OF 



FISHING 



The IntroduBion. 





l^-^j N G L I N G is an excellent Ait, 

 which as it pleads great Anti- 

 quity, fb the knov; ledge thereof 



is with much difficulty to be ob- 

 tained: and indeed it bears fonie 

 fimilitude to Poetry in this, that 

 as it is faid, Focta. nafcitur^ non 

 fit^ fo ought the Pifcator or Fifli- 

 :r-man to have a natural inclination unto the Art of 

 \ngling, or his knowledge therein will be always 

 iull and imperfeclj not but that it may be much 

 leightncd by pradtice and experience. 



Now he that intends to be his Crafts-mafter in this 

 larmlefs Paftime or Recreation, rauft not onely dili- 

 gently fenrch and enquire into the niyfteries and depths 

 5f this Art, but muft alfo be furni/lied, as atorclaid, 

 A'ith anatur^al propenllty thereunto, attended with 

 hlope and Patience : And having gotten by obferva- 

 ■ionand paclice a competent knowledge, or having 



G .. conquer- 



