...contemplative and favorable to thought and reflection. "Because," as an old English writer expressed himself, "hawking and hunting are very laborious: much riding...accompany them: but this is still and quiet: and if so be that the angler catch no fish, yet hath he a wholesome walk to the brook-side, and pleasant shade by...

...and pretty devices which our anglers have invented, peculiar lines, false flies, several sleights, will say, that it deserves like commendation, requires...perspicacity as the rest, and is to be preferred before them. Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding and many dangers accompany them:...