Fly-FiJhing. 95 



That both fhould know a tempting foe, 

 And " look before they leap." 



A fnare is laid for man and fifh 



(The moral thus to hit) 

 That both are apt to nibble at, 



Then rufliing gulp at it. 

 There's many a wight expects his bite, 



There's many " a biter bit." 



But rhyming catches catch no fifh 



And never bafket filled, 

 For fifh don't hear, and never come, 



However charmed or willed, 

 Like Ducks in pond of Miftrefs Bond, 



When wanted to be killed. 



In idle rhyme while thus I fport, 



If my advice be true, 

 I do difprove what Dr. Watts 



Says idle hands muft do 

 Tho* it may be the Trout agree 



In Do6lor Watts's view ! 



For leaving rhymes, from out my book 



I take this little fly, 

 And neatly fit him with a hook 



And " know the reafon why " 

 I lay afide this fcribbling pride 



I've " other fifh to fry." 



Have there been times, dear reader, whoever 

 you are, when hard prefled in the battle of life, 

 you ardently longed to efcape from the tumult and 



