CHAP. I ] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 6l 



You may there see the Hog-fish, the Dog-fish, the Dolphin, 

 the Coney-fish, the Parrot-fish, the Shark, the Poison-fish. 

 Sword-fish, and not only other incredible fish, but you may 

 there see the Salamander, several sorts of Barnacles, of Solan 

 geese, the Bird of Paradise, such sorts of Snakes, and such 

 birds' -nests, and of so various forms, and so wonderfully made, 

 as may beget wonder and amusement in any beholder : and so 

 many hundred of other rarities in that collection, as will make 

 the other wonders I spake of the less incredible ; for you may 

 note, that the waters are Nature's storehouse, in which she locks 

 up her wonders. 



But, Sir, lest this discourse may seem tedious, I shall give it 

 a sweet conclusion out of that holy poet, Mr. George Herbert, 

 his divine " Contemplation on God's Providence." 



" Lord ! who hath praise enough ? Nay, who hath any? 

 None can express thy works but he that knows them ; 

 And none can know thy works they are so many 

 And so complete, but only he that owes them ! 



" We all acknowledge both thy power and love 

 To be exact, transcendent, and divine ; 

 Who dost so strongly and so sweetly move, 

 Whilst all things have their end, yet none but thine. 



" Wherefore, most sacred Spirit, I here present 

 For me, and all my fellows, praise to thee ; 

 And just it is that I should pay the rent, 

 Because the benefit accrues to me." 



And as concerning fish in that Psalm, Psal. 104, wherein for 

 height of poetry and wonders the prophet David seems even to 

 exceed himself, how doth he there express himself in choice 

 metaphors, even to the amazement of a contemplative reader, 

 concerning the sea, the rivers, and the fish therein contained ! 

 And the great naturalist, Pliny, says, "That Nature's great 

 and wonderful power is more demonstrated in the sea than on 

 the land. ' ' And this may appear by the numerous and various 



