The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.