THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 321 



the first of the foregoing passages is given, as one of the authorities for the 

 use of the expression. The verb to abuse, put for deception, will be found 

 in Wotton's verses on page 229. "Abused mortals, did you know." In 

 the original edition of this work, in which there are two speakers only in 

 the first chapter, the dialogue immediately passes to Piscator's illustrations 

 of the antiquity of angling. 



Page 47. Varro his Aviary. 



In Book IV. section 7, and page 388, of Dr. Hakewill's Apology, No. 

 21 in the preceding list, are several particulars of Varro's passion for birds, 

 and his extensive aviaries, quoted from himself, Lucius Accius, and Colu- 

 mella, with particular references to each. Marcus Terentius Varro was 

 a very learned Roman, who was Lieutenant 10 Pompey in his piratical wars, 

 and who obtained a naval crown. Cicero greatly commends his erudi- 

 tion, and to him he dedicated his five books "De Lingua Latina," in his 

 eightieth year. Beside these he wrote nearly five hundred volumes, which 

 are now all lost, excepting a Treatise De Re Rustica, in Book III. of which 

 some notices of his aviary may be found. 



Page 47. This for the Birds of Pleasure. 



To these may with propriety be added the practice of the Persian Kings 

 mentioned by Robert Burton in his " Anatomy of Melancholy, " Lond. 1676, 

 fol. part 2, sect. 2, memb. 4, page 169, col. I, which he quotes from Sir 

 Anthony Shirley's Travels. "The Persian Kings," says he, "hawk after 

 butterflies with sparrows made to that use, and Starrs (starlings) : lesser 

 hawks for lesser games they have and bigger for the test, that they may 

 produce their sport to all seasons. The Muscovian Emperours reclaim 

 eagles to let fly at hindes, foxes, etc., and such a one was sent for a pres- 

 ent to Queen Elizabeth : some reclaim ravens, castrils (young kites or 

 bastard-hawks), pies, etc., and man them for pleasure." In the very en- 

 tertaining Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Lond. 1778, 4to, p. 

 134, it is related that M. De Luynes, subsequently Prime Minister of 

 France in the early years of Louis XIII., "gained much upon the King 

 by making hawks fly at all little birds in his gardens, and by making some 

 of those little birds again catch butterflies." Hawkins. 



Page 47. Mr. G. Sandys in his Travels. 



George Sandys, or Sandies, was the seventh or youngest son of Dr. Ed- 

 win Sandys, Archbishop of York from 1576 to 1588, and was born in the 

 Archiepiscopal palace at Bishopsthorpe in 1577. In 1588 he was entered 

 of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford ; and in August, 1610, he departed on his 

 travels through Europe and Asia, which occupied two years, and of which 

 he published an account in folio, with many plates, in 1615, and repeat- 

 edly reprinted. Sandys was not only pious, learned, and accomplished, 

 but he was also one of the best versifiers of his time j and in poetry he 



