The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. iv.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. iv.
No man can lose what he never had.
The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. v.
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler[208:1] said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. v.
Thus use your frog: put your hook—I mean the arming wire—through his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.
The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 8.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.