Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.