AN ANGLER, A HUNTER, AND A FALCONER 



old and new Rome, so many as it is said will take up a year's 

 time to view, and afford to each of them but a convenient con- 

 sideration; and therefore it is not to be wondered at, that so 

 learned and devout a father as St. Jerome, after his wish to 

 have seen Christ in the flesh, and to have heard St. Paul preach, 

 makes his third wish, to have seen Rome in her glory ; and that 

 glory is not yet all lost, for what pleasure is it to see the 

 monuments of Livy, the choicest of the Historians : of Tully, 

 the best of Orators ; and to see the bay-trees that now grow out 

 of the very tomb of Virgil ? These, to any that love learning, 

 must be pleasing. But what pleasure is it to a devout Christian 

 to see there the humble house in which St. Paul was content 

 to dwell; and to view the many rich statues that are there 

 made in honour of his memory ? Nay, to see the very place in 

 which St. Peter and he lie buried together ? These are in and 

 near to Rome. And how much more doth it please the pious 

 curiosity of a Christian, to see that place on which the blessed 

 Saviour of the world was pleased to humble himself, and to take 

 our nature upon him, and to converse with men : to see Mount 

 Sion, Jerusalem, and the very Sepulchre of our Lord Jesus? 

 How may it beget and heighten the zeal of a Christian, to see 

 the devotions that are daily paid to him at that place ? Gentle- 

 men, lest I forget myself I will stop here, and remember you, 

 that but for my element of water, the inhabitants of this poor 

 Island must remain ignorant that such things ever were, or that 

 any of them have yet a being. 



Gentlemen, I might both enlarge and lose myself in such 

 like arguments ; I might tell you that Almighty God is said to 

 have spoken to a Fish, but never to a Beast ; that he hath made 

 a Whale a Ship to carry and set his Prophet Jonah safe on the 

 appointed shore. Of these I might speak, but I must in manners 

 break off, for I see Theobald's house. I cry you mercy for being 

 so long, and thank you for your patience. 



Auc. Sir, my pardon is easily granted you : I except against 

 nothing that you have said ; nevertheless, I must part with you 

 at this park-wall, for which I am very sorry; but I assure you 

 Mr. Piscator, I now part with you full of good thoughts, not 

 only of yourself, but your recreation. And so Gentlemen, God 

 keep you both. 



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