COMMENDATORY TERSES. 77 



TO THE 



READERS 



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MY MOST INGENIOUS FRIEND'S BOOK, 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER, 



HE that both knew and writ the Lives of men, 

 Such as were once, but must not be again ; 

 Witness his matchless Donne and Wotton^ by 

 Whose aid he could their speculations try : 

 He that conversed with angels, such as were 

 Ouldsworth * and Featly t, each a shining star 

 Shewing the way to Bethlem ; each a saint, 

 Corapar'd to whom our zealots, now, but paint. 

 He that our pious^and learn'd Morley J knew, 

 And from him suck'd wit and devotion too. 

 He that from these such excellencies fetch'd, 

 That//e could tell how high and far they reach'd ; 

 What learning this, what graces th' other had ; 

 And in what several dress each soul was clad. 



Reader, this/fr, this fisherman, comes forth, 



And in these fisher's weeds would shroud his worth. 



* Dr. Richard Holdsworth. See an account of him in the Fait. Oxen. 

 07; and in Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors. 

 f Dr. Daniel Featly, for whom see Atbin. Oxon. 603. 

 f Dr. George Morley, bishop of Winchester. 



