156 THE COMPLETE ANGLEK. [PART I. 



Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses; 

 A box where sweets compacted lie : 

 My music shows you have your closes, 



and all must die. 



Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

 Like season'd timber, never gives ; 

 But when the whole world turns to coal, 

 then, chiefly, lives. 



Ten. I thank you, good master ! for your good direction 

 for fly-fishing ; and for the sweet enjoyment of the pleasant 

 day, which is, so far, spent without offence to God or man. 

 And I thank you, for the sweet close of your discourse with 

 Mr. Herbert's verses ; who, I have heard, loved angling, 

 and I do the rather believe it, because he had a spirit 

 suitable to anglers, and to those primitive Christians that 

 you love, and have so much commended. 



Pise. "Well, my loving scholar ! and I am pleased, to 

 know that you are so well pleased with my direction and 

 discourse. 



And since you like these verses of Mr. Herbert's, so 

 well, let me tell you, what a reverend and learned divine 

 that professes to imitate him, and has indeed done so most 

 excellently hath writ of our book of Common Prayer ; 

 which I know you will like the better, because he is a friend 

 of mine, and I am sure no enemy to angling. 1 



What ! PRAY'R by the BOOK ? and COMMON? Yes ; why not ? 



The spirit of grace 

 And supplication, 

 Is not left free, alone 



For time and place, 



1 This passage goes very near to unfold to us a secret in literary history, 

 viz. the name of the author of "The Synagogue," a collection of poems 

 suppletory to that of Mr. George Herbert, entitled "The Temple ;" for we 

 see "Ch. Harvie" subscribed to the ensuing " Eulogium on the Common 

 Prayer," which is also to be found in "The Synagogue." And I find in the 

 "Athen. Oxon." vol. i. p. 267, a Christopher Harvey, a Master of Arts, 

 Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire, born in 1597, and who lived to 1663, 

 and perhaps after. Further, the second copy of commendatory verses 

 prefixed to this book has the inscription " Ch. Harvie, M.A." The pre- 

 sumption therefore is very strong that both were written by the Christopher 

 Harvey above-mentioned. At the end of "The Synagogue" are some verses 

 subscribed "Iz. Wa." H. 



