Wyatt (Sir Thomas).

Poems. (1557).

"A Renouncing of Love.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever;
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more."

Brome (Alexander).

Songs and other Poems. (1664).

"On a Fisherman.

A Fisher while he angled in a brook,

A dead-mans skull by chance hung on his hook;

The pious man in pity did it take

To bury it, a grave with 's hand did make;
And as he digg'd, found gold; Thus to good men,
Good turns with good turns are repay'd again."

Newcastle (Margaret, Duchess of)

Poems and Fancies. (1653).

"Poets have most pleasure in this Life."

"Here doth the Poet hawk, hunt, run a Race,
Until he weary grows, then leaves this Place,
Then goes a Fishing to a River side,

Whose waters cleare, where Fancy flows high Tide :
Angles with wit, to catch the Fish of Fame,
To feed his memory, and preserve his Name."

Quarles.

Shepheard's Eclogues. (1644).

"The broad-side bream,

The wary trout that thrives against the stream;
The well-grown carp, full laden with her spawn;
The surest way

To take the fish, is give her leave to play,
And yield her line."

Bastard (Thomas).

The author of "Christoleros" (published in 1598, and reprinted in 1842 at the Beldornie Press), addresses two epigrams ad Henricum Wottonum, in one of which he says.

"Wotton, the country and the country swayne,
How can they yield a poet any sense ?
How can they stir him up, or heate his brain ?
How can they feede him with intelligence?"

And he recommends him therefore, to come to "London, Englande's fayrest eye." It is not very unlikely that their friendship was occasioned or confirmed by their mutual love of fishing, for in another epigram, De Piscatione, Bastard observes :

"Fishing, if I, a fisher may protest,

Of pleasures is the sweet'st, of sports the best,
Of exercises the most excellent;

Of recreations the most innocent.

But now the sport is marde, and wott ye why
Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply."

Collier's "Poetical Decameron," Vol. 2, p. 108.

Sir John Stradling.

Anon.

"Divine Poems." (1625).

"Like Birds for whom the Fowler spreads his net,
And traynes them in with whistle and a stale :
Or fish when bayted hookes old Anglers set,
Which bitten, brings them soone vnto their bale.
So that old Angler-for-mens-soules, some wynnes
With sweetned baytes, and some with subtle gynnes."

Interlude of the Four Elements. (1519).

Experiens. "Within this twenty years,

Westward be found new lands,

Fish they have so great plenty,

That in havens take and slain they be

With staves, withouten fail.

Now Frenchmen and others have found the trade,

That yearly of fish there they lade

Above a hundred sail."

Bunyan (John).

"You see the ways the Fisherman doth take
To catch the fish: what engines doth he make?
Behold! how he engageth all his wits;
Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks and nets;
Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line
Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine;

They must be grop'd for, and be tickled too,

Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do."

A skeleton chronicle of dated, redated, and undated editions and reprints, with dissimilar imprints, of Izaak Walton's 'Compleat Angler,' enumerated in this work:

Those marked with a star have escaped previous notice.

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Those marked with a star have escaped previous notice.

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"Ephemera" G. C. Davies

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Fishing Gazette'

Bethune

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"Ephemera"
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INDEX.