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periments, if he but take pains to examine her 

 fords, or seriously peruses this catalogue of fish ; 

 where he shall find twenty two sorts of edible 

 fish that daily accost the silver streams of Trent. 

 Now the rest you are to consider, especially some 

 of them, are never to be dealt with by the trem- 

 bling rod, nor the feeble force of a slender line. 

 Such fish, I must confess, as are more than or- 

 dinarily resolute, are doom'd to die by the law 

 of the noosy net. 



Theoph. You have the catalogue I presume, 

 pray accommodate me with it. 

 Am. That I'll freely do. Here- 

 Hold forth your hand, and take this little book, 

 And when you fish, on your directions look ; 

 Till theory speak you master, then you may 

 Compleat your self in practicks day by day. 

 So understand the various change and season, 

 How to catch fish, and after give your reason. 

 There's few that fish these streams know all the fish 

 The Trent affords to anglers, and their dish : 

 Here's pickrel, barbel, burbolt, rud and roach, 

 Graylin, flounder, cheven, perch and loach, 

 Bream and tench, carp and gudgeon, dace and ruff, 

 Eel, lampre, bleak, minue, some silk, some stuff. 

 Twenty in number I have here exprest, 

 Some daily taken ; season for the rest. 

 There yet remain two nobler sorts behind, 

 To make them twenty two ; but then their kind 

 Are trout and salmon, those are fish that waste 

 In time of travel, besides they lose their taste 



