" Ab 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 snare 

 My angle breeds me no such car*. 



" Of recreation there is nune 

 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. 



