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of him his lines, hooks, and other tackling lying in a round ; and on 

 his other hand are his angle-rods of several sorts : and by them this 

 is written, "That he died 13 Feb. 1601, being aged 95 years, 44 of 

 which he had been Dean of St. Paul's Church ; and that his age had 

 neither impaired his hearing, nor dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his 

 memory, nor made any of the faculties of his mind weak or useless." 

 'Tis said that angling and temperance were great causes of these 

 blessings, and I wish the like to all that imitate him, and love the 

 memory of so good a man. 



My next and last example shall be that under-valuer of money, 

 the late provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton (a man with 

 whom I have often fished and conversed), a man whose foreign em- 

 ployments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, 

 learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one 

 of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very approbation 

 of angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it, this 



