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 So, though the Angler have good store of tools, And them with skill in finest sort can frame; Yet when he comes to rivers, lakes and pools, If that he know not how to use the same, And with what baits to make the fishes fools; He may go home as wise as out he came, And of his coming boast himself as well As he that from his father's chariot fell.

Not that I take upon me to impart More than by others hath before been told, Or that the hidden secrets of this Art I would unto the vulgar sort unfold; Who peradventure for my pains' desert Would count me worthy BALAAM'S horse to hold: But only to the willing learner show So much thereof as may suffice to know.

But here, O NEPTUNE! that with triple mace Dost rule the raging of the ocean wide; I meddle not with thy deformèd race Of monsters huge, that in those waves abide; With that great whale, that by three whole days' space The man of GOD did in his belly hide, And cast him out upon the Euxine shore As safe and sound as he had been before.

Nor with that Ork, that on Cephæan strand Would have devoured ANDROMEDA the fair; Whom PERSEUS slew with strong and valiant hand, Delivering her from danger and despair: The Hurlepool [? whirlpool] huge that higher than the land Whole streams of water spouteth in the air; The porpoise large that playing swims on high Portending storms or other tempest nigh.