. The complete angler : or The contemplative man's recreation. hat, to beget mortification, he should firequent churches,and view monuments, and charnel-houses, and then and thereconsider, how many dead bones Time had piled up at the gatesof Death: so when I would beget content, and increase con-fidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of AlmightyGod, I will walk the meadows by some ghding stream, andthere contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those verymany other various little living creatures, that are not onlycreated, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of theGod of
. The complete angler : or The contemplative man's recreation. hat, to beget mortification, he should firequent churches,and view monuments, and charnel-houses, and then and thereconsider, how many dead bones Time had piled up at the gatesof Death: so when I would beget content, and increase con-fidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of AlmightyGod, I will walk the meadows by some ghding stream, andthere contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those verymany other various little living creatures, that are not onlycreated, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of theGod of nature, and therefore trust in him. This is my purpose jand so, ** Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord :and let the blessing of St. Peters Master be with mine. Pisc. And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trustIn his providence, and be quiet, and go a-Angling. Study to be Quiet/—i Thes. iv. ii» THE COMPLETE ANGLER OR, THB CONTEMPLATIVE MANS RECREATIONPart II. BEING INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR A TROUT O^GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM I. THE FIRST DAY. CHAPTER I. PISCATOR JUNIOR AND VIATOR,PiSCATOR. YOU are happily overtaken, Sir. May a man be so bold ^sto inquire how far you travel this way ? Viator. Yes, sure. Sir, very freely; though it be a questionI cannot very well resolve you, as not knowing myself how farit is to Ashbourn, where I intend to-night to take up my inn. Pisc. Why then, Sir, seeing I perceive you to be a strangerin these parts, I shall take upon me to inform you, that from ^the town you last came through, called Brailsford, it is five- .miles; and you are not yet above half a mile on this side. ViAT. So much ! I was told it was but ten miles from Derby ;and, methinks, I have rode almost so far already. Pisc. O, Sir, find no fault with large measure of good land;which Derbyshire abounds in, as much as most counties ofEngland. ViAT. It may be so ; and good land, I confess, affords apleasant prospect: but, by your good leave, Sir, large mea
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