48 ANGLING. 



Anglers' yeares are made and spent, 



AJ1 in Ember weekes and Lent. 



Breake thy rod about thy noddle, 

 Throw thy worms and flies by the pottle, 

 Keepe thy^ corke to stop thy bottle. 

 Make straight thy hooke, be not afeared 



To shave his beard ; 

 That in case of started stitches, 

 Hooke and line may mend thy breaches. 



" He that searches pools and dikes, 

 Halters jackes, and strangles pikes, 

 Let him know, though he think he wise is, 

 'Tis not a sport, but an assizes. 

 Eish to hooke, were the case disputed, 

 Are not tooke, but executed. 

 Breake thy rod, c., &c. 



"You whose pastes fox rivers throat, 

 And make isis pay her groat, 

 That from May to parch October 

 Scarce a minnow can keep sober, 

 Be your fish in open thrust, 

 And your own red-paste the crust. 

 Breake thy rod, &c., &c. 



" Hookes and lines of larger sizes, 

 Souch as the tyrant that troides devises, 

 Eisners nere believe his fable, 

 What he calls a line is a cable ; 

 That's a knave of endless rancour, 

 Who for a hooke doth cast an anchor. 

 Breake thy rod, &c., &c. 



"But of all men he is the cheater, 

 Who with small fish takes up the greater ; 

 He makes carps without all dudgeon, 

 Makes a Jonas of a gudgeon ; 

 Cruell man that stayes on gravell, 

 Eish that great with fish doth travel. 

 Breake thy rod, &c., &c." 



A trolling-rod, as we have already mentioned, should be pretty 

 long and stiff, with a line a shade stronger than that used for the 

 artificial fly. The best minnows for the purpose are those of a mo- 

 derate size, their bellies and sides being of a pearly whiteness. If 

 the angler has conveniences, they are all the better for being kept 

 a few days in clear, sweet, soft water : tliis process renders them 

 firmer and brighter. 



