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another: Oh me! he has broke all; there's half a line and a good hook lost.

VEN. Ay, and a good Trout too.

PISC. Nay, the Trout is not lost, for pray take notice, no man can lose what he never had.

VEN. Master, I can neither catch with the first nor second angle: I have no fortune.

Pisc. Look you, Scholar, I have yet another: and now having caught three brace of Trouts, I will tell you a short tale as we walk towards our breakfast: a scholar, a preacher I should say, that was to preach to procure the approbation of a parish, that he might be their lecturer, had got from his fellow-pupil the copy of a sermon that was first preached with great commendation by him that composed it; and though the borrower of it preached it word for word, as it was at first, yet it was utterly disliked as it was preached by the second to his congregation: which the sermonborrower complained of to the lender of it, and was thus answered; "I lent you indeed my fiddle, but "not my fiddlestick;" for you are to know, that every one cannot make music with my words, which are fitted for my own mouth. And so, my Scholar, you are to know, that as the ill pronunciation or ill accenting of words in a sermon spoils it, so the ill carriage of your line, or not fishing even to a foot in a right place, makes you lose your labour: and you are to know, that though you have my fiddle, that is, my very rod and tacklings with which you

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see I catch fish, yet you have not my fiddlestick; that is, you yet have not skill to know how to carry your hand and line, nor how to guide it to a right place and this must be taught you, for you are to remember I told you Angling is an art,—either by practice, or a long observation, or both. But take this for a rule, when you fish for a Trout with a worm, let your line have so much, and not more lead than will fit the stream in which you fish; that is to say, more in a great troublesome stream than in a smaller that is quieter; as near as may be, so much as will sink the bait to the bottom, and keep it still in motion; and not more.

But now let's say grace and fall to breakfast : what say you, Scholar, to the providence of an old Angler? Does not this meat taste well? and was not this place well chosen to eat it? for this sycamore-tree will shade us from the sun's heat.

VEN. All excellent good, and my stomach excellent good too. And now I remember and find that true which devout Lessius says, "that poor men, and "those that fast often, have much more pleasure in

eating than rich men and gluttons, that always "feed before their stomachs are empty of their last "meat, and call for more: for by that means they "rob themselves of that pleasure that hunger

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brings to poor men." And I do seriously approve of that saying of your's, "that you would rather be "a civil, well-governed, well-grounded, temperate, "poor Angler, than a drunken Lord." But I hope

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there is none such; however, I am certain of this, that I have been at many very costly dinners that have not afforded me half the content that this has done, for which I thank God and you.

And now, good Master, proceed to your promised direction for making and ordering my artificial fly.

Pisc. My honest Scholar, I will do it, for it is a debt due unto you by my promise; and because you shall not think yourself more engaged to me than indeed you really are, I will freely give you such directions as were lately given to me by an ingenuous Brother of the Angle, an honest man, and a most excellent fly-fisher.

You are to note, that there are twelve kinds of artificial made-flies to angle with upon the top of the water note by the way, that the fittest season of using these, is a blustering windy day, when the waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot be seen, or rest upon them. The first is the Dunfly in March, the body is made of dun wool, the wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is another Dun-fly, the body of black wool, and the wings made of the black-drake's feathers, and of the feathers under his tail. The third is the Stonefly in April, the body is made of black wool, made yellow under the wings, and under the tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The fourth is the Ruddy-fly in the beginning of May, the body made of red wool wrapt about with black silk, and the feathers are the wings of the drake; with the fea

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