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trouble ; both harmlessly, and in a recreation that 

 became a churchman. And this good man was 

 well content, if not desirous, that posterity should 

 know he was an Angler, as may appear by his pic- 

 ture now to be seen, and carefully kept in Brazen- 

 nose-College, to which he was a liberal benefactor ; 

 in which picture he is drawn leaning on a desk 

 with his Bible before him, and on one hand of him 

 his lines, hooks, and other tackling, lying in a 

 round ; and on his other hand are his Angle-rods of 

 several sorts : and by them this is written, " That 

 " he died 13 Feb. 1601, being aged ninety-five years, 

 " forty-four of which he had been Dean of St. Paul's 

 " Church ; and that his age had neither impaired his 

 " hearing, nor dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his 

 " memory, nor made any of the faculties of his mind 

 " weak or useless." Tis said that Angling and 

 temperance were great causes of these blessings, and 

 I wish the like to all that imitate him, and love the 

 memory of so good a man. 



My next and last example shall be that under- 

 valuer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, 

 Sir Henry Wotton : a man with whom I have often 

 fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employ- 

 ments in the service of this nation, and whose ex- 

 perience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his 

 company to be esteemed one of the delights of man- 

 kind. This man, whose very approbation of Angling 

 were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of 

 it, this man was also a most dear lover, and a fre- 

 quent practiser of the art of Angling ; of which 



