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ambient air, or fish force a passage through the 

 fluctuating ocean, where sometimes the treach- 

 erous net betrays them ? yet so resolv'd are they 

 with contempt to cruelty, that they scorn to 

 petition a reprieve for life, but rather submit 

 themselves to be tortur'd to death, by the tor- 

 menting hand of the scarifying cook, that dis- 

 penseth with art to elevate the appetite, if when 

 only to make it pleasant to a generous accepta- 

 tion. 



But to look for the perch, you need not go 

 far to seek him that is to be found almost any 

 where, if you please but to step to the suburbs 

 of the streams of Trent, or the solitary deeps 

 near the rapid streams in most rivers and rivu- 

 lets in the circle of England ; if examined at 

 the bottom, for you may search and find him 

 under hollow banks, eddies, pools, miln-pits, 

 turns of streams, 'at the tales of sluces, flood- 

 gates, and back-waters, near to the stumps of 

 trees, wier-heads, stanks, candocks, and bull- 

 rushes ; but if there be any ruinous decays, there 

 you will certainly find him that is to be found : 

 Indeed one would think him a piece of an an- 

 tiquary, because he loves to be rifling among 

 ruins. Now presupposing you have found him, 

 what is next to be done ? that ought to be con- 

 sidered, in regard it's the angler's care and study 

 to accommodate him like an artist, with what 



