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spend, besides his fixed hours of prayer (those hours whichj 

 by command of the Church, were enjoined the clergy, and 

 voluntarily dedicated to devotion by many primitive 

 Christians) ; I say, besides those hours, this good man was 

 observed to spend a tenth part of his time in angling ; and 

 also, for I have conversed with those which have conversed 

 with him, to bestow a tenth part of his revenue, and usually 

 all his fish, amongst the poor that inhabited near to those 

 rivers in which it was caught ; saying often, " that chanty 

 gave life to religion ;" and at his return to his house, would 

 praise God he had spent that day free from worldly troubl^ 

 both harmlessly and in a recreation that became a church- 

 man. And this good man was well content, if not desirous, 

 that posterity should know he was an angler ; as may 

 appear by his picture, now to be seen, and carefully kept, 

 in Brazenosc College ; to which he was a liberal bene- 

 factor. In which picture he was drawn, leaning on a desk, 

 with his Bible before hirn, and on one hand of him his lines, 

 hooks, and other tackling lying in a round ; and on his 

 other hand arc his angle-rods of several sorts ; and by them 

 this is written, "That he died 13 Feb., 1601, being aged 

 95 years, 44 of which he had been Dean of St. Paul's 

 Church ; and that his age had neither impaired his hearing, 

 nor dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his memory, nor made 

 any of the faculties of his mind weak or useless." 'T is said, 

 that angling and temperance were great causes of these 

 blessings, and I wish the like to all that imitate him, and 

 love the memory of so good a man. 



My next and last example shall be that under- valuer of 

 money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton 

 a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a 



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