214 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



" Come, live with me and be my love, 

 And we will some new pleasures prove 

 Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, 

 With silken lines and silver hooks. 



" There will the river, whispering, run, 

 Warmed by the eyes more than the sun, 

 And there the enamel'd fish will stay, 

 Begging themselves they may betray. 



" When thou wilt swim in that live bath, 

 Each fish, which every channel hath, 

 Most am'rously to thee will swim, 

 Gladder to catch thee than thou him. 



" If thou to be so seen be'st loath 

 By sun or moon, thou dark'nest both ; 

 And if mine eyes have leave to see, 

 I need not their light, having thee. 



" Let others freeze with angling-reeds, 

 And cut their legs with shells and weeds; 

 Or treacherously poor fish beset, 

 With strangling snares, or windowy net ; 



" Let coarse, bold hands from slimy nest 

 The bedded fish in banks outwrest ; 

 Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, 

 To 'witch poor fishes' wandering eyes : 



" For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, 

 For thou thyself 'art thine own bait ; 

 That fish that is not catch't thereby, 

 Is wiser far, alas ! than I." 



Pise. Well remembered, honest scholar. I 

 thank you for these choice verses, which I have 

 heard formerly, but had quite forgot till they were 



