CHAPTER V. 



John Dennys' delightful Secrets of A ngling, 1613 

 Some Account of the Book and its Author 

 A Parenthetical Reference to Multiplying 

 Reels and Sir Humphry Davy's Salmonia 

 The Secrets compared with Dame Berners' 

 Treatyse Quotations from the Secrets 

 Angling in the Age of Wood, of Gold, of 

 Silver and Brass Angling in the Iron Age. 



IEFERRING the reader for further 

 notices of Continental angling 

 literature of this period to Blakey's 

 book, I come back to England 

 and the year 1613, when " The Secrets of 

 Angling, by J. D.," first saw the light. For 

 nearly two centuries it was not clearly 

 known who was the author of this, in my 

 humble opinion, most charming poem in 

 all our English angling literature, and we 

 are greatly indebted to the authors of the 

 Bibliotheca Piscatoria for their very full 

 account of it and its various editions, and 

 of such particulars of its author as are 

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