l^he Incompleat <Angler. 



on whom I can practise such arts as 

 you yourself have taught me. 



^3i.ScatOl% Once more farewell, 

 Scholar, Be virtuous, and angle. 

 Note this, that there be as hne fish in 

 the rivers as have ever yet been drawn 

 therefrom. But now we are near 

 Shepherd' s Biish^ and I see a Shepherd 

 coming, in company with pretty 

 Maudli?! and her Grandinother^ to 

 whom I will leave you to make my 

 excuses, and explain that the lamb- 

 kin was honestly come by. Ay, 

 you cannot move so easily as I, 

 farewell.^ 



ittatlUIin. Here, at last, I have 

 one of these honest, merry, civil 



■^ Here it is evidently implied that^ to use the quaint 

 old Saxon phrase, " The Angler hooketh it^' and so^ like 

 Marlbrook, '^ il ne reviendra pas." 



anglers, 



