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The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton
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And so complete, but only he that owes them.

We all acknowledge both thy power and love
To be exact, transcendent, and divine;
Who does so strangely, and so sweetly move,
Whilst all things have their end, yet none but thine.

Wherefore, most Sacred Spirit, I here present
For me, and all my fellows praise to thee:
And just it is that I should pay the rent,
Because the benefit accrues to me_.

And as concerning _Fish_, in that Psalm [Psal. 104], wherein, for
height of Poetry and Wonders, the Prophet _David_ seems even to exceed
himself; how doth he there express himselfe in choice Metaphors, even
to the amazement of a contemplative Reader, concerning the Sea, the
Rivers, and the Fish therein contained. And the great Naturallist
_Pliny_ sayes, "[That Natures great and wonderful power is more
demonstrated in the Sea, then on the Land.]" And this may appear by the
numerous and various Creatures, inhabiting both in and about that
Element: as to the Readers of _Gesner, Randelitius, Pliny, Aristotle_,
and others is demonstrated: But I will sweeten this discourse also out
of a contemplation in Divine _Dubartas_, who sayes [in the fifth day],

_God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers,
So many fishes of so many features,
That in the waters we may see all Creatures;
Even all that on the earth is to be found,
As if the world were in deep waters drownd.
For seas (as well as Skies) have Sun, Moon, Stars;
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