CN ANGLING. 1JJ 



-add learned) men. I am well aware of the 

 criticisms which will be made by many, 

 who, not having any taste foi* this rational 

 recreation, or being susceptible of the tran- 

 quillity and content it diffuses, will infer 

 from the performance, that I have endea- 

 voured to dignify an art, truly insignificant, 

 and that my time has been misapplied, in 

 recommending a diversion puerile and 

 trifling. 



-What art thou whose eye 



Follows my pen, or what am I that write ? 

 Both triflers. Tis a trifling world, from him 

 That banquets daintily in sleeves of lawn, 

 To him that starves upon a country cure ; 

 From him that is the pilot of a state, 

 To him that begs, and rather begs than works. 



I fear there are few amusements (out of 

 doors) so rational as angling, or which are 

 productive of that inward peace which it 



