CHAP. T. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



and bow dear a lover, and great a practiser of it our 

 learned Dr. Whitaker * was ; as indeed many others of 

 great learning have been. But I will content myself 

 with two memorable men, that lived near to our own 

 time, whom I also take to have been ornaments to the art 

 of Angling. 



The first is Dr. Nowcl, sometime dean of the cathedral 

 church of St. Paul's, in London, where his monu- 

 ment stands yet undefaced t ; a man that, in the 155O, 

 reformation of Queen Elizabeth, not that of 

 Henry VI II. was so noted for his meek spirit, deep 

 learning, prudence, and piety that the then Parlia- 

 ment and Convocation, both, chose enjoined and 

 trusted him to be the man to make a Catechism for 

 public use, such a one as should stand as a rule 

 for faith and manners to their posterity. And the 

 good old man, though he was very learned, yet 



* William Perlins'wzi a learned divine, and a pious and painful Preacher. 

 Dr. William Wlitaker, an able writer in the Romish controversy, and 

 Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. They both 

 flourished at the latter end of the sixteenth century. I remark the extreme 

 caution of our author in this passage ; for he says not, of Perkins, as he does 

 of Wlitaker, that he was a practiser of, but only that he bestows (in some 

 of his writings we must conclude) great commendations on angling. 

 Perkins had the misfortune to want the use of his right hand ; as we find 

 intimated in this distich on him : 



Dexter a quamtutn<vis fuerat tibi manca, doeendi 

 Pollebas tnira dcxteritate tamen* 



Though nature hath thee, of thy right hand, bereft, 

 Right well thou writest with thy hand that's left. 



And therefore can hardly be supposed capable of even baiting his hook. 



The fact respecting Whitaker is thus attested by Dr. Fuller, in his Holy 

 State, book iii. chap. 13. " Fishing with an angle is to some rather a torture 

 " than a pleasure, to stand an hour as mute as the fish they mean to take, 

 " yet herewithal Dr. Whitaker was much delighted." 



To the examples of divines lovers of Angling, I here add that of Dr. 

 Leigh, the present (178*1) Master of Baliol College, Oxford, who, though 

 turned of ninety, makes it the recreation of his vacant hours. 



f Dr. Alexander Newel, a learned divine, and a famous preacher in the 

 reign of King Ed<w. VI.; upon whose death he, with many other Protest- 

 ants, fled to Germany, where he lived many years. In 1561 he was made 

 dean of St. Paul's; and in 1601 died. The monument mentioned in the 

 text was undoubtedly consumed, with the church, in the fire of London : 

 but the inscription thereon is preserved in Stow's Survey, edit. 1633, page 

 SC2. See Atben. Oxon. 31 3< An engraving of the monument itself is in 

 Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral. 



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