end of Saint Pauls Church; they be both honeft men, and will fit an Angler with what tackling hee

wants.

Viat. Then, good Master, let it be at Charles Brandons, for he is neereft to my dwelling, and I pray lets meet there the ninth of May next about two of the Clock, and I'l want nothing that a Fisher should be furnished with.

Pifc. Well, and Ile not fail you, God willing, at the time and place appointed.

Viat. I thank you, good Mafter, and I will not fail you: and good Mafter, tell me what baits more you remember, for it wil not now be long ere we shal be at Totenham High-Crofs, and when we come thither, I wil make you some requital of your pains, by repeating as choice a copy of Verses, as any we have heard fince we met togeQ 3 ther;

ther, and that is a proud word; for wee have heard very good

ones.

Pifc. Wel, Scholer, and I fhal be right glad to hear them; and I wil tel you whatsoever comes in my mind, that I think may be worth your hearing you may make another choice bait thus, Take a handful or two of the best and biggest Wheat you can get, boil it in a little milk like as Frumitie is boiled, boil it so till it be soft, and then fry it very leisurely with honey, and a little beaten Saffron diffolved in milk, and you wil find this a choice bait, and good I think for any fish, especially for Roch, Dace, Chub or Greyling; I know not but that it may be as good for a River Carp, and efpecially if the ground be a little baited with it.

You are also to know, that there be divers kinds of Cadis, or Cafe

worms

worms, that are to bee found in this Nation ir feveral diftinct Counties, & in feveral little Brooks that relate to bigger Rivers, as namely one Cadis called a Piper, whose husk or case is a piece of reed about an inch long or longer,and as big about as the compass of a two pence; these worms being kept three or four days in a woollen bag with fand at the bottom of it,and the bag wet once a day,will in three or four dayes turne to be yellow; and these be a choice bait for the Chub or Chavender, or indeed for any great fish, for it is a large

bait.

There is also a leffer Cadis-worm, called a Cock-fpur, being in fashion like the fpur of a Cock, sharp at one end, and the cafe or house in which this dwels is made of smal husks and gravel, and flime, moft curiously made of these, even so as to be wondred at, but not made by man (no Q 4

more

more then the neft of a bird is: this is a choice bait for any flote fish, it is much less then the Piper Cadis, and to be fo ordered; and these may fo preserved ten, fifteen, or twentie dayes.

be

There is also another Cadis called by fome a Straw-worm, and by fome a Ruffe-coate, whofe houfe or case is made of little pieces of bents and Rushes, and straws, and wa ter weeds, and I know not wha which are so knit together with con denf'd flime,that they stick up about her husk or cafe,not unliket ae bristles of a Hedg-bog; thefe three Cadis are commonly taken in the beginning of Summer, and are good indeed to take kind of fish with flote or any otherwise. I might tell you of many more, which, as thefe doe early, so those have their time of turning to be flies later in Summer; but I might lose my selfe,

and

and tire you by fuch a difcourse, I shall therefore but remember you, that to know these, and their feveral kinds, and to what flies every particular Cadis turns, and then how to use them, first as they bee Cadis, and then as they be flies, is an Art, and an Art that every one that profeffes Angling is not capable of.

But let mee tell you, I have been much pleased to walk quietly by a Brook with a little stick in my hand, with which I might easily take these, and confider the curiofity of their compofure; and if you shall ever like to do fo, then note, that your stick must be cleft, or have a nick at one end of it, by which meanes you may with ease take many of them out of the water, before you have any occasion to use them. Thefe,

my