lis THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



you, this seems to be believed by our learned Doctor Hakewill,* 

 who, in his Apology of God's Power and Providence, quotes 

 Pliny to report, that one of the emperors had particular fish-ponds, 

 and in them several fish that appeared and came when they were 

 called by their particular names: and St. James tells us, Chap, 

 iii., 7, that all things in the sea have been tamed by mankind. 

 And Pliny tells us, Lib. ix., 35, that Antonia the wife of Drusus, 

 had a lamprey, at whose gills she hung jewels or ear-rings ; and 

 that others have been so tender-hearted, as to shed tears at the 

 death of fishes which they have kept and loved. And these ob- 

 servations, which will to most hearers seem wonderful, seem to 

 have a further confirmation from Martial, Lib. iv., Epigr. 30, 

 who writes thus : 



Piscator,fuge, nc nocens, Sfc. 



Angler, wouldst thou be guiltless 7 then forbear. 

 For these are sacred fishes that swim here: ' > 



Who know their sovereign, and will lick his hand. 

 Than which nonets greater in the world's command : 

 JVay more, they've names ; and when they called are. 

 Do to their several owners' call repair. 



All the further use that I shall make of this, shall be, to advise 



* Rev. Dr. George Hakewill was a very able divine, Archdeacon of 

 Surrey in 1G16, and Chaplain to Charles, Prince of Wales. In consequence 

 of his opposing the marriage of the prince with the Infanta of Spain, he 

 was dismissed from Court ; but afterwards chosen Rector of Exeter Col- 

 lege, Oxford, but retired during the civil wars to Heanton, near Barnsta- 

 ple, where he died, 1649. He wrote a very able book against the theory 

 of " a perpetual and universal decay in nature," entitled " An Apologie, 

 or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of 

 the World, in Four Books," 1G27, to which he added two more, 1633. 

 Hawkins says " that the reader may find in this work a relation of that in- 

 stance of Lord Cromwell's gratitude to Sig. Frescobaldi, a Florentine mer- 

 chant, which is given in a dramatic form in The History of Thomas Lord 

 Cromwell, published as Shakspeare's by some of his earlier editors." The 

 passage occurs p. 4S6, in the edition of 1633, and is a very interesting 

 story. Walton takes all the matter in the above paragraph of the text 

 from Hakewill, p. 433-4 (of the edition just named) ; and is elsewhere 

 much indebted to the same source. We have alluded to these instances 

 in the Bib. Pref. Of the Epigram, by Martial, iv., 30, only seven lines are 

 rendered, but those very fairly. — Am. Ed, 



