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[Vpon some pale, or pearch]
Vpon some pale, or pearch,Or stond, or rotten tree,
In watrie lowes and fennie grounds
Where store of fishes bee:
There will he gazing stand
And fish he faine would eate,
Bur he disdaines to touch a fish
If that it be not great.
Right good ones he lets goe,
For better still to stay,
Till that the sunne is welnigh set,
Then downe vnto the ground
In stately sort he hies,
Where he a hungrie supper makes
On wormes and butterflies.
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