Hunt. Come Gentlemen, come all, lets go to the place where we put downe the Otter; look you, hereabout it was that shee kennell'd; look you, here it was indeed, for here's her young ones, no less then five: come lets kill them all.

Pifc. No, I pray Sir; fave me one, and I'll try if I can make her tame as I know an ingenuous Gentleman in Leicester-fhire has done; who hath not only made her tame, but to catch fish, and doe many things of much plea

fure.

Hunt. Take one with all my heart; but let us kill the reft. And now lets go to an honeft Alehouse and fing Old Rose, and rejoice all of us together.

Viat. Come my friend, let me invite you along with us;

your charges this night,

thall beare mine to

I'll bear

and you

morrow;

for

for my intention is to accompany you a day or two in fishing. Pifc. Sir, your request is granted, and I shall be right glad, both to exchange such a courtefie, and alfo to enjoy your company.

Viat. Well, now lets go to your fport of Angling.

Pifc. Lets be going with all my heart, God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another bitch Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones

too.

Viat. Now Pifcator, where wil you Degin to fish?

Pifc. We are not yet come to a likely place, I must walk a mile further yet before I begin.

Viat. Well then, I pray, as we walk, tell me freely how you like my Hofte,and the company? is not mine Hoste a witty man?

Pifc. Sir,

Pifc. Sir, To fpeak truly, he is not to me; for most of his conceits were either Scripture-jefts, or lafcivious jefts; for which I count no man witty for the Divel will help a man that way inclin'd, to the firft, and his own corrupt nature (which he alwayes carries with him) to the latter. But a companion that feafts the company with wit and mirth,and leaves out the fin (which is usually mixt with them) he is the man: and indeed, fuch a man should have his charges born: and to fuch company I hope to bring you this night; for at Trout-Hal, not far from this place, where I purpose to lodg to night, there is usually an Angler that proves good company.

But for fuch difcourfe as heard last night, it infects others; the very boyes will learn to talk and fwear as they heard mine Hoft, and another of the company that shall be nameless; well, you

know

know what example is able to do, and I know what the Poet fayes in the like cafe:

-Many a one

Owes to his Country his Religion :
And in another would as ftrongly grow,
Had but his Nurfe or Mother taught him fo.

This is reafon put into Verse, and worthy the confideration of a wife man. But of this no more,for though I love civility, yet I hate fevere cenfures: I'll to my own Art, and I doubt not but at yonder tree Ishall catch a Chub, and then we'll turn to an honest cleanly Ale house that I know right well, reft our felves,and drefs it for our dinner.

via. Oh,Sir,aChub is the worst fish that swims, I hoped for a Trout for my dinner.

Pif.Truft me,Sir,thereis not a likely place for a Trout hereabout, and we staid so long to take our leave of

your

your Huntsmen this morning, that the Sun is got fo high, and shines fo clear, that I will not undertake the catching of a Trout till evening; and though a Chub be by you and many others reckoned the worst of all fish, yet you shall fee I'll make it good fish by dreffing it.

Viat. Why, how will you drefs

him?

Pifc. I'l tell you when I have caught him look you here, Sir, do you fee?(but you must stand very close) there lye upon the top of the water twenty Chubs: I'll catch only one, and that shall be the biggest of them all and that I will do so, I'll hold you twenty to one.

viat. I marry, Sir, now you talk like an Artist, and I'll fay, you are one, when I shall see you perform what you fay you can do; but I yet

doubt it.

Pifc. And that you shall fee me do presently; look,the biggest of these Chubs