=Angling.=

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
88
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

'Twas merry when
You wager'd on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.
89
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 5.


=Anticipation.=

Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite
To cast the fashion of uncertain evils;
For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown,
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
90
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 359.


=Antiquity.=

O good old man! how well in thee appears