The complete angler ; or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / In two parts: the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, esq. With the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, knt.

  • Izaak Walton
Date:
1808
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Credit: The complete angler ; or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / In two parts: the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, esq. With the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, knt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    static, in suche tise that it be as bigge there as in ony other place about: thenne arme your croppe at thouer ende, Dolunete the frette, tuyth a tyne of bj heeres, and Dubbe the Iyne, and frette it faste in the toppe teyth a botve to fasten on pour ipne; and thus shall ye make pou a rodde soo preby, that pe may twatke thertuyh 5 ey and there shall. noo man tute where abotute ye goo, — Speaking of the Barbel she says: be Barbylt ig a stvete fpashe; but it is a quasy meete, and a peryiious for mannys bony, -jffor, compniy, be peuvth an introdurion to the febres : and pf be be eten rawe*, be map be cause of mannys Dethe, iwbyche hath oft be seen, And of the Carp, that itis a Depn- tous fysshe, but there ben but fetwe in Englonde, | And therefore FJ wrpte the fasse of bum. he is an euyll fyeshe to take, for heeis g00 stronge enarmiyd in the mauthe, that there mapve noo tweke hatnays bold bym. And as touchynee bis baytes, 3 habe but Iptylt knowlenae of it, And twe tere loth to toryte more than J knotve and have proupgn, tu weil 3] mote, that. the revne tworme and the menom, ben good baptys for bym at alltymes, as J babe herve save of persones crepybie, and aiso founve wrpten in bokes of credence ft. . For taking the Pike this lady directs her readers in the following terms, vim. Dake a coniynge hoke; and take g Roche, ora fresshe ihee- ryng; anda topre wpth an hole in the ende, and put it in at the mouth, and gut at the taylle, Dotone by the ridge of the fresebe Ihee- YpNg 5 and thenne put the Iyne of you, Hoke in after, and Dratwe the boke into the cheke of the fressbe beervng ; ; then put a plumbe of iebe upon pour ipne a yerbe {onge frqm your hoke, and, a flote in mpd iwaye bettnene ; and cagte it in a pytte fobert the ipeke uspth : anv . * The usage of the fourteenth century, at which this caution islevelled, cannot at thisday but fill us with astonishment. What is it to manducate and take into our stomachs the flesh of any animal without any kind of culinary preparation, but to feed like canibals! The reflection on this prac- tice operated so strongly on the mind of the Hon. Robert Boyle, that he speaks in terms of abhorrence of the cating of raw oysters, in a book entie tled, Reflections, &c. which hereafter will be mentioned. The nearest approach, excepting the i instance above, which in this age of rational refinement we make to the savage practice that gives occasion to this note, is the eating of salted or pickled herrings or anchovies ; but for this it may be said in excuse, that there may possibly be in salt some prin- ciple similar, in its operation on certain bodies, to fire; at least, we find that the purposes of culinary fire are sufficiently answered inthe process of euring herrings. + Considering the time when this book was written, we may conclude, that these could be hardly any other than Monkish manuscripts. 3