CHAP. V. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 101 



is to be had on any hawthorn bush after the leaves be 

 come forth. With these and a short line, 

 (as I shewed to angle for a Chub,*) you * See page 53. 

 may dape or dop, and also with a grasshop- 

 per, behind a tree, or in any deep hole ; still making it 

 to move on the top of the water as if it were alive, and 

 still keeping yourself out of sight, you shall certainly 

 have sport if there be Trouts; yea, in a hot day, but 

 especially in the evening of a hot day, you will have sport. 

 And now, scholar, my direction for fly-fishing is ended 

 with this shower, for it has done raining. And now 

 look about you, and see how pleasantly that meadow 

 looks ; nay, and the earth smells as sweetly too. Come 

 let me tell you what holy Mr. Herbert says of such days 

 and flowers as these, and then we will thank God that 

 we enjoy them, and walk to the river and sit down 

 quietly, and try to catch the other brace of Trouts. 



Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 

 The bridal of (he earth and sky, 

 Sweet dews shall weep thy fail to-night, 

 for lliou must die. 



Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, 

 Bids the rash gazer wipe his cy, 

 Thy root is ever in its grave, 



and thou must die. 



Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 

 A box where sweets compacted lie ; 

 My music shews you have your closes, 



aud all must die. 



Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

 Like season'd timber, never gives, 

 But when the whole world turns to coal, 

 then chiefly lives. 



and are nourished ; and this he beheld one of these insects doing in the bud of 

 au oak. See Malpighi, dc GaUis, page 47- See also Dr. Plot's History of 

 Staffordshire, CC4. 



And Dr. Derham says, he himself " had once the good fortune to see an oak- 

 ball ichneumon strike its tercbra into an oak-apple diveis time?, no doubt to 

 lay its eggs therein." Phys. Theol. Book viii. Chap. 6. Note bb. 



There is no comparison between the first of these authorities and those of 

 the two persons last-mentioned : but it is pleasing to apply the accidental dis- 

 coveries of unlearned men to the confirmation of hypotheses of which they art 

 ignorant. 



