AUTHORS ON SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 579 



CONTENTS. 

 THE FIRST BOOKE CONTAINETH THESE THREE HEADS. 



(1) The Antiquitie of Angling, with the Art of Fishing, and of 



Fish in Generall. 



(2) The Lawfulnesse, Pleasure, and Profit Thereof, with all 



Objections Answered, Against it. 



(3) To Know the Season, and Times to Provide the Tooles, and 



How to Choose the Best, and the Manner How to Make 

 Them Fit to Take Each Severall Fish. 



THE SECOND BOOKE CONTAINETH 



(1) The Angler's Experience, How to Use His Tooles and Baytes, 



to Make Profit by His Game. 



(2) What Fish is not Taken with Angle and What Is, and Which 



is Best for Health. 



(3) In What Waters and Rivers to Finde Each Fish. 



THE THIRD BOOKE CONTAINETH 



(1) The Twelve Virtues and Qualities Which Ought to be in 



Every Angler. 



(2) What Weather, Seasons, and Times of Yeere is Best and 



Worst, and What Houres of the Day is Best for Sport 



(3) To Know Each Fishes Haunt, and the Times to Take Them. 



Also an Obscure Secret of an Approved Bait Tending 

 Thereunto. D. 



It is no easy task to select passages for quotation from a 

 work of equal merit throughout, but the following will give 

 a fair idea of it to those who have never perused the whole. 

 After comparing the joys of angling with the distractions 

 and excitements of town life and its pleasures, he " counts 

 it better pleasure to behold " 



" The hills and Mountaines raised from the Plaines, 

 The plaines extended leuell with the ground, 

 The ground deuided into sundry vaines, 

 The vaines inclos'd with running riuers rounde, 



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