Let useful studies and ingenious art

Polish thy morals, and enrich thy heart;
And thy companions (a selected few)
Be fond of letters, as they're fond of you.
Or, if thy courage will not bear thee out,
Fly from the foe thou canst not hope to rout;
Haste to retirement, solitude dread not,
The world forgetting, by the world forgot;
Enough employment thou'lt be sure to find,
Both for the health of body and of mind;
Thus shall ye, like the wary fish, beware,
Whilst heedless ones rush headlong to the snare.

Enough of precept-now my pannier's stor❜d, I'll hie me homewards to my humble board; For, lo! my monitor-the gadding light Swift gliding on the marsh at edge of night;From fen to fen, from field to field it roves,

The pilgrim straggles where the meteor moves;

Some village lamp he deems th' illusive fire,

And stumbles in the glebe, or wades through mire. I've still two tedious miles to labour o`er,

Ere watchful Susan ope the welcome door.

CANTO VI.

ANGLING FOR CARP.

Time, Day-break in the beginning of July.-Rural Occupations.-Carp, how to be kept.-And Hints for stocking Ponds with the Roes dried and preserved.—Music, its Charms to dispel Care and lighten Toil.-Poets extinct in the present Age.-The Mode and Season of Angling for Carp.-Their Subtilty.—Their Fate, that which Rogues of every Description richly deserve.-Man's Invention overcomes all Obstacles.-Whale-hunting in the North.-On the proper Employment of TIME and Preparation for

ETERNITY.