COLLOQUY XII. 

 Crummock Water. 



PISCATOR. 



HOUGrH the wind is from the same 

 unkindly quarter, the north-east, 

 and we can hardly calculate on 

 good fishing, yet having come out 

 we had better not turn back ; and pretty sure 

 that this would be your feeling, I have ordered 

 the ponies : and see, they are brought to take 

 us to Crummock Water. 



AMICUS. I am willing and ready ; so let us be 

 off. It has been a rule with me on excursions 

 of this kind to disregard weather : and I do not 

 remember ever to have repented. 



PISCATOR. He who waits for weather ought 

 to have time at command, which you and I 

 have never had. He who waits must necessarily 

 lose time, and probably often patience ; moreover, 



