THE COMPLETE ANGLER 



PART THE FIRST 

 CHAPTER ' I 



CONFERENCE BETWIXT AN ANGLER, A HUNTER, AND A 

 FALCONER J EACH COMMENDING HIS RECREATION 



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PISCATOR, VENATOR, AUCEPS 



PISCATOR. You are well overtaken, gentlemen, a good 

 morning to you both ; I have stretched my legs up 

 Tottenham Hill to overtake you, hoping your business 

 may occasion you towards Ware, whither I am going this 

 fine, fresh May morning. 



VENATOR. Sir, I for my part shall almost answer your 

 hopes ; for my purpose is to drink my morning's draught 

 at the Thatched House in Hoddesden, and I think not to 

 rest till I come thither, where I have appointed a friend 

 or two to meet me : but for this gentleman that you 

 see with me, I know not how far he intends his journey ; 

 he came so lately into my company, that I have scarce 

 had time to ask him the question. 



AUCEPS. Sir, I shall by your favour bear you company 

 as far as Theobald's,* and there leave you ; for then I 

 turn up to a friend's house who mews a hawk for me, 

 which I now long to see. 



* A house built by Lord Burleigh, in Herts, and by his son, an 

 Earl of Salisbury, exchanged with James I. for Hatfield House. 



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