76 Angling in the Age of Wood. 



" Forthwith the stones (a wondrous thing to 



heare) 



Began to move as they had life conceiv'd, 

 And waxed greater than at first they were ; 

 And more and more the shape of man receiv'd, 

 Till every part most plainly did appeare, 

 That neither eye nor sense could be deceiv'd : 

 They heard, they spake, they went, and 



walked too, 

 As other living men are wont to doe. 



"Thus was the earth replenished anew 

 With people strange, sprung up with little 



paine, 



Of whose increase the progenie that grew, 

 Did soone supply the empty world againe ; 

 But now a greater care there did insue 

 How such a mightie number to maintaine, 

 Since foode there was not any found, 

 For that great flood had all destroyed and 

 drownd." 



INVENTION OF THE ART OF ANGLING. 

 The Age of Wood. 



The art of angling was now invented 

 to save the newly created inhabitants of 

 the world : 



" Then did Deucalion first the Art invent 

 Of Angling, and his people taught the same ; 

 And to the Woods and groves with them he 



went 



Fit tooles to finde for this most needful game ; 

 There from the trees the longest ryndes they 



rent, 

 Wherewith strong Lines they roughly twist and 



frame, 



