Note 58 — Chapter III · The Host conducts the Angler and Painter to Beresford Hall and Mr. Cotton’s Fishing House on the River Dove.

And so thought Mr. Charles Cotton; as witness these lines:

‘To my dear and most worthy friend, Mr. Izaak Walton.

‘A day without too bright a beam,

‘A warm, but not a scorching sun,

‘A southern gale to curl the stream,

‘And, master, half our work is done.

‘There, whilst behind some bush we wait,

‘The scaly people to betray,

‘We’ll prove it just with treach’rous bait

‘To make the preying trout our prey.’

Poems on several Occasions, p. 115—Ed.