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riosity belongs here it, ye gallant knights 

 of the angle ! to a lady ! This per- 

 sonage was none other than the Dame 

 Juliana Bernars, or Berners, the austere 

 Prioress of the nunnery of Sopwell, near 

 St. Albans. This doughty dame flourished 

 more than a century before Walton's time, 

 and from all accounts was as celebrated for 

 her delight in all true English sport as for 

 her learning and piety, a female Ad- 

 mirable Crichton in many respects. Of 

 this singular production, called, The Trea- 

 tise of Fysshing with an Angle, or, as it 

 came to be more popularly known after- 





The Old Mill at Dovedale. 

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