(which fome also cal the Lob-worm) and the Brandling are the chief; and especially the first for a great Trout, and the later for a leffe. There be also of iob-worms,fome called Squireltails (a worm which has a red head, a ftreak down the back, and a broad tail which are noted to be the best, because they are the toughest, and and most lively, and live longest in the water for you are to know, that a dead worm is but a dead bait, and like to catch nothing, compared to a lively, quick, ftirring worm: And for a Brandling, hee is ufually found in an old dunghil, or fome very rotten place neer to it; but most usually in cow dung, or hogs dung, rather then horfe dung, which is fomewhat too hot and dry for that

worm.

There are also divers other kindes of worms, which for colour and shape alter even as the ground out of which they are got: as the marbh

worm,

worm, the tag-tail, the flag-worm, the dock-worm, the oake-worm, the gilt-tail, and too many to name, even as many forts, as some think there be of feverall kinds of birds in the air of which I fhall fay no more, but tell you, that what worms foever you fish with, are the better for being long kept before they be ufed; and in cafe you have not been fo provident, then the way to cleanse and scoure them quickly, is to put them all night in water, if they be Lob-worms, and then put them into your bag with fennel: but you must not put your Brandling above an hour in water, and then put them into fennel for sudden use: but if you have time, and purpose to keep them long, then they be beft preserved in an earthen pot with good itore of mosse, which is to be fresh every week or eight dayes; or at least taken from them, and clean wafh'd, and wrung betwixt your

hands

hands till it be dry, and then put it to them again: And for Mofs you are to note, that there be divers kindes of it which I could name to you, but wil onely tel you, that that which is likest a Bucks born is the best; except it be white Moss, which grows on fome heaths, and is hard to be found.

For the Minnow or Penke, he is eafily found and caught in April, for then hee appears in the Rivers: but Nature hath taught him to shelter and hide himself in the Winter in ditches that be neer to the River, and there both to hide and keep himself warm in the weeds, which rot not so soon as in a running River; in which place if hee were in Winter, the distempered Floods that are usually in that feafon, would fuffer him to have no reft, but carry him headlong to Mils and Weires to his confufion. Ana of these Minnows, first you are to know,that

the

the biggest fize is not the best; and next, that the middle fize and the whiteft are the beft: and then you are to know, that I cannot well teach in words, but must shew you how to put it on your hook, that it may turn the better: And you are alfo to know, that it is impossible it fhould turn too quick: And you are yet to know, that in cafe you want a Minnow, then a fmall Loch, or a Sticklebag, or any other fmall Fish will ferve as wel: And you are yet to know, that you may falt, and by that means keep them fit for ufe three or four dayes or longer; and that of falt, bay falt is the best.

Now for Flies, which is the third bait wherewith Trouts are usually taken. You are to know, that there are as many forts of Flies as there be of Fruits: I will name you but fome of them as the dun flie, the ftone fe, the red fle, the moor flie, the tawny fle, the fuel flie, the cloudy or black

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blackish flie: there be of Flies, Caterpillars, and Canker flies, and Bear flies; and indeed, too many either for mee to name, or for you to remember and their breeding is fo various and wonderful, that I might eafily amaze my self, and tire you in a relation of them.

And yet I wil exercise your promised patience by faying a little of the Caterpillar, or the Palmer flie or worm; that by them you may guess

what a work it were in a Discourse but to run over those very many flies, worms, and little living creatures with which the Sun and Summer adorn and beautifie the river banks and meadows; both for the recreation and contemplation of the Angler: and which (I think) I myfelf enjoy more then any other man that is not of my profession,

Pliny holds an opinion, that many have their birth or being from a dew that in the Spring falls upon

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