The white thorn, & ye. black thorne both,
with boxe, and maple fyne:
In which braunched the briony,
the Iuye, and wylde vyne.
To long I should the tyme detract,
and from my purpose straie :
If I should recken all the things
within the felde so gaye."

With similar minuteness he describes the celestial signs. The commencement of necromancy is impotently derived from a heron swallowing serpents on the banks of Styx, which voiding this "wicked brood" in a field even draws the author's familiar friends to seek to learn witchcraft. Of the delusive attempts of the professors in for tune-telling, the following was probably a faithful delineation.

But phisyke, and astronomy,

alas is now the cloke

For euery kynd of trechery

that goodnes doth reuoke.
For wycked, wandering fugitiues,
or vacaboundes most leaud:
Do now a daies from shere, to shere,
with shyftes both false and shrewed:
Vnder colour of phisykes art,

and noble surgery

Delude the common multitude,
wyth shamefull sorcery.

All secreat markes they will disclose,
and thinges long done and paste:
Which doth with admiration

the people make agaste

In such wise, that they straight beleue
that nothing vnder soune

Doth stand to hard or difficult

of such menne to be donne.
So that partly with Palmistry,
or Chiromancies gawde:
And folishe Phisiognomy,

and wichery that fraud,
Vnto their wicked, false purpose
the people they allure:

More then can any godly art,
that perfect is and pure.

For

For bedlem baudes, & hatefull whores,
this is a common shyft:

Of roffins, theues, and murderers
it also is the drift.

Vnder such clok their companies
togither oft they draw:
Free from daunger of officers,
and punishment of lawe.
Alas that this might be sen to
with iustice, power, and might,
That Vranie, and Medicine

againe might haue their right."

Against astrology judicial, the learned Calvin is to satisfy all wise men: at length the vision ends, and the author hears the warbling Philomel, who, counselling against sloth, he wrote his poem: but accept his own ludicrous minuteness.

"And I againe to my self,

that I dyd shortly here:

The warbling notes & songe so swete,
of Philomela cleare.

Whych counsaylld me that slothfulnes,
I should from me expell:

Wherfore I rose, and with all spede
I lyghted a candell.

So serued my turne my tinder box,
whych stood in my chamber:
Then toke I forth my standish to,
with pen, ynke, and paper.
Where I carued forth ilfauoredly
this rough and ragged verse:
Wherin theffect of thys my dreame,
I rudely do rehears.

D[e]siering yet in my reade[r]s dere,
to beare it paciently:

Syth it is but the budding flower,

of my poore infancy.

Which as rimes of knowledge growes,

I shall be glad tamend;

If any man, shall be informe

and thus I make an end.

Quotations from Iereme. 10, and Esaye 47, then the colophon. Printed at London, by Rouland Hall, dvvellyng in Gutter Lane, at the signe of the halfe Egle and the Keye, 1563."

J. H.

A Catalogue

A Catalogue of Books on Angling.

In the second edition of the Treatises of Hawking and Hunting, ascribed to Juliana Barnes,

"Here begynnyth the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle." Fol. Lond. Wynk. de Worde. 1496. 4°. Wynk. de Worde.

land.

4°. Lond. W. Copland.
4°. Lond. Ioh. Waley.
4°. Lond. Wyllyam Powell.

4°. Lond. Wyllyam Powell. 1550.
4°. Lond. Abr. Veale and W. Cop-

fol. Lond. 1810, reprinted in facsimile from the edit. of 1496.

[Juliana Berners, Barnes, or Bernes, the religious sportswoman, to whom the above tract is ascribed, is said to have been of a noble family, sister to Richard Lord Berners of Essex, and prioress of Sopwell, near St. Albans. She flourished, according to Bale and Pitts, about the year 1460; and is celebrated by Leland, Holinshed, and other writers, for her uncommon learning and accomplishments.

Beside being the first printed treatise on the subject in the English language, this work affords us rude representations of the different kinds of tackle in use: and contains directions and remarks, which have been copied even in some of the most recent Treatises on Angling.

Of the quarto edition, printed by Copland, Herbert mentions two other copies: one, printed "in Lothbury, over against "St. Margarets Church;" the other, " in Seint Martyns parish in the Vinetre, upon the three Crane Wharfe."]

Hawking, Hunting, Fouling, and Fishing, with the true Measures of Blowing, &c. now newly collected by W. G. faukener." 4°. Lond. 1556.

[W. G. is William Gryndall.]

"Hawking, Hunting, and Fishing, with the true Measures of Blowing. Newly corrected and amanded. 1596." 4°. Lond. Edw. Alde. 1596.

"A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all

other

other Instruments thereunto belonginge, made by L. M." 4°. Lond. 1590.

4. Lond. 1596.

4°. Lond. 1600.

4°. Lond. 16c6.

[This Treatise contains a few improvements on the directions of Juliana Barnes. It has wood-cuts of the pike and proche hooks, &c. with some remarks on the preservation of fish in pools. L. M. is Leonard Mascall.]

"A New Booke of good Husbandry, very pleasaunt, and of great profite both for Gentlemen and Yomen: conteining the Order and Maner of making of Fish-pondes, with the breeding, preseruing and multiplyinge of the Carpe, Tench, Pike, and Troute, and diuerse kindes of other Fresh-Fish. Written in Latine by Janus Dubrauius, and translated into English at the speciall request of George Churchey, fellow of Lions Inne, the 9. Februarie 1599." 4°. Lond. 1599.

"Certain Experiments concerning Fish and Fruit practised by Iohn Taverner, Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of others." 4°. London. (printed for Wm. Ponsonby) 1600.

[On the family of John Taverner, see Masters's Hist. of C. C. C. Cambridge.]

"The Secrets of Angling; teaching the choicest Tooles, Baytes, and Seasons for the taking of any Fish, in Pond or River: practised and familiarly opened in three Bookes. By I. D. Esquire." 8°. Lond. 1613. 8°. Lond. 1652.

[In the centre of the title of the first edition of this work is a wood-cut, representing two men. One, with a sphere at the

end of his line, and on a label

"Hold hooke and line

Then all is mine."

The other with a fish,

"Well fayre the pleasure

That brings such treasure."

Some large extracts from the second edition, which is much enlarged, were published in the last volume of the "Censura Literaria."

The original author of the work is mentioned in the third

edition

edition of Walton's Angler, under the name of Jo. Davots: But the following entry in the books at Stationers' Hali, probably affords the most accurate information.

1612, Feb. 28 "Mr. Rog. Iackson entred for his copie under thands of Mr. Mason and Mr. Warden Hooper a Booke called the secrete of Angling, teaching the choysest tooles, bates, & seasons for the taking of any fish in pond or river, pracktised and opened in three Bookes, by JOHN DENNYS, Esquier. vjd" Lib. C. pa. 236 b.

The second edition, is said in the title, to be "augmented with many approved experiments, by W. Lauson."]

"The Pleasures of Princes, or Good Mens Recreations: containing a Discourse of the general Art of Fishing with the Angle, or otherwise: and of all the hidden Secrets belonging thereunto Together with the Choyce, Ordering, Breeding, and Dyetting of the fighting Cocke, being a worke never in that nature handled by any former Author." 4°. Lond. 1614.

4°. Lond. 1635.

[This work forms a part of the "second Booke of the English Husbandman, by G. M. (Gervase Markham.)] "A Briefe Treatise of Fishing: with the Art of Angling." 4°. Lond. 1614.

[This forms a part of the "Jewell for Gentrie, by T. S. ;" and is, in fact, but a reprint of the work ascribed to Juliana Barnes.]

In Cheap and Good Husbandry," by Gervase Markham, 4° Lond. 1616, we have a short chapter "On Fish and Fish Ponds."

Among the additions by Gervase Markham to "Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, compyled in the French tongue by Charles Stevens, and lohn Liebault, and translated into English by Richard Surflet." fol. Lond. 16 6. Book IV. chap. xi-xvii. relate to "The Poole, Fish-pond, and Ditch for Fish."

"Countrey Contentments: or the Husbandmans Recreations by G. M.

5th edit. 4°. Lond. 1633.
th. edit. 4°. Lond. 1639.

[From p. 59 to 102, in the fifth and sixth editions, we have