184 TH COMPLETE ANOLEU. I'.Mi 1 I. 



We have gentles in horn, 



We have paste and worms too ; 

 We can watch both night and morn, 

 Suffer rain and storms too : 



Hone do here 



Use to sircar : 



Oaths do fray 



IUh away: 



We sit still. 



And watch our quill ; 

 Fishers mint not wranglt. 



If the so's excessive beat 



Make our bodies swelter. 

 To an osier hedge we get 

 For a friendly shelter ; 



Where, in a dike, 



Pearch or Pike, 



Roach or Dace, 



We do chase ; 



Bleak or Gudgeon, 



Without grudging ; 

 We are still contented. 



Or we sometimes pest an hour , 



Under green willow. 

 That defends ns ftom a shower, 

 Making earth onr pillow : 



Where we may 



Think and pray 



Before death 



Scope our breath; 



Other joys 



Are but toys, 

 And to be lamented.* 



JO. CHALK HILL. 



This, U its kind, is a good song. The following, taken from Cotton's 

 Pocmt, 8vo. is to the same purpose; and well deserves place here. 



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Away to the brook, 



All your tackle out-look. 

 Here's day that is worth a year's wishing. 



See that all things be right, 



For 'twould be a spight 

 To want tools when a mau goes a fishing. 



II. 



Your rod with tops two. 



For the sme will not do 

 If your manner of angling you vary; 



And foil well may yon think, 



If you troll with a pink, 

 One too weak will be apt to miscarry. 



