Ah miser! ille, Qui requievit Littore nunquam Mollis arenæ Pone reclinis; Grata Favoni Quot micat ardens Ignibus æther Unda relucet, Fractaque Phoebes Equore glauco Ludit imago Lactea, splendet Sub tremebundo, Lumine pontus; Et tua, Triton, Buccina torta Nocte silenti Littora complet, (Blanda palustris Fistula cede, Pan, licet Arcas Inflet avenam!) Saxaque latè Reddere discunt Doridos ignes, Leucothoesve, Vel Galathea Grata Sicano Furta sub antro, Quæ fovet ulnis Acida Divum; Dumque natanti Lumine languens Murmure leni, Basia sugens Comprimit arctè Pectore pectus Aurea nymphe; Spretus amator (Ardua moles) Heu fremit atrox
Ure cruento,
Vespere sero
Fluctibus orta,
Flamine leni
Pectorá mulcens
Equora crispat:
Nox ubi fuscis
Evolat alis,
Tum furibundis
Passibus errans,
Sanguinolentum
Luminis orbem
Sævè volutans
Singula lustrat,
Cernere si quâ
Possit amantes.
Raptaque dextrâ
Pallida membra
Fulminis instar
Fragens heu heu!
Vindice saxo.
Ergo age tandem
Spernere mitte
Gurgitis almi
Littora grata,
Gratior ipsa
Rustica Phylli,
Ipsa Dione,
Ipsa puelli
Arcitenentis
Aurea mater,
Aurea quæ nunc
Ore nitenti
Numina captat;
Blanda marinæ
Filia spumæ
Edita ponto est:
Nunc quoque pontum
(Æthere spreto)
Sæpè revisens
Alite curru
Diva serenis
Labitur undis,
Collaque olorum
Floribus atque
Cunctaque latè
Voce tonanti
Semifer implet:
(Scylla relatrat
Ætna remugit)
Alme Favoni,
Purpureisque
Exsilis alis,
Moxque reportans
Conjugis horto
Sive rosarum
Vel hyacinthi
Fundis odores.
Grandia cete
Gaudia vasta
Saltibus edunt
Incompostis,
O Venus alma,
Teque salutant,
Et maris æquor
Impete læto
Sydera ad alta
Naribus efflant.
O mea vita,
Ocyus adsis,
Molle latusque
Littore fulta,
Prospice mecum
Colle propinquo
Subsilientes
Lanigerarum
Ubera circum
Molliter agnas;
Flectit habenâ;
Eolus Euro
Lora frementi
Contrahit arctè;
At tibi laxat,
Pendula lino
Et tibi dextram
Armet arundo;
Hamus aduncus
Fluctuet unaa: Mox genus ecce Omne natantum (Squammea pubes Ex latebrosis Advena fundis) Præpete pinnâ Trans maris æquor Ultro requiret Humida nostræ Lina puellæ ; Crine madentes Et tibi fundent Naiades udæ Divite dextrâ, Mille colorum Munera conchas, Sanguine multo Tincta coralla Gurgitis imi Splendida dona, Doridos almæ Læve tributum.*
This Eclogue, which on account of its excellence is here inserted, was communicated by a learned friend to the editor of this work. (1760;) but it does not occur in any of the editions of Metastasio's Works.
Adonis, a fish so called, 60.
Adopting sons, practice of, 238, note.
Agues, to what ascribed, 51.
Air, praise of the element of, 44.
Alfred, King, alters the course of
the river Lee, 201, note.
Aldrovandus, his opinion of some
kinds of fish, 122.
Antony and Cleopatra made ang-
ling a recreation, 64.
Antonia, wife of Drusus, favourite
Lamprey of, 120.
April, artificial flies for, 276.
Apostles, four of them fishermen,
Aquatic insects having cases, syn-
opsis of, 309.
Aristotle, credit due to, as a natu-
ralist, 61, note.
Artificial Minnow, directions for
making, 99.
Artificial flies, different kinds of, for
different seasons, 104, 271; direc-
tions for making, 107, 265;
materials for, 108; superior to
natural ones in windy weather,
283.
Amos, the prophet, an angler, 63.
Angler, the Complete, character of,
5; its reception, 12; character
of the Second Part, 16, 229.
Angler, qualifications for one, 53;
equipments of, 190, 191, note;
dress of, in the last age, 207, note;
rudely treated sometimes, 300.
Angler's song, 93; wish, 114.
Angling, old writers on, 6, note;
how to be taught, 33; like poetry,
53; antiquity of, 54; commen- Ashborn, Derbyshire, 241.
dation of, 55; allowed to clergy-Ash-coloured Dun, 276, note.
men, 64; examples of learned Ash-grub, 294.
men, lovers of, 64; lines in praise Ashmole, Elias, 57.
of, by J. Davors, 67; songs on, Asafoetida has the property of
176, 177; practised by ladies, in making baits attractive, 129.
St James's Park in Charles II.'s Astonfield church, 252.
reign, 205, note; ways of angling August, artificial flies for, 285.
at the bottom, 291; in the
middle, 296; produce of ten years,
316.
Angling, laws of, discourse on, 299.
Ant, the, keeps no store for winter,
48, note.
Ant-fly, blackish, mode of keeping
for bait, 186.
Ant-fly, 285; 286.
Bag-rods, description of, 207, note.
Bait, several kinds of, 192.
Baits, the oil of ivy-berries, &c.
put upon them, said to attract
fish, 128, 129; effects of using
improper, 129, note; winter, 187.
Balaena, Pliny's account of the, 57.
Barbel, its care of its spawn, 61; | Cadis worms, divers kinds of, 193;
observations on, 168; its spawn
dangerous, 169; how to fish for,
170; difficulty of landing one,
171, note; anecdotes relating to,
Barnes, or Berners, Dame Julyans,
compiler of the Book of St Al-
ban's, 7.
Bede, venerable, quoted, 161.
Beggars, curious division of money
by, 115; dispute of, 116.
Beggars' song, 117.
Beggar's daughter of Bethnal-green,
incidents of that ballad, 217, note.
Bently Brook, plenty of Trout in,
247.
Beresford Hall, 247.
Birds, their usefulness to man, 45.
Bishop-Fish, story of the, 59.
Black fly, 278, 284.
Black hackle, 285.
method of preserving, ib. note.
Cadis, yellow, how to bait with, for
Trout, 195.
Camel-brown-fly, 286.
Camlet-fly, 259, 284.
Carp, observations on, 142; when
brought to England, 143; amaz-
ing size of in Germany, 144, note;
destroyed by frogs, 145; age of,
ib.; spawning of, 146; how to
fish for, ib.; haunts of, and baits
for, 148, note; how to dress, 148;
thrive best in ponds along with
Tench, and no other fish, 204.
Casaubon, Dr, 57.
Caussin, Nicholas, a saying of his,
213.
Chalkhill, John, Esq. 23; his song
on the countryman, 92; song,
"Oh, the gallant fisher's life,"
Char, where taken, 167; described,
ib.
Chub, the, 73; how to dress, 74;.
how to fish for, 76, 77.
Coble, basket so named, 124, note.
Bleak, description of, and how to Cockspur-worms described, 193.
fish for, 174.
Bloa herl-fly, 312.
Blue dun, great, 273; black, 285.
Book for fishing materials, 191, note.
Boots and shoes, Barker's recipe for
anointing, 190, note.
Boteler, Dr, a saying of, 114.
Bowerbanks, Tottenham, 214.
Bowlker, Richard, 110, note.
Boyle, Hon. Robert, his tract on
angling, 19.
Bream, observations on, 149; ac-
counted a luxury in Henry V.'s
time, 150, note; how to catch,
150; haunts of, and baits for,
154, note.
Brown gnat, how to make, 285.
Browne, Moses, his Piscatory
Eclogues recommended, 180,
Bull--trout, where found, 82.
Butterflies, kings of Persia used to
hawk after, 45, note.
Butterfly, painted, 102.
Colne, ruff-coat, or straw-worm,
found in that river, 195, note.
Colours, importance of in fly-fishing,
265.
Commendatory verses, 34.
Company, importance of good, 72.
Contentment, reasons for, 210.
Cony-fish, 58.
Coriate, Tom, account of, 251, note.
Coridon's song, 91
Cork, or float-fishing, 196, note.
Cotton, Charles, senior, Lord Cla-
rendon's character of, 224.
Cotton, Charles, junior, writes a
second part to the Complete An-
gler, 15; his poetical invitation
to Walton, 25, note; song on
angling, 177, note ; account of
his life and writings, 223; sent
to college, 224; the great im-
prover of the art of angling,
226; works published by, ib.;
intimacy with Walton, 228; the
first instance of a gentleman by
arth writing for a subsistence, | Eel, the large one caught at Peter-
231; his pecuniary distress, 232;
estimate of his character, 234:
Wordsworth's opinion of his poe-
try, 235, note; his letter to Wal-
ton, 237.
Cow-dung-fly, 279.
Cow-lady-fly, 279.
Crusians, a kind of fish like Carp,
198, note.
Cattle-fish, its mode of catching
prey, 59.
Dace, how to fish for, 185; same
baits as Roach, 186, 189, note;
haunts of, ib. note; when in sea--
son, ib.
Daping, dabbing, or dibbing, 259.
Dark brown fly, 273; little, 277.
Davy, Sir Humphry, his vindica
tion of fishing, 66, note.
Dead-bait for Pike, 138.
December, artificial flies for, 287.
Derbyshire, famous for Trout, 243;
account of the principal rivers
in, 247.
Dew-worm, 95.
Diogenes, a saying of, 211.
Dock-worm, 96.
Dogs, excellent qualities of, 49.
Donne, Dr John, Walton writes his
life, 4; lines by Walton, under an
engraving of, 21; his lines on
fishing, 159.
Dove Dale, scenery of, 247, note.
Dove, river, course of the, 247;
famous for Trout and Grayling,
249, 268.
Drake-fly, dark, when used, 105;
green, 279.
Drayton, Michael, lines of, 126.
Du Bartas, lines of, 58, 60, 102.
Dubbing to form the body of flies,
materials for, 108, note, 265.
Dubravius, Janus, 134.
Ducks destroy the spawn and young
fry in fish ponds, 203.
Dun-fly, the great, 105, 273; the
blue, ib.; the little, 278.
Dun cut-fly, 279.
Dun-grasshopper, 285.
Earth, commendation of the, 48
Eels, observations on, 160; breeding
of, 162, note, 166, note; winter
in the sea, 162, note; column of
young observed running up the
Clyde, ib. ; several kinds of, 163;
how to fish for, ib. ; destructive;
to young ducks, 164, note; how
to dress, 165; haunts of, and
baits for, 165, note; accounted
dangerous food, 165.
Emanuel College, Cambridge, a
Carp of a great age at, 145, note.
Ephemeron, authors treating of the,
219.
Espernon, Duke d', Cotton writes
the life of, 227.
Falcon, bold flight of the, 45.
Feathers principally used in fly-
making, 108.
February, artificial flies for, 272.
Fence months, what, 71
Fern-bud fly, 312.
Fern-fly, 286.
Fields near Leominster, peculiarity
of, 121.
Fish, their sight, 53, note; statutes
against the destruction of, 71;
hearing of, 119; furnished with
parts of generation, 161, note;
property allowed by law in river,
303.
Fish, a strange, dissected by Dr
Wharton, 202.
Fishes, time of breeding various, 33;
how they dispose of their eggs, 61,
Fish-hooks, by whom mentioned in
the Old Testament, 63.
Fishing with the dead rod, 113.
Fishing at the top, 265; continued,
270.
Fishing, unlawful ways of, 288.
Fishing-house, description of Cot-
ton's, 256.
Fish ponds, how to make and
manage, 203, 205, note.
Flesh-fly, 285.
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Fletcher, Phineas, author of Pisca
tory Eclogues, extracts from, 180.
Flies, the kind used for Trout
fishing, 99; best natural, for
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