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The whole art and trade of hvsbandrv con- 

 tained in foure bookes. Enlarged by Barnaby Googe. 

 London, Richard More. 1614. 4.; then as: 



The whole art of hvsbandry contained in 



fovre bookes. viz...IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish. ..and the art 

 of angling... now renewed, corrected, enlarged and adorned 

 with all the experiments and practises of our English nation, 

 which were wanting in the former editions. By Captaine 

 Garvase Markham. London, R. More, 1631. 4.; afterwards 

 as : 



The perfect husbandman, or the art of hus- 

 bandry. In four books : I. Of the farm or mansion house,... 

 II. Of gardens, orchards and woods. III. Ol breeding. ..all 

 manner of cattel. IV. Of poultry, fowle, fish and bees with 

 the whole art (according to these last times) of breeding and 

 dyeting the righting cock, and the art of angling. By C. H., 

 B. C., and C. M. ingenious artists. London, Thomas Basset, 

 in St. Duns tan's Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1658. pp. vi. 



385. 4- 



[ In the editions edited by Markham, seven or eight pages on 

 angling are added to the brief treatise on fish-ponds of the original 

 work. Piscinarius disappears, but in the other parts of the book 

 the interlocutors remain as in former editions. Sir Harris Nicolas, 

 in his biography of Walton, says, ''There is so much resemblance 

 between many passages of Walton's work and Heresbachius' Hus- 

 bandry, by Googe, which was first printed in 1577, as to render it 

 probable he was indebted to that work for some of his ideas." This 

 may have been the case; but the " Compleat Angler" is more 

 closely allied, in the mechanism, at least, to the " De venatione, 

 aucupio et piscatione." This work was the fruits of its author's 

 leisure, and was written at his country house during his occasional 

 retirement from the exigencies of his life at court. It consists of a 

 dialogue, in which the interlocutors bear names significative of their 

 different vocations. Philothcrus opens the conversation with an 

 eulogium of the sport of hunting. Lagus follows and discants on 

 the pastime of hunting the hare, the fox, the badger and the c'eer. 

 Elaphovrous passes in review the chase of the stag, the wild boar, 

 etc. Halictis takes the greatest share in the colloquy, and treats of 

 the different modes of fishing, and the various kinds of fish. The 

 close parallel between the outer form of the above and Walton's 

 Angler must be evident enough. 



Barnaby Googe's translation of the " Foure bookes of husbandry" 

 is very quaint, poetical and charming. Googe was a poet by voca- 

 tion, and the author of " Eclogs, Epitaphes, and Sonnettes, newly 

 written/' 1563, of which only three copies are known to exist. He 

 also produced other works, original and translated, among the latter 

 a translation of the "Regnum Papisticum" of Naogeorgus, recently 

 reprinted at the Chiswick Press, by Mr. R. C. Hope, (with memoir 

 of Googe), from the only perfect copy which is known. Some 

 curious letters concerning his marriage with Mary Darell, of Scot- 



