88 TROLLING IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



marriage was to take place as soon as a house was 

 ready for them. 



I have now finished the account of my trolling 

 excursion into Staffordshire, which I will wind up 

 with a quotation from that extraordinary angler and 

 hunter, Dame Juliana Berners, in her Treatise of 

 Fysshynge wyth an Angle, called the Boke of St. 

 Albans. 



' The Angler atte the leest hath his holsom 

 ' walke, and merry at his ease. A sweete ay re of 

 ' the sweete savoure of the raeede floures, that 



* makyth hym hungry. He hereth the melody ous 

 ' harmony of fowles. He seeth the yonge swannes 



* herons, duckes, cootes, and many other fowles 

 ' wyth theyr broodes, whyche me semyth better 

 ' than alle the noyse of houndys. And yf the 

 ' Angler take fysshe, surely thenne is there noo 

 man merier than he is in his spyryte. 1 



