( 1 1 A i -. v .] 7 IIR FO UR TH DA Y. 109 



And now, scholar, I think it will be time to repair to our angle- 



. which we left in the water to fish for themselves ; and you 



shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of 



i catches. 



And, IK me tdl you, this kind of fishing with a dead rod, and 



layi, looks, are like putting money to use ; for they both 



work for the owners \\ i it sleep, or eat, or 



rejoice, as you know we have done this last hour, and sat as 



quietly and as free from cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's 



Hid his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No 



t scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the 



life of a \\vll ;.;ovi i r ; 7 for when the lawyer is swallowed 



up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving 



plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and 



Ives in as much quietness as these silent silver 



which we now sec glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my 



iiolar, we may say of angling, as Or JJotclcr* said of 



u Doubtless God could dc a better berry, 



but doubtli- , i ( iod never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, God 



i make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than 



111 i -holar; when I sat last on this primrose-bank, 



and look . I thought of them as Charles 



did of the city of I ! hat they were too 



pl-:i ant to b i, but only on holydays." As I then sat 



this very grass, 1 tuim-d my pre ,ent thoughts into verse : 'twas 

 Wish, which I'll rep'-at to you : t 



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VARIATION. 



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'I't-r, an eminen 



of our imllior's tiiii'-, -ly!-.| Ly J''n|;.-r, , , .',///////, (,j, i|,.- /lv 



i I m.:<li.:il iliinl:, :.l|.-.l " Hr P,m |. : r\ AL-." v.ln- I., il n 



7 No lif", my honest scholar, no life so happy and so plrns.int as the angler's, unless 



/ they take no care, but are as happy as 



1 while it was agitating, as a theological question, 

 > xtemforary prayer be most agreeable to the 



II . 



nt physician 

 us of 



, ot now, w;.H 



i h-,ii-..;s in J.on.lmi whii.-h h.-i.l . a sign. 



another in . Street to 



I eat humourist which. 



r -kill ill his profession, iiii^lH rontril.iitc i 



popular. H. Di Botlcr WM bora ( Ijiswich :.h'.ut 1515, and ei- 



: [ary's Church, l 



iiliful M:tii7:<s wlii- I, o nr l-i ' 

 ' non, wrre written by W:, I -I ,,"wlii. li 



probably DM --f liis wife "Ken," is n.,t t., !,.- f.,un.l iii il. 



QtJOUrth "liiioii. in Loth .,1 wtii' )i 111- v. - .1, wliK.h, wild 



the substitution of one vow ,J ihc an..j;ram of his first wife ';. . 



Rachel. 



