Quotes from Phineas Fletcher's books, and about them
The Compleat Angler on Piscatorie Eclogs: “they were written by Phineas Fletcher, an excellent divine, and an excellent angler; and the author of excellent Piscatory Eclogues”
John Halifax, Gentleman on The Purple Island: “And though he himself, and his father before him, had both been working men, still, I think, Abel Fletcher never forgot that we originally came of a good stock, and that it pleased him to call me, his only son, after one of our forefathers, not unknown--Phineas Fletcher, who wrote the "Purple Island."”