CHAP. I. TitE COMPLETE ANGLER. 113 



And there are, also, lustful and chaste fishes ; of which 

 I shall give you examples. 



And first, what Du Bartas says of a fish called the 

 Sargus : which, because none can express it better than 

 he does, I shall give you in his own words ; supposing it 

 shall not have the less credit for being verse ,' for he hath 

 gathered this, and other observations, out of Authors 

 that have been great and industrious searchers into the 

 secrets of nature. 



The adult'rous Sargus doth not only change 



Wives every day, in the deep streams ; but, strange ! 



As if the honey of sea -love delight 



Could not suffice his ranging appetite, 



Goes courting she-goats on the grassy shore, 



Horning their husbands that had horns before. 



And the same Author writes concerning the Can- 

 tharus, that which you shall also hear in his owa 

 words : 



But, contrary, the constant Cantharus 

 Is ever constant to his faithful spouse ; 

 In nuptial duties, spending his chaste life ; 

 Never loves any but his own dear 'wife. 



Sir, but a little longer, and I have done. 



Vcn. Sir, take what liberty you think fit, for your 

 discourse seems to be musick, and charms me to an at- 

 tention. 



Pise. Why then, Sir, I will take a liberty to tell, or 

 rather to remember, you what is said of Turtle-doves; 

 first, that they silently plight their troth, and marry ; 

 and that then the survivor scorns, as the Thracian wo- 

 men are said to do, to outlive his or her mate ; (and this 

 is taken for a truth ;) and if the survivor shall ever 

 couple with another, then, not only the living but the 

 dead, be it either the he or the she, is denied the name 

 and honour of a true Turtle-dove *. 



* Of S<!*rant t it is also said, that, if either of a pair- die, or be other- 

 wise separated from its mate, the other does not long survive ; and that it . 



