The Complete Angler. 

 three brace of Trout s, I will tel you 

 a fliort Tale as we walk towards our 

 Breakfaft. A Scholer (a Preach- 

 er Ifhould fay) that was to preach 

 to procure the approbation of a Pa- 

 rim, that he might be their Lectu- 

 rer, had got from a fellow Pupil of 

 his the Copy of a Sermon that was 

 firft preached with a great commen- 

 dation by him that compofed and 

 prechtit; and though the borrower 

 of it preach't it word for word,as it 

 wasatfirft,yetitwas utterly diflik'd 

 as it was preach'd by the fecond ; 

 which the Sermon Borrower com- 

 plained of to the Lender of it , and 

 was thus anfwered; I lent you indeed 

 my Fiddte, but not my Fiddlejlick ; 

 and you are to know,that every one 

 cannot make muiickwith my words 

 which are fitted for my own mouth. 

 And fo my Scholer , you are to 

 know, that as the ill pronunciation 

 or ill accenting of a word ;n a Ser- 

 mon ipoiles it, fo the ill carriage ot 



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