7.4 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



The cuckoo and the nightingale 

 Full merrily do siug, 



Heigh troloUie lee, c. 

 And with their pleasant roundelays 

 Bid welcome to the spring : 



Then cart away, 4#. 



This is not half the happiness 

 The countryman enjoys ; 



Ileigh troloUit lee, iff. 

 Though others think they have as much, 

 Yet he that says so lies : 



Then come away, turn 



Countryman with me 



JO. CHALK HILL, i 



Pise. Well sung, Coridon, this song was sung with 

 mettle ; and it was choicely fitted to the occasion : I shall 

 love you for it as long as I know you. I would you were 

 a brother of the angle ; for a companion that is cheerful, 

 and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth 

 gold. I love such mirth as does not make friends 

 ashamed to look upon one another next morning; nor 

 men, that cannot well bear it, to repent the money they 

 spend when they be warmed with drink. And take this 

 for a rule : you may pick out such times and such com- 

 panies, that you may make yourselves merrier for a little 

 than a great deal of money ; for " Tis the company and 

 not the charge that makes the feast ;" and such a com- 

 panion you prove : I thank you for it. 



But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I 

 owe you, and therefore I will begin my song, and wish it 

 may be so well liked. 



THE ANGLER'S SONG. 



As inward love breeds outward talk, 

 The hound some praise, and some the hawk. 

 Some, better plras'd with private sport, 

 Use tennis, some a mistress court : 



But these delights I neither wish, 



Nor envy, while I freely fish. 



(I) John ChalkkiU, Esq. of whom mention is made in the Author's Life. 



