AND DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR HIM 



Pearch with a Minnow, then it is best to be alive, you sticking 

 your hook through his back-fm ; or a Minnow with the hook 

 in his upper lip, and letting him swim up and down about mid- 

 water, or a little lower, and you still keeping him to about that 

 depth, by a cork, which ought not to be a very little one : and 

 the like way you are to fish for the Pearch, with a small Frog, 

 your hook being fastened through the skin of his leg, towards 

 the upper part of it : and lastly, I will give you but this advice, 

 that you give the Pearch time enough when he bites, for there 

 was scarce ever any Angler that has given him too much. And 

 now I think best to rest myself, for I have almost spent my 

 spirits with talking so long. 



VENATOR. Nay, good Master, one fish more, for you see it 

 rains still, and you know our Angles are like money put to 

 usury ; they may thrive, though we sit still and do nothing but 

 talk and enjoy one another. Come, come, the other fish, good 

 Master. 



Pise. But, Scholar, have you nothing to mix with this 

 discourse, which now grows both tedious and tiresome ? Shall 

 I have nothing from you, that seem to have both a good memory 

 and a cheerful spirit ? 



VEN. Yes, Master, I will speak you a copy of verses that 

 were made by Doctor Donne, and made to shew the world that 

 he could make soft and smooth verses when he thought smooth- 

 ness worth his labour ; and I love them the better, because they 

 allude to rivers, and fish, and fishing. They be these : 



Come live with me, and be my love, 

 And we will some new pleasures prove, 

 Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, 

 With silken lines, and silver hooks. 



There will the river whisp'ring run, 

 Warm'd by thy eyes more than the Sun; 

 And there the enamell'd fish will stay, 

 Begging themselves they may betray. 



When thou wilt swim in that live bath, 

 Each fish, which ev'ry channel hath, 

 Most am'rously to thee will swim, 

 Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. 



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