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a fayre age and a longe." A medical, or rather 

 non-medical, aphorism, which has not, like a bunch 

 of old herbs, lost its virtue through age, is also 

 quoted and explained. u Si tibi deficiant medici, 

 medici tibi fiant haec tria : mens Ireta, labor, et mo- 

 derata dieta. Ye shall understonde that this is for to 

 saye : If a man lacke leche or medecyne, he shall 

 make thre thynges his leche and medycyne, and he 

 shall nede never no moo. The fyrste of theym is a 

 mery thought. The seconde is labour not outrageous. 

 The thyrde is dyete mesurable." The writer then 

 proceeds to a comparison of angling with hunting, 

 hawking, and fowling, which Walton certainly had 

 in his mind when, at the commencement of his book, 

 he introduced " an ANGLER, a HUNTER, and a FAL- 

 CONER, each commending his recreation," and after 

 enumerating the inconveniences attendant on the 

 three last, thus recounts the pleasures and advan- 

 tages of angling. " Thus me semyth that huntynge 

 and hawkynge and also fowlynge ben so laborous 

 and grevous that none of theym maye perfourme 

 nor be very meane that enduce a man to a merye 

 spyryte : whyche is cause of his longe lyfe acord ynge 

 unto the sayd parable of Salamon. Dowteles thene 

 followyth it that it nedes must be the dysporte of 

 fysshynge wyth an angle. For all other manere of 

 fysshynge is also laborous and grevous ; often mak- 

 ynge folkes ful wete and colde, whyche many tymes 

 hath beseen cause of grete infirmytees. But the 

 angler maye have no colde nor no dysease nor angre, 

 but if he be the causer hymself. For he may not 

 lese at the moost but a lyne or a hoke : of whyche 

 he maye have store plentee of his owne makynge, 



