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Whilst I listen to thy voice, 



Chloris, I feel my heart decay : 

 That powerful noise 



Calls my fleeting soul away : 

 suppress that magic sound, 

 Which destroys without a wound ! 



Peace, Chloris, peace, or singing die, 

 That together you and I 



To heaven may go ; 



For all we know 

 Of what the blessed do above 

 Is that they sing, and that they love. 



Pise. Well remembered, brother Peter : these verses came 

 seasonably, and we thank you heartily. Come, we will all 

 join together, my host and all, and sing my scholars catch 

 over again, and then each man drink the other cup, and to 

 bed, and thank God we have a dry house over our heads. 



Pise. Well now, good night to everybody. 



PETER. And so say I. 



VEN. And so say I. 



COR. Good night to you all, and I thank you. 



of his " Georgic," intitled " Rural Sports," and observes how beautifully and 

 accurately he treats the subject of fly-fishing, would conclude the author a pro- 

 ficient : but that it was his chief amusement, I have been assured, by an intimate 

 friend of mine, who has frequently fished with him in the river Kennet, at 

 Amesbury in "Wilts, the seat of his grace the Duke of Queensberry. 



The reader will excuse the following addition to this note, for the sake of a 

 beautiful description of the material used in fly-making, which is quoted from 

 the above-mentioned poem : 



" To frame the little animal, provide 



All the gay hues that wait on female pride : 



Let nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire 



The shining bellies of the fly require ; 



The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, 



Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail ; 



Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, 



And lends the growing insect proper wings ; 



Silks of all colours must their aid impart, 



And every fur promote the fisher's art : 



So the gay lady, with expensive care, 



Borrows the pride of land, of sea, of air ; 



Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing 1 displays, 



Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays." H. 



[NOTE. Very few gaudy flies are necessary for artificial flies for the common 

 trout. Sombre-hued are generally the best. All the materials, except silk, for 

 making them are produced in this country, feathers and furs, except the yellow 

 monkey's and bear's fur. It is only for salmon-fly materials that we are obliged 

 to have recourse to the gaudy feathers of the birds of the New World, and of 

 those of Africa and Asia. The common cock of different colours, the starling , 

 the mallard, the partridge, the pheasant, the green and grey plover, the wren, 

 grouse, torn-tit, red-wing, landrail, dotterel, furnish the usual feathers. The 

 water-rat, squirrel, hedgehog, seal, spaniel, hare, cow, pig, furnish furs or woolly 

 substances, which, together with mohair and floss-silk of different colours, are 

 the general substances of which the bodies of trout-flies are fashioned. ED.] 



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