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be a rule for me to make as little noise as I can when I am fishing, 

 until Sir Francis Bacon be confuted, which I shall give any man 

 leave to do. 



And, lest you may think him singular in this opinion, I will tell 

 you, this seems to be believed by our learned Doctor Hakewill, 

 who in his ' Apology of God's Power and Providence,' fol. 360, 

 quotes Pliny to report, that one of the Emperors had particular 

 fish-ponds, and in them several fish, that appeared and came 

 when they were called by their particular names : and St. James 

 tells us, Chap. iii. and 7, that all things in the sea have been 

 tamed by mankind. And Pliny tells us, Lib. ix, 55, that Antonia, 

 the wife of Drusus, had a Lamprey, at whose gills she hung 

 jewels or ear-rings : and that others have been so tender-hearted, 

 as to shed tears at the death of fishes, which they have kept and 

 loved. And these observations, which will to most hearers seem 

 wonderful, seem to have a further confirmation from * Martial,' 

 Lib. iv, Epigr. 30, who writes thus: 



Piscator fuge ne nocens, &c. 



Angler, would'st thou be guiltless? then forbear, 

 For these are sacred fishes that swim here ; 

 Who know their sovereign, and will lick his hand: 

 Than which none's greater in the world's command: 

 Nay, more, th' have names, and when they called are, 

 Do to their several owners' call repair. 



All the further use that I shall make of this, shall be, to advise 

 Anglers to be patient, and forbear swearing, lest they be heard, 

 and catch no fish. 



And so I shall proceed next to tell you, it is certain, that 

 certain fields near Lemster, a Town in Herefordshire, are 

 observed to make the sheep that graze upon them more fat 

 than the next, and also to bear finer wool ; that is to say, that, 

 that year in which they feed in such a particular pasture, they 

 shall yield finer wool than they did that year before they came 

 to feed in it, and coarser again if they shall return to their 

 former pasture ; and again return to a finer wool, being fed in 

 the fine-wool ground. Which I tell you, that you may the 

 better believe that I am certain, if I catch a Trout in one 

 meadow he shall be white and faint, and very like to be lousy ; 

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