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Cor. Good night to you all,and I thank you.

Pifc. Good morrow brother Peter, and the like to you, honest Coridon; come, my Hoftis fayes there s feven fhillings to pay, lets each man drink a pot for his mornings draught, and lay downe his two fhillings, that so my Hoftis may not have occafion to repent her felf of being fo diligent, and ufing us fo kindly.

Pet. The motion is liked by every body; And fo Hoftis, here's your mony, we Anglers are all beholding to you, it wil not be long ere Ile fee you again. And now brother Pifcator,I with you and my brother your Scholer a fair day, and good fortune. Come Coridon, this is our way.

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Ood Master, as we go

now towards London, be ftill fo courteous as to give me more inftructions, for I have several boxes in my memory in which I will keep them all very fafe, there fhall not one of them be loft.

Pifc. Well Scholer, that I will, and I will hide nothing from you that I can remember, and may help you forward towards a perfection in this Art; and because we have fo much time, and I have said so little of Roch and Dace, I will give you fome directions concerning fome feveral kinds of baits with which they be usually taken; they will bite almost at any flies, but especially at

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Ant-flies; concerning which, take this direction, for it is very good.

Take the blackish Ant-fly out of the Mole-hill, or Ant-hil, in which place you fhall find them in the Months of June; or if that be too early in the yeer, then doubtless you may find them in July, August, and most of September; gather them alive with both their wings, and then put them into a glafs, that will hold a quart or a pottle; but first, put into the glass,a handful or more of the moift earth out of which you gather them, and as much of the roots of the grafs of the faid Hillock; and then put in the flies gently, that they lofe not their wings, and fo many as are put into the glass without bruifing, will live there a month or more, and be alwaies in a readinefs for you to fish with; but if you would have them keep longer, then get any great earthen pot or barrel

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of three or four gallons (which is better) then wash your barrel with water and honey; and having put into it a quantitie of earth and grass roots, then put in your put in your flies and cover it, and they will live a quarter of a year; these in any stream and clear water are a deadly bait for Roch or Dace, or for a Chub, and your rule is to fifh not less then a handful from the bottom.

I shall next tell you a winter bait for a Roch,a Dace,or Chub, and it is choicely good. About All-bollantide (and fo till Froft comes) when you fee men ploughing up heath-ground, or fandy ground, or greenfwards, then follow the plough, and you shall find a white worm, as big as two Magots, and it hath a red head, (you may obferve in what ground most are, for there the Crows will be very watchful, and follow the Plough very close) it is all foft,and full of whitish guts;a

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worm that is in Norfolk, and fome other Countries called a Grub, and is bred of the spawn or eggs of a Beetle, which the leaves in holes that she digs in the ground under Cow or Horse-dung, and there refts all Winter, and in March or April comes to be first a red, and then a black Beetle: gather a thousand or two of these, and put them with a peck or two of their own earth into some tub or firkin, and cover and keep them fo warm, that the froft or cold air, or winds kill them not, and you may keep them all winter and kill fish with them at any time, and if you put fome of them into a little earth and honey a day before you use them, you will find them an excellent baite for Breame or Carp.

And after this manner you may also keep Gentles all winter, which is a good bait then, and much the better for being lively and tuffe, or you

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