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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. FART. I. 



Yen. I thank you, good master, for your good direc- 

 tion for fly-fishing, and for the sweet enjoyment of the 

 pleasant day, which is so far spent without offence to 

 God or man: and I thank you for the sweet close of 

 your discourse with Mr. Herbert's verses; who, I have 

 heard, loved angling; and I do the rather believe it, 

 because he had a spirit suitable to anglers, and to those 

 primitive Christians that you love, and have so much 

 commended. 



Pise. Well, my loving scholar, and / am pleased to 

 know that you -are so well pleased with my direction and 

 discourse. 



And since you like these verses of Mr. Herbert's so 

 well, let me tell you what a reverend and learned divine 

 that professes to imitate him, (and has indeed done so 

 most excellently,) hath writ of our book of Common 

 Prayer; which I know you will like the better, because he 

 is a friend of mine, and I am sure no enemy to angling. 1 



What! FRAY'* by the BOOK ? and COMMON ? Yes; why not? 



The spirit of grace 

 And supplication 

 It not left free alone 



For time and place, 



But manner top: TO HEAD, OR SPEAK, by rote, 

 Is all alike :o him that prays, 

 lu's heart, what with his mouth he says. 



They thai iu private, by themselves alooe, 



Do pray, may take 

 What liberty they please, 

 In thusiug of the ways 



Wherein to make 



Their soul's most intimate affections known 

 To him that sees in secret, when 

 Th' are most cooceal'd from other men. 



(I) This passace goes very near to unfold to us a secret in literary history, 

 vis. the name of the author of the Synagogue,* collection of poems, suppletory 

 to that of Mr. George Herbert entitled the Temple. For we nee " Ch. Harvie'' 

 subscribed to the ensuing EULOCIUM on the Common Prayer, WHICH is also 

 to be found in the Synagogue. And I find in the Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. 267. 

 a Christopher Hurtey; a Master of Arts, Vicar of Clifton iu Warwickshire; 

 born iu 1997. *nd who lived to 1663, and perhaps after. Further, the second 

 copy of commc ndaioi y verses, prefixed to this book, has the subscription " Ch. 



