74 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



to bestowing a tenth part of his revenue, and 

 usually all his fish, amongst the poor that inhabited 

 near to those rivers in which it was caught ; say- 

 ing often, " that charity gave life to religion ; " 

 and at his return to his house would praise God he 

 had spent that day free from worldly trouble, 

 both harmlessly, and in a recreation that became a 

 churchman. And this good man was well con- 

 tent, if not desirous, that posterity should know 

 he was an angler ; as may appear by his picture, 

 now to be seen and carefully kept in Brazennose 

 College, to which he was a liberal benefactor. In 

 which picture he is drawn leaning on a desk with 

 his Bible before him, and on one hand of him his 

 lines, hooks, and other tackling, lying in a round ; 

 and on his other hand are his angle -rods of several 

 sorts ; and by them this is written, " that he died 13 

 Feb., 1 60 1, being aged ninety-five years, forty-four 

 of which he had been dean of St. Paul's church ; 

 and that his age neither impaired his hearing, nor 

 dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his memory, nor 

 made any of the faculties of his mind weak or use- 

 less." 'T is said that angling and temperance 

 were great causes of these blessings ; and I wish 

 the like to all that imitate him, and love the mem- 

 ory of so good a man. 



My next and last example shall be that under- 

 valuer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, 

 Sir Henry Wotton : a man with whom I have 

 often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign 

 employments in the service of this nation, and 



