CHAPTER V 



MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR, AND HOW TO 

 MAKE FOR THE TROUT AN ARTIFICIAL MINNOW 

 AND FLIES J WITH SOME MERRIMENT 



Pise. Well met, brother Peter : I heard you and a 

 friend would lodge here to-night, and that hath made 

 me to bring my friend to lodge here too. My friend is one 

 that would fain be a brother of the angle ; he hath been 

 an angler but this day, and I have taught him how to 

 catch a chub by daping with a grass-hopper, and the chub 

 that he caught was a lusty one of nineteen inches long. 

 But pray, brother Peter, who is your companion ? 



PETER. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest 

 country-man, and his name is Coridon, and he is a down- 

 right witty companion, that met me here purposely to be 

 pleasant and eat a trout, and I have not yet wetted my 

 line since we met together ; but I hope to fit him with a 

 trout for his breakfast, for I'll be early up. 



Pise. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long : for, 

 look you, here is a trout will fill six reasonable bellies. 



Come, hostess, dress it presently, and get us what 

 other meat the house will afford, and give us some of 

 your best barley-wine, the good liquor that our honest 

 forefathers did use to drink of ; the drink which pre- 

 served their health, and made them live so long, and do 

 so many good deeds. 



PETER. 0' my word, this trout is perfect in season. 

 Come I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, 



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