...walk, ride, sit, or sleep at ones own ease ! And, pleasing a Mans self, none other to displease. 6. Oh my beloved Nymph fair Dove ; Princess of rivers, how I love Upon thyflowry Banks to lye, And view thy silver stream, When guilded by a Summers beam ! And in it, all...

...calm and quiet a delight It is alone To read, and meditate, and write, By none offended, nor offending none ; To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease,...fair Dove, Princess of Rivers, how I love Upon thy flow'ry Banks to lie, And view thy Silver stream, When gilded by a Summer's Beam, And in it all thy...

...and quiet a delight It is alone To read, and meditate, and write, 30 By none offended, nor offending none ; To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease,...And pleasing a man's self, none other to displease ! VI Oh my beloved nymph ! fair Dove, Princess of rivers, how I love 35 Upon thy flowery banks to lie,...

...still ; For it is thou alone that keep'st the Soul awake. How calm and quiet a delight It is alone Oh my beloved Nymph ! fair Dove, Princess of Rivers, how I love Upon thy flow'ry Banks to lie, And view thy Silver stream, When gilded by a Summer's Beam, And in it all thy...

...calm and quiet a delight It is alone To read, and meditate, and write, By none offended, nor offending none ; To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease,...pleasing a man's self, none other to displease ! Oh my belovfed Nymph ! fair Dove, Princess of Rivers, how I love Upon thy flow'ry Banks to lie, And view...

...epithets sung to a one-fingered accompaniment ? And yet what a model Charles Cotton had set them ! " O my beloved Nymph, fair Dove ! Princess of rivers ! How I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie ! " Perhaps Byron and Moore and Rogers, and all the many poets who have wandered down the banks of...

...crags of Dovedale ? Sooner or later every fly-fisher feels impelled to make a pilgrimage to the Dove. ' Oh, my beloved Nymph ! fair Dove ! Princess of rivers ! How I love Upon thy flowing banks to lie, And view thy silver stream ! When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy...

...calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write. By none offended, and offending none! To walk, ride, sit or sleep at one's own ease;...And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease." Charles Cation, a friend of Isaac Walton. 1650. RING the last few months so many of the real adventures...

...calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write, By none offended, and offending none. To walk, ride, sit or sleep at one's own ease,...And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease," — Charles Cotton, a friend of Izaak Walton, 16' 0 DURING the last few months so many of the real...

...quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write. By none offended, and offending nonef To walk, ride, sit or sleep at one's own ease; And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease." —Charlts Cotton, a friend of Izaak Walton, 1650 DURING the last few months so many of the real adventures...