The Salmon is the most stately fish that any man may angle to in fresh water.

-Berners, DameJuliana or Juliana Barnes   fl.14c
  Treatyseperteynyne to Hawkynge, Huntynge, Fyshynge, and Coote Armiris.

As lines so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite can never meet. Therefore the love which doth us bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'The Definition of Love' (published1681).