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Whether the ftruggling ?v\zt your Caution asky 

 And Landing-Nets Jix*d to't facilitate your 



Or with fix'd Rings, you further this Defign^ 

 By cajling finely out your Bait and Line. 

 IVith this have always Hooks fecurely Itrong, 

 Well-vvir*d, and join'd to Lines 'proportion ably 



long. 

 A Dace, a Gudgeon, or a Stone-Loach iake^ 

 Or^ wanting thefe^ an happy Trial make 

 Offomething elfe of the lefs ufual Kind \ 

 As Frogs, or Eels, or Garbadge ; for you'll/ 

 find ^ > 



His greedy Appetite will leave your BoultsK 

 "behind, I 



Let hut your Baits he good, your Lines he 



ftrong, 

 Without Succtkyou cannot tempt him long : 

 Then give him GorgingTime, andyou^re fecure^ 

 He rarely leaves his Prize, or quits his Pow'r. 



Perhaps the Day is hot, no Breeze of Wind 

 Js to your Hope and vain Endeavours kind : 

 Rife tzrly then^ or try your Fortune late 5 

 Or elfe till more aufpicious Minutes wait. 

 When keen the ^^ind$ from any Sluarterhlow^ 

 ne Hyrant feldom waits a fecond Throw, 

 But if the Streams you iufe are thinly flor'd. 

 And therefore fmall's the Pafiime they afford 5 

 Tou then prepare a handfome taper Pole, 

 As long, ifnotflill longer than the Trowl ; 

 To this a thin^ hutjirong well-twifled Line 

 /f^x, and Hooks both large, and fit for your 

 Deftgn. 



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