" As inward love breeds outward talk, 

 The hound some praise, and some the hawk : 

 Some better pleased with private sport, 

 Use tennis, some a mistress court : 

 But these delights I neither wish, 

 Nor envy, while I freely fish. 



" Who hunts, doth oft in danger ride ; 

 Who hawks, lures oft both far and wide; 

 Who uses games, shall often prove 

 A loser ; but who falls in love, 



Is fettered in fond Cupid's anare; 



My angle breeds me no such care. 



" Of recreation there is none 

 So free as fishing is alone : 

 All other pastimes do no less 

 Than mind and body both possess : 

 My hand alone my work can do, 

 So I can fish and study too." 



WALTON. 



