148 THE COMPLETE ANGLER* PART I, 



maid's mother sung an ansvv'or to it, which was made 

 by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. 



They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good \ 

 I think, much better than the strong lines that are now 

 in fashion in this critical age. Look yonder ! on my 

 word, yonder, they both be a milking again. I will 

 give her the Chub, and persuade them to sing those 

 two songs to us. 



God speed you, good woman ! I have been a fishing ; 

 and am going to Bleak- J^ all * to my bed ; and having 

 caught more fish than will sup myself and my friend, I 

 will bestow this upon you and your daughter, for I use- 

 to sell none. 



Milk-w. Marry ! God requite you, Sir, and we'll 

 eat it chearfully. And if you come this way a fishing 

 two months hence, a grace of God ! I'll give you sylla- 

 bub of new verjuice, in a new-made hay-cock, for it. 

 And my Maudlin shall sing you one of her best ballads ; 

 for she and I both love all anglers, they be such honest, 

 civil, quiet men t. In the mean time will you drink a 

 draught of red cow's milk ? you shall have it freely. 



to compleat it, was finished by Chapman. The Song here mentioned is 

 printed, with his name to it,. in a Collection entitled England's Helicon^ 

 4to. 1600, as is also the Answer , here said to be written by Sir Walter 

 Raleigh, but there subscribed " Ignoto." Of Marlow it is said, that he 

 was the author of divers atheistical and blasphemous discourses ; and that 

 in a quarrel with a serving man, his rival in a connection with a lewd 

 woman, he received a stab with a dagger, and shortly after died of the 

 stroke. Wood from whom, Atben. Oxon. Vol. I. 338. and also from 

 Beard's Tleeatre of God's Judgments^ this account is taken says, that the 

 end of this person was noted by the Precisians ; but surely the Precisians 

 are to be acquitted of all blame, as having done nothing more than assert- 

 ed God's moral government of the world, by noting in this instance, one 

 example out of many, of the natural tendency of impiety and profligacy 

 to destruction and infamy. 



* The author seems here to have forgot kimself ; for, page 1 30, he 

 says he is to lodge at Trout- Hall. 



f There are some few exceptions to this character of anglers : the 

 greatest and most wonderful revolution that ever happened in any 

 state, I mean that in Naples, in the year 1647, was brought about by an 

 Angler : concerning whom we are told, " That a young man, about 

 u twenty-four, happened to be in a corner of the great market-place at 

 " Naples; a sprightly man, of a middle stature, black-eyed, rather lean 

 " than fat, having a small tuft of hair; he wore linen slops, a blue waist- 

 44 coat, and went barefoot, with mariner's eap ; but he was of a good 

 " countenance, stout, and lively as could be. His profession was to angh 



