The Complete Angler. 25 



pray hearken to vthztDudartasfinss 1 * 11 ^ 7 *** 



/r i i r r i i 5 day. 



(for the hearing of luch conjugal 

 faithfulnefs, will be Muiick to all 

 chafte ears) and therefore, I fay, 

 hearken to what Dubarfasfingsof 

 the Mullet: 



But for chafte love the Mullet hath no peer, 

 For, if the Fijher hath furprifed her pbeer, 

 As mad with we. to JJooare fhe followetb, 

 Preji to confer i him both in life and death. 



On the contrary j, whatfhalllfay 

 of the Houfe- Cock, which treads a- 

 nyHen, and then (contrary to the 

 Swanjfa^Partridg, ^.nA Pigeon] takes 

 no care to hatch, to feed, or to che- 

 rifli his own Brood, but is fenflefs 

 though they perifh. 



And'tisconfiderable,thattheJ:^;2 

 (which becaufe ihe alfo takes any 

 Cock, experts it not) who is fure 

 the Chickens be her own, hath by 

 a moral impreffionher care, andaf- 

 fe&ion to her own Broode, more 



then 



