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wanting perseverance, -will not, generally, bring 

 home so heavy a creel at the conclusion of a long 

 day's fishing, as one who may not be able to fish 

 so fine nor so far off, but who is endowed with 

 greater perseverance. 



" Some youthful gallant here perhaps will say, 



This is no pastime for a gentleman, 

 It were more fit at cards and dice to play, 



To use both fence and dancing now and then, 

 Or walk the streets in nice and strange array, 

 Or with coy phrases court his mistris' fan : 

 A poor delight, with toyl and painfull watch, 

 With losse of time a silly fish to catch." 



" Let them that list these pastimes then pursue, 



And on their pleasing fancies feed their fill ; 



So I the fields and meadows green may view, 



And by the rivers clear may walke at will, 

 Among the daisies- and the violets blew, 

 Bed hyacinth, and yellow daffodill, 

 Purple narcissus like the morning rayes, 

 Pale gandergras, and azure culverkayes. 



"I count it better pleasure to behold 



The goodly compasse of the lofty skie, 

 And. in the midst thereof, like burning gold, 



The naming chariot of the world's great eye, 

 The watry clouds that in the ayre uprolled 

 With sundry kinds of painted colours fiie , 

 And faire Aurora lifting up her head, 

 All blushing rise from old Tithonous' bed. 



