CHAP. XII. THE COMPLETE ANG-LER. 163 



best to rest mysejf ; for I have almost spent my spirits 

 with talking so long. 



Ven. Nay, good master, one fish more, for you see it 

 rains still : and you know our angles are like money put 

 to usury ; they may thrive, though we sit still, and do 

 nothing but talk and enjoy one another. Come, come, 

 the other fish, good master. 



Pise. But, scholar, have you nothing to mix with this 

 discourse, which now grows both tedious and tiresome ? 

 Shall I have nothing from you, that seem to have both a 

 good memory and a cheerful spirit ? 



Ven. Yes, master, I will speak you a copy of verses 

 that were made by Doctor Donne, and made to shew the 

 world that he could make soft and smooth verses, when 

 he thought smoothness worth his labour : and I love them 

 the better, because they allude to rivers, and fish and 

 fishing. They be these : 



Come live with me, and be my love, 

 And we will some new pleasures prove, 

 Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, 

 With silken lines, and silver hooks. 



There will the river whispering ran, 

 Warm'd by thy eyes more than the sun; 

 And there the enamel'd fish will stay, 

 Begging themselves they may betray. 



When thou wilt swim in that live bath, 

 Each fish, which every channel hath, 

 Most amorously to the* will swim, 

 Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. 



If thou, to be so seen, beest loath 

 By sun or moon, thou dark'nest botli ; 

 And if mine eyes have leave to see, 

 I need not their light, having thee. 



The largest Pearch are taken with a minnow, hooked with a good hold through 

 the back-fin, or rather through the upper-lip ; for the Pearch, by reason of tlia 

 figure of his mouth, cannot take the bait crosswise, as the Pike will. When you 

 fish thus, use a large cork-float, and lead your line about nine inches from the 

 bottom, otherwise the minnow will come to the top of the water ; but in the 

 ordinary way of fishing, let your bait hang within about six inches from the 

 ground. 



