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am going to BLEAK-HALL 1 to my bed ; and having caught 



Bleak-Hall. 



more fish than will sup myself and my friend, I will 

 bestow this upon you and your daughter, for I use to 

 sell none. 



Milk-w. Marry ! Glod requite you, sir, and we'll eat it 

 cheerfully. And if you come this way a-fishing two months 

 hence, a grace of Grod ! I'll give you syllabub of new verjuice, 

 in a new-made hay-cock, for it. And my Maudlin shall sing 

 you one of her best ballads ; for she and I both love all 

 anglers, they be such honest, civil, quiet men. 2 In the mean 



rival in a connection with a lewd woman, he received a stab with a 

 dagger, and shortly after died of the stroke. See Wood's "Athen. 

 Oxon."vol. i. 338, and also Beard's "Theatre of Grod' s Judgments." H. 



1 The author seems here to have forgot himself; for, p. 96, he says, he is 

 to lodge at Trout-hall. Bleak-hall is supposed to be a rural inn on the side 

 of the Lea river (about a mile from Edmonton), which still passes by that 

 name. ED. 



2 There are some few exceptions to this character of anglers : the greatest 

 and most wonderful revolution that ever happened in any state, I mean 

 that in Naples in the year 1647, was brought about by an angler ; con- 

 cerning whom we are told ' ' that a young man, about twenty-four, happened 

 to be in a corner of the great market-place at Naples : a sprightly man, of 



