NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 341 



DACE. 



The dace, or dare, is the fresh-water herring ; 

 a fish that is common and constant ; one that 

 loves to divert himself and is the angler's di- 

 version : for it's rare to Come to the water-side, 

 and find him out of humour to bite. Now to 

 tell you where he lives, I need not ; for you 

 shall find him in most or all the rivers and ri- 

 vulets in England ; and to acquaint you with 

 what he loves, is needless, for there's nothing 

 that is edible he'l at any time refuse. Hot wea- 

 ther allures him forth of deeps ; for warm days 

 invite him abroad for recreation, because then 

 he bathes himself in the glittering streams ; but 

 when affected with cold, he dives into the more 

 solitary deeps, as most or all other fishes do, 

 that burden themselves with water, as age is 

 burdened with diseases and infirmities. But at 

 the period of bright Cinthia's progress, when 

 the sun and long days have consumed the re- 

 crement of the expiring winter ; then you shall 

 find him sporting, and picking among the gli- 

 ding silver streams of Trent : so in most rivers 

 in the confines of the kingdom ; where you may 

 recreate your self, and refresh him with a bank, 

 stone, or flag-fly, as the opportunity of the place, 

 and the season of the year presents. 



