APPENDIX. 367 



Wyatt ( Sir Thomas). 



Poems. (1557). 

 " A Renouncing of Love. 



Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever ; 

 Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more." 



Brome (Alexander). 



Songs and other Poems. (1664). 



" On a Fisherman. 



A Fisher while he angled in a brook, 



A dead-mans skull by chance hung on his hook ; 



The pious man in pity did it take 



To bury it, a grave with 's hand did make ; 



And as he digg'd, found gold; Thus to good men, 



Good turns with good turns are repay'd again." 



Newcastle ( Margaret, Duchess of) 



Poems and Fancies. (1653). 



" Poets have most pleasure in this Life.'" 



" Here doth the Poet hawk, hunt, run a Race, 



Until he weary grows, then leaves this Place, 



Then goes a Fishing to a River side, 



Whose waters cleare, where Fancy flows high Tide : 



Angles with wit, 'to catch the Fish of Fame, 



To feed his memory, and preserve his Name." 



Quarles. 



Shepheard's Eclogues. ( 1644). 



" The broad-side bream, 



The wary trout that thrives against the stream ; 

 The well-grown carp, full laden with her spawn ; 



The surest way 



To take the fish, is give her leave to play, 

 And yield her line." 



Bastard (Thomas). 



The author of " Christoleros " (published in 1598, and reprinted in 

 1842 at the Beldorme Press), addresses two epigrams ad Henricum 

 Wottonum, in one of which he says. 



"Wotton, the country and the country swayne, 



How can they yield a poet any sense ? 



How can they stir him up, or heate his brain ? 



How can they feede him with intelligence ?" 



And he recommends him therefore, to come to " London, Englande's 

 fayrest eye." It is not very unlikely that their friendship was occasioned 

 or confirmed by their mutual love of fishing, for in another epigram, 

 De Piscatione, Bastard observes : 



