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Recreation. The Royal Recreation of Jovial Anglers. 

 Proving that all men are Intanglers, 

 And all professions are turn'd Anglers. 



To the tune of Amarillis. (The second part to the same 

 tune.) B. L. [ London.] F. Coles, T. Vere, W. Gilbertson 

 and J Wright. [1654?] a broadside. 



[ A copy of this ballad is in the Roxbursrhe collection (vol. iii., 

 nos. 232. 233.) now preserved in the British Museum, where the 

 conjectural date of 1660 is assigned to it in the catalogue. The two 

 parts contain eleven verses, and the first part is headed with the 

 woodcut which forms the frontispiece to the first, second and fourth 

 editions of J. D's " Secrets of angling." This last edition was 

 issued in 1652 by Francis Coles of the "Old Bayley," whose name 

 is upon the ballad. ( The earliest ballad with a date in the Rox- 

 burghe collection, on which the above four names appear conjointly, 

 was issued in 1655.) Mr. John Payne Collier thinks that this was 

 probably the original publication, and adds, " It is doubtful whether 

 the ballad is older than the date of the first impression of Walton's 

 'Angler/ in 1653. The hours of business on the Royal Exchange 

 is stated in it to be ' twixt twelve and one/ whereas in the latter 

 end of the reign of Elizabeth and in that of James 1st. it was 

 between eleven and twelve. William Haughton's comedy, 'English- 

 men for my money,' (printed in 1616, but written in 1598, as 

 appears by Henslowe's Diary, p. 119), shows that merchants then 

 attended Change at eleven o'clock, and dined at twelve. There is 

 no other very distinct note of time in the ballad. The tune seems 

 comparatively modern, as we do not find it in any early collection." 

 The ballad has been included (with slight variations) in several 

 collections: in "Cupid's Bee-hive," 1721 (See CUPID); in "The 

 compleat fisher or the true art of angling, by J. S.," 6th ed., and 

 more recently in " The Book of Roxburghe Ballads," 1847, edited 

 by Mr. J. P. Collier, and in the publications of the "Ballad 

 Society."] 



Recreator. The popular recreator. A key to in-door and out- 

 door amusements. 2 vol. London, Cassell. (n. d.) 8. 

 [A treatise on angling extends through both volumes.] 



Reck (Mord. von der). Disputatio juridica de piscatione. 

 Solen niter defendendam suscepit M. von der Reck. Argen- 

 torati, 1662. pp. 12. 4. 



Recueil. Recueil des lois, decrets, arretes et reglemens en rigeur 

 en Belgique, sur ('administration forestiere de la peche et de la 

 chasse. Arlon, 1836. 8. 



Reeves (Boleyne). Sports and pastimes in town and country 

 ...With twelve illustrations by R. Cruikshank. Edited by 

 B. Reeves. London. Printed by T. H. Coe, 27, Old Change, 

 1841, pp. iv. 356. 12. 



See COLBURN (H.) Colburn's kalendar of amuse- 

 ments, 1840. 12. 



