THE THIRD VAX continued 



On the Nature and Breeding of the Trout \ 

 and how to fish for him 



* CHAPTER IV 



PISCATOR, VENATOR, MILK-WOMAN, MAUDLIN, 

 HOSTESS 



PISCATOR. The Trout is a fish highly valued, both 

 in this and foreign nations. He may be justly said, 

 as the old poet said of wine, and we English say of 

 venison, to be a generous fish : a fish that is so like 

 the buck, that he also has his seasons ; for it is ob- 

 served, that he comes in and goes out of season 

 with the stag and buck. Gesner says, his name is 

 of a German offspring ; and says he is a fish that 

 feeds clean and purely, in the swiftest streams, and 

 on the hardest gravel ; and that he may justly con- 

 tend with all fresh water fish, as the Mullet may with 

 all sea fish, for precedency and daintiness of taste ; 

 and that being in right season, the most dainty 

 palates have allowed precedency to him. 



And before I go farther in my discourse, let me 

 tell you, that you are to observe, that as there be 

 some barren does that are good in summer, so there 

 be some barren Trouts that are good in winter ; but 

 there are not many that are so ; for usually they be 

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