214 THE COMPLETE ANGLER 



float-fish, yet I will forbear it at this time, and tell you in the next 

 place how you are to prepare your tackling ; concerning which 

 I will, for sport-sake, give you an old rhyme out of an old fish- 

 book which will prove a part, and but a part, of what you are to 

 provide. 



My rod and my line, my float and m.y lead. 

 My hook and my plummet, my whetstone and knife. 



My basket, my baits both living and dead. 

 My net and my meat, for that is the chief: 



Then I must have thread, and hairs green^ and small. 



With my angling-purse, and so you have all. 



But you must have all these tackling, and twice so many more 



with which, if you mean to be a fisher, you must store yourself; 



o I have heard that and to that purpose I will go with you either to 



the tackling hath been jyfj.. Margrave," who dwells amongst the book- 

 priced at fifty pounds in , •nTii5/-ii 1 1 T»r 



the inventory of an an- sellers in fet. raul s L/hurch-yard, or to Mr. 

 fier. John Stubs, near to the Swan in Golden-lane ; 



they be both honest men, and will fit an angler with what tack- 

 ling he lacks.* 



J Variation. — In the first edition it is " great and small." 



With figures illustrating his Principles. Left by the Rev. William Law, 

 M. A. In four volumes. London, 1764-Sl : 4to. Bohm is not without 

 some admirers, even in our day. 



Though the several writers, who have taught these opinions, differ greatly 

 from each other, they agree in certain common principles, viz. That the dis- 

 solution of bodies by fire is the only way to arrive at the true knowledge 

 of things : That there is a certain analogy and harmony between the pow- 

 ers of nature and the kingdom of grace, for which reason they express re- 

 ligious truths by chemical denominations : That there is a divine energy or 

 soul diffused thfough the universe, which some call Archams, others the 

 Universal Spirit. They all talk in the most obscure manner of the power 

 the stars have over all corporeal beings, of the efficacy of magic, the vari- 

 ous orders of demons, and of what they call the signatures of things. The 

 whole is a mass of incomprehensible mysticism, showing the folly into 

 which men's minds run when they throw off the laws of demonstration and 

 induction, trusting to the hallucinations of an ungoverned fancy. 



The reader may consult Mosheim's Eccles. Hist., vol. 5 ; Tenneman's 

 Grundriss der Gcschichte der Philosophie ; Enfield's History of Philosophy, 

 or Brucker's larger work ; Encyclopaedia Americana, art. Bohm ; Hoe- 

 fer's Histoire de la Chimie, ii., p. 325. — im. Ed. 



• In the first edition Piscator says : " To that purpose I will go with 



