366 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



The Mourning Muse of Thestylis. (1587). 



"The Medwaies silver streames that wont so still to slide, 

 Were troubled now and wrothe ; whose hidden hollow caves, 

 Along his banks with fog then shrouded from mans eye, 

 Ay Philip did resound, aie Phillip they did crie. 

 His nymphs were seen no more (though custom still it craves) 

 With haire spred to the wynd themselves to bath or sport, 

 Or with the hooke or net, barefooted wantonly, 

 The pleasant daintie fish to entangle or deceive." 



Epithalamion. ( 1595). 



"Ye Nymphes of Mulla, which with careful heed 

 The silver scaly trouts do tend full well, 

 And greedy pikes which use therein to feed ; 

 ( Those trouts and pikes all others do excell ;) 

 And ye, likewise, which keep the rusty lake, 

 Where none doo fishes take ; 



Bynd up the locks the which hang scattered light. 

 And in his waters, which your mirror make 

 Behold your faces as the christall bright." 



Herrick ( Robert). 



Hesperides. (1648). 



" Upon Reape. 



Reape's eyes so raw are, that, it seemes, the flyes 

 Mistake the flesh, and fly-blow both his eyes ; 

 So that an angler, for a daies expense. 

 May baite his hooke with maggots taken thence." 



Sandys ( George). 



A Paraphrase upon Job. (1638). 



" Chapter XLi. 



Canst thou with a weak angle strike the whale, 

 Catch with a hook, or with a noose enthrale ? 

 Drag by a slender line unto the shore ?" 



Shakespeare. 



Venus and Adonis. (1593). 



"Fair queen," quoth he " if any love you owe me, 

 Measure my strangeness with my unripe years ; 

 Before I know myself, seek not to know me ; 

 No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears." 



Passionate Pilgrim . (1599). 



" But whether unripe years did want conceit. 

 Or he refused to take her figured proffer, 

 The tender nibbler would not touch the bait, 

 But smile and jest at every gentle offer." 



