The Secrets of Anzlino- 



Carpe, Eele, and Tench, doc lone a muddie ground, 

 Eeles vnder stones or hollow rootes doe lye ; 

 The Tench among thicke weedes is soonest found, 

 The fearfull Carpe into the deepe doth flie, 

 Bream, Chub and Pike, where clay and sand abound. 

 Pike loues great pooles, and places full of frie : 



The Chub delights in streame or shadie tree. 

 And tender Breanie in broadest lake to be. 



The Salmon swift the Kiuers sweet doth like, 

 AVhere largest streames into the Sea are led : ' 

 The spotted Trout the smaller Brookes doth seeke, 

 And in the deepest hole there hides his head : 

 The prickled Pearch in euery hollow creeke, 

 Hard by the banke, and sandy shoare is fed. 



Pearch, Trout, and Salmon loue cleere waters all, 

 Greene weedy rockes, and stony grauell small. 



So doth the Bulhead, Goodgion, and the Loache, 

 The most in shallow Brookes delight to be, 

 The Ruffe, the Dace, the Barbill, and the 'poach, 

 Grauell and sand doe loue in lesse degree. 

 But to the deepe and shade doe more approach, 

 And ouerhead some couert loue to see, 



Of spreading Poplar, Oake or Willow greene, 

 Where vnderneath they lurke for beeing scene. 



The mighty Luce great waters haunts alway. 

 And in the stillest place thereof doth lye, 

 Saue when he raungeth foorth to seeke his pray, 

 And swift among the feerefull fish doth flye, 

 The dainty Humber loues the marley clay, 

 And cleerest streames of champion countri'e hye, 



And in the chiefest pooles thereof doth rest, 

 Where he is soonest found and taken best. ' 



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