So The Complete Angler. 



Some better pleaf'd with private fport, 

 Vfe TemStfome a Miftris court: 

 But thefe delights I neither wijh, 

 Nor envy, while I freely fifo. 



Who h\mtS,Jot& oft in danger ride 

 Who hzuks,tures oft both Jar &wide ; 

 Who ufes ga.mes,may of ten prove 

 Alofer\ but who f ah in love, 

 Is fettered in fond Cupids fnare : 

 My Angle breeds me nofuch care. 



Of Recreation there is none 



So free asfifhing is alone ; 



All other pajiimes do no lefs 



The n mind a nd body both pojjefs ; 

 My hand alone my work can do, 

 So lean fifo and ftudy too. 



I care nof,I, tofijh infeas, 

 Frejh rivers beft my mind do pleafe, 

 Whofefweet calm courfe 1 'contemplate ; 

 Andfeek in life to imitate ; 



In civil bounds I fain would keep, 

 And for my paji offences weep. 



And 



