theless I will make it as short as 1 can by my hopes and wishes. And my good master, I will not forget the doctrine which you told me Socrates taught his scholars, that they should not think to be honoured fo much for being philofophers, as to honour philosophy by their virtuous lives. You advised me to the like concerning angling, and I will endeavour to do fo, and to live like those many worthy men, of which you made mention in the former part of your difcourfe. This is my firm refolution; and as a pious man advised his friend, that to beget mortification he fhould frequent churches, and view monuments, and charnel-houses, and then and there confider, how many dead bodies time had piled up at the gates of death: fo when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power, and wifdom, and providence of almighty God, I will walk the meadows by fome gliding ftream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures, that are not only created but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature, and therefore truft in him. This is my purpose; and fo, let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord: and let the bleffing of St. Peter's mafter be with mine. Pifc. And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare truft in his providence, and be quiet, and go an angling. 66 Study to be quiet," 1 Theff. iv. 11. The END of the FIRST PART. IT IT Tis imagined that the feveral descriptions of River-fifh, contained in the foregoing pages, are abundantly fufficient for the information of any mere angler: but those who are curious to know the effential differences between the various fpecies, are bereby recommended to a pofthumous work of that learned man and excellent naturalist, the Reverend Mr. John Ray, entitled Synopfis Methodica Avium & Pifcium, published by Dr. Derham, in Octavo, 1713. THE |