Part 7 (1/2)

VII TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS

RICHARD LOVELACE--1618-1658

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly

True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shi+eld

Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore,-- I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honor more

VIII ANGLING

IZAAK WALTON--1593-1683

_Froood reat pleasure and wonder; but I pray, when shall I have your direction how to make artificial flies, like to those that the trout loves best, and also how to use them?

_Piscator_--My honest scholar, it is now past five of the clock; ill fish till nine, and then go to breakfast Go you to yon sycamore-tree, and hide your bottle of drink under the hollow root of it; for about that time, and in that place, ill make a brave breakfast with a piece of powdered beef, and a radish or two, that I have in ood, honest, wholesoive you direction for theof your flies; and in the meantime, there is your rod and line, and my advice is, that you fish as you see me do, and let's try which can catch the first fish

_Venator_--I thank you, master; I will observe and practise your direction as far as I am able

_Piscator_--Look you, scholar, you see I have hold of a good fish: I now see it is a trout I pray put that net under him, and touch not my line, for if you do, then we break all Well done, scholar! I thank you

Now for another Trust me, I have another bite: come, scholar, come, lay down your rod, and help me to land this as you did the other So noe shall be sure to have a good dish for supper

_Venator_--I alad of that; but I have no fortune: sure,

_Piscator_--Nay, then, take mine; and I will fish with yours Look you, scholar, I have another Come, do as you did before And now I have a bite at another Oh ood hook lost

_Venator_--Ay, and a good trout too

_Piscator_--Nay, the trout is not lost; for pray take notice, no man can lose what he never had

_Venator_--Master, I can neither catch with the first nor second angle: I have no fortune

_Piscator_--Look you, scholar, I have yet another And now, having caught two brace of trouts, I will tell you a short tale as alk towards our breakfast A scholar, a preacher I should say, that was to preach to procure the approbation of a parish that he ot from his fellow-pupil the copy of a serreat coh the borrower of it preached it, word for word, as it was at first, yet it was utterly disliked as it was preached by the second to his congregation; which the sermon borrower complained of to the lender of it; and thus was answered: ”I lent you, indeed, my fiddle, but not my fiddle-stick; for you are to know, that every one cannot make music with my words, which are fitted to my own mouth” And so, my scholar, you are to know, that as the ill pronunciation or ill accenting of words in a sere of your line, or not fishi+ng even to a foot in a right place, h you have s hich you see I catch fish, yet you have not my fiddle-stick, that is, you yet have not skill to kno to carry your hand and line, nor how to guide it to a right place; and this ling is an art, either by practice or a long observation, or both But take this for a rule: when you fish for a trout with a worm, let your line have so much and not more lead than will fit the streareat troublesome stream than in a smaller that is quieter; as near as may be, so much as will sink the bait to the bottom, and keep it still in race and fall to breakfast What say you, scholar, to the providence of an old angler? does not this meat taste well? and was not this place well chosen to eat it? for this sycamore-tree will shade us froood, and ood too And now I remember and find that true which devout Lessius says: ”That poor men, and those that fast often, have luttons, that always feed before their stomachs are empty of their last meal, and call for more; for by that s to poorof yours, ”that you would rather be a civil, well-governed, well-grounded, teler, than a drunken lord” But I hope there is none such: however, I am certain of this, that I have been at many very costly dinners that have not afforded me half the content that this has done, for which I thank God and you

And now, goodand ordering my artificial fly

_Piscator_--My honest scholar, I will do it; for it is a debt due unto you by ins to rain!--and by the clouds, if Ishower, and therefore sit close: this sycamore-tree will shelter us; and I will tell you, as they shall co for a trout