COMPLETE ANGLER. 



PART FIRST. 

 CHAPTER I. 



CONFERENCE BETWIXT AN ANGLER, A HUNTER, AND A FALCONER ', 

 EACH COMMENDING HIS RECREATION. 



PISCATOR, VENATOR, AUCEPS. 



Piscator. You are well overtaken, gentlemen! A good 

 morning to you both ! I have stretched my legs up Tottenham 

 Hill to overtake you, hoping your business may occasion you 

 towards Ware, whither I am going this fine fresh May morning. 



Venator. Sir, I for my part shall almost answer your hopes ; 

 for my purpose is to drink my morning's draught at the Thatched 

 House in Hodsden, and I think not to rest till I come thither, 

 where I have appointed a friend or two to meet me ; but for 

 this gentleman that you see with me, I know not how far he 

 intends his journey : he came so lately into my company that I 

 have scarce had time to ask him the question. 



Auceps. Sir, I shall by your favour bear you company as far 

 as Theobald's, * and there leave you ; for then I turn up to a 

 friend's house, who mews f a hawk for me, which I now long 

 to see. 



Venator. Sir, w r e are all so happy as to have a fine, fresh, 

 cool morning ; and I hope we shall each be the happier in the 



* Theobald's, in the county of Hertford, a house built by Lord Burleigh, 

 and much improved by his son, Kob.-rt, Earl of Salisbury, who exchanged 

 it with King James the First for HalfieldCAMDEN's Brit. Hertfordshire. 



f Mew signifies to moult, and hence we understand, tliat the friend of 

 Auceps kept his hawk while it moulted. J. R. 



