The Compleat ^Angler 



a brush or pencil ; this do for the ground of any colour to lie upon 

 wood. 



For a green. 



Take pink and verdigrease, and grind them together in linseed 

 oil, as thin as you can well grind it ; then lay it smoothly on with 

 your brush, and drive it thin ; once doing for the most part will 

 serve, if you lay it well ; and if twice, be sure your first colour be 

 thoroughly dry before you lay on a second. 



Well, scholar, having now taught you to paint your rod, and we 

 having still a mile to Tottenham High Cross, I will, as we walk 

 towards it in the cool shade of this sweet honeysuckle hedge, mention 

 to you some of the thoughts and joys that have possest my soul since 

 we two met together. And these thoughts shall be told you, that 

 you also may join with me in thankfulness to the Giver of every 

 good and perfect gift, for our happiness. And that our present 

 happiness may appear to be the greater, and we the more thankful 

 for it, I will beg you to consider with me how many do, even at this 

 very time, lie under the torment of the stone, the gout, and tooth- 

 ache ; and this we are free from. And every misery that I miss is a 

 new mercy, and therefore let us be thankful. There have been, 

 since we met, others that have met disasters of broken limbs ; some 

 have been blasted, others thunder-strucken ; and we have been freed 

 from these, and all those many other miseries that threaten human 

 nature ; let us therefore rejoice, and be thankful. Nay, which is a 

 far greater mercy, we are free from the unsupportable burthen of an 

 accusing tormenting conscience, a misery that none can bear ; and 

 therefore let us praise him for his preventing grace, and say, every 

 misery that I miss is a new mercy : nay, let me tell you, there be 

 many that have forty times our estates, that would give the greatest 

 part of it to be healthful and cheerful like us ; who, with the expense 

 of a little money, have eat and drank, and laught, and angled, and 

 sung, and slept securely ; and rose next day, and cast away care, and 

 sung, and laught, and angled again ; which are blessings rich men 

 cannot purchase with all their money. Let me tell you, scholar, I 

 have a rich neighbour that is always so busy that he has no leisure to 

 laugh ; the whole business of his life is to get money, and more 



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