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an oak or ash, from the beginning of May to the end of August ; 

 it is a brownish fly and easy to be found, and stands usually 

 with his head downward, that is to say, towards the root of the 

 tree : the small black-fly, or hawthorn-fly, is to be had on any 

 hawthorn bush after the leaves be come forth. With these 

 and a short line (as I showed, to angle for a chub), you may 

 dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in 

 any deep hole ; still making it to move on the top of the water, 

 as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight, you 

 shall certainly have sport if there be trouts; yea, in a hot 

 day, but especially in the evening of a hot day, you will have 

 sport. 



And now, scholar, my direction for fly-fishing is ended with 

 this shower, for it has done raining; and now look about you, 

 and see how pleasantly that meadow looks ; nay, and the earth 

 smells as sweetly too. Come, let me tell you what holy Mr. 

 Herbert says of such days and flowers as these ; and then we 

 will thank God that we^enjoy tnemTand walk tn t[i?r*is^pr 

 and sit down quietly, and try to catch the other brace oI 

 trouts. 



lf Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 

 The bridal of the earth and sky, 

 Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night 

 For thou must die. 



Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, 

 Bids the rash gazer w/ipe his eye, 

 Thy root is ever in its grave 



And thou must die. 



Sweet spring, full of sweet clays and roses, 

 A box where sweets compacted lie ; 

 My music shows you have your closes 

 And all must die. 







Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

 Like season'd timber, never gives ; 

 But when the whole world turns to coal, 

 Then chiefly lives*" 



