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ing was not contemptible in the days of Mark Antony 

 and Cleopatra, and that they in the midst of their 

 wonderful glory used Angling as a principal recrea- 

 tion. And let me tell you, that in the Scripture, 

 Angling is always taken in the best sense ; and that 

 though Hunting may be sometimes so taken, yet it 

 is but seldom to be so understood. And let me add 

 this more, he that views the ancient Ecclesiastical 

 Canons, shall find hunting to be forbidden to Church- 

 men, as being a turbulent, toilsome, perplexing, re- 

 creation ; and shall find Angling allowed to Clergy- 

 men, as being a harmless recreation, a recreation, 

 that invites them to contemplation and quietness. 



I might here enlarge myself by telling you, what 

 commendations our learned Perkins bestows on 

 Angling : and how dear a lover, and great a prac- 

 tiser of it our learned Doctor Whitaker was, as in- 

 deed many others of great learning have been. But 

 I will content myself with two memorable men, that 

 lived near to our own time, whom I also take to 

 have been ornaments to the Art of Angling. 



The first is Doctor Nowel, sometimes Dean of 155 q 

 the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, 

 where his monument stands yet undefaced : a man 

 that in the Reformation of Queen Elizabeth, not 

 that of Henry VIII., was so noted for his meek spirit, 

 deep learning, prudence, and piety, that the then 

 Parliament and Convocation both, chose, enjoined, 

 and trusted, him to be the man to make a Catechism 

 for public use, such a one as should stand as a rule 



