338 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



to take up with shorter commons ; and such are 

 the roots of segs and candocks, which assign 

 him a sutable sauce to his diet. 



I never yet knew an angler with the rod, 

 that designed a day's diversion with this piece 

 of suspicion. It is true, I have heard him vari- 

 ously discoursed, and perhaps as often as other 

 men, have seen him make circles in his own 

 element, but irregular ones out on't ; for I have 

 been at his death sometimes with an instru- 

 ment, and sometimes without it ; but never at 

 his destruction with the rod and line. The next 

 enquiry will be, how we shall surprize this Ar- 

 gos 9 and reduce him, in some measure, to the 

 angler's designs. In order to that, some court 

 him with loaches, some with minews, some with 

 dew-worms, a small gudgeon, or toasted cheese : 

 but the maw of a beast best pleaseth him of any 

 thing; and truly I fancy it the most natural 

 bait for such a kind of a nasty fish, that nothing 

 can surprize but the noosed net, except he hap- 

 pens to meet with the berbed speer. 



The lampre loves a gravely bottom best, 

 And's fam'd for pie-meat more than all the rest. 

 I needs must say the angler takes a prize 

 That takes this Argos ; or this fish all-eyes. 



