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script is uncertain, probably about 17^0, and from 

 several corrections in the original must have been the 

 translator's copy. Extracts from other works are given 

 as notes, but discussions upon manufacturing flies, or 

 the ingenious torment of threading a live bait, are 

 purposely omitted; yet it is hoped amusement and 

 information will prove sufficiently blended for those 

 notes to be considered rather above the character of 

 " a string of whiting's eyes/' 



Faniere. Book XV. Of Fis/i. Translated from the 

 Latin. By I. D* of C. C. Coll. Caml. 



Of Fish I sing, and to the rural cares 

 Now add the labours of my younger years, 

 These lays, Lemoignon, your protection claim, 

 Now more improv'd since first they gave me fame j 

 From hence to tend the doves and vines I taught, 

 And whate'er else my riper years have wrought. 



Here, where in pleasing fables I relate, 

 How various bodies were transformed by fate, 



content, that they have quitted all other recreation (at least in its season) to 



pursue it The cheapness of the recreation abates not its pleasure, but 



with rational persons heightens it j and if it be delightful the charge of me- 

 lancholy falls upon that score, and if example (which is the best proof) may 

 sway any thing, I know no sart of men less subject io melancholy than 

 anglers ; many have cast off other recreations and embraced it, but I never 

 knew any angler wholly cast off (though occasions might interrupt) their 

 affections to their beloved recreation j and if this art may prove a noble brave 

 rest to my mind, 'tis all the satisfaction I covet." 



* Rev. John Duncambe, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Rector of 

 Hearne, Kent, and St. Andrew, with St. Mary Brechmn, Canterbury. Ob. 

 Jan. 19, 1786, zet. 56. See Gent. Mag. Vol. LVI. pp. 187-451, wher 

 this translation is mentioned. It is now printed from the copy re/erred to 

 as in the possession of the late Mr. Reed. See his Translation of Vaniere's 

 fifth book in George Jeffreys's Miscellanies, 1754, 410. 



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