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other Creature ; he spares nothing that he hath power to destroy, if he 

 fears any hurt, or hopes for any gain, or finds any pleasure ; or can make 

 any sport, or to employ his idle time. He Hunts, he Fowls, he Fishes 

 for sport, with Guns, Nets and Hooks ; he cruelly causeth one creature 

 to destroy another, etc" 



Gower ( John). 



Confessio Amantis. ( 1483). 



Liber tertius. " And as the fisher on his bait 



Sleeth, when he seeth the fishes faste, 

 So when he seeth time ate last, 

 That he may worche an other wo, 

 Shall no man tornen him ther fro, 

 That hate will his felonie 

 Fulfill and feigne compaignie." 



Liber octavus. " There came a fisher in the wey, 



And sigh a man there naked stonde." 



Chaucer (Geoffrey). 



The Canterbury Tales, (circa 1475). 



" At Trompington, not fer fro Cantebrigge, 

 Ther goth a brook, and over that a brigge, 

 Upon the whiche brook ther stout a melle ; 

 And this is veray sothe, that I you telle, 

 A miller was ther dwelling many a day, 

 As any peacok he was proude and gay ; 

 Pipen he coude, and fishe, and nettes bete, 

 And turnen cuppes, and wrastlen wel, and skate." 



" The Complaynte of Mars and Venus" 



11 Hit semeth he hath to lovers enemyti, 

 And lyke a fissher, as men al may se, 

 Bateth hys angle-hoke with summe pleasaunce 

 Till mony a fissch ys wode so that he be 

 Sesed therwith ; and then at erst hath he 

 Al his desire, and therwith all myschaunce, 

 And thogh the lyne breke he hath penaunce ; 

 For with the holce he wounded is so sore, 

 That he his wages hathe for evermore." 



Spencer (Edmund). 



The Ruins of Time. (1591). 



" There also, where the winged ships were scene 

 In liquid waves to cut their fomie waie, 

 And thousand fishers numbred to have been, 

 In that wide lake looking for plenteous praie 

 Of fish, which they with baits usde to betraie, 

 Is now no lake, nor anie fishers store, 

 Nor ever ship shall saile there anie more." 



