56 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



The second gift and qualitie is Hope, 

 The anchor-holde of every hard desire. 



The third is Love, and liking to the game. 

 Then followeth Patience. 



The next quality suggests dry fly-fishing : 



The fift good guift is low Humilitie, 



As when a lyon coucheth for his pray 



So must he stoope or kneele upon his knee. 



The sixt is painefull strength and courage good. 

 Next unto this is Liberalitie. 



The eight is knowledge how to finde the way 

 And make them bite when they are dull and slow. 



The ninth is placabilitie of minde, 

 Contented with a reasonable dish, 

 Yea though sometimes no sport at all he finde, 

 Or that the weather prove not to his wish. 



The tenth is thankes to that God, of each kinde, 

 To net and bayt doth send both foule and Fish, 

 And still reserve inough in secret store, 

 To please the rich, and to relieve the poore. 



Th' eleaventh good guift and hardest to indure, 

 Is fasting long from all superfluous fare, 

 Unto the which he must himselfe inure, 

 By exercise and use of dyet spare, 

 And with the liquor of the waters pure, 

 Acquaint himselfe if he cannot forbeare, 

 And never on his greedy belly thinke, 

 From rising sunne untill a low he sincke. 



The twelth and last of all is memory, 

 Remembring well before he setteth out, 

 Each needfull thing that he must occupy, 

 And not to stand of any want in doubt. 



