[illustration]
Well fayre the plesure
that bringes such treasure
Hold hooke and line
then all is mine
OF all the Recreations which
attend on Humane Nature,
There's nothing sores so high a pitch,
or is of such a Stature,
As is a Subtle Anglers life,
in all Mens Aprobation:
For Anglers tricks, do daily mix,
with every Corporation.
When Eve and Adam liv'd by love,
and had no cause for Iangling,
The Devil did the Waters move,
the Serpent fell to Angling:
He Baits his Hook, with God-like look,
quoth he, this will intangle her:
The woman Chops, and down she drops:
the Devil was first an Angler.
Physitians, Lawyers, and Divines,
are most ingenious Ianglers;
And he that tryes, shall find in fine
that all of them are Anglers:
Whilst grave Divines doe fish for souls
Physitians, like Cormudgeons,
Do bait with Health to fish for Wealth;
and Lawyers fish for Gudgeons,
A Polititian, too▪ is One,
concern'd in Piscatory;
He Writs, and Fights, Vnits & Slights
to Purchase Wealth, and Glory;
His Plumets Sounds, the Kingdoms Bounds
to make the Fishes Nibble;
He draws 'em with a Past of Lyes,
and he blinds them with the Bible.