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him,) to bestow 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 ; saying often, 

 16 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 content, 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 Brazen-nose 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. 1601, 

 " being aged 95 years, 44 of which he had been dean 

 '* of St, Paul's church ; and that his age neither im- 

 " paired his hearing, nor dimmed his eyes, nor weaken- 

 " ed his memory, nor made any of the faculties of his 

 cc mind weaker useless." It 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 

 memory of so good a man. 



My next and last example shall be that undervaluer 

 of money, the late provost of Eton College, Sir Henry 

 Wottont: a man with whom I have often fished and 



* Fuller, in his Worthies, (Laneasttre, page 1 15,) has thought it worth re- 

 cording, of this pious and learned divine and that in language so very 

 quaint as to be but just intelligible That he was accustomed to fish in the 

 Thames ; and having one day left his bottle of ale in the grass, on the bank 

 of the river, he found it some days after, no bottle but a gun, svcb the sound 

 at the opening thereof. And hence, with what degree of sagacity let the 

 reader determine, he seems to derive the original of bottled ale in 

 England. Could he have shewn that the bottle was of leather, it is odds but 

 he had attributed to him the invention of that noble vehicle, and made 



his soul in heaven to dwell, 



Foe first devising the leathern bottel ; 



As, in a fit of maudlin devotion, sings the author of a hyraorous and well 

 known old ballad. 



f Of whom see an account in the Life of Walton. 

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