234* THE COMPLETE AN GLEE. [PART I. 



still, and you know our angles are like money put to usury ; 

 they may thrive, though we sit still and do nothing but talk 

 and enjoy one another. Come, come, the other fish, good 

 master. 



Pise. But, scholar, have you nothing to mix with this 

 discourse, which now grows both tedious and tiresome ? 

 Shall I have nothing from you. that seem to have both a 

 good memory and a cheerful spirit ? 



Yen. Yes, master, I will speak you a copy of verses that 

 were made by Doctor Donne, 1 and made to show the world 

 that he could make soft and smooth verses, when he thought 

 smoothness worth his labour : and I love them the better, 

 because they allude to rivers, and fish, and fishing. They 

 be these : 



Come, live with me, and be my love : 

 And we will some new pleasures prove, 

 Of golden sands, and crystal brooks ; 

 With silken lines and silver hooks. 



There will the river, whisp'ring, run, 

 Warm'd by the eyes more than the sun ; 

 And there, the enamel'd fish will stay, 

 Begging themselves they may betray." 



When thou wilt swim in that live bath 

 Each fish, which every channel hath, 

 Most am'rously, to thee will swim, 

 Gladder to catch thee than thou him. 



If thou to be so seen be'st loath, 

 By sun, or moon thou dark'nest both ; 

 And if mine eyes have leave to see, 

 I need not their light, having thee. 



Let others freeze with angling reeds, 

 And cut their legs with shells and weeds ; 

 Or treach'rously poor fish beset, 

 With strangling snares, or windowy net ; 



Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, 

 The bedded fish in banks outwrest ; 

 Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, 

 To 'witch poor wand'ring fishes' eyes. 2 



1 See account of Dr. Donne in the " Life of Walton," ante, xin. page 13. 



2 There is a beautiful glee composed by S. Webbe from these words, 

 ED. 



