THE, COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



These are in and near to Rome. And how much more 

 doth it please the pious curiosity of a Christian, to see 

 that place, on which the blessed Saviour of the world was 

 pleased to humble himself, and to take our nature upon 

 him, and to converse with men : to see Mount Sion, Jeru- 

 salem, and the very sepulchre of our Lord Jesus ! How may 

 it beget and heighten the zeal of a Christian, to see the 

 devotions that are daily paid to him at that place ! Gentle- 

 men, lest I forget myself, I will stop here, and remember 

 you, that but for my element of water, the inhabitants of 

 this poor island must remain ignorant that such things 

 ever were, or that any of them have yet a being. 



Gentlemen, I might both enlarge and lose myself in 

 such like arguments ; I might tell you that Almighty God 

 is said to have spoken to a fish, but never to a beast ; 

 that he hath made a whale a ship, to carry and set his 

 prophet Jonah safe on the appointed shore. Of these 

 I might speak, but I must in manners break off, for I see 

 Theobald's House. I cry you mercy for being so long, and 

 thank you for your patience. 



Auc. Sir, my pardon is easily granted you : I except 

 against nothing that you have said : nevertheless, I must 

 part with you at this park-wall, for which I am very sorry ; 

 but I assure you, Mr. Piscator, I now part with you full 

 of good thoughts, not only of yourself, but your recreation. 

 And so, Gentlemen, God keep you both. 



Pise. Well, now, Mr. Venator ', you shall neither want 

 time, nor my attention to hear you enlarge your discourse 

 concerning hunting. 



Ven. Not I, Sir : I remember you said that angling itself 

 was of great antiquity, and a perfect art, and an art not 



matist, found to his cost; for his uncle, a Papist, was so stung by these lines, 

 that, in revenge, he disinherited him, and doomed him to extreme poverty the 

 remainder of his life. Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. 471. The Romanists have also 

 taken thir revenge on the book that contains them, by inserting it in their 

 Index Erpurgatorint. Ibid. 



