"The Complete Angler. 245 



Could I be more then any man that lives, 

 Great, fair, rich 9 wife in all Superlatives; 

 Yet I more freely would the fe gifts rejign, 

 Kben everfortune would have made them mine 

 And hold one minute of this holy leafure, 

 Beyond the riches of this empty pleafure. 



Welcompure thought sjwelco me yejilent grove j, 

 Thefeguejlsfhefe Court s, myfoulmojl dearly loves, 

 Now the wing d people of the Skiefhalljing 

 My chereful Anthems to the gladfome Spring ; 

 A Prayer book mwfhallbe my looking glaffe , 

 In which I -will adore fweet vertues face. 

 Here dwell no hateful loolsjio Pallace cares, 

 No broken vows dwell her ejioj palefac*dfear3) 

 'Then here 1*1 Jit andjigh ny hot loves folly ', 

 And learn faffeSt an holy melancholy. 

 And if contentment be aftranger, then 

 PI nere look for it, but in heaven again. 



Fiat. WelMafter, thefebeVer- 

 fes that be worthy to keep a room in 

 every mans memory. I thank you 

 for them, and I thank you for your 

 many inflrudlions, which I will not 



forget 



