The Complete Angler. 123 



Pifc. I thank you good Scholer, 

 this Song was well humor' d by the 

 maker, and well remembred and 

 fung by yuo; and I pray forget not 

 the Ketch which you promifed to 

 make againft night, for our Coun- 

 try man honelt Corldon will expedt 

 your Ketch and my Song, which I 

 muft be forc'd to patch up, for it is 

 fo long iince I learnt it, tliat I have 

 forgot a part of it. But come, lets 

 ftretch our legs a little in a gentle 

 \valktothe River,andtry what in te- 

 reft our Angles wil pay us for lend- 

 ing them fo long to be jfed by the 

 Grouts. 



Viat. Oh me, look you Matter, 

 afifh, afifti. 



Pifc. I marry Sir,that was a good 

 fifh indeed ; if I had had the luck to 

 have taken up that Rod, 'tis twenty 

 to one he ihould not have broke my 

 line by running to the Rods end, as 

 you fuffered him ; I would have 

 held him, unlefs he had been fellow 



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