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that daring Cavalier whose iron head-piece is 

 now hanging in the parish church of Kendal.* 



AMICUS. This is an angler's paradise, if the 

 sport be any way in proportion to the surround- 

 ing beauty. There ! I rose a fish, and he is 

 hooked, and now he is landed ; a nice trout of 

 at least three-quarters of a pound, an auspicious 

 beginning. 



PISCATOR. You were too sanguine. Not 

 another rise have we seen, either at the natural 

 or artificial fly. The boatman says the fish are 

 sulky, and he augurs a change of weather. See, 

 the Old Man of Coniston is almost hid in mist, 

 and clouds are collecting about all the higher 

 mountains, and how fine is the effect of the at- 



* The siege was raised by his brother, with a force 

 from Carlisle ; we are told, that " the next day being 

 Sunday, he with three or four more rode to Kendal to 

 take revenge of some of the adverse party there, passed 

 the watch, and rode into the church, up one aisle and 

 down another." But not finding the person he was in 

 quest of, he '' was unhorsed by the guards on his return 

 and his girths broken, but his companions relieved him 

 by a desperate charge ; and clapping his saddle on with- 

 out any girth, he vaulted into the saddle, killed a sentinel, 

 and galloped away and returned to the island by two 

 o'clock. Upon the occasion of this, and other like 

 adventures, he obtained the appellation aforesaid of 

 Robin the Devil."" Nicholson and Burn's Antiquities. 



