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The Haunts of the different Fishes are afterwards described in Eight Stanzas of considerable Merit, followed by

"The best Houres of the Day to angle.

"From first appearing of the rising Sun,

Till nine of clock low under water best

The Fish will bite, and then from nine to Noon;
From Noon to four they do refrain and rest;
From four again till PHOEBUS Swift hath run
His dayly course and setteth in the West:
But at the flie aloft they use to bite,
All Summer long from nine till it be Night.

Now lest the Angler leave his Tools behinde
For lack of heed, or haste of his Desire,

And so inforced with unwilling Minde,

Must leave his Game, and back again retire
Such things to fetch, as there he cannot finde

To serve his turn when Need shall most require :
Here shall he have to help his Memory

A lesson short, of every Want's supply.

Light Rod to strike, long Line to reach withall,
Strong Hook to hold the Fish he haps to hit:
Spare Lines and Hooks, what ever chance do fall,
Baits quick and dead to bring them to the bit,
Fine lead and Quils, with Corks both great and small,
Knife, file, and thread, and little Basket fit,
Plummet to sound the depth of Clay and Sand,
With Pole and Net to bring them safe to land.

And now we are arrived at the last

In wished Harbour where we mean to rest,
And make an end of this our Journey past:
Here then in quiet Road I think it best

We strike our Sailes and stedfast Anchor cast,
For now the Sun low setteth in the West,
And yet Boat-swains, a merry Carroll sing
To him that safely did us hither bring."

At the End of the third Book are the following Lines.

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Sir JOHN HAWKINS attributes these Initials to the R. ROE mentioned by WALTON.

H. E.

From a Work entitled the ANGLERS, consisting of Eight Dialogues, in VERSE, the two Songs, and Lines on Hunting the Otter, are taken. One is transcribed from the Second Dialogue which contains "Some general Rules of the Sport."

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When Musk odours, heart regaling,
All the Morning Mead perfume,
From the new-mown Hay exhaling,
I'll the Fisher's Wand resume.

Yea, when Autumn's russet Mantle
Saddens the decaying Year,

I will Fish, and I will Chant, 'till

Feeble Age shall change my Cheer."

The other is from the Fourth Dialogue, and in which the Severity of the Game Laws is happily versified.

"Ye Sov❜reignes of Manors, in Verse

(Dull Prose will dishonour your Name) The Muse shall your Triumphs rehearse, High sounding the Laws of the Game.

The Farmer your Sport shall supply,

Your Beagles his Fences shall break:
But touch not and taste not,' you cry,
The Law will its Talons awake.

One Hundred a Year gives the Right

To challenge all Nature your own;

Tell short of the Sum but a Mite,

And your Ninety-nine Pounds are as none.

Hare, Partridge, or Pheasant who eat

(There's Law too for filching the Flood)

Without a Permit for his Meat

Five Pounds shall be squeez'd from his Blood.

Vexations, and Suits, and a Jail

Th' unqualified Gun shall chastise:
Informers, but swear to your Tale

And richly be paid for your Lies.

For his MAJESTY'S Service, we'll press
The Felon who steals but a Hare;
For his Brats, the whole Parish assess :

All Poachers and Anglers, beware.”

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upon Otter Hunting very much resemble the account

in the Prose Dialogue of WALTON upon that Subject.

"My Fortune then enjoyed that Scene of Blood,
Dogs, Men, and Horses rush'd into the Flood.
There, here, he vents, a lucky Jav❜lin thrown
With strenuous Arm, infixed him in the Bone.
He dives, he mounts again, one hardy Hound
Tenacious plunges with him to the Ground.
All disappear, all reascend from far,
Redoubled clamours urge the watery War:
Now fainting, panting, close pursued by Death,
To the whole worrying Pack he yields his Breath."

As the FATHER of the ART of ANGLING, a brief Sketch of the

Life of Isaac Walton will be here introduced. "The

harmless Tenor of his Way" no Man more conscientiously kept, and his intimate Friends, were selected from those eminent for their Loyalty, Piety, and Learning.

ISAAC WALTON was born in 1593, at LONDON, where he followed the trade of a Sempster, or Milliner*. But on account of the

*In the Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. 305, the OXFORD Antiquary has fixed the Place of his Nativity at STAFFORD, he has however left no Memorial of his Family, nor even hinted where or how he was educated, and says that previous to the Year 1643, WALTON

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