The Compleat ^Angler 



Who dost so strangely and so sweetly move, 



Whilst all things have their end, yet none but thine. 



Wherefore, most sacred Spirit, I here present, 

 For me, and all my fellows, praise to thee ; 



And just it is that I should pay the rent, 

 Because the benefit accrues to me. 



And as concerning fish, in that psalm (Psalm 104) wherein, 

 for height of poetry and wonders, the prophet David seems 

 even to exceed himself ; how doth he there express himself in 

 choice metaphors, even to the amazement of a contemplative reader, 

 concerning the sea, the rivers, and the fish therein contained ! And 

 the great naturalist, Pliny, says, " that nature's great and wonderful 

 power is more demonstrated in the sea than on the land." And this 

 may appear by the numerous and various creatures inhabiting both 

 in and about that element ; as to the readers of Gesner, Rondeletius, 



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