186 THE COMPLETE ANGT/ER. PART I. 



Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

 Like season'd timber, never gives ; 

 But when the whole world turns to coal, 

 then, chiefly, lives. 



Ven. I thank you, good master! tor your good di- 

 rection for fly-fishing ; and for the sweet enjoyment of 

 the pleasant day, whirh is, so far, spent without of- 

 fence to God or man. And I thank you, for the sweet 

 close of your discourse with Mr. Herbert's verses ; who, 

 I have heard, loved angling, and I do the rather be- 

 lieve it, because he had a spirit suitable to anglers, and 

 to those primitive christians that you love, and have so 

 much commended. 



Pise. Well, my loving scholar! and /am pleased, 

 to know that you are so well pleased with my direction 

 and discourse. 



And since you like these verses of Mr. Herbert's, so 

 well, let me tell you, what a reverend and learned di- 

 vinethat professes to imitate him, and has indeed 

 done so most excellently hath writ of our book of 

 Common Prayer ; which I know you will like the bet- 

 ter, because He is a friend of mine, and I am sure no 

 enemy to angling*. 



What ! PRAY'R by th' BOOK? and COMMON? Yes; Why not? 



The spirit of grace 

 And supplication, 

 Is not left free, alone 

 For time and place , 

 But manner too : TO READ, OR SPEAK, ly rote, 



* This passage goes very near to unfold to us a secret in literary histo- 

 ry, i)lz. the name of the author of the Synagogue a collection of poems, 

 suppletory to that of Mr. George Herbert entitled the Temple. For we 

 see " Ch. Harvie" subscribed to the ensuing EULOGIUM on the Common 

 Prayer^ WHICH is also to be found in the Synagogue. And I find in the 

 Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. 267. a Christopher Harvey; a Master of Arts, Vicar of 

 Clifton in Warwickshire; born in 1597, and who lived to 1663, and 

 perhaps after. Further, the second copy of commendatory verses, pre- 

 fixed to this book, has the subscription " Ch. Harvie, M. A." The pre- 

 sumption therefore is very strong, that both were written by the Christo- 

 pher Harvey above-mentioned, At the end of the Synagogue are some 

 verses subscribed " Iz. Wa." 



