PREFACE. HI 



He then quotes the passage on our third page 

 beginning, " Many a gyn & many a snayr he 

 maket" ; the addition on page four of the woids : 

 '' and sum tyme death" ; while the third variation 

 is given as follows : 



" Also whoso wol vse ye game & disporle of 

 anglyng, he must take hede to thys sentence of the 

 olde pube yt is thise vsus 



Surge miser mane sq noli surger, vane 

 Sanctificat sanat dicat quoq surger. mane " 

 This passage will be found (with a difference) on 

 our fifth page. 



The "Advertisement'' to Mi. Pickering's 

 reprint of the '' Treatyse of fysshynge " pub- 

 lished in 1827, also makes mention of the manu- 

 script and in these terms : 



" The only MS. of the Treatyse which is known 

 to be extant, is a fragment now in the possession of 

 Joseph Haslewood, Esq., and which formerly 

 belonged to Mr. '\ illiam Herbert. It does nut 

 e.xtend farther than the instructions relating to the 

 bait for trout ; and the different readings between 

 it and the printed copies, which are very few and 

 unimportant, are minutely given by that accurate 

 and indefatigable reviver of old English literature 

 in his reprint of the Boke of St. Alban's." 



We are unaware of any othei' pi'inted reference 

 to the manuscript. 



