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Nor murmurs ere come nigh us, Nor envy, unless among 



Saving of fountains which glide by us. The birds, for praise of their sweet song. 



Here's no fantastike maske, or dance, g°' '=' '''^ ^'.""S '^^S'O seeke 



But of our kids that frisk and prance, * °^ gerames in some forlorne creeke ; 

 Nor wars are seene, "= pearles do scorne. 



Unless upon the greene „ ^^^ "''"^' *^ '*'"''' '"°''"= 



Two harmless lambs are butting one the JiPJ^.^?^'^ "P°° «ach spire of grass, 



other, Which careles sheapheards beat downe as 



Which done, both bleating run each to his , ^'^^ P?=^= ■ , 



mother ; -""d gold nere here appeares 



Nor wounds are ever found, ^'" '^^^^ ''■^ yellow Ceres beares. 



Save what the ploughshare gives the Sweet silent groves, O may you be 



ground. For ever mirth's best nursery. 



May pure contents 

 Here are no false entrapping baites For ever pitch their tents 



To hasten too, too hasty fates. Upon these meads, these downs, these 

 Unless it be rocks, these mountains ; 



The fond credulity And peace still slumber by these purling 

 Of silly hsh, which, worldlings Uke, still fountains ; 



look _ Which we may every yeare 



Upoh the baite, and never on the hooke ; Find when we come to sojourne here. 



P. 54. There are strong reasons for believing that the "Secrets of 

 Angling" was not written by John Davers, but by John Dennys, Esq., who 

 was lord of Oldbury-sur-Montem, in the county of Gloucester, between 

 1572 and 1608. He was a younger son of Sir Walter Dennis, of Puckle- 

 church, in that county, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert 

 Bavers, or Danvers. It has been observed by Mr James Williamson, that 

 the author of the Secrets of Angling speaks of the river Boyd, "washing 

 the cliffs of Deighton and Week, and through their rocks, with winding 

 way, seeking the Avon, in whose fair streams are found trout, roaches, 

 dace, gudgeon, and bleak." Mention is also made of the many pleasant 

 banks of that river, and of parties of anglers from Bath and Bristol passing 

 along the meadows near the sides of that beautiful stream. The author 

 likewise speaks of the rivers Usk, Severn, and Wye, which flow not very 

 far distant from that neighbourhood. It appears that there is a beautiful 

 rivulet called Boyd, which is formed by four distinct streams, rising in the 

 parishes of Codrington, Pucklechurch, Dyrham, and Toghill, in the 

 southern part of the county of Gloucester, between Bath and Bristol, which 

 join in Wyke or Week Street, in the parish of Alston and Wyck, near a 

 bridge of three large arches, and then,ce by the name of Boyd down to 

 Avon, at Kynsham Bridge, and which river passes through the village of 

 Pucklechurch, and thence flows on to Bitton, where stands a stone bridge. 

 At Alston and Wyke there are many high cliffs or rocks, whose quarries 

 afford most excellent lime, and in the north aisle of the ancient Church of 

 Pucklechurch is the burial-place of the family of Dennys. John Dennys, 

 Esq., was resident in that neighbourhood in the year 1572, and so continued 

 till 1608, during which interval he was lord of the manor of Oldbury-sur- 

 Montem, and of other places in the county of Gloucester. 



The poet who commends the " Secrets of Angling " in the copy of verses 

 under the signature of "Jo. Daves," was probably the author's relation ; 

 and this seems to have been the old way of spelling the name of Davers or 

 Danvers, as may be collected from Leland's Itinerarium, ed. 1 769, vol. iii. 

 p. 115. 



P. 79. The following are the songs mentioned by Walton ; — 



