scholar, have you nothing to mix 

 with this discourse, which now grows both tedious 

 and tiresome? Shall I have nothing from you, 

 that seem to have both a good memory and a 

 cheerful spirit? 



Ven. Yes, master, I will speak you a copy of 

 verses that were made by Dr. Donne, and made 

 to show the world that he could make soft and 

 smooth verses, when he thought smoothness worth 

 his labor ; and I love them the better, because 

 they allude to rivers and fish and fishing. They 

 be these : 



