70 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART i. 



This is not half the happiness 

 The countryman enjoys; 



Heigh trolollie lollie loe, etc. 

 Though others think they have as much, 

 Yet he that says so lies: 



Then come away, turn 



Countryman with me. Jo. CIIALKHILL. 



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 yX^ Pise. Well sung, 



*r and it was choicely 



Condon; this song was sung with mettle, 

 fitted to the occasion ; I shall love you for 

 rl it as long as I know you ; I would you were a brother of the 

 ; fqjc a companion that is cheerful, and free from swearing 

 and scurrilQuT^feooufse. is worth gold. I love such mirth as 

 does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next 

 morning ; nor men that cannot well bear it, to repent the money 

 they^ spent when they be warmed with drink : and take this for 

 a rule, you may pick out such times, and such companions, that 

 you may make yourselves merrier for a little than a great deal 

 of money; for, '"Tis the company and not the charge that 

 makes the feast;" and such a companion you prove, I thank 

 you for it. 



^^ ""But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I owe you ; 

 and therefore I will begin my song, and wish it may be so well 

 liked. 



THE ANGLER'S SONG. 



As inward love breeds outward talk, 

 The hound some praise, and some the hawk; 

 Some, better pleased with private sport, 

 Use tennis; some a mistress court: 



But these delights I neither wish 



Nor envy, while I freely fish. 



Who hunts, doth oft in danger ride; 

 Who hawks, lures oft both far and wide ; 

 Who uses games, shall often prove 

 A loser; but who falls in love 



Is fetter'd in fond Cupid's snare : 



Myangle breeds me no such care. 



