CPIAP. I THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 17 



But I must not yet forsake the waters, by whose help 

 we have so many known advantages. 



And first to pass by the miraculous cures of our known 

 baths, how advantageous is the sea for our daily traffic, 

 without which we could not now subsist! How does it 

 not only furnish us with food and physic for the bodies, 

 but with such observations for the mind as ingenious 

 persons would not want ! 



How ignorant had we been of the beauty of Florence, 

 of the monuments, urns, and rarities that yet remain in 

 and near unto old and new Rome, so many as it is said will 

 take up a year's time to view, and afford to each of them 

 but a convenient consideration ! And therefore it is not 

 to be wondered at, that so learned and devout a father 

 as St. Jerome, after his wish to have seen Christ in the 

 flesh, and to have heard St. Paul preach, makes his third 

 wish, to have seen Rome in her glory ; and that glory is not 

 yet all lost, for what pleasure is it to see the monuments 

 of Livy, the choicest of the historians ; of Tully, the best of 

 orators ; and to see the bay-trees that now grow out of the 

 very tomb of Virgil ! These, to any that Ipve learning, 

 must be pleasing. But what pleasure is it to a devout 

 Christian, to see there the humble house in which St. Paul 

 was content to dwell, and to view the many rich statues 

 that are made in honour of his memory ! nay, to see the 

 very place in which St. Peter ' and he lie buried together ! 



(1) The Protestants deny, not only that Si. Peter lies buried in the Vatican, 

 as the Romish writers assert, but that he ever wa at Rome. See the Hmturiu 

 Apostolica of Lud. Capellus. The sense of the Protestants on this point is 

 expressed in the following epigiam, alluding to the praenomen of Peter. 

 "Simon," and to the simony pucusrd in that city : 



An I'etrus fueritt Roma, sub judice lis est, 

 Simonem Roma nemo fuisse negat. 



Many that " /\er neVr saw Romt" declare. 

 But all roust own that Simon hath been there. 



Of which that may be observed which I have heard said of libels, " the more 

 true the more provoking ;" and tUis the author. John Owen, the famous epigram- 



