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" taking of any fish in any pond or river, practised and opened 

 " in three bookes, by John Dennis, Esquire." It is however 

 possible that John Davors was a maternal relative of the author, 

 and assisted him in his work, and that this circumstance was 

 known to Walton. There are fourteen lines prefixed to the 

 poem in commendation " of his praiseworthy skill and work," 

 signed " Jo. Daves," which might have been an old or con- 

 tracted way of writing the name of Davors. The passage at 

 present alluded to by Walton, will be found in that division of 

 the poem entitled "The Author of Angling, Poetical fictions," 

 and on p. 13 of the reprint of 1811, beginning "Then did Deu- 

 " calion first the art invent." The Stanzas which Piscator 

 quotes on p. 43, will be found in the division called " a Worthy 

 " Answer," on p. 10, " O let me rather on the pleasant 

 " brinke," etc.; and in this instance, as in nearly every other, 

 Walton has improved his author. The passage referred to in 

 Markham, will be found in his " Pleasures of Princes, or Good 

 " Men's Recreations ; containing a Discourse of the generall 

 " Art of Fishing with an Angle or otherwise." Lond. 1614. 4to. 

 Chap. 1. " Of Angling the vertue, vse, and antiquitie," p. 3. 

 Sir John Hawkins supposed that when Piscator is defining the 

 mental character of a fisherman, Walton had in his mind that 

 singular chapter in Markham's Country Contentments, on the 

 subject of the " Angler's Apparel and Inward qualities ;" but it 

 is more probable that he alluded to those stanzas contained in 

 the third book of The Secrets of Angling, which are entitled 

 " The Qualities of an Angler." 



Page 24. In the Prophet Amos, mention is made of Fish-hooks. 



Chap.iv.2. Canne, in his marginal references to this chapter, 

 refers to Jeremiah xvi. 16. " Behold I will send for many 

 " fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them." The pas- 

 sage of Job which the text refers to, will be found in chap. xli. 

 1, 2, and the 7th verse is also distantly allusive to the forma- 

 tion of hooks. Again, in Isaiah the word occurs in chap, 

 xxxvii. 29. " I will put my hook in thy nose :" And also in 

 chap. xix. 8, which Bishop Lowth translated 



" And the fishers shall mourn, and lament; 

 All those that cast the hook on the river, 

 And those, that spread nets on the face of the waters 

 shall languish." 



" Isaiah, A New Translation," etc. by Robert 

 Lowth, D.D. Lond. 1795, 8vo. p. 56. 



The common translation of King James reads " all they that 

 " cast angle into the brooks shall lament." In Ezekiel, xxix.4, 

 hooks are mentioned in connection with fishing, as the medium 



