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THE COMPLETE ANGLER.
PART THE FIRST.
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FIRST DAY.
CHAPTER I.
A CONFERENCE BETWIXT AN ANGLER, A HUNTER, AND
A FALCONER; EACH COMMENDING HIS RECREATION.
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PISCATOR, VENATOR, AUCEPS.
Piscator.
You are well overtaken, gentlemen, a good morning to you both:
I have stretched my legs up Tottenham Hill to overtake you, hoping
your business may occasion you towards Ware, whither I am going
this fine fresh May morning.
Venator. Sir, I for my part shall almost answer your hopes; for
my purpose is to drink my morning's draught at the Thatch'd House
in Hodsden, and I think not to rest till I come thither, where
I have appointed a friend or two to meet me: but for this gentleman
that you see with me, I know not how far he intends his journey;
he came so lately into my company, that I have scarcely had time
to ask him the question.
Auceps. Sir, I shall by your favour bear you company as far as
Theobald's, and there leave you; for then I turn up to a friend's
house, who mews a hawk for me, which I now long to see.
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