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otlKT Creature ; he spares nothing that he liath power to destroy, if he 

 (cars any hurt, or hopes for any gain, or finds anv pleasure ; or can' make 

 any sport, or to employ his idle time. He Hunts, he Fowls, he Fishes 

 for sport, witii Guns, Nets and Hooks : he cruellv causeth one creature 

 to destroy another, elc.'^ 



Gower ( John). 



Confessio Amantis. ( 1483). 



Liber tcrtius. "And as the fisher on his bait 



Sleeth, when he seeth the (ishes faste, 

 So when he .^eeth time ate last, 

 That he may worche an other wo. 

 Shall no man tonien him ther fro. 

 That hate will his felonie 

 Fulfill and feigne compaignie." 



Liber oetavus. " There came a fisher in the wev, 



And sigh a man there naked stonde." 



Chaucer ( Geoffrey). 



T/ie Canterburv Tales. 



(circa 1475). 



"At Tromjiington, not fer fro Cantehrigge, 

 Ther goth a brook, and over that a brigge, 

 Upon the whiclie brook ther stout a melle ; 

 And this is veray sothe. that I you telle, 

 A miller was ther dwelling manv a day, 

 As any peacok he was proude and gay ; 

 Pipen he coude, and fishe. and nette.s bete, 

 And turnen cuppes, and wrastlen wel, and skate." 



" Tlie Complayiite of Mars and Fi-ttus."' 



" Hit semeth he hath to lovers enemyti, 

 And lyke a fissher, as men al may se, 

 Bateth hys angie-hoke with summe pleasaunce 

 Till mony a fissch ys wode so that lie be 

 Sesed therwith ; and then at erst hath he 

 Al his desire, and therwith all myschaunce, 

 And thogh the lyne bieke he hath penaunce; 

 For with the hoke he wounded is so sore. 

 That he his wages hathe for evermore." 



Spencer (Ediiiuiui). 



77/ 1' Ruins of Time. ( 1 59 1). 



" There also, where the winged ships were scene 

 In liquid waves to cut their fjmie waie, 

 And thousand fishers numbred to have been, 

 In that wide lake looking for plenteous praie 

 Of fish, which they with baits usde to betraie, 

 Is now no lake, nor anie fishers store, 

 Xoi- ever vjiip shall saile there anic m')re." 



