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Hookes and lines of larger sizes, 

 Such as the tyrant that roules devises, 

 Fishes nere helieve his fable, 

 What he calls a line is a cable ; 

 That's a knave of endless rancor, 

 Who for a hooke doth cast an anchor. 



Breake thy rod, &c. &c. 

 But of all men he is the cheater, 

 Who with small fish takes up the greater, 

 He makes carpes without all dudgeon, 

 Makes a Jonas of a gudgeon ; 

 Cruell man that stayes on gravell, 

 Fish that great with fish doth travell. 



Breake thy rod," &c. &e. 



After " Old Isaac" we recognise his intimate and 

 bosom friend, Dr. Cotton, who was from the commence- 

 ment, and still is invariably associated with his fame as a 

 piscatory writer. Cotton was a most enthusiastic angler, 

 and in all his poetical effusions, found in his poems, as 

 well as in those published along with the common editions 

 of Walton's book, are lively, witty, and sentimental. 



"LINES BY COTTON. 

 " Away to the brook, 



All your tackle out-look, 

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

 See that all tilings be right, 

 For 'twould be a spite 

 To want tools when a man goes a-fishing. 



Your rod with tops two, 



For the same will not do, 

 If your manner of angling you vary ; 



And full well may you think, 



If you troll with a pink, 

 One too weak will be apt to miscarry. 



