CHAP I.] 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



made them of a sour complexion, money-getting 

 men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, 

 and next in anxious care to keep it ; men that are 

 condemned to be rich, and then always busy or 

 discontented : for these poor-rich-men, we Anglers 

 pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to bor- 

 row their thoughts to think ourselves so happy. 

 No, no, Sir, we enjoy a contentedness above the 

 reach of such dispositions, and as the learned and 

 ingenuous Montaign says like himself freely, " When 



" my Cat and I entertain each other with mutual 

 " apish tricks, as playing with a garter, who knows 

 " but that I make my cat more sport than she makes 

 " me ? Shall I conclude her to be simple, that has 

 " her time to begin or refuse to play as freely as I 

 " myself have ? Nay, who knows but that it is a 

 " defect of my not understanding her language (for 

 " doubtless cats talk and reason with one another) 



