BIBLIOTHECA P1SCATORIA. 97 



-des Federwildforets, ferner die Fischerei in Stromen und 

 Teichen. 4 vol. Frankfurt & Leipzig ; Ulm [ printed], 



1772-80. 8. 



Fortin (Francois). See RUSKS innocentes. 



Fournival (Richard de). La Vieille, ou les dernier.es amours 

 d'Ovide, poeme Francais du xiv me siecle, traduit du Latin de 

 Richard de Fournival, par Jean Lefevre. public pour la prem- 

 iere fois et precede de recheiches sur 1'auteur du Vetnla, par 

 Hyppolyte Cocheris. Paris, Aubry, 1 86 1. 12. 



[ Translated, or rather, imitated from a Latin poem De Vetiild, 

 attributed to Richard de Fournival, and supposed to have been 

 written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The translator, 

 Jean Lefevre, was born in the early part of the fourteenth century, 

 at Rassons-sur-Matz. His work, until recently, only existed in MS. 

 (of which there are two copies in the Bibliotheque Nationale at 

 Paris): but has now been included by Aubry in his "Tresor des 

 pieces rares ou incdites." The passage in " La Vieille," which treats 

 of fishing is headed " Comment Ovide tendait aux Poissons," and 

 consists of 68 lines. De Fournival's work cannot but be interesting 

 to the angling bibliophile, as showing that more than four hundred 

 years ago (and probably about a hundred and fifty years before the 

 date of the " Book of St. Albans,") most of the modern modes of 

 fishing were practised ; for instance : the worm, the fly, the torch 

 and spear, the night-line, the eel-basket and fork, etc. 



The poem was formerly attributed to Ovid and a story was cur- 

 rent that a copy had been discovered in his tomb. It was first 

 printed, probably at Rome, about 1470, under the title : " P. Ouidii 

 Nasionis liber de uetula"; again, Colonie, 1479. fol.; and after- 

 wards with a work of Vigellus: "Brunellus Vigelli, et vetula Ovidii, 

 seu opuscula duo auctorum incertorum, etc" Wolferbyti, 1662. Svo.j 



Frampton (Rev. Josiah,)/^?^. [i.e. William Gilpin.] Three 

 dialogues on the amusements of clergymen. London, B. & 

 J. White. 1796. pp. iv. 224. 8.; Second edition. London, 

 Cadell, 1797. front, pp. ii. 239. 8.; then as: 



On the amusements of clergymen and Christians 



in general. Three dialogues between a dean and a curate. 

 By Edward Stillingfleet, Lord Bishop of Worcester. London, 

 Sherwood, 1820. pp. vii. 183. 12. 



[That the "Rev. Josiah Frampton" was merely a pseudonym, 

 has been assumed but without any sufficient evidence. We are 

 able to set the matter at rest, by the following autograph letter (in 

 the possession of T. W.) addressed to Messrs. Cadell and Davis, 

 Publishers, London, by William Gilpin, Prebendary of Salisbury, 

 .anc 1 the author of " Forest scenery." 



" Vicar's Hill, April n, 1797, 



Sir I received your note and am glad to find the Exposition is 

 in such good hands. I think the title-page may continue as it is. 

 1 had doubts about an alteration myself. 



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