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earth. At mid- water, if you seek him, he's so- 

 licitous after gentles ; and if at the bottom, he 

 desires a brandlin : but he that would court him 

 to death with a dainty, must bring him a parcel 

 of ant-flies. 



The bleak or whitlin, floats in silent deeps 

 In summer-time ; but all the winter sleeps ; 

 For then he's seldom seen : this curious dish 

 Implicit Walton calls the swallow-fish. 



MINEW. 



The minew or penk is, in my opinion, but a 

 very small banquet for fish or fisher. But a lit- 

 tle discourse shall serve for this little fish, that is 

 no ways difficult to find, nor is he over-curious 

 to catch, provided the artist but come where he 

 is, and that's almost every where : nor need you 

 search him in rapid streams, for there he is not, 

 yet dwells not far from them ; but in rills and 

 rivulets, in their small turns of water, with a bit 

 of a worm, or a brandlin, if you please, you may 

 turn him out as soon as with any thing. 



The minue lives, I need not tell you how ; 

 Examine Trent, and there you'l find enow. 

 The salmon, trout, and perch, sliely he'l cheat 

 Them of their lives ; and yet's their daily meat. 



