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PlSC. And all" this in a strange river, and with a fly of 

 your own making ! why, what a dangerous man are you ! 



VlAT. I, Sir : but who taught me ? and as Damaetas says 

 by his man Dorus, so you may say by me 



If any man such praises have, 



What then have I, that taught the knave? 



But what have we got here ? a rock springing up in the 

 middle of the river ! this is one of the oddest sights that 

 ever I saw. 



PlSC. Why, Sir, from that pike that you see standing up 

 there distant from the rock, this is called Pike Pool. And 

 young Mr. Izaac Walton was so pleased with it, as to draw 

 it in landscape, in black and white, in a blank book I have 

 at home, as he has done several prospects of my house also, 

 which I keep for a memorial of his favour, and will shew 

 you when we come up to dinner. 



VlAT. Has young Master Izaak Walton been here too ? 



PlSC. Yes, marry has he, Sir, and that again and again 

 too, and in France since, and at Rome, and at Venice, and 

 I can't tell where ; but I intend to ask him a great many 

 hard questions so soon as I can see him, which will be, God 

 willing, next month. In the meantime, Sir, to come to this 

 fine stream at the head of this great pool, you must venture 

 over these slippery, cobbling stones : believe me, Sir, there 

 you were nimble, or else you had been down ; but now you 

 are got over, look to yourself; for, on my word, if a fish 

 rise here, he is like to be such a one as will endanger your 

 tackle. How now ? 



VIAT. I think you have such command here over the 

 fishes, that you can raise them by your word, as they say 



