THE COMPLEAT ANGLER

OR, THE

CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION
PART II

CHAPTER I
PISCATOR JUNIOR, AND VIATOR

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"OU are happily overtaken, Sir; may a man be so
bold as to enquire how far you travel this way?
VIATOR. Yes sure, Sir, very freely; though it be
a question I cannot very well resolve you: as not knowing myself
how far it Is to Ashborn, where I intend to-night to take up my
inn.

Pise. Why then. Sir, seeing I perceive you to be a stranger in
these parts, I shall take upon me to inform you, that from the town
you last came through, called Brelsjord, it is five miles; and you
are not yet above half a mile on this side,

VIAT, So much? I was told it was but ten miles from Derby,
and, methinks I have rode almost so far already.

Pisa Q, Sir, find no fault with large measure of good land,
which Derbyshire abounds in, as much as most counties of England.

VIAT, It may k so; and good land, I confess, affords a pleasant
prospect: but, by your good leave, Sir, large measure of foul way
is not altogether so acceptable.

Pise. True, Sir, but the foul way serves to justify the fertility of
the soil, according to the proverb; " There is good land where there
is foul way ": and is of good use to inform you of the riches of
the country you are come into, and of it's continual travel and traffic
to the country town you came from; which is also very observable by
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