i;ii'.i.i( )riii'.(,.\ nscA k )K'i.\ 



'I'lic wliolc ;iil and tiadc of ll\•^l1.lllll^v con- 



laiiR'd in toiirtj bdokcs. l^iilar^cii bv I5anial)y (joo^^e. 

 LdiuIoh, Richard .VlDif. 1614. 4'".; then as: 



'I'lit; whole; art of hvsban dry contained in 



fovre bookfs. \iz...IIII. Of poulliie. fowlc, fish. ..and the ail 

 ot an<4lin^...ii('\v iLntwcd, coneclcti. enlarged and adorned 

 witli all the expei iiucnls and practises of our Engiisli nalion. 

 which were wanting in liie loi mer editions. By Captaine 

 Ciai\'ase .Markhain. London, R. More, 1631. 4''.; nftcrwards 

 as : 



The perfecl husbandman, or the art ot hus- 



bandry. In four books : 1. Ot the larni or mansion iionse 



II. Of gardens, orchards and woods. III. Ol breeding. ..all 

 manner of caltel. IV^ Of poultry, fowle, fish and bees with 

 the whole art (according to these last limes) of breeding and 

 dyeting the lighting cock, and the art of angling. By C. H., 

 B. C, and C. -M. ingenious artists. London, Thomas Basset, 

 in St. Dunstan's Churcli-vard in Flcet-sli eet, l6;H. pp. vi. 



3«5. 4^. 



[ In the editions editeil bv Mari<liain, seven or eit;lit pa,!.;es on 

 angling; are adtied to the brief treatise on lisii-ponds of tiie original 

 work. Pistiiiiuiiis disappe.as, but in tlie other parts of the book 

 the interlocutors remain as in former editions. Sir Harris Nicolas, 

 in his biography of Walton, savs, •' 'I'here is so much resemblance 

 between many pa.ssages of Walton's work and Heresbachius' Hus- 

 baiuliy, by (iooge, which was first printed in 1577, as to render it 

 probable he was indebted to that work tor some of ids ideas." This 

 may have been the case; but the "Compleat Angler" is more 

 closely allied, in the mechanism, at least, to the '• De venatione, 

 aucupio et pi.scatione." 'I'his work was the iVuits of its authors 

 leisure, and was written at his country house during his occasional 

 retiiement honi the e.Nigencies of his life at court. It consists of a 

 dialogue, in wiiich the interlocutors bearuanies significative of their 

 difl'erent vocations. Fhilotlurus opens the conversation with an 

 culogium of the sport of hunting. Ln^iis follows and discants on 

 the pastime of hiuitiiig the hare, the lo.x, the badger and the ("eer. 

 Eldj'lunroui i)asses in review the chase of the stag, the wild boar. 

 etc. Ha/itus takes the greatest share in the col.oquy, and treats ol 

 the different modes of fishing, and the various kii-ds of fish. The 

 close parallel between the outer form of the above and W alton's 

 Angler must be evident enough. 



Barnaby Googes translation of the " Foure bookes of husbandry" 

 is very quaint, poetical and chaiming. Guoge was a poet by voca- 

 tion, and the author of " Eclogs, Epitaphes, and Soni.ettes, newl\ 

 written,' 1563, of which only thrte copies are known to exist. He 

 also produced other works, original and translated, among the latter 

 a translation of the "Kegnum 1'apisticL.m " of Naogeorgus, recently 

 reprinted at the Chiswick Press, by Mr. R. C'. Hope, (with memoir 

 of Googe), from the onlv perfect copy which is known. Sonic 

 curious letters concerning his marriage Avith Marv DaieU, of Scol- 



