A 



DEDICATION 



TO THE 



Gentlemen Plscatorians inhabiting in or near the 

 sweet Situations of Nottingham, North of Trent 



GENTLEMEN, 



IF to violate faith (though but with infi- 

 dels) we forfeit not only our reason, but re- 

 ligion 5 so not to dedicate some part of 

 my experiments to your ingenious society, 

 might justly prohibit me the freedom of 

 tracing your ^flourishing fields and fragrant 

 meadows, inamel'd with flowers, that per- 

 fume the beautiful suburbs of Trent ; upon 

 whose delightful banks I formerly used to 

 spend some solitary hours, in pursuit of the 

 scaly fry, and where the plenty and sweet 

 situations invited me not only to contem- 

 plate, but improve this mystical art of an- 

 gling : though it's true, the rudiments (in 



