416 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



troubled with me once a year, so long as we two 

 live. 



Pise. I am afraid I shall not, Sir ; but were you 

 once here, a May or a Junefii good sport would 

 tempt you, I should then expect you would sometimes 

 see nie ; for you would then say it were a fine river in 

 deed, if you had once seen the sport at the height. 



Viat. Which I will do, if I live, and that you 

 please to give me leave. There was one .- and there, 

 another. 



Pise. And all this in a strange river, and with a fly 

 of your own making ! why what a dangerous man are 

 you! 



Viat. I, Sir * : but who taught me ? and as Damae* 

 tas says by his man Dorus, so you may say by me, 



If my man such praises have, 



What then have I who taught the knave t ? 



But what have we got here ? a rock springing up in 

 the middle of the river ! this is one of the oddest sighti 

 that ever I saw. 



Pise. Why, Sir, from that pike J that you see 

 standing up, there, distant from 



\ It it a rockyin the fashion the TOCk this is Called PlKE- 



t'Si^Sftt Pp r f" And y" ng Mr. Isaac 



midst of the river Dove; WaltOIl WaS SO pleased With it, 



and not far from Mr. Cot- as to draw it In landscape, III 



** bouse^belo'W -which biack and whit m a blank book 



place t tots delicate river _ 111 



takes a swift career be- I liaVC at home ; 3S he has dOUC 



tivixt many mighty rocks, several prospects of my hoUSC 



vuch higher and bigger than j W hich I keep for a me- 



St. Pauls church before it w . * _ f . . c .,, 



-was burnt. And this DO morial of his favour, and wii] 



being opposed by one of the shew yOU when WC COmC Up to 

 ligbest of them, has, at last, A' mner 

 forced itself a -way through 

 it ; and after a miles con" 



tealment, appears again with more glory and beauty then before that opposition, 

 running through the most pleasant valliet and most fruitful msadaivt that tki: 

 :iuiion can justly boast of. 



* for tfje, Sir. f Sidney's Artadia. 



