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another in figure and proportion, which without 

 delay, make an experiment by spreading the 

 streams with your artillery : and if it answer not 

 what in reason you expect, take the freedom to 

 proclaim me no projector. But be cautious and 

 circumspect in all your approaches, and be dex- 

 trous and diligent when and how you strike. 

 Fish by direction, but put no force upon your 

 exercise ; so that when you observe your game 

 advance, and raise himself to encounter his prey, 

 fix diligently one eye to attend his motion, and 

 keep the other on the point of your rod ; avoid- 

 ing all silly and foolish circumstances ; only re- 

 member to answer a foot exactly with that hand 

 that reacheth forward, beginning always at the 

 head of a stream, and so patrole to pursue your 

 game downwards, otherwise you may confident- 

 ly assure your self, the fish becomes fugitive, so 

 flies before you. 



TJieoph. I shall mind your directions, and 

 pursue your instructions. 



Am. Well then, I'le proceed. A calm air, you 

 know, prognosticks a cessation of winds ; and a 

 breez being wanting to furl the deeps, by what 

 art will you contrive to raise a trout in a deep, 

 torpid, and solitary river ? Mind what is said ; 

 be sure you stand close, and prudently conceal 

 your self behind some rock, or some shady bush : 

 then, with the hazard of nothing but a drack, 



