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

 That loves the sport, where stores of fish abound, 

 And through the pleasant fields his journey make, 

 'Midst sweet pastures, meadows fresh and sound, 

 Where he may bsst 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 year after (1614) the appearance of Devor's poem, 

 another work on angling, was published under the title 

 of The Pleasures of Princes, or Good Hens Recreations ; 

 containing a Discourse on the General Art of Fishing with 

 the Angle ; and all the hidden secrets belonging there- 

 unto. This treatise is anonymous. In 1733, Gervas 

 Markham wrote his Countrey Contentment, which is in 

 substance a prose version of Devor's work, with many 

 additions of his own. The following passages will give 

 a fair idea of the scope of this book : 



"Now for the inward qualities of mind, albeit some 

 writers reduce them to twelve heads, which, indeed 

 whosoever enjoy eth, cannot chuse but be very complete in 

 much reflection ; yet I must draw them into many more 

 branches. And first, and most essential whereof is, that 

 a skilful angler ought to be a general scholar, and seen 

 in all the liberal sciences ; as a grammarian, to know how 

 either to write or discourse of his art in true and fitting 

 terms, either without affectation or rudeness, and should 

 have sweetness of speech to persuade others and engage 



