I'm like Johnson, who wrote out that fine-meaning book,

Who would angling define as a stick and a string,

Which a worm and a fool into close contact bring.

No! The sport I admire, and when the fish will but bite,

'Tis a feeling which almost amounts to delight.

Though a trifling addition will heighten, indeed,

The pleasure, I mean, if some nice girl would read

Out aloud by your side, and would shadow your eyes

From the sun, and away drive the flies

With her neat parasol. I have asked, but must state