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Ham Herbert. It does not extend further 

 than the inftructions relating to the bait 

 for trout ; and the differences between it 

 and the printed copies, which are very few 

 and unimportant, are minutely given by 

 that accurate and indefatigable reviewer 

 of old Englifh literature, in his reprint of 

 the Boke of St. Albans. 



It is not, however, merely as a literary 

 curiofity that this Treatyfe is of intereft, 

 for, independently of the information 

 which it contains of the ftate of Angling 

 at the period in which it was written, there 

 are fome grounds for prefuming that it 

 fuggefted to Walton the idea of his popu- 

 lar " Complete Angler," for the moft fu- 

 perficial reader cannot fail to be ftruck with 

 the general refemblance between them. 

 The. Treatyfe of Fyffhynge wyth an Angle 

 commences with fome obfervations which 



