CHAP. V. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 113 



And lest you may think him singular in this opinion, I 

 will tell you, this seems to be believed by our learned 

 Doctor Hakewill, who in his Apology of God's power and 

 providence, 1 f. 360, quotes Pliny to report that one*of the 

 emperors had particular fish-ponds, and, in them, seve- 

 ral fish that appeared and came when they were called by 

 their particular names. 2 And St. James tells us, chap. 

 3. 7. that all things in the sea have been tamed by man- 

 kind. And Pliny tells us, lib. ix. 35. that Antonia, the 

 wife of Drusus, had a Lamprey at whose gills she hung 

 jewels or ear-rings ; and that others have been so tender- 

 hearted as to shed tears at the death of fishes which they 

 have kept and loved. And these observations, which 

 will to most hearers seem wonderful, seem to have a fur- 

 ther confirmation from Martial, 3 lib. iv. Epigr. 30. who 

 writes thus: 



Pitcutor, fugt; nt nocens, &c. 



Angler! would'st thou bo guiltless ? then forbear; 

 For these are sacred fishes that swim here, 

 Who know their sovereign. and will lick his hand; 

 Than which none's greater in the world's command ; 

 Nay more, they've names, and, when they called are, 

 K Do to their several owner's call repair. 



All the furthur use that I shall make of this shall be, to 



(1) Tills book, which was published in folio, 1635, and is full of excellent 

 learning and good sense, contains an examination and censure of that common 

 error which philosophers have fallen into, " that there is in nature a perpetual 

 and universal decay ;'' the contrary whereof, after an extensive view of the 

 history of the physical and moral world, and a judicious and impartial compa- 

 rison of former ages with thai wherein the author lived, is with great force of 

 argument demonstrated. The reader may, in this book, meet with a relation of 

 that instance of Lord Cromwell's gratitude to Sig. Frescobaldi, a Florentine 

 merchant, which is given, in a dramatic form, in the History of Thomas Lord 

 Cromwell, published as Shakspeare's by some of the earlier editors of his works. 



(2) Mons. Berneier, in his History of Indostan, reports the like of the Great 

 Mogul. 



{3) The verses cited are as follow : 



" Piscator, fuge ; ne nocens recedas, 

 Sacris piscibus lice natantur undee ; 

 Qui nflrunt dotuinum, manumque lambunt 

 I Hum, qu& niliil est, in orbe, tnajus ; 

 Quid, quod nomen habent ; tt ad magistri 

 Vocera quisque sui vcnit citatus." 



