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As in successive course the seasons roll,
So circling pleasures recreate the scul:
When genal spring a living warmth bestows,
And o'er the year her verdant mantle throws,
No swelling inundation hides the ground;
But chrystal currents glide within their bounds;
The finny brood their wonted haunts forsake,
Float in the sun, and skim along the lake;

With frequent leap they range the shallow streams,
Their silver coats reflect the dazzling beams.
Now let the fisherman his toils propage,
And arm himself with ev'ry wat'ry share:
His hooks, his lines peruse, with careful eye,

Increase his tackle, and his rod re-tie.

GAY.

THE SIXTH EDITION,

Carefully revised.

LONDON:

Printed by Barnard and Sultzer, Water Lane, Fleet Street,

FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. NO. 4, STATIONERS COURT,
LUDGATE STREET.

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ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.

THE credit of this treatise is so fully

established by the approbation the former editions have met with, that it would be quite superfluous to say any thing more in its favour. In the present edition, which has been revised with the greatest attention, I have been careful to avoid all newfangled rules, but have endeavoured to render those which I have before laid down more conspicuous and intelligent. Most of the late publications on this pleasing and rational recreation may allure by their novelty for awhile, but are in general so vague and full of error, that, like summer insects, percunt et imputantur, they must perish

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perish and be thought on no more!-Hop-
ing the present edition will be well received
by all judicious and discriminating An-
glers, I shall conclude with observing.

-Si quid novisti rectius istis

Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.

Tottenham Hale, 1804.

* Excellent reception for Anglers at Brother Partrick's in

that village.

CONTENTS.

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