CHAP. T. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 185 



any hawthorn bush after the leaves be come forth. 



With these and a short line, as I shewed 



to angle for a Chub* you may d ape * Ante page 135. 



or dop; and also with a grashopper; 



behind a tree, or in any deep hole ; still making it 



to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive; 



and still keeping yourself out of sight, you shall 



certainly have sport if there be Treats ; yea, in a 



hot day, but especially in the evening of a hot day, 



you will have sport. 



And now, scholar! my direction for fly-fishing is 

 ended with this shower, for it has done raining. 

 And now look about you, and see how pleasantly 

 that meadow looks ; nay, and the earth smells as 

 sweetly too. Come let me tell you what holy Mr. 

 Herbert says of such clays and flowers as these ; and 

 then we will thank God that we enjoy them ; and 

 walk to the river and sit down quietly, and try to 

 catch the other brace of Trouts. 



Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ; 

 The bridal of the earth and sky ; 

 Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, 

 for thou must die. 



Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, 

 Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye ; 

 Thy root is ever in its grave, 



and thou must die. 



Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses 5 

 A box where sweets compacted lie ; 

 My music shews you have your closes 

 and all must die. 



And Dr. Derham says, he himself " had once the good fortune 

 '* to see an oak-ball ichneumon strike .its terebra into an oak-apple 

 " divers times, no doubt to lay its eggs therein." f/jys. TbeoL Book 8. 

 Chap. 6. Note bb. 



There is no comparison between the first of these authorities and 

 those of the two persons last mentioned; but it is pleasing to apply 

 the accidental discoveries of unlearned men to the confirmation of 

 hypotheses of which they are ignorant. 



