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pointed ; lie step and salute him, and make a 

 present of my fortunate successes. These are 

 the toils and the fruits of my labour, which I 

 freely dedicate to our friend Arnoldus. 



Am. Where kill'd you these trouts ? With 

 what artifice did you surprize them ? 



Aquil. With nothing but a minew, some call 

 it penk. 



Am. I understand your meaning ; but where 

 did you fish ? 



Aquil. In those purling streams, at the foot 

 of that rock. 



Am. I should have thought it impossible, did 

 not these evidences convince me, that so small 

 a rivulet should lodg and harbour so large a 

 fish. Here's a salmon, Aquilla, that I but new- 

 ly tickled to death with a fly ; accept my ad- 

 venture, I have another for Theophilus when he 

 comes up with us. 



Aquil. He is yonder, I see him coming, and 

 could heartily wish he had seen but the death of 

 this brace of salmon, to put a zealous spur to his 

 exercise. 



Am. Besides these salmon, I have two brace 

 of trouts, that would make a Cockney's teeth 

 stand a water and spring a leek, for no other 

 purpose than to tap his mouth. 



Aquil. Our fortunes are unequal, the garland 

 is yours, and never may it wither from your 



