“Let the blessing of St. Peter's Master be…upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.”

—  Izaak Walton, book The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 21.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

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