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condensation of the Pleasures of Princes. It com- 

 mences as follows : 



I will not enter here into any large Enconiums, 

 touching the praise of this art of Angling. It shall 

 suffice me that all men know it, that few good men 

 but love it, and a world of pore men live by it ; 

 neither will I stand upon the use and vertue thereof, 

 because it is eyther for profit or recreation, nor upon 

 the Aritiquitie, because no man living knew the 

 beginning ; nor upon anything that is linked unto it 

 by the Curious. 



It is clear that in preparing this book Markham 

 was pressed either for time or space for the twelve 

 essential virtues of the angler given by Dennys, 

 which were not sufficient for him in the Pleasures of 

 Princes, he here curtails as follows 



Touching the man, howsoever some would fixe upon 

 him twelve vertues, some twenty, & some more, some 

 lesse, yet I must contract them and say, if he be 

 Tullies honest man, he is then the Anglers sufficient 

 man : there is required in him much patience and 

 constancy, the one will take from him Anguish, the 

 other error : he must love the sport earnestly, for No 

 Love, no Lucke; he must have humble Thoughts 

 and humble Gestures, for he must not disdaine to 

 kneele, to lye groveling, to stand barehead, nay to 

 doe any humble action to attaine his purpose : he 

 must be of strong constitution, for he is like to 

 undergoe the worst terrors of Tempests. 



Dennys tells the angler to buy his hooks, but in 

 this work Markham is the first writer to recommend 

 the fisherman to buy also his rods in preference to 



