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cyent mese ye sholde coveyte no more as at that 

 tyme. Also ye shall besye yourselfe to nouryssh 

 the game in all that ye maye, and to destroye all 

 suche thynges as ben devourers of it. And all those 

 that done after this rule shall have the blessynge of 

 God and Saynt Petyr, whyche he theym graunte 

 that wyth his precyous blood us broughte. 



" And for by cause that this present treatyse 

 sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone 

 whyche wolde desire it yf it were enpryntyd allone 

 by itself and put in a lytyll plaunflet, therefore I 

 have compylyd it in a greter volume of dyverse 

 bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the 

 entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche sholde 

 have but lytyll me&ure in the sayd dysporte of 

 fysshyng sholde not by this meane utterly destroye 

 it." 



The following enumeration of the various kinds 

 of worldly fishers is from "The FISHER/' a visita- 

 tion Sermon, preached at Horncastle, in Lincoln- 

 shire, by Wm. Worship, D. D., and printed for 

 Thomas Pavier, London, 1615. 



" Some fish with Neroes Nets, of the Richest thrcds, 

 and these are Golden Fishers. Some angle for the 

 Tributary fisli with Twentie pence in her mouth, 

 and these are Silver fishers. Some cast their Net 

 ore a Skull of Churches, and these are Steeple fishers. 

 Some fish with a shining shell in the Net, and these 

 Flattring fishers. Some fish for an Euge tuum et 

 Belle, and these are Vaine-glorious fishers. Some 

 fish with an Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris, and these 

 are Audacious fishers. Some fish with a Poke-net 



