THE SECOND BOOKE. 



|EFORE, I taught what kinde of Tooles were fit 

 For him to haue that would an Angler be : 

 And how he should with practise and with wit 

 Prouide hiraselfe thereof in best degree : 

 Now doth remaine to shew how to the bit 

 The Fishes may be brought, that earst were free, 



And with what pleasing baits intis'd they are, 

 To swallow downe the hidden Hooke vnware. 



BAITES. 



It were not meet to send a Huntsman out 

 Into the Woods, with Net, with Gin, or Hay, 

 To trace the brakes and bushes all about, 

 The Stag^ the Foxe, or Badger to betray : 

 It hauing found his game, he stand in doubt 

 Which way to pitch, or where his snares to lay, 

 And with what traine he may entise withall 

 The fearfuU beast into his trap to fall. 



So, though the Angler haue good store of tooles, 

 And them with skill in finest sort can frame; 

 Yet when he comes to Riuers, Lakes, and Pooles, 

 If that he know not how to vse the same. 

 And with what baits to make the Fishes fooles, 

 He may goe home as wise as out he came, 



And of his comming boast himselfe as well 

 As he that from his fathers Chariot fell. 



