The Error in the First Edition. 1 2 5 



Piscator, after listening to Viator's 

 recitation of Sir Henry Wotton's verses 

 in praise of angling, says : 



"Trust me, Scholer, I thank you 

 heartily for these verses \ they be choicely 

 good and doubtless made by a lover of 

 angling. Come, now drink a glass to me 

 and I will requite you with a very good 

 copy of Verses; it is a farewel to the 

 vanities of the world, and some say written 

 by Dr. D. ; but let them be writ by 

 whom they will, he that writ them had a 

 brave soul, and must needs be possest 

 with happy thoughts at the time of their 

 composure." 



The last two lines of the verses run : 



" And if contentment be a stranger, then 

 I'l nere look for it, but in heaven again.'' 



But in the first copies these lines were 

 thus printed : 



" And if contention be a stranger, then 

 I'l nere look for it, but in heaven again. ' 



As pointed out by Sir Harris Nicolas 

 and by Mr. Westwood in his admirable 

 Chronicle of "" The Co mpleat Angler" there 

 are several other misprints in these first 

 copies, such as " Fordig " for " Fordidg," 

 " Padoch " for " Padock," etc. For a very 

 minute account of the differences and 

 additions in the five editions published 



