PREFACE. 



Ur*. The pleasant'st angling is to se 



Cut with her golden oars the stiver streams 

 And greedily devour the treacherous bait ; 

 So angle we for Beatrice. 



IBID. 



Maria* Here comfcs the Trout that must be caught 

 By tickling. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, 



1 could produce many more examples, to make 

 my observations good respecting our matchless 

 Poet, but these I think are quite sufficient. The 

 Art of Angling opens a wide field for the Na- 

 turalist, including so great a part of Natural 

 Philosophy ; so that we not only reap amuse- 

 ment, but instruction from it And the more &6 

 contemplate the works oj Nature, the more zse shall 

 admire the wisdom of God; and the more zee 

 reverence his wisdom, the greater will be the 

 pleasure zee shall derive from the contemplation Qf 

 natural objects ! 



T. B, 



