 ... others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs, with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset, With strangling snare, or windowy net: Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out,wrest, Or curious traitors, sleavesilk...  The Complete Angler,: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, - Page 207by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton - 1653 - 306 pages
...Iswiferfar, alas f ben I. Fife. Well remembred, honeft Scholer,I thank you for thefe choice Verfes, which I have heard formerly, but had quite forgot, till they were recovered by your happie memorie. Well, being I have now refted my felf a little, I will make you fome requital, by telling... | |
 | John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors sleave silk flies, Bewitch poor ftshes' wand'ring eyes : For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own Bait ; That fish that is not catch'd thereby, Alas ! is wiser far than I. 2.8 THE APPARITION. \VHEN by thy scorn, O, Murd'ress!... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...Or curious traitors sleave silk flies, Bewitch poor fishes' wand'ring eyes : For thee, thou necd'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait ; That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, Alas ! is wiser far than L THE APPARITION. WHEN by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 512 pages
...J. Thompson. 34. p. 186. Tail-piece : The Lover Caught. Drawn by WH Brooke: Engraved by GW Bonner. " For thee, — thou need'st no such deceit, " For thou...thyself art thine own bait : "That Fish that is not catch'd thereby "Is wiser far, alas I than I." p. 186. 35. Chap. XIII. p. 193. The Eel, with a distant... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pages
...outwrest ; — Rb Let curious traitors sleave silkflies, To 'witch poor wand' ring fahes eyes : — For thee, thou need'st. no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait : That fah that is not catch'd thereby, Is wiser far, Alas ! than I. Pise. Well remembered, honest Scholar,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 518 pages
...banks outwrest,— sb Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, To 'witch poor wand'ring fishes eyes:— For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait : Thatfish that is not catch'd thereby, Is wiser far, Alas ! than L Pise. Well remembered, honest Scholar,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...fish in banks outwrest ; Let curious traitor' sleave silk flies, Bewitch poor fishes' wand'ring eyes ; For thee thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait ; That fish that is not catch'd thereby, Ala*, u wiser far than l. ;Trom Donne's Works, 16SS : it is in imitation of Marlowe's... | |
 | 1837 - 574 pages
...fish, which every channel hath. Will amorously to thee swim, Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. For thee, thou need'st no such deceit. For thou thyself art thine own bait: That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, Alas! is wiser far than I! I have dwelt rather long on this angling without rod or... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 582 pages
...fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors' sleave-silk* flies Bewitch poor fishes' wandering eyes. For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait, That fish, that is not catched thereby, Alas, is wiser far than I. IV. A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING^. As virtuous men... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 604 pages
...fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors' sleave-silk* flies Bewitch poor fishes' wandering eyes. For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait, That fish, that is not catched thereby, Alas, is wiser far than I. IV. A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING -f. As virtuous men... | |
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