8o THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART i. 



walk, and I will also here stop my discourse ; only as we sit 

 down under this honeysuckle hedge, whilst I look a line to fit 

 the rod that our brother Peter hath lent you, I shall for a little 

 confirmation of what I have said, repeat the observation of Du 

 Bartas. 



" God, not contented to each kind to give, 

 And to infuse the virtue generative, 

 By His wise power made many creatures breed 

 Of lifeless bodies, without Venus' deed. 



So the cold humour breeds the salamander, 

 Who, in effect like to her birth's commander, 

 With child with hundred winters, with her touch 

 Quencheth the fire, though glowing ne'er so much. 



So in the fire, in burning furnace springs 

 The fly Perausta, with the flaming wings; 

 Without the fire it dies, in it it joys, 

 Living in that which all things else destroys 



So slow Bootes underneath him sees, 

 In th' icy islands, goslings hatch'd of trees, 

 Whose fruitful leaves, falling into the water, 

 Are turn'd, 'tis known, to living fowls soon after. 



So rotten planks of broken ships do change 

 To barnacles. O transformation strange ! 

 'Twas first a green tree, then a broken hull, 

 Lately a mushroom, now a flying gull." 



VEN. O my good master, this morning-walk has been spent 

 to my great pleasure and wonder: but I pray, when shall I 

 have your direction how to make artificial flies, like to those 

 that the trout loves best, and also how to use them ? 



PlSC. My honest scholar, it is now past five of the clock, 



JL, we will fish till nine, and then go to breakfast. Go you to yon 



sycainore-tree and hide your bottle of drink under tKe"Tiollow 



t)r root of it; fprabput that_time v and in fEat place^ we willjnake 



a brave breakfast with a piece of powdered beef, and a radish 



or two that I have in my fish-bag; we shall, I warrant you, 



