NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



a cure, and that's a reward answerable to dili- 

 gence. Now as every stream courts this phy- 

 sical fish, yet but few rivers in the nation enjoy 

 him, who for the most part inhabits the pool ; 

 yet are not the rivers denied him for a publick 

 good. I cannot deny that he loves deep waters, 

 more especially those that are of a torpid and 

 slow motion ; such upon examination he great- 

 ly admires : nor shall any man overrule him, 

 nor at any time perswade him to be out of con- 

 ceit with flags and bull-rushes. I have already 

 told you that he is medicine and physician ; and 

 now let me tell you he's a delicious morsel. 



That angler that knows any thing of Ang- 

 ling, must of necessity know that the tench of 

 all fish is no fish of prey, and one that lives 

 upon as little food as any fish that wags a fin ; 

 but then he must have it choice and delicate, 

 wholsom and juicy ; and truly he well deserves 

 it, since so little serves his turn. Search well, 

 therefore, in the solitary deeps, and there as soon 

 as in any place you'l find him, as if by nature 

 destinated to a cynical life, which the ignorant 

 impute to a want of exercise ; not well consi- 

 dering it's no part of his business to ramble in 

 the rivers, to expose himself to ruin : which 

 makes me fancy that but a few junior Piscatori- 

 ans have thorowly consulted this ^Esculapian, 

 who beyond dispute is of a balsamick nature ; 



