AN

ANGLER'S RAMBLES.

AN

ANGLER'S RAMBLES;

BY

EDWARD JESSE, Esq., F.L.S.

AUTHOR OF GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY.'

Fish, Nature, Streams, Discourse, the Line, the Hook,
Shall form the motley subject of my book.

LONDON:

JOHN VAN VOORST, 3, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXXXVI.

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Vidistis ut escam

Deliciasque breves vitâ mercatus ademptâ
Interiit Piscis, dulci male credulus hamo:
Non aliter fraudem blandis inimica voluptas
Occulit inlecebris, quibus inconsulta juventus
Si capitur, jam non magis hausta venena tenaci
Egerit ex animo, captus quam Piscis aduncum
Sanguineis potuit divellere faucibus hamum.
Sed longo mærore brevem dulcedinis usum
Æternisque luet vix cognita gaudia pœnis.'

VANIERII PRÆDIUM RUSTICUM, Lib. XV.

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