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THE
SECRETS OF ANGLINa
'N;f!ir
By J[0HN]
D[ENNYS]
Esquirk.
1613.
THOMAS WESTWOOD.
LONDON
W.
19,
SATCHELL &
CO.,
W.C.
('/
LONDON:
R.
CLAY, SONS,
AND TAYLOR,
INTRODUCTION.
HE
AngUng
To some
be assigned a place
ledges of Parnassus
shall
have "
we
we
select few,
D.,"
I.
who
three or four of
say midway,
of
by courtesy?
altitudes
all
generation.)
these
'
Secrets
to
on
the
whatsoever, except
of an absurd vanity.
by right of
in the cool
seniority,
dawn
them may
of Angling,"
himself
in his
being destined to
become a
:\Ir.
his
J."
(Roger Jackson)
life,
still
at fever-heat, with
unknown
as
to
it
in
some
It
and
the
still
if
a poet
fame, had recoiled from bringing into competition with these and
these,
world,
poem
simple
such
dedication of the
their weight
discretion.
The Elizabethan
states, in his
if
not
I.
song
of bleak
and bream.
a "mute," at
least
all
real
the shows of
Introdiutioii.
In
following
and
appeared the
6 13,
title
Seasons,
"
opened
familiarly
The
first
edition
of any
taking
I.
sould
to be
are
Fish,
By
Bookes.
in three
pocket vohuiie,
(i2mo.), a
with
the
Secrets of Angling.
the
for
liis
fitting time.
at
Pond
in
or Riuer
shop
his
practised
and
D. Esquire.
Conduit,
neere Fleetstreet
1613."
In
this
title
is
at
his
rod a
"
Then
all
is
line
mine."
The
and over
is
labelled thus
skill
It
is
Of
in
to,
to
it
to the
with
fix
'
are
'
may seeme
" Printed
at
in
any
there
is,
It is
number
copies extant
of
supposed
many approved
To
for
of
Huth
copies.
known
date
experiments."
London
the
certainty,
is
an address "
Lauson's address
" It
It
work
is
is
some imperfect
also
"In due
a copy of verses.
and which
The Bodleian
There are
third.
now
difficult
edition.
is
this
title
treasure."
copy, which
is
Lauson's
additions
recipes.
ran thus:
adde
this little
are to
comment
be sould
" the
res'-
to the
cut
off.
work
Introduction.
of so worthy an author.
^^hat
mine observations
grounded experience,
What
to
me
ment,
doubtful,
must be
are,
so well
is
*j
refer to
censure
my
that but
have,
and
satisfied,
pleasant,
and sometimes
profitable.
Use
it,
The
subject itselfe
made
poem
either in the
The
Denison
third
A new
collection.
One motto
executed.
date
place
same
The
the
other reads
fourth appeared
The woodcut
Denison.
the
in
title
aware
of,
was
filled
is
with
is
in
the
is
the
1652.-
in
Several copies of
its
the
Amen."
1630,^
wood-cut
the
is
possession of Mr.
am
to
honest,
or the notes.
bore
edition
is
all glory.
judge
approve.
Answer
his
injury.
my
passe by,
and by
learning,
and
them
much
to
excused.
rest
nothing can do
The author by
myselfe
it
haste,
can,
as I
in
here figures as
and
"The
mark,
bookseller's
in the
a frontispiece
Hare
and Sun."
reprinted
in
extejiso,
from the
preceding
edition,
in
Sir
Egerton Brydges' "British Bibliographer,"'^ and a hundred copies, with index and
were struck
short advertisement,
citations, in the
same
appropriated by Daniel, in
The
off separately.
hibliopliile'^ "
Censura Literaria"*
third,
It
(if
containing
the
mystical
recipe
an
in
"Wouldst
thou
in
the
take
which was
article
"Rural Sports,"
in
1813.
distinct, is
title
and
fish?"
proved
in the
Thus
in
leaf
the
"Printed inSvo.
"London,
shop
3
^
at
for
John Jacl<son
truely
made
at
the
signe
to
at his
Introdtictioii.
Lyon an
of the Black
Apothecaries',
in
Great
South dore."
we
In the third,
are
Horse an Apothecaries'
in
the
to
Carter Lane."
same
that
" This
tell
Beloe, speaking of the edition of 1652, says, "Perhaps there does not exist
in the circle
"Augmented"
though
how
this
third
but
editions,
rectifies
my
in
Lauson's
not clear.
is
the omission in
second
to his
list,
possession.
any
seems to have
could
and
He
is
less
same short-coming
guilty of the
in
his
to
diligent seeker.
In summing up the editions, we must not omit Mr. Arber's re-issue in his
The
I.
(1877).
authorship of the " Secrets " remained a vexed question until a com-
Esq.,
several verses
whom
of the
"
poem
(1706)
To one
been ascribed
by the discovery,
in
R[obert] H[owlett],
assigns
but
all
it
to
Dr. Donne,
entry
Compleat Angler."
also
It
1).
all
superstructures
raised mine."
name
of Davies, the
poem has
Company, of
aside
the following
"
of Mr.
Introductiori.
teaching the choycest tooles, baites and seasons for the taking of any
pond
or
river,
opened
and
praktised
by
bookes,
three
in
fisii
vjd."
Esquire,
Sir
Dennys,
in the
is
name
who was
60S.
was
He
Sir
Robert Davcrs or
co-heiress of Sir
in that
Danvers.
has been observed by Mr. James WiUiamson, that the author of the 'Secrets'
speaks
There
of
the
in
is,
and Toghill,
and
in
Boyd
River
fact,
streams,
distinct
descends
village
to
washing the
rivulet,
Avon,
many
W^yke or
in
three large
Kynsham
at
high
cliffs
Church of Pucklechurch
Dennys was
called
of
cliffs
which
Boyd,
is
formed by four
Dyrham
Pucklechurch,
parishes of Codrington,
Week
resident in
is
Street,
Bath
and
in
and which
Bridge,
there are
the
in
'
which join
Bristol,
as
beautiful
rising
till
lord of the
county,
It
of
" There
are strong reasons," he says, "for believing that the 'Secrets of Angling,'
Manor
in
Dennys,
John
flows
on
and
in
or rocks,
to
river
the
passes through
Ancient
the burial
the
Bitton.
John
in the
county of Gloucester."
Sir Harris
with a
of the
Dennys
since,
p^edigree,
c^reat-grandson,
the
is
John
showing
infers
descents from
six
therefrom,
at
Sir
the
Sir Walter's
Pucklechurch
in
1609,
lo
ItitrodnctioTi.
The
pedigree, as extracted,
as follows
is
Walter Denny s.
I
eldest son
;-
heir.
and
= Margaret,
church.
No
on
date,
referring to
eldest
son,
be perceived,
will
it
is
associated with
Dennys, but
Walter
Sir
Sir
may
AVe
therefore reasonably assign his birth to the latter part of the fifteenth century,
Harris Nicolas)
left
(author of the
a son,
'*
in
1559, and at
we must
part,
latest,
posthumous
in
his
who
intended
be found
to
is
ascribe the
sent
to
the
no
therefore, Sir
If,
poem
to the early
(Roger Jackson)
according to
Secrets,"
died
style
its
Collateral evidence,
in
poem
far
back,
in
J.
unto
me
have done
to be
it,
in
printed after
his
life,
but
the
was
death
of the
prevented
by
Had
surely
some
allusion
would
Mr. Carew
Hazlitt,
the bibliography of
the
in
his
"
Handbook
to
as being
"very unsettled."
had
Intyoductioii.
and
all
found
third
it.
" There
undated."
probability,
seem
to
Bohn's Lowndes,
a copy
is
for
extant
the
edition,
first
he adopts
(as
he appears
did myself,
date cut
frontispiece,
the
first
from
in
question
Denny's
'
off."
and
knife,
instance,
The copy
that authority.
in
is,
to
in
is
it
the second
*'
says,
the date.
7i.<itli
Secrets
Lauson,
its
to
is
mutilated
copy of the edition of 1652, in which alone the woodcut figures as a frontispiece.
The Bodleian
complete
is
The former
states that
it
(in
in
EUacombe's view,
of Princes, good
mens
D., that
I.
recreations
This scarce
increase of princeliness.
issues
into
"
tract
(See
latter
is
prose.
acquainted with,
of
that
work
and was
is
containing a discourse of
;
and of
all
the hidden
Ordering, Breeding,
commonly considered
It
first
to
be
also
the
"The
pagination in
subsequent
am
is
it
1869.)
transmigration
it.
The
(in
lists,
way
its
incorporated with
in
Markham's
small
it
is
Treatise in
entitled:
"The whole
for
Art of Angling
the
better
can
be
little
as
it
was written
understanding of the
The transmuting
process
Introduction.
by no unskilful
effected
metal
the
of
Philip Sidney's
Sir
original.
undergone, with so
hcand,
of the precious
seldom been
has, indeed,
ordeal
The
deterioration.
little
sacrifice
pcem
is
preserved in the prose version and the passages added (especially the introduction)
proof of the
is
compare
chapter
It
The
(its
its
an Angler,"
Qualities of
said,
that,
so replete
of
expression,
sweetness
is
it,
and
and marvel
have
heights, or rather
artificiality,
achieved
poems of
John
")
angels
theme,
line
enough
their
who drapes
by an
analogous
paid
feats,
sport.
from other
polished
Anglers,
and
interwoven
but
kind display,
in
which
the
is
such
trifling
technical
in
verse,
and
as
(the Angler's
"Glorious
earnest,
in
"'
assured
and
vocation,
And now we
only
doffs
them with
an end of
Here then
strike
For now
in
this
last,
we meane
And make
We
the
to
but
force of polish
"
it
real
The
as
much
are dexterously
thought and
of
the devotion of so
at
humorous
moods, with
higher
its
elevation
theme so humble.
poetic genius to a
in
little
Thus
highly esteemed.
appreciation of this
critical
known and
finest
of rhythm,
piece of
may
parallels
feeling,
strength,
its
in
the third
in
retains
it
Those curious
is
poem, the
subtlety
vitality
own.
their
to
rest;
quiet roade
think
it
best
in
the west."
his
ultimate
"
IntrodiiciioJL.
And
rest is
won
this
man
grey old
aisle
of Piicklerhiirch, our
poet's
" Such
liic
->
that
may have
man we
love
nay, this
man
that,
perchance, fished in his immortal company, the Boyd that he loved and sung
so well
the Boyd
that
still,
with
Avon runneth
soft
to seek."
T.
WESTWOOD.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The
present reprint
1613.
bequeathed
reprint
in
been
has
It
it
wish
our
in
original
text
differs essentially
the
altered
of
its
ancient
air
and
upon
longer
here
justifiable, to
judgment,
own
How
it.
to
J.
we have
far
Instead of
aspect.
D.
a right
themselves
defend
in
and
J.
D-
in
the broadcloth
his
verse,
frequent
it
protect
of to-day,
their
thereby, of
customary doublet
it
much
author
the
as
Thus he has
supposed emendations.
the
edition of
"English Garner."
expedient to
it
transcript of the
literal
perpetuate
to
In this respect
to the world.
his
and
a strictly faithful
is
own
with
who
how
the
all
are
far
no
is
it
is
question
personal opinion
in
is
will
to
decide.
What
our
have adopted.
T.
W.
THE
SECRETS OF ANGLING
Teaching,
seasons,
Pond
for
thi
or Riuer
in three Bookes.
Bv
I.
D.
Esquire.
iieere
are
to be
1613.
son/d
JOHN HARBORNE,
COUNTY OF
Worthy
more
to haiie
done
me
it
not
delight as to exprcsse
OXFORD, ESQUIRE.
Syr,
I coidd
of tackley, jn the
finde
my
to be
in his
betJiinke
for the
life,
me of any
stature
it
many
strangers vnto
Authors, but
lye
stales
of enery
benefit
and
Sta tioner
delight of
all,
therefore
make
I necdc
that
it
is
(in that it
I holde
is
of the
subiect,
or for
be
to
much
way
enery
it
the first, if
Artes
not,
instructed
jnore
in,
this
Art of Angling
as pleasant,
pleasantly,
and
I.
IN
skils that
all
Then
th'
^r/
(like
of Fishing thus,
is
of that kinde
And
as,
With many a
And, by
The
this
Line,
this takes,
shincj
Harts
makes
Vpon an humble
To
purchase
Who
it,
Deed
Dau/es.
THE CONTENTS.
THE FIRST BOOKE CONTAINETH THESE
1.
2.
The
zvith
Art of
the
3.
HEADS.
FisJiing,
and of Fish
in
generall.
laivfulnesse, pleasure
against
3.
To knozv
it,
and
the season,
the best,
and
and
manner how
the
to
make them
and how
to choose
Fish.
2.
What
Fish
for
3.
///
is
to
vse
his
Tooles
and
Baytes,
make
to
game.
and
luhat is;
and which
is
best
health.
ivhat
to
The
2.
What
12. vertues
and
weather, seasons,
what houres of
3.
qualities
the
which ought
and
day
is
best
an obscure
to
secret,
for
be in euery Angler.
is
best
sport.
THE
SECRETS
of ANGLING.
THE FIRST BOOKE.
F
A7!gling,
What kinde
of Tooles
it
sing.
may
And
The
Of
pretious time,
some
You Nymphs
Hill
bring
TJie Secrets
24
of Angling.
And
soft to seeke
In whose fayre streames the speckled Troui doth play,
The Roc/ie, the Dace, the Gndgin, and the Bleeke.
Teach me the skill with slender Line and Hooke
To take each Fish of Riuer, Pond, and Brooke.
:
when
Southward
Sunne beginneth
the
his
to
decline
And
And
behind
And
And
his
iheir song,
And
lay
abroad
their
of-spring to be
To
seene
And
The name
of a Brooke.
:;
25
So
shalt thou
And
fittest
haue ahvayes
Rods
in store
the best,
brittle
Cane, nor
so well, though
it
all
the
be long and
rest,
light,
TO
MAKE THE
LINE.
Then
From
And
The
intermixt with
tender hayres,
siluer,
silke,
or gold,
straight.
26
Then end
T,et
all
The
Secrets of Anglin(i:
end,
as
to
your Linkes
falleth
in
to
their lot,
order as they
lie
were
be as long
Of greyest Hue, and of the soundest Hayre,
Least whiles it hangs the liquid wanes among
The sight thereof, the v/arie Fish should feare.
Scant halfe so
big,
so that
it
Loope or Compasse
other of vour
fine.
line.
CORKE.
take good Corke, as much as shall suffice.
For euery Line to make his swimmer tit
And where the midst and thickest parts doth rise,
There burne a round small hole quite thorow it
Then
And
size.
The
more
Plummets sway
and stands vpright,
light,
27
HOOKES.
'hen buy your Hookes the finest and the best
That may be had of such as vse to sell,
'I
That Hooke
loue that
is
in
compasse round,
That doth
And
Or
in
pleasant Waters so
abound
as
Who
on
That
all
his fruiifull
bankes doe
sit
and
sing.
T/iauinaniis,
when she
list
to
rini
shrowd
Made
That
pull.
And bearded
like
or knot
fit,
skill,
the bit
or
gill,
little
Of Cypres
That
it
sw^et, or of
like a
Trenchor
shall
plaine,
itselfe
extend
With Battlements
The Secrets of
Then must you haue
Auglino.
29
And
IJow
secret'st
waters sound,
set
Till
And
so to
let
it
downe
into the
Brooke.
And
let
it
fall
bring,
Vntill he
store
to
As
in great waters
oft
it
is
doth
befall,
so it be small,
you list to wreake
Your former losse, you may supply the place.
And not returne with sorrow and disgrace.
all
silke,
if
so that
it
or broken
be not white,
top to tye;
A
To
all
parts
and
jjurses
light,
thin,
: :
30
To
bring them
little
home
Net
on a Pole
that
shall stand,
WHAT GARMENT
IS FITTEST.
let
Of
And
Nor
away,
will
Nor tender
silkes,
In
this
Vnto
the Brooke,
to
game
fro,
He
to frame.
in
Westerne fome,
OBJECTION
Some
youthfull
will
say
is
With
is
31
about,
pinching cold
Trout,
goe. without,
And
to
More
ease
and more
were,
it
delight I trow,
Amongst
and
gallant show,
in gaine,
and
sport
plaj--.
to tlirow,
to pa}',
of dainty fare.
care.
little
THE ANSWERE.
I meane not here mens errours to reproue.
Nor do enuie their seeming happy state
But rather meruaile why they doe not loue
;
An
is
without debate
moue
And
So
Indeed
it
To sit at
And then
as in
oft
is
it
bad
brings
life
them
to
no better end.
of lesser paine,
it be niglit
be noone againe,
With damned oathes, pronounced in despight,
For little cause and euery trifle vaine.
To
curse,
To
from night
to
till
till
it
and
brawle, to quarrell,
all
to fight,
Avith
his
some cozning
coyne
to
picke.
tricke,
^2
'
sterue,
let
me
rather
And on
So
list
feede their
fill;
view.
Daffadill,
count
it
And
in the
And
blushing
rise
'
Nero.
%<!
The
The
profounde
The
To
set his
And
free.
His minde
is
how
this
And who
circle
And
will
Readers
When good
eare,
tell,
That might
all,
An
of
their threed
life
was spunne.
Vnto
The
counsell of the
The
it
best to goe,
great,
had ouerflowne
A heauenly power there placed had her seate,
And answeres gaue of hidden things vnknowne.
Thither they went her fauour to intreat.
Whose fame throughout that coast abroad was blownc.
By her aduice some way or meane to finde,
How to renew the race of humane kind.
vniuersall Earth
The
Prostrate they
fell
And
Vnto
Secrets of .ingHng.
35
How
to cast
And now
Each
Hill
in
studie spent.
And muzing
They thought
face.
Wherefore to proue
The
if it
were
false or true,
As other
lining
men
are
wont
to doe.
too,
The
Secrets of Angling.
paine,
And
Dead
to intice
frogs
fit,
Such
this
all
of Gold
37
But when
Fell
in
lake or Brooke to
kill.
But
at the
know
or try before.
last
And
Vnto
skill
where now
state
end
it
And
At
breath, or pause a
this
And
Lands end,
then againe,
Our taken-taske
And
if
little
rest,
at the least
another day.
so she thinke it best
vntill
afresh
wee
forward goe as
Till that
attaine
doth remaine.
will assay,
first
we
did intend,
the first
Book.
For him
fit
To
Hooke
vnware.
BAITES.
It
To
The
It
Stag^
the Foxe,
Which way
pitch,
to
And
The
And them
with
may
haue good
entise withall
fall.
store of tooles,
can frame;
Yet when he comes to Riuers, Lakes, and Pooles,
If that he know not how to vse the same.
And with what baits to make the Fishes fooles,
He may goe home as wise as out he came,
And
skill in
of his
As he
finest sort
comming boast
himselfe as well
fell.
Who
peraduenture for
told
39
sort vnfolde,
my
paines desart
to holde
But oncly to the willing learner show
So much thereof as may suffise to know.
The man
of
And
As
God
cast
safe
Whom
strand
faire.
Nor
hie,
nie.
Musickes sound,
backe Arion bore away
That on
his
And brought to
The Hippotame
The Mors^
that from
The Tuberone
40
Nor with
Nor
His nimble
kill
that fierce
flayle,
at will
that here
sise,
leaue vntolde
Nor
leaue
them
And
speake of such as in
tlie
fresh
are found,
41
Sit
Among
How
And
path
See how their wit and cunning they apply,
To
That
And
to a
little
Where
And
The
And
As
if
new
still
supply.
And when
Then
fittest for
a learner
is
The
So
traine,
to a
Sucli
desire,
Secrets of Angling.
The
42
And
And
To win
and get
their grace
And
And
sundry
flies
that quicke
and
liuely be.
is
quicke,
And when
He
and ready
is
his
hand,
worlds deceit
how
are
we
43
thrald by thee,
Thou
When
be,
Loe how he
him with
his hands,
all
had
like to
Marke what a
Of Biicephall,
line
or
His corke
is
large,
fine.
The
thereto,
The
44
Secrets of Angling.
slye,
As did
Attends the
And on
With
water cleere,
hand, as
skilfull
Loe how
To
if
moue
to
and IVouf,
The lesse
The Line
his flye,
he Uuing were.
for
swimme
about.
being scene,
well twisted
is,
The Line
And
the
Rod
Leade thereon
it
exceedes,
needes.
And
lye in wayte,
Vpon
feele
strike they
stil.
TJic Secrets
of Angling.
45
all
along,
To
fresh
and
doe meete
salt
of the weaker
bites,
and
And
As
And
sort,
spoyles,
in his
now
and
is
caught,
He
And
And
fleete,
that,
now
is,
this.
kills,
Scillas gulfe,
And
and chew,
bite
And
To set vpon the other simple crew,
And as the grayhound steales vpon
So doe they vse
to rush
the hare,
on them vnware.
And
rest a pray,
more
So doth the
free,
.
see,
lesse.
46
It shal
Some
be needful! to haue
still
all,
in store,
and Roches
small,
But
all aliue
For
dead and
esteeme and set but
They
least
doe
dull
lye.
by.
little
The knots
well knit,
Rod,
line,
and
And
all
Least that
And
that your
it
chance to
stretch,
or
hap
to breake.
Or
That
will
not
slip
vnlike to these
other seede
Or grassehoppers
that in greene
meadows
breed,
bees,
:;
To make
fit
many
47
others more,
Thus
seruing
them
to take
your pleasure
best you like to kill.
still,
as often as
at least
it
you may,
must be done.
Who
Nor
For
them
that
would
to byte.
Some Roche
It
to sinke,
begin to moue,
fetch a ring.
your
sprino-,
to proue,
48
The
The
their
Or Grashoppers
shew
to
slit
their white,
Meade;
The
in.
downe low
The
to
lye
againe,
rise
And when
And
Scithian bow,
There
tyres
them
out,
skill,
at
will
49
Or
at
streame, or flood
All
For
Summer
flyes
Then
and gnats
that
vpper brimme
It shall
finde.
water
still,
you shall
more ready skill
now and then remoue,
finde and better loue.
will
Fish
the
soone
Which
And
At
in the
tailes
Or shallow
With
of floudyates,
flats,
or at Arches wide
fresher springs
and
swifter course
doe
slide
50
Beyond the
now
ballance,
runne
Then on your
Lines you
may haue
store of Lead,
will.
fed
There
shall
Thus haue
shew'd
how
how
summer come
againe.
to
know
we
shall
T/ie
fills
it
What time
And when
is
To walke
Reaping the
And
as a ship in safe
Vnder some
With all her
Attending
hill
it
forth into
And
this
fraight,
still
Which when
But
fruit
52
Of
And
all
skill,
appointed euermore
when
time
it
is
offered euer,
in
I further goe,
To shew what
gifts
it
and
shall
behoue
minde
qualities of
No more
Hath
and appetite
to eate.
To
sort.
If that the
gifts that
And make
should the
so,
rest support.
The
first
is
Faith,
be.
c^x
To
liue
He
at the
shall in time to
qualitie is
offence.
Hope,
And
And
sometime slow
more delight.
to bite,
The
And
third
to
is
his friend
Nor of
To
To
in
may
him
lyes.
suffice.
Then
Of
As doth
skilful!
The Courser
wilde,
rider breake
and tame,
To
As
Or
losse of
Fish,
Line,
Hooke, or Lead, or
may
befall.
all,
J^J^^
54
Secrets of Angling.
Humilitie,
for his
pray-
And not
To serue
The
The
sixt is
take a
little
paine,
his
painefull
strength
If that he
To
to scorne to
happen
in
his
angry mood,
And
all
feare.
Of
all
To draw them
But now
fertile
land,
sent
lie.
The
And
mend
or to remoue.
The Seen-is of
The
ninth
is
placabilitie of
yl iiQ^/ino-.
minde,
he fmde,
all
kinde,
net and bayt doth send both foule and Fish,
And still reserue inough in secret store.
To
To
from
and hardest
guift
all
to indure.
superfluous fare,
And
Acquaint himselfe
if
he cannot forbeare,
greedy belly thinke,
vntill
a low he sincke.
And
When
forgetfully
his
sport maintaine.
An Angler
Besides his
To
and other
properties.
fall
er
And
As
if
had
got,
light
It is 'not
To Angle
then in
line or
riuer,
Hooke,
pond, or brooke.
frosty beard,
The
if
waters stand as
And
hoary
Where
frosts
freshest leaues of
summer
And
That
ruffling so
tree
keepe,
floiids
57
hills
to fall apace,
are
naked to be seene,
if
The
And
Articqiie pole
And
is
not ofifensiue
least,
is
fall.
if
Or ouercast with
clouds, so
it
be dry.
And
Of
that
ruffling
hie.
The
Secrets of Angling.
The
When
faire
Her blushing
hils,
And
Lake,
let him goe to Riuer, Brooke, or
That loues the sport, where store of Fish abound,
And through the pleasant fields his iourney make,
Amid'st sweet Pastures, Meadowes fresh and sound,
Then
Where he may
While
And
as the place
There
TO
Now
swift
still
shall
circle
round;
KNOW EACH
may
FISHES HAUNT.
To
like.
59
thicke weedes
is
soonest found,
into the
Pike,
And
The Salmon
And
seeke,
in the
The
Hard by
And
in
the
stillest
And
And
in
Where he
; :
6o
And
And
thither also
flat
my
skill
exceed,
And
And
And
As
sundry Fish
So then
shall
it
What sundry
And where
be needlesse to declare,
kindes there
lie
in
secret store,
And
New
then
it
shall
game
to find.
first
setteth in the
aloft
West
they vse to
nine
till
bite,
it
be night.
: ;
The
Secrets of Angling,
6i
Now
Must leaue
Such things
To
his
again
retire,
he cannot finde
serue his turne when neede shall most require,
Here shall he haue to helpe his memory,
Light
to fetch as there
Rod
to strike,
fish
he haps to
hit,
Fine Lead and Quils with Corks both great and small,
Knife, File and thred, and
little
Basket
fit,
And now we
We
in
last,
we meane
to rest
quiet roade
and
thinke
stedfast
FINIS.
in
it
best
Anchor
cast
the West,
62
JJZOULDST thou
^1^
Then
catch Fish?
here's thy
wish;
Thou
fish
that desir'st to
Hooke,
Gum
if
thou canst
hit
it
right,
Take
When
of
twenty
life,
faile,
fine
beat,
kill.
Probatum.
Ifs perfect and good.
If well vnderstood ;
Else not
to be tolde
R.
FINIS.
LONDON
R.
CLAY, SONS,