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Some say it is as ancient as Deucalion's flood; others that Belus, who was the first inventor of godly and virtuous recreations, was the first inventor of angling, with much more to the same purport. It is a curious commentary on the aristocratic principles of the fifteenth century to find Dame Berners, in the aforementioned
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Treatyse, confining the sport to the well-born. She could not imagine it a recreation of the multitude, or even of
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With her it is emphatically
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Her enthusiasm for the sport knows no bounds, and must have made many generations of Englishmen anglers. The treatise evidently supplied the idea of
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Walton's Angler, the book which next to
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White's Selborne, has gone through more editions than any other secular work in the language.
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It shall be to you a very pleasure to se the fayr bryght shynynge scalyd fysshes dysceyved by your crafty meanes, and drawen upon lande,