PREFACE. 



Vrs. The plcasant'st angling is to see the fish 



Cut with her golden oars the silver stream 

 7\ik1 greedily devour the treacherous bait ; 

 So angle we for BeairicC' 



IsiD. 



Maria. Here comes the Trout that must be caught 

 By lickling. 



Twelfth Night. 



I could produce many more examples, to make 

 my observations good respecting our matchless 

 Poet, but these I think are quite sufficient. The 

 ^rt of Ajigling opens a wide field for the Na- 

 turalist, including so great a part of Katiual 

 Fhilosophy ; so that we not only reap amuse- 

 ment, but instruction from it — Jiid the more zse 

 contemplate the works of Nature, the more zee shall 

 admire the wisdom of God; and the more we 

 reverence his zeisdom, the greater will he the 

 pleasure zee shall derive from the contemplation of 

 natural objects !! 



T. B 



