The Secrets of Angling. 



Then let your Hooke be sure and strongly plaste 

 Vnto your lowest Linke with Silke or Hayre, 

 Which you may doe with often ouercaste, 

 So that you draw the Bouts together neare, 

 And with both ends make all the other fast, 

 That no bare place or rising knot appeare : 



Tlien on that Linke hang Leads of euen waight 

 To raise your floate, and carry down your baite. 



Thus have you Rod, Line, Float and Hooke; 

 The Rod to strike, when you shall thinke it fit, 

 The Line to lead the Fish with wary skill, 

 The Float and Quill to warne you of the bit ; 

 The Hooke to hold him by the chap or gill, 

 Hooke, Line, and Rod, all guided to your wit. 



Yet there remaines of Fishing tooles to tell, 

 Some other sorts that you must haue as well. 



OTHER FJSH/NG TOOLES. 



A little Buord, the lightest you can finde. 



But not so thin that it will breake or bend ; 



Of Cypres sw^et, or of some other kinde. 



That like a Trenchor shall itselfe extend : 



Made smooth and plaine, your Lines thereon to winde. 



With Battlements at euery other end : 



Like to the Bulwarke of some ancient Towne 

 As well-wald Sylchester now razed downe. 



A Shooe to beare the crawling Wormes therein. 

 With hole aboue to hang it by your side, 

 A hollow Cane that must be light and thin, 

 Wherein the Bobb and Palmer shall abide, 

 Which must be stopped with an handsome pin. 

 Least out againe your baytes doe hap to slide. 

 A little Box that couered close shall lye, 

 To keepe therein tlie busie winged Flye. 



