TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING. 19 



of them is, a merry thought, the second is, 

 labour not outrageous, the third is, diet mea- 

 surable." 



The writer then proceeds to a comparison of 

 angling, with hunting, hawking, and fowling, and 

 after enumerating the inconveniences attendant 

 on the three last, thus recounts the pleasures and 

 advantages of angling. 



" Thus me seemeth, that hunting and hawking, 

 and also fowling, are so laborious and grievous, 

 that none of them may perform, nor be the means 

 to induce a man to a merry spirit ; which is the 

 cause of his long life, according unto the said 

 parable of Solomon. 



" Doubtless then it followeth that it needs must 

 be the desport of fishing with an angle, for all 

 other manner of fishing is laborious and grievous, 

 often making folks full wet and cold, which many 

 times hath been cause of great infirmities. 



" But the angler may have no cold, nor no 

 disease, nor anger, except he be the cause himself. 



