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improved his author. The passage referred to in Markham will be found 

 in his " Pleasures of Princes, or Good Men's Recreations ; containing a 

 Discourse of the generall Art of Fishing with an Angle or otherwise. " 

 Lond. 1614, 4to, Chap. I. "Of Angling the vertue, vse, and antiquitie,* 

 p. 3. Sir John Hawkins supposed that when Piscator is denning the men- 

 tal character of a fisherman, Walton had in his mind that singular chapter 

 in Markham's Country Contentments, on the subject of the "Angler's Ap- 

 parel and Inward Qualities " j but it is more probable that he alluded to 

 those stanzas contained in the third book of The Secrets of Angling, 

 which are entitled " The Qualities of an Angler." 



Page 57. In the Prophet Amos mention is made of fish-hooks. 



Chap. iv. 2. Canne, in his marginal references to this chapter, refers to 

 Jeremiah xvi. 16 : " Behold I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, 

 and they shall fish them." The passage of Job which the text refers to 

 will be found in chap. xli. I, 2, and the yth verse is also distantly allusive 

 to the formation of hooks. Again, in Isaiah the word occurs in chap. 

 xxxvii. 29. "I will put my hook in thy nose." And also in chap. xix. 8, 

 which Bishop Lowth translated 



*' And the fishers shall mourn, and lament ; 

 All those that cast the hook on the river, 

 And those that spread nets on the face of the waters shall languish." 



Isaiah, a New Translation, etc. by Robert 

 Lowth, D.D., Land. 1795, 8vo, p. 56. 



The common translation of King James reads, " all they that cast angle 

 into the brooks shall lament." In Ezekiel xxix. 4, hooks are mentioned 

 in connection with fishing, as the medium of catching the King of Egypt, 

 who is represented under the figure of the crocodile, lying in the midst of 

 his rivers ; and the word occurs again in Ezek. xxxviii. 4. The Prophet 

 Habakkuk, in chap. i. 14-17, has an inference to hooks, but the word is 

 commonly translated Angle. Hawkins. 



Page 57. In ancient times a debate hath arisen, etc. 



This was a favorite subject with the old theological writers of Italy ; 

 and the chief of their arguments, with many references, are considered in 

 " A collection of several Tracts of the Right Honorable Edward, Earl of 

 Clarendon, Lond. 1727, fol. pp. 167-205. This tract was most probably 

 written at Montpellier in March, 1670. Hawkins. Walton, however, 

 might probably allude to a rare piece by Evelyn, which he wrote in answer 

 to Sir George Mackenzie, entitled "Public Employment, and an Active 

 Life preferred to Solitude." Lond. 1667. I2mo. 



Page 58. The learned Peter Du Moulin. 



This very eminent writer in the Romish controversy was the eldest son 



