104 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



You whose Pastes fox Rivers throat, 

 And make I sis pay her Groat, 

 That from May to parcht October, 

 Scarce a Minew can sleepe sober. 

 Be your Fish in Oven thrust, 

 And your owne Red-Paste the crust. 

 Breake thy Rod, &c. 



Hookes and Lines of larger sizes. 

 Such as the Tyrant that troules devises, 

 Fishes nere, beleive his Fable, 

 What he calls a Line is a Cable. 

 That's a Knave of endlesse Rancor, 

 Who for a Hooke doth cast in an Anchor. 

 Breake thy Rod, &c. 



But of all men he is the Cheater, 

 Who with small fish takes up the Greater, 

 He makes Carpes without all dudgen 

 Make a Jonas of a Gudgen. 

 Cruell man that slayes on Gravell 

 Fish that Great with Fish doth Travell. 

 Breake thy Rod, &c. 



Though not published until 1694, the Northern 

 Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. . . . 

 To which is added, The Contemplative and Practical 

 Angler by way of Diversion, is declared on the title- 

 page to have been "Writ in the Year 1658, but not 

 till now made publick, By Richard Franck, Philan- 

 thropus. Plures necat Gula quam Gladius." 



Franck, who was born at Cambridge about the 

 year 1624, was a Cromwellian trooper and an 

 Independent. He may certainly claim to have 

 exemplified in his book, the truth of the motto, 

 which he selected for his title-page : for he 



