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CHAPTEfl I. 

 ANGLING, PRO AND CON. 



" WHEN fair Aurora rising early shewes 

 Her blushing face beyond the eastern hils, 

 And dyes the heavenly vault with purple rewes, 

 That far abroad the world with brightnesse tils ; 

 The meadows green are hoare with silver dewes, 

 That on the earth the sable night distils, 



And chanting birds with merry notes bewray 

 The near approaching of the chearfull day. 



Then let him go to river, brook, or lake, 



That loves the sport, where store of fish abound, 

 And through the pleasant fields his journey make, 



Amidst sweet pastures, meadows fresh and sound, 

 Where he may best his choice of pastime take, 

 While swift Hyperion runs his circle round; 

 And, as the place shall to his liking prove, 

 There still remain, or further else remove. 



The Secrets of Anyling, by John Dannys, Esq. 1613. 



THE true secret of the Angler's purest and most 

 lasting pleasure whose remembrance is sweet, and 

 anticipation exhilarating, is discovered in the 

 stanzas which we have prefixed as a befitting intro- 

 duction to the present chapter. The practice of 

 Angling is closely and necessarily associated with 

 objects, the contemplation, nay, the very beholding, 

 of which fails not to impart a pleasure to every man 



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