BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. xxxvii 



Pike, and Troute, and diverse kinds of other Fresh fish. 

 Written in Latin by Janus Dubravius, and translated 

 into English at the speciale request of George Churchey, 

 Fellow of Lion's Inne, the dth of February, 15i>9. Im- 

 printed at London, by William White, dwelling in Cow 

 Lane. 1599." 



The publisher prefixes 



THE BOOKE'S REaVEST. 



Rede over, then judge, 

 Condemn not befere : 

 With judgment just reiect, 

 Or els embrace my love. 

 Mine authour was the first 

 And last, as I suppose, 

 That ever did assay 

 These secrets to disclose. 

 If ought be thought awry, 

 And seeme to thee unsounde, 

 With penne I pray amende, 

 And not with tongue confounde. 



Walton quotes from this book three times, but had it 

 more often in his eye when treating of the habits of fish. 

 Dubravius does not speak of angling ; for, though in his 

 " 5 or laste acte of his Booke of Fishing, more merrie and 

 pleasant than the others," he gives the title, " Of the times 

 of Fishing and the Instruments,'' he tells us only of nets. 

 Treating of " troutes," he says ; " According to the minde 

 of Ausonius, I doe call Saler that fish which is commonly 

 called Trutta, or Troute. Ausonius, in his Booke De 

 Mosella, paynteth the Troute in his cullers after this sort : 



* The purple trout on every side. 

 Hath starrish strakes along to glide.' 



And thus much he sayth, to make a difference betweene 

 Troutes, because there is another Troute, which has in his 

 side litele starres as an ensign or token of his nobilitie : 



