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the Angle, and otherwise ; and of all the hidden 

 secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the 

 choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fight- 

 ing cocke. A worke never before printed by any 

 author." 



The angling portion of this book was also printed 

 separately in 1614, and again later under the titles of 

 The Pleasures of Princes ', Goodmeris Recreations, etc. 



This angling portion is practically a prose version 

 of The Secrets of Angling^ by John Dennys, with slight 

 adornments and enlargements, taken from the Book of 

 St Albans, and MascalPs A Book of Fishing with Hook 

 and Line ; but no acknowledgment is here made of 

 the sources of the work. Subsequently, however, 

 when inserting into the fourth (1631) and following 

 editions of his Country Contentments the same treatise 

 on angling, Markham acknowledged the source of his 

 information in the following fashion : 



The whole Art of Angling : as it was written in 

 a small Treatise in Rime, and now for the better 

 understanding of the Reader, put into Prose, and 

 adorned and inlarged. 



The following extracts from the Pleasures of Princes 

 comprise almost all the angling information which 

 is not taken either from Dennys, Mascall, or the 

 Book of St Albans : 



THE ANGLE ROD OF MANY PIECES. 



There be other Anglers, and many of the best and 

 approvedst judgments ; which allow the Angle rod of 



