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And now,

of sport sufficient for the day.

For use, not waste, Man is allow'd to slay;

Nor will I, like the miser, wish for more,
Having already a superfluous store:

But tir'd of luck, and wearied out with toil,
Trudge toward home deep-laden with my spoil;
And heart no less with gratitude replete,

To HIM, who gave the charter-" KILL AND EAT,"

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CANTO V.

ANGLING FOR PEARCH.

Time, First of June.-Rural Employments and Scenery.Rustic Happiness.-Rules for angling for Pearch.-North Wind unfavourable to it.-Cruelty of Laws relating to Fisheries.-South Wind favourable.-Sporting Anecdote. -Moral Reflections and Precepts drawn from Angling.— Approach of Night.-Ignis Fatuus.

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WHAT pleasure now to wander through the mead, O'er dewy, fragrant-scented fields to tread;

In the calm coolness while the morning spreads Her mild effulgence through the trembling shades: When in the soft ambrosial breath of dawn,

The goddess HEALTH floats o'er th' empurpled lawn.

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