CHAPTER III 



IN all catalogues of old works on angling the follow- 

 ing book is included, though except for its misleading 

 title, it contains nothing to warrant its inclusion. 



A BOOKE OF ANGLING OR FISHING 



WHEREIN IS SHEWED BY CONFERENCE WITH SCRIPTURES, THE 



AGREEMENT BETWEENE THE FISHERMAN, FISHES, FISHING OF 



BOTH NATURES TEMPORALL AND SPIRITUALL 



By SAMUEL GARDINER 



Doctor of Divinitie, London 



PRINTED by THOMAS PURFOOT 

 1606 



The contents of the book are thus summed up by 

 the author : " The summe of the following Treatise 

 is abridged in these two verses : 



" Ecclesiam pro nave rego mihi climata mundi 

 Sunt mare : scriptura retia : piscis homo. 



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