When tir'd of Town and Study, I retreat, Th' obsequious Otter plunge into the Stew. The gasping Captives, from his murderous Jaw+. } Duke de RESSEGEUER. + Could an Animal be thus tutored for use on the Sea coast, in addition to the Amusement, it would save many Qualms to the Summer Excursionist. "Whyle gale of wynde the slacke sayles filles full strayte, He leaning ouer hollow rocke doth lye, And either his begiled hookes doth bayte, Or els beholdes and feeles the pray from hye; The trembling Fish he feeles with line extent, HERCULES Furens, 1581. This is a Pigmy's mimic of the day (a day as fair as heart could wish) To pluck down House, ere fire consumes it whole; His hook was baited with a Dragon's tail, And then on rock he stood, to bob for Whale; Which strait he caught, and nimbly home did pack The last lines, with trifling Alteration are inserted in the Poetical Works of Dr. KING, born 1663, but certainly not the Production of that facetious Writer. They are copied from the mock Romance printed with "The Loves of HERO and LEANDER, and other choice pieces of Drollery, &c." 1653. From a Ballad in the same Collection, which appears to G Among the sportive Tenants of the Lake, If Reeds and Rushes should your Lakes infest, Since nothing to the Natives of the Flood have been made on the setting fire to LONDON-BRIDGE, the following humorous Stanzas are selected. Into the Chips there fell a spark Which put out in such Flames, For loe the Bridge was wondrous high, O're which as many Fishes fly, As Birds therein doth breath. And yet the Fire consum'd the Bridg, It fell down not with standing. And eke into the Water fell, So many pewter Dishes; That a Man might have taken up very well Both boyld and roasted Fishes." Throw grains of Corn, or scatter crumbs of Bread, You chance to find a Sheep, or in the Yoke The Eel devours the smaller finny train, And Smelts, and Gudgeons, seek the Shore in vain. In Bulk with Years while other Fishes rise, Why Gudgeons, Loach, and Smelts are small in size, The rise, ye Muses, of the Minim State. } Call then a Monster from the neighb'ring Main, A dreadful Form, which rose above the Wave. Like a fair Flow'r which yielding to the Share Yet hope by Fear they fell, and signs of Life explore; *FLECKNOE, in the Character of a young female Enamorist, says, "it is with Lovers as it is with Anglers, who feed Fishes till they are caught, but caught once, feed on them; so it will be long enough ere she bite at the Bait, unless he has more to bait her with than fine Words or lamentable Compliments." Upon the Subject of Love the Angler's Muse seldom drags a Simile from the Tackle; or floats the lines in a stream of Sorrow to bait a barbed Hook with a gentle Heart. TURBERVILE introduces an allusion to the Art, where he writes in " Disprayse of Women that allure and loue not." "That troupe of honest Dames NO LUCRECE now is left aliue, ne CLEOPATRA none. Those dayes are all ypast, that date is fleeted by: They Myrrors were, dame Nature made hir skilful hande to try. Now course of Kinde exchaungde doth yeeld a woorser graine, Their Hands the Heart, no longer beating, try, And Women in these latter Yeares those modest Matrones staine. Deceit in their delight, great Fraud in friendly lookes: They spoyle the Fish for Friendship's sake, that houer on their Hookes. They buye the Baite to deare that so their Freedome loze; And they the more deceitfull are, that so can craft and gloze." The Contrariety of Love is also thus depicted in the Sign Cancer, fourth Book of PALENGENIUS, translated by BARNABY GOOGE. 66 if so be that Loue weare not by God's Aduisement right, by Limites parted iust: But as the Fisher doth not take the Fishes all in Dikes; Nor Foulers all the Birdes do catch, nor Hunters all do kill; But euery one his chance doth take, obtaines, and hathe his will; So, Loue to euery one is delt by God's Arbitrement; So doth the Seruaunt, base, ful oft his Lady wel content," |