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" Sir, a little business and more pleasure : for my purpose is to 

 " bestow a day or two in hunting the otter, which my friend, 

 " that 1 go to meet, tells me is more pleasant than any hunting 

 " whatsoever : and, having despatched a little business this day, 

 " my purpose is to-morrow to follow the dogs of honest Mr. 



" who hath appointed me and my friend to meet him 



" upon Amwell-hiil to-morrow morning by day-break." 



Page 4. According to Lucian. 



The First Edition of the Complete Angler has these verses 

 placed immediately after the extract from Montaigne, which 

 was introduced by the same remarks which now precede it, 

 upon Viator's answer to that speech of Piscator, in which he 

 declares himself an enemy to the Otter, both on the account of 

 his brother-anglers and his own. At page 5, in the original 

 impression, Viator, who is the subsequent Venator, though 

 without his discourse in praise of Hunting, says : " Sir, to be 

 " plain with you, I am sorry you are an Angler: for I have 

 " heard many grave, serious men pitie, and many pleasant men 

 " scoffe, at Anglers." Piscator's reply is then nearly the same 

 as it now appears, with the transposition already mentioned ; 

 but at the end of the sentence " and I hope I may take," etc., 

 see page 5, he continues : " But, if this satisfie not, I pray 

 " bid the scoffer put this Epigram in his pocket, and read it 

 " every morning for his breakfast (for I wish him no better;) 

 " Hee shall find it fixed before the Dialogues of Lucian, who 

 " may justly be accounted the father of the family of all scoff- 

 " ers : And, though I owe none of that fraternitie so much as 

 " good-will, yet I have taken a little pleasant pains to make 

 " such a conversion of it as may make it the titter for all of that 

 " fraternity." The translation of Lucian alluded to by Walton, 

 is entitled " Certain select Dialogues of Lucian : together with 

 " his true history," Translated from the Greek into English by 

 Mr. Francis Hickes. Oxford, 1634, 4to. The book was pub- 

 lished by Thomas Hickes, MA., the son of the translator ; and 

 at the end of an address "To the honest and judicious reader," 

 is the Epigram already referred to, printed in Greek and Eng- 

 lish, and signed T. H. The original lines, taken from the copy 

 of this volume in the Library of Sion College, London, are as 

 follow : 



" Lucian, well skill'd in old toyes, this hath writ : 

 For all's but folly that men thinke is wit ; 

 No settled judgement doth in men appear : — 

 But thou admirest that which others jeer." 



Page 5. The learned and ingenuous Montaigne says. 



The original edition, in this place, reads " And as for any 



