28 " Treaty se " as an Angling Idyl. 



vvyte: ofhuntynge: hawkynge: fysshynger 

 and foulynge. The beste to my symple 

 dyscrecon why then is fysshinge : callyd 

 Anglynge with a rodde : and a lyne and 

 an hoke. And therof to treate as my 

 symple wytte may suffyce : both for the 

 sayd reason of Salomon and also for the 

 reason that phisyk makyth in this wyse. 



" Si tibi defidant medici medici tibi 

 fiant: hec tria metis leta labor et moderata 

 diet a. 



" Ye shall vnderstonde that this is for to 

 saye, Yf a man lacke leche or medicyne 

 he shall make thre thynges his leche and 

 medycyne : and he shall nede never no 

 moo. The fyrste of theym is a mery 

 thought. The second is labour not out- 

 raged. The thyrde is dyete mesurable." 



After a pleasant discourse of the dis- 

 comforts and disappointments which often 

 attend the hunter who " blowyth tyll his 

 lyppes blyster, and whan he wenyth it 

 be an hare full oft it is an hegge hogge," 

 and the " fawkener who often leseth his 

 hawkes," our authoress says : 



"Thus me semyth that huntynge and 

 hawkynge and also fowlynge ben so 

 laborous and grevous that none of theym 

 maye perfourme nor bi very meane that 

 enduce a man to a mery spyryte : whyche 

 is cause of his longe lyfe acordynge unto 



