Minor poets of the Caroline period .. . Thames,If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroadFor our recreation,In the fields is our of delectation : Where in a brook With a hook. Or a lake Fish we take, 30 There we sit For a bit,Till we fish entangle. We have gentles in a have paste and worms can watch both night and morn,Suffer rain and storms too : None do here Use to swear, Oaths do fray 40 Fish sit our quill,Fishers must not wrangle. If the suns excessive heatMakes our bodies an osier hedge we getFor a friendly shelter, Where
Minor poets of the Caroline period .. . Thames,If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroadFor our recreation,In the fields is our of delectation : Where in a brook With a hook. Or a lake Fish we take, 30 There we sit For a bit,Till we fish entangle. We have gentles in a have paste and worms can watch both night and morn,Suffer rain and storms too : None do here Use to swear, Oaths do fray 40 Fish sit our quill,Fishers must not wrangle. If the suns excessive heatMakes our bodies an osier hedge we getFor a friendly shelter, Where in a dike Perch or Pike, 50 Roach or Dace We do chase. Bleak or Gudgeon Without grudging,We are still contented. Or we sometimes pass an hourUnder a green defends us from a earth our pillow ; There we may 60 Think and pray Before death Stops our breath : Other joys Are but toysAnd to be lamented. (443 ) TRIVIAL POEMS, AXD TRIOLETS. WRITTEN IN OBEDIENCE TO MRS TOMKIN^S COMMANDS, By PATRICK CAREY 20th Aug. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1819. INTRODUCTION TOPATRICK CAREY As about our last constituent, so about this, there has been (thoughthere need no longer be) a certain uncertainty. In 1819 Sir (then still Mr.,though just on his promotion) Walter Scott published the book whichis here reproduced, with the title also given. He had nine years previously,in the Edinbnrgh\A7inual Register, communicated specimens of it from theMS. which had been given to him by John Murray. All that he thenknew about the author (and Scott, let it be remembered, while he knew agreat deal about English history and literature, knew hardly any part betterthan the seventeenth century) is contained in the Preface, also reproducedinfra. There were, however, other things that he might have known bothconcerning the MS. itself and concerning its probable author, and theselatter would certainly have interested him. The Poems (or at least some ofthem) had been printed : an
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