Juliana Berners

What are the means and the causes that lead a man into a merry spirit! Truly, in my best judgment, it seems that there are good sports and honest games in which a man takes pleasure without any repentance afterward.

— Juliana Berners

I will now choose among four good sports and honorable pastimes—to whit, among hunting, hawking, fishing and fowling. The best, in my simple judgment, is fishing, called angling, with a rod and a line and a hook.

— Juliana Berners

Now a Frende I have Founde / That I woll nother banne ne curse, / But of all frendes in felde or towne / Ever, gramercy, myn own purse.

— Juliana Berners