ANGLING IMPROVED. 



&c. and endeavour, whether in authority or not, to see 

 all statutes put in execution, against such as use unlaw- 



Will light on such as queyntly can deuisc, 



To eat more meate, then may thir mouthes snffise. 



Now master Man stand forth and here declare, 

 Who euer yet could see an Otter eate, 

 More uieate at once, then serued for his share ? 

 Who sees vs beasts sitte bybbing in our seate 

 With sundry wynes, and sundry kindes of meate? 

 Which breede disease, yfostred in such feastes, 

 If men do so, be they not worse than beasts? 



The beastly man, must sitte al day and quaffe, 

 The Beaste indeede, doth drincke but twise a day, 

 The beastly man, must stuffe his monstrous masse 

 With secrete cause of surfeiting alway ; 

 Where beasts be glad to feede when they get prey, 

 And neuer eate more than may do them good, 

 Where men be sicke, and surfet thorough foode. 



Who sees a Beast, for sauery Sawces long? 

 Who sees a beast, or chicke or Capon cramme? 

 Who sees a beast, once luld on sleepe with song? 

 Who sees a beast make venson of a Ramme? 

 Who sees a Beast destroy bothe whelpe and damme? 

 Who sees a Beast vse beastly Gluttonie ? 

 Which man doth vse, for great Ciuilytie. 



I know not I, if dyuing be my fault, 

 Me thinks most men, can dine as well as I : 

 Some men can diue in Seller and in vanit, 

 In Parlor, Hall, Kitchen and in Buttery 

 To smell the Roste, whereof the fume doth flee : 

 And as for games, men diue in every streame, 

 All frawdes be fishe, their stomacks neuer squeame. 



So to conclude, when men their faults can mend, 

 And slinnne the shame, where with they beasts do blot, 

 When men their time and treasure not mispend, 

 But follow grace, which is with paines ygot, 

 When men can vice rebuke, and vse it not: 

 Then shall they shine, like men of worthy fame, 

 And else, they be but Beasts well worthy blame. 



Noble Art of Venerie, 1611. 4*0. pp. 201-203. 



