The Compleat ^Angler 



several prospects of my house also, which I keep for a memorial of 

 his favour, and will show you when we come up to dinner. 



VIAT. Has young master Izaak Walton been here, too ? 



Pise. Yes, marry has he, sir, and that again and again, too, and in 

 France since, and at Rome, and at Venice, and I can't tell where : 

 but I intend to ask him a great many hard questions so soon as I can 

 see him, which will be, God willing, next month. In the meantime, 

 sir, to come to this fine stream at the head of this great pool, 

 you must venture over these slippery, cobbling stones ; believe me, 

 sir, there you were nimble, or else you had been down ; but now 

 you are got over, look to yourself; for, on my word, if a fish 



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