better berry, but doubtless God never did": and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 5. Thus use your frog: put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him. Part i. Ch. 8. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. Ibid. Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. All that are lovers of virtue, Part i. Ch. 21. be quiet, and Ibid. go a-Angling. But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him; marked him for his own.1 Oh! the gallant fisher's life It is the best of any; Life of Donne. 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 't is beloved by many." The Angler. (John Chalkhill.) 1 Melancholy marked him for his own. - Gray, The Epitaph. 2 In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a Preface to a work edited by him: "Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq. an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser." "Chalkhill, -a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Chalkhill is no other than our old piscatory friend incognito."-Zouch's Life of Walton. This house is to be let for life or years; Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone. Book ii. 10, Ep. 10. The slender debt to nature's quickly paid,2 Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. The next way home's the farthest way It is the lot of man but once to die. Book ii. 13. about. 1 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. Young, Night Thoughts, v. Line 1011. Euripides, Alcestis, Line 418. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Virtue. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws A verse may find him who a sermon flies, The Elixir. The Church Porch. Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Ibid. Chase brave employment with a naked sword. Ibid. Sundays observe: think when the bells do chime, "T is angels' music. Ibid. The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. Ibid. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Sin. 1 And he that does one fault at first. And lies to hide it, makes it two. - -Watts, Song xv. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, The Church Militant. Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords Man. The Pulley. Is when the soul unto the lines accords. A True Hymn. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? The Size. Do well and right, and let the world sink.1 His bark is worse than his bite. After death the doctor.2 Country Parson. Ch. 29. Jacula Prudentum. Ibid. Ibid. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.3 Ibid. God's mill grinds slow, but sure. Ibid. The offender never pardons.* Ibid. It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. Ibid. To a close-shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.5 Ibid. 1 Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., Part 2, Sec. xi. 2 After the war, aid. - Greek Proverb. After me the deluge.— Madame de Pompadour. 8 See Appendix, p. 651. 4 Compare Dryden. Page 229. 5 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne, Sentimental Journey. 162 HERBERT.- PARKER. - SUCKLING. The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.1 Jacula Prudentum. Help thyself, and God will help thee. Ibid. Ibid. The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.3 Ibid. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two.1 Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out," As if they feared the light; But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Ballad upon a Wedding. 1 The lion is not so fierce as painted. 2 Compare Johnson. Page 314. 3 Compare Pope. Page 289. Fuller, of expecting Preferment. 4 A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on. - - Coleridge, The Friend, Sec. i. Essay 8. 5 See Campbell. Page 443. • Compare Herrick. Page 164. |