XXVI.

Pace with the native stream this fish doth keep,

And journeys with her towards the glassy deep,

But oft retarded; once with a hidden net,

Though with great windows, (for when need first taught

These tricks to catch food, then they were not wrought

As now, with curious greediness, to let

None 'scape, but few and fit for use to get,)

As in this trap a ravenous pike was ta'en,

Who, though himself distress'd, would fain have slain

This wretch; so hardly are ill habits left again.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 · 第 233 / 326 题